Now mind you a modder found out how to do this. But come on, if they can do it, why can’t 343 just give us a flipping patch for this and allow us to use theater fro Campaign. While they’re at it, Spartan Ops too?

It’s not that they can’t. It’s that they WON’T. You may or may not remember this, but some time ago when questioned about why theater wouldn’t be available for campaign, it was stated (and I’m paraphrasing here) that theater would break the illusion of the campaign.

Okay, I’m going to call BULLSH…..on that. Previous Halo titles had theater for campaign. Did those of us who used it mind if we broke out of the map or saw how Bungie made the illusion of depth for instance? I have to say overwhelmingly NO. In fact, most of us ENJOYED braking out of maps and/or seeing how Bungie created certain things. Same would be said of 343 IF they allowed us to have theater.

I’m not mad at the person who modded the game to figure out how to use theater for campaign. I’m POed at 343 for this. CLEARLY it’s possible, yet they REFUSE to give it to us.

You know, with the population of Halo 4 down as far as it is, it could REALLY use a breath of fresh air like this. It would make replaying the campaign have even MORE meaning to it.

Personally I could rack up HUNDREDS of hours in theater alone taking screenshots or clips. I wouldn’t care at all if I saw that something was done in low-res outside of the map but in the context of the campaign it looks fine. REALLY, it wouldn’t bother me at all. Most campaigns take this kind of shortcut. It’s fine 343.

I’ve gotten out of ALL of the multiplayer maps. Am I mad or disillusioned by the shortcuts 343 made with those? Not at all.

So COME ON 343! Give us THEATER!!!! Like I said earlier, not just for campaign either. Do this for Spartan Ops too and you will DEFINITELY see a jump in people playing that portion of the game…you abandoned… Speaking for myself, you folks KNOW I’m doing a web series based off of Majestic and Crimson squads. I could make that series THAT MUCH BETTER if you enabled theater for Spartan Ops.

I want to thank halo.bungie.org for tweeting this out. Here’s a link to their post on this video.

Here’s what one of their forum posters had to say about this:
I think if you are in the theatre mode, then you are already outside the bounds of needing to keep immersion. I am 100% ok with noticing that the massive structure out in the distance is really a miniature while in theatre mode for example, since I’m not really playing the game. In a sense, there’s no way to ruin the theatre experience with tricks since there’s no ‘experience’ to speak of in theatre mode.

THAT I TOTALLY AGREE WITH!

What’s funny about this is that several of the MODS that have come to light have been turning into in-game functions. Want examples? Mini-Slayer and Race are two of them. Assault has come to light and I’d venture a guess we’ll see this in matchmaking.

So how about not making us wait any longer 343 and flipping that switch to give us theater? (Or a patch or whatever else is required)

Readers, you’ll forgive me for the use of CAPS throughout this article, but DAMN…It’s one way I can express my frustration with 343/Microsoft for NOT giving this to us at launch.

-Sal