343 have unfortunatly mishandled the live service aspect of the game, a real shame, but they know how to do it successfully and have even spoken about it openly.
I feel the designers and art team are doing great work, the core gameplay is the best halo has ever seen, and the lore and story is miles above 343’s previous games. You can tell this campaign wasnt heavily rewritten.
We know they listen to us, and Im sure its frustrating to the core team that they cant work on the comunities prioritys, they can make decent progession systems with realistic objectives, they did it in MCC and halo wars 2.
They can create good seasons with new weapons and armour that also call back to older games, they did in halo 5.
And they can make a better shop, they did it for the HCS shop.
And with forge and custom games being released soon, we can make up for some of there mistakes with casual maps and better BTB heavies and potentially infection.
Eventually we could get cross core and finally get the freedom of customisation we were advertised before launch.
Its clear the staff are doing great work, and they are being held back or moved to other areas, we can see what there capable off in other games and that they know what we want, there just not aloud to implement it to Halo Infinite.
Do you agree? It seems that the management failed this game but would like your two cent on this too.
The HSC shop has multiple items in a spread that that are always available instead of the weird FOMO “we cant code more then 4 items because we have never heard of scrolling ever” vending machine set up for the shop they have at the moment, never understood why they made it so dificult to buy cosmetics from them when its the reason they chose this business model…
But in short, we know they can layout the shop better and keep more products available, even if the example is a shopfront that exists only because they havnt hired anyone to replace it yet.
They did remove the kits and allow them as coatings now to be customized by equipment of the spartan. Sucks though that we can’t get the original HCS coatings outside of the kits though.
When will they listen… big elephant in the room… how many customizations can you do on a single character… the master chief… are you kidding me? 343
P.S
stckr from Discord - Halo is trash. He abuses his Mod powers and Bans people because of some childhood trauma.
He works for 343 but won’t admit it.
He’s a -Yoink!-, and likely a failed Dev.
Sure the art and gameplay are fine but do think things need to change. I really hope the new boss understands what makes the old Halo games great. But at the moment I don’t believe Infinite is being handled well at all and its why I haven’t felt motivated to play much these days.
Far as I’m concerned the shop needs to be dropped entirely and the BP system removed and double-down on the same designs as MCC.
There are many cool feature concepts like the color wheel that could be implemented and cool ideas like custom created avatars, etc… I just hope 343i can finally listen to the constructive feedback and make changes for the long-term playability of Halo Infinite.