Point is you have players who money-dump to get good stuff and then square up with you in War Zone.
“Sweet I just destroyed his Hannibal Scorpion! We can push!”
*enemy player laughs as he has 33 more Hannibals stocked up and ready to go while you only have the one
REQ Levels and REQ Energy prevent players from using high-tiered REQs early into a game and it prevents them from over-requisitioning.
You wouldn’t even get to use more than five high-tier REQs a game without being considerably lucky.
Adding onto the former point, everyone starts out with relatively weak REQs and loadout weapons, so to even get to the point to use high-tier REQs it’d require considerable effort and teamplay.
Having so many good REQs only matters if you don’t suck.
Yeah kinda is,
The Game is in an apocalyptic state,
343i will never do good enough to actaully deliver a feature complete game, because that’s not what they want to do. That’s not the player friendly business model their using.
They want to bleed their players wallets with MACRO-Transactions,
(The gaming industry cannot pretend that microtransactions are micro anymore, Micro is $1-5; Their trying to get us to be $15+ items all the times.).
And they will never be transparent with us about it,
There will never be an honest explanation of “were doing this because we have these goals”,
because doing so would be them Admitting that they designed their game to be as evil and manipulative as possible.
In the past, the biggest controversies the game had were all internal.
Game changes like Dual Wielding, DMR Bloom, the BR being overly dominate;
All problems with game design that Bungie did their best to fix.
the Controversies now?
343i telling Bold Faced lies about the content that would be in Infinite,
Lies about the Store front and customization.
Lies about the battle pass.
The Mobile Game FoMo Store,
The Season 1 Battle Pass being packed full of Filler Junk like double XP’s
The Season 1 Challenges designed to be so frustrating to complete that it pushes you to buy more challenge Re-Rolls.
BtB going down for almost 3 months because the SlipSpace Engine is so badly built that it crashes the game when you push buttons on the menu.
When you SERIOSLY examine every single problem that Infinite has, had, and will have.
It is the worst Halo game in existence,
Halos 4 and 5 were ATLEAST complete and functional games with decent online components.
It really really is the End of Days for Halo,
The people in charge of it are flying it into the ground and lightning speed.
Can’t Verify this, but also this just does not seem accurate in any meaningful way.
I…
So…
This is blaming the player based for awful design on the part of the developer,
Like, are you REALLY going to blame people for not being prepared for something they literally have no reason to prepare for under sane circumstances?
Its dumb,
And intended design by the Devs.
In essence, the game is converting your losing experience into content for other players,
you’re not two players playing a game together, you’re content for other players to consume.
Which makes it a good thing that Warzone matchmakes players based on their REQ arsenal.
And I didn’t mean ‘fault’ like blame falling on the individual, more like it’s the player’s responsibility.
Plus, it’s not like ‘preparation’ is a deliberate task the player must undertake, players earn REQ points passively by playing Arena modes.
It was more pay to win at launch…people could rank up their REQ’s in match all they want but someone would pay to gain the advantage until people eventually stocked piled more than enough items to wipe out an entire planet. 
Sure, in the short-lived scenario in which everyone was early in their progression, Warzone is Pay-to-win.
Or it would be if the point that I made earlier weren’t true:
Warzone matchmakes players based on their prevailing REQ arsenal, preventing people who, in your example, expedited their progression by purchasing many REQ packs from matching against players who hadn’t.
Likewise, this scenario would only last until a sizable population progresses to a high enough level to compete against the spenders.
Alrighty.
So as a guy who grinded the hell out of Warzone Firefight, I’ve noticed one thing. The mode encourages players to get first shot on the target and take all of the kills for themselves.
Req levels do not gain equally and favor those who net tons of kills, that was me. One of the many flaws of the Warzone system. Leveling should be more fair to the team rather tha the individual.
Sure. But one guy succeeding can’t reasonably outweigh many people who aren’t.
Warzone is a team-effort, after all.
Warzone is a team effort, but req leveling is more favorable to kills. Not assists.
Assists should be just as valuable as kills.
That would enable one team to snowball too quickly.
Oh you’re talking about Warzone and not Warzone Firefight?
I see. I practically never played Warzone as much as Firefight. I practically grew my SR rank off of that mode because it gives you so much XP.
Moreso, yes.
Warzone is suggested to be “Pay-to-win” and I was outlining a number of reasons in which it isn’t.
Well, it’s kinda true. Just not to the degree you’d with a mobile game like DB Legends.
Hell, Infinite’s store makes Halo 5’s req system look harmless and non money grubby.
Except it actually isn’t whatsoever.
Feel free to read the points in my previous comments.
That’s your opinion.
Any time money is involved, there’s gonna be a barrier.
That’s why people who have already paid $60 game prefer to not pay anymore unless they are good offers and don’t forsake gameplay.
It’s impossible for it to be subjective.
Warzone matchmakes players based on their REQ arsenal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHC1230OpOg
One hundred percent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwSts2s4ba4