Also as someone coming from halo 5, SR152 and Champion rank in Ranked Arena, I disagree and I feel the Sandbox is far better balanced and the weapons are much more unique than they were in Halo 5. Alot of the weapons had the exact same function just with reskins. For example, the DMR and Carbine, or the Sniper and Beam Rifle.
Halo Infinite’s sandbox has some weapons that take a little more skill to use effectively. The Hydra is a bit different, the Heatwave isn’t the one-shot shotgun that people think it is, the Pulse Carbine is a weapon alot of people avoid because it’s not as immediately understandable as a sidekick or AR.
The Sandbox doesn’t suck, some of the weapons just require a little more finesse to understand.
I’m thinking more of a fun scale here rather than balance. I’m a lowly platinum not champion lmao. The sandbox just isn’t as fun imo.
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In terms of fun, I agree. I miss my Plasma Caster 
I agree, but I don’t see the wrong in that, these weapon have slight changes (Magazine for DMR, Supercombine effect for the Needle Rifle), (Magazine for Sniper, Heat for Beam Rifle) they may be very similar in role, but I don’t think that all weapons should be unique, its nice to have UNSC/Covenant counterparts.
Sometimes I want to play with Covenant Carbine, some times I want to use the DMR or the Needle Rifle. I would like to have these weapons in the game because they are iconic and make the game feels “Halo”.
The Pulse Carbine is literally under powered, It is weaker than the starter weapons and I didn’t find one time where it was more useful than other weapons, if i want to remove the shield the Plasma Pistol does a better job, sure there isn’t always the same weapons in the maps.
The heatwave is the new plasma caster. Don’t zoom in and this pro bounce skills transfer right over.
I totally meant Cindershot, not heat wave
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It’s not so much that having a packed-sandbox is bad, it’s just that it’s not ideal. Halo 5 was under alot of fire for having so many variants of weapons that are very close in function. I’m with you-I love using the Carbine and DMR and Beam Rifle, that variety in weapons is part of the fun. But it gets to a certain point where it becomes so dense that some weapons get left behind or feel redundant in function.
Anyway, that’s just 343’s reasoning for slimming down the sandbox or transforming/combining weapons into one new weapon. Scattershot turned into the Heatwave, Plasma caster turned into the Cindershot, DMR turned into the Commando, etc.
Pulse carbine is a three shot with a perfect kill bro, it’s not underpowered at all. That being said, I suck with it so bad so I rarely pick it up. It’s meant to be a long range gun, the further you are, the stronger the tracking is for it.
I agree, I think if they want to make weapon less redundant they should have similar guns “rotate” every match (or every weapon pickup/respawn), like one sniper weapon type in the map either Sniper or Beam Rifle, one Semi-Auto rifle like DMR or Covenant Carbine, or one of each on opposite side of the map.
It seems to make damage to shield but health damage are too low, in fact it is better used as a noob combo, but the Plasma Pistol seems better at it. The projectiles are too slow and can’t follow a mobile player very well.
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You need to stop looking at how long the current season lasts and how long future seasons will last. The length if seasons is stated to be 3 months a piece, if it takes longer than that for the majority of players the system is broken, very few people will be buying the following season and then even fewer buying the one after that and after that and so on till only a couple people are buying the pass each season.
This season only lasts 6 months because they have a ton of work to do to make it doable in the intended 3 months, they can’t have the pass be 3 months and spend that entire time trying to get it right. If they balance it for the current season’s 6 months they will break progression for all future seasons and have to start all over again.
The people playing 20-30 matches every single night are obviously not going to have issues completing the pass but those people are in the very extreme minority, most players will only be playing half a dozen matches a couple nights a week at most and the progression needs to be balanced around that otherwise very few people will be buying future passes. If you balance it around the elite players doing it in 6 months 90%+ of players will still be chugging along on season 1 until season 3 or 4 if they even stick around that long.
They also need to assume most players will only being at most half of the weeklies each week.
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Why assume when they have all the data? Obviously they’ve made the pass and they’ll certainly tweak stuff based on player information. If they see that it’s a month in and the average BP rank is level 6, maybe you’ll see them boost the xp.
We still don’t know if we will get bonus stuff along the way to speed it up either. People are demanding change when it’s been less than 7 days. Give the system time to show itself before slating how bad it is. We have Fracture events coming up too and we don’t know 100% how they work other than the fact (spoilers) you are gonna get a buttload of double exp and skips.
They have 20 years of halo games to get that sort of information. Finding out how long people play video games is not that hard to find out when they have been tracking that crap for decades.
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I just learned that the Ultimate challenge each week is the same for everyone and is worth 400 XP.
Unfortunately that was left out of my calculations.
I’m not one to use XP boosts really, but given this is worth 400 XP, I believe I would use an XP boost each week to complete this challenge gaining 800 XP.
Updated Calculations Below
1,750 XP + 4,600 + 800 = 7,150 XP per week.
100,000 XP / 7,150 XP = 13.99 weeks
Or
75,000 XP / 7,150 XP = 10.49 weeks
And this is assuming at least 5 games a day. I’m sure we may all exceed that on some days, so it’s just an estimate.
This.! Yes. EASILY.!! CoD’s is fine to me. Maybe tweak it a bit for ftp folks but this is broken mess and does.not.work… yeah it’s beta but they’re still making money off xp skips right now… this will put fans off in droves eventually.
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