Seems a bit odd this isn’t in game. Most of the missions are relatively short at about half an hour and 4 people on heroic could easily do most missions in less time. They had experience in Reach/HW2 for doing the campaign and associated challenges. Do you think they originally intended to have campaign matchmaking? Plus if you’re grinding for XP/RP it would be nice to have some variety instead of firefight or multi. I mean there is very little incentive to go back and replay missions. I was really surprised they didn’t add this with score attack. I am sure there are ways of including it without breaking immersion.
I imagine they didn’t include campaign XP/RP to make it not too easy to accumulate those things. Especially considering that you get a req pack every new rank. More in-game options to earn RP means less incentive to spend real money on REQs.
As for XP, well, maybe they though that since it only matters in multiplayer, it wasn’t necessary for campaign. Unlike in Reach, you don’t use your custom Spartan in Campaign, and there are no campaign rewards to unlock. What’s the point of playing the campaign for XP if you don’t get anything out of it?
Well, actually exposing people to “free REQ’s” is more likely to encourage them to pay for additional REQ packs.
Plus Halo Wars 2 gives you Blitz Packs for doing campaign and levelling up from experience gained this way.
Sadly, H5 came a bit short in a lot of ways.
I would like to see campaign match making return. It’s pretty lame you have a team based game and not include it. But I remember reading awhile back they said it wasn’t included due to bad feedback from the reach campaign match making. Also yeah it would be cool to be able to earn xp and even rp in it. I was hoping that was going to be the case when they added score attack, give out a small amount of rp/xp depending on score, just set a max limit per level that can be earned so XP/rp can’t be “farmed”.