Challenge-only XP is violently unfun

Games Halo Infinite
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Played for about 4 hours today. The challenges started out fairly OK , as they were fairly general challenges like Kill X amount of people or Play X amount of games.

But as time went on, I started to get more specific challenges, like using certain guns or destroying certain vehicles. That’s when the headache-inducing gameplay started. For example, I got stuck on a challenge where you have to kill 3 people with the worst gun in the game (plasma repeater.) After 3 matches and a new KD ratio of 0.20, I got the kills, only to realize the progression didn’t transfer and the challenge was still left undone.

This is one of the many issues with challenge only xp, as I’m sure everyone has encountered these. Everyone knows this is a bad system. I know 343 has acknowledged people want more ways to earn xp. I just hope they don’t “improve” it by adding more simple challenges, and instead have XP gain for kills, completing objectives, etc.

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I’m not a fan of it either. I’ll live through it if I have to, but I am not exactly having the best time in the world living off of 100 XP per match because I forgot to devote all of my attention to challenges.

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It’s a shame cus the core of the game is very fun. But on its margins whether its missing content (amazingly lack of playlist content) or poor implementation of a proper XP-based system will bog it down.