Hello,
I’ve been playing a bit of Halo this week and trying to complete my challenges, but I’ve run into a road block of RNG that has taken me more than 4 hours of game time just trying to complete. I have two challenges left - Kill a Spartan with a Fusion Coil and Destroy 3 Ghosts. This are entirely RNG based seeing as not every map has Fusion Coils, and Ghosts are very hard to come by where I actually can destroy them myself with a teammate hijacking it, blowing it up, or actually taking the Ghost. In the time that I have run into Ghosts, I don’t have the equipment capable of taking it down. Either I just died, or it’s entirely just bad timing. I literally cannot enjoy my game play anymore because I’m stuck on these challenges. The battle pass and challenge system is extremely frustrating for a causal player who only has time to play on weekends. I’m wasting a lot of time focusing on less than enjoyable challenges just to not complete them because they’re so “luck” based. I get you can swap out challenges if they’re too hard, but now that I’m stuck on only two challenges, I have no swap tokens available, and because I can’t progress my battle pass due to being stuck, it’s a vicious cycle that actually makes this game extremely unfun to play when just simply wanting to progress stuff and unlock new items. It’s disappointing that you considered this to be worthy of us Halo fans, compared to how Reach, Halo 4 and Halo 5 were treated when it comes to in game XP. The fact that I could be top of my team, with highest kills, most objective time or caps and only get 50xp every match, is an absolute joke. You could easily do what COD does, allow XP based on performance within a match, while also having challenges, allow us to feel accomplished with how we do in the match. You will easily make enough revenue selling packs of Spartan gear, colors, skins for weapons and vehicles without making gameplay an extreme hassle for us casual players and even hardcore players alike. How do you expect us to fully enjoy a game when you force us to use ridiculous tactics and weapons, just to complete challenges? I guarantee I am not the only one who feels this level of frustration with your progression system. I remember watching a video of one of the Dev’s talking about how the challenge system would take forever to complete, because there’s 20+ hours of challenges that no one could complete in the weeks time. I was able to complete all of mine besides two, in 2 days. You expect us to feel satisfied receiving 50xp each match after that and some daily challenges? Absolute slap in the face. Things need to change.