This point of view may be controversial, but at this point it needs to be said. Halo Infinite multiplayer is boring as H*ll. Before you get your torch and pitchforks, hear me out. I know that 343i has made some “strides” to try and make this game better, but at the end of the day this game is boring. For starters, how is anyone gonna wanna grind for XP after finishing the weekly challenges before the week ends? I completed it yesterday and there’s no way for me to get XP except for the minimal amount given in the daily challenge. People who complete their weeklies before the week is through are pretty much SOL. Who is gonna wanna stick around until the next week after completing those?
Secondly, the content in this game is severely lacking; even with the new slayer playlists. Like, are we actually going to sit down and have a frank discussion on the quality & quantity of the maps? Because I feel like this is something that’s long overdue. The maps don’t even remind me of halo maps, most of the time. They remind me more of those small, linear, three-lane maps Call of Duty has. Where are the wider areas? What happened to actual good map design? Less maps than Halo CE and you’re more likely to play the same map twice in a row, on top of having mostly slayer playlists. Where are the other game modes? Not everyone wants to play 4 different iterations of the same game modes on only a handful of “different” maps. Where is Crazy King? Where is King of the Hill? Infection? Or how about a dedicated playlist for Stronghold, CTF or Oddball? And what about VIP, Assault & Juggernaut? Don’t even get me started on the travesty that became BTB.
I’m not even gonna go further with the monetization schemes and the progression system. That’s just beating a dead horse. I’m still pretty pissed about the Fracture: Tenrai stuff. How are you going to claim you didn’t mean to sell event specific items during the event and that it was all just an accident? That’s a boldfaced lie and we all were there.
And why are we going to keep excusing this stuff that 343i has done thus far? How are people just going to sit there and say “Well, they did nothing wrong. It’s a f2p game and at least they fixed the progression.”? They “fixed” the progression? You call that fixing? The multiplayer’s only been out for a month and they managed to not only pull the sheep’s cloth over your face with the progression that’s so “fixed” to the point where if you complete the weekly challenge before the week is through, you won’t progress through the battlepass that much; but they also managed to break BTB in a way that sometimes causes people’s clients to crash on top of not connecting anyone to a game.
I’d go back to MCC, but no one plays MCC anymore.