Sooooo… wtf happened to that Slayer playlist update they were working on anyway? They said this was a basic Slayer offering update, and they would expand in a future update. It’s mid February. 2 months went by Sketch. How many more months do you guys need to add those variant modes you were working so hard on? Is Season 2 the “future update”? Season 3? 4? This was being worked on back during the release of Infinite, and all we got was that “basic offering” that was meant to hold us over the holiday until the actual playlist content update dropped. 2 months. Not a word on the subject has been mentioned.
I bet everyone got too distracted by the cat ears, and since we forgot about it, they took that opportunity to never bring it up again. Well bad news, I remembered.
The timeline was basically:
Beta > Launch / Working on Variant Playlist Update > BTB broke > Holiday Break / Slayer Basics Hotfix > Cat Ear fiasco > BTB fixed > Matchmaking Filtering update > Now
When is the part where they go back to what they were working on before BTB broke? Everyone just forgot.
You sweet summer child. 343 has lied about a lot of things. This is a company you can’t put your faith in or expect to keep their word.
Seriously, anything 343 says should be taken with a grain of salt. I’d go as far as treating anything in the community blog posts as trustworthy or reliable as leaks or rumors.
Just to count a few of their lies:
They promised they wouldn’t monetize cosmetics prior to the game’s launch. They did, anyways.
They promised us “millions” of cosmetic combinations, yet there are just enough for each body part that I can count them all with my fingers.
They lied about reducing store prices.
They lied about making challenges easier. (Check the guy who played 40+ Ranked matches just to complete the Weekly Ultimate challenge)
Okay sweetie, but these are Genie wishes. They did what they said, while doing it in the dirtiest way you didn’t expect them to. For example, there are 10,000 possible combinations that the digits 0-9 can be arranged into to form a four-digit code. Since changing only your coating, or only a helmet attachment, or only your chest emblem, etc counts as an entirely different armor combination, yes, unfortunately there are technically over a million combinations. They also technically reduced store prices, by offering less items. They also technically made challenges easier, like changing “End 5 killing sprees in Fiesta” to “End 3 killing sprees in Fiesta”.
343 is technically keeping their word, so when they say they’ll add more Slayer playlist variant content in a “future update”, 10 years could go by, and they still technically kept their promise.
It’s slimy, but it’s legally within their promises. Any sleazeball lawyer would defend them just the same.
My goal here is to jog their memory, so since they easily dumped us those other modes in a hotfix, with a bit of a memory jogging, they could hotfix the rest of that update we should have had after their holiday break.
I think that statement was intentionally ambiguous…they didn’t state or clarify what they’d be releasing and when. Their cover is that they have released Team Slayer, FIesta FFA and SWAT playlists…and they added Attrition for a week or so.
Yeah, but as they stated, they were working on variant playlists since launch, that wouldn’t be ready in time for the holiday break. This was a “basic” “offering”, not the full intended update being worked on.
This implies they had full variant playlists in the works.
This implies they needed a bit more time than what they had before the holiday break.
This implies that after the holiday break, we should have had a new content update before February.
This “basic offering” was just an appetizer to pass the holiday. There was supposed to be an actual update after it.
Actually, this week was supposed to have the Tac Ops event, featuring Tactical Bulldogs, Tactical Sidekick, Tactical Commando, etc or whatever variants of Tactical Slayer.
That’s exactly the issue. If they didn’t imply it wouldn’t be ready in time for the holiday break, and it was coming later, we wouldn’t have any time frame at all to estimate. That “small basic sample before the holiday break” was where you could really start to estimate a realistic time frame.
Now to be fair, they have been very occupied with fixing BTB, which you know, great, they fixed it after 2 months, so here’s the part where they get back to what they were working on just before they broke it, which was the playlists update.
I don’t want them to be forgetting what they were working on before they broke BTB.
How do you expect this game to last 10 years if they give us all more playlists within the first few months? Even having broken playlists that they need to fix like BTB buys them a few more months towards their 10 year goal. /s
The same way 3 and Reach lived 10 years, and still live in MCC, with nothing new added besides those latest MCC armor updates and a couple maps ported from Halo Online.
You don’t need to milk the IV drip and torture players with painfully slow content drops from 0 to 100. You can start from 20 or even 30. Most of the new content will always be cosmetics and shop items, with occasional DLC for campaign.
However, Infinite is built on top of 5. We had tons of modes through the history of Halo. We don’t need to Metroid Halo Infinite by starting with no content at all and slowly making a complete game over 10 years. If a game is fun and it’s good, it will live 10 years regardless.
This game as it currently is, it’s neither fun nor good.
We could have 10-15 modes and 343 could invent new modes for once, like Custom Games makers have been coming up with new maps and modes for decades.
No reason to put the game in such a sorry state with only a few modes and maps for a whole year.
Eh, sarcasm isn’t always detectable in text. Some people unironically might mean what they say. I try to use italics when I’m being ironic to help clarify, or the classic /s
Accepting a half-truth, where they lowered the prices of like 5 out of the 70 items in the shop by 10-30%, and justifying it by saying “oh, well, technically, they did keep their promise” is just as misleading. I still see the same $20 price tag on overpriced bundles in the shop every week.
Also, yeah, they did promise they wouldn’t monetize a lot of the cosmetics. It’s amazing how many people forget that. yo[.]utu.be/WWKPUkL3DpI?t=385
(Remove the [.]. I couldn’t find the original video documentary, but I’m sure 343 deleted it like they do with nearly everything else.)
That’s why I’m not defending them. They’re slimy, but they technically aren’t lying. I’ll call them liars when they actually tell a lie. So far, I can’t actually name any 343 lies off the top of my head. I can only think of things they were misleading about, or poor choices that they did, but not directly any lies, since 343 doesn’t like to set any promises in stone. They did get bashed for not giving an update by the end of January though, and the update we got was a nothing update, but that was from an individual Twitter user, and not representing 343 as a whole.
343 is choosing to be intentionally misleading or completely silent on everything, instead of transparent, so we can’t catch them on any lies, if they make no promises. That’s EXACTLY why they refuse to give us a roadmap.
One thing I’m still dead on about is 343 changing the WCT Armor Coating to an AR Coating, and showing off the Warthog Coating in a livestream, but we still don’t have it. Since they refuse to talk about it, I can’t call them liars, but they’re irritating everyone that bought merch in 2020-2021 and STILL don’t have their Armor and Vehicle Coatings yet.
We were never intended to get the “basic offering” though. They literally had no plans to give us a dedicated slayer playlist to start. The game was supposed to launch as it was in November and nothing added until season 2. This is and has been their plan all along. Weird that you can’t see that.
