I don’t know if its just me, but I personally don’t like the new exp system. I wish we had a traditional level system. Like 1-152 (I forgot the max in H5) but having our rank represented by our battle pass level kind of feels lame. And then more over you can just buy that level with microtransactions meaning your rank doesn’t really represent your time investment.
I like the challenges system coming back, but I wish our kills, and the way we preformed also affected our exp gain and not just the challenges. The game just dropped and I can see this changing in the future.
343i has said they are gonna put in a career progression but that it’s gonna take time to implement into the game. I’d be okay with them just going back to the Spartan Ranks or if they wanted to make a callback to earlier Halos, they could implement the Reach ranking system.
At least getting some xp per game now which helps, 343 will do something, I’m fine waiting, the. core gameplay is solid so everything else comes in time
I wouldn’t even call this a progression or EXP system. All “EXP” represents is how many arbitrary challenges you have completed. Its EXP in name only, they should have called it BPP or CP (Battle Pass or Challenge Points).
If they plan on adding progression, ranking, player stats later on that’s neat, but its yet another sign of how normalized it is these days to release unfinished games. This is basic stuff. Halo 2 and 3 launched with this stuff back in 2004 and 2007 respectively (Not to mention 2-tone color customizable armor).
It makes you wonder; In what state they were going to release this game a year ago?