Not so great for this seasons awesome rewards at 95+
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Too slow and challenge swaps need to be free to allow players to pick whatever challenge best suites them.
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Yes, but I believe that is the intent. If the average player can max out the battle pass in half that time, then what do you think all the complaints will turn into after a few months? Remember, the passes do not expire, so feel free to progress whatever pass you like, for as long as you like, to unlock that shiney cosmetic you want.
A few challenge swaps to start us off with would have been a smart move, and certain level unlocks only rewarding swaps or boosts is a bit of a low blow to the free track-ers.
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Yeah I agree with that, starting us with like 25 swaps or 30 swaps to start would have been appreciated. I also would have appreciated knowing that the flight unlocks were going to be removed, but I think that’s my fault 
I’m gonna make this real clear if this is the system we have until May this game is dead. This system is the worst of any game I’ve ever played not even because it’s slow but because of how it changes player behavior. I played 20 matches today and not once did I get a full team that would play the objective. Not. Once. This challenge system is sabotaging the really phenomenal gameplay.
If this is the next 6 months game is already dead from a casual consumer standpoint. Combine that with the aggressive and highway robbery item shop and you have a game that has more in common with a Chinese gacha game than anything resembling Halo. It doesn’t matter how good the actual gameplay is when the monetization is compromising that gameplay.
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You’re out of your mind if you think this. That’s an absurd amount of time to put into JUST chasing challenges in the game. I swear the youth thinks this is oaky because they were raised on a diet of MTX and live service garbage
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My friend who doesn’t play Halo very often (he’s not accustomed to the gameplay), spent 2 hours with me and barely got to level 1. He couldn’t get any kills nor get any of the challenges done. For him it’s not worth playing through if it doesn’t reward him properly. This system is not as player friendly as I had hoped it to be.
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It seems slower than it was in the Flights?
Definitely need some for winning matches at least.
Thank you for the compliment.
But how many hours have you played just today? ~8hrs/week doesn’t seem absurd to me. It is probably more than I will play on average after the honeymoon phase wears off, but I’m fine with that so those that play way more than me will still have things to unlock 4 months from now.
The fact that normal gameplay doesn’t earn you enough compared to challenges is quite concerning. A ton of games will have players just playing solely for themselves completing challenges and not focusing on the actual team work at all. Really sucks when you’re trying to enjoy TEAM games and there’s people (likely in every match) just chasing doing their challenges.
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This is all it boils down to. Yes it’s a free game. But why are they pricing out a fun experience of being rewarded?
It honestly killed my hype for the multiplayer, excluding bots. I very much enjoy that. Still excited for the story, fingers crossed it’s good!
Agreed! Why do they insult and discourage us with quippy prerecorded lines from the AIs and SPARTAN avatars when we perform poorly in the game then get shown a screen that tells us no matter how many kills or objectives we got in them match you didn’t completely the all important challenges so you GET NOTHING, GOOD DAY SIR.
I was still looking forward to campaign but unfortunately after playing stockpile I get the vibe that a lot of missions will be filler fetch quests picking up power cells for your liberated FOBs. Which in turns gives me a sinking feeling that it will be like FO4 or 76 and that maybe after a week or month of in game time The Banished will retake your FOBs. Creating a repetitive content farm to make 343’s lives easier.
Yea the progression is absolutely insane. Not feasible in the slightest. If you do not gain any exp from in game matches then there is no point in even playing
I see people talking about how 343 might implement an alternate system in 2022 along with forge and coop. This game will be long dead by then. They need to learn from Halo 5 and Gears 4 and 5’s failings and get these changes out now. Once people leave, you aren’t going to bring any more than a small fraction back. Their games as a service approach to Halo is going to kill it. EA has tried this with the titles lately and the playerbases for those games tank hard after the first month or so.
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Please add exp gain, the battle pass is way too slow especially when bouncing between games, it’ll take a long time to finish!
The progression is painfully slow, I understand it’s an ftp, but heck it’s just too much… Just adding my voice…
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I’m starting to see why there’s no expiration dates on the battle passes. Sure, it was sold to the community as a “player focused” choice but now I think there might be more to it. I’m willing to bet anything it was so they could artificially slow down progression and encourage people to buy level skips without the backlash of having only 30% of the people who bought it finish on time.
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It’s purposely slow because the content team is not ready to release season passes regularly yet. They are obviously still working on other things. Once they do, everything will change.
343 are still way behind with this game