Let’s start by the positive. The gameplay is one of the best in any halo, the graphics are really good, the maps all feel unique and fun, the weapon balance is pretty nice, not yet perfect. Thanks a lot dev team, I can’t wait to play the campaign.
Now that this part is over, let’s check the car crash.
The first week started with people giving immediate feedback to the progression system, the issue was addressed and sadly the fix is not that great. The first season how ever will last 6 month so they have plenty of time to make fixes and changes. Still the fact that the fix almost had a reverse effect to the progression was pretty hilarious. But now the biggest issue for me and a lot of other people, the shop and the credits. This is an issue that everybody is talking about, to yet unlike with the BP progression, not a single word on it from 343 industries, some people have already calculated the amount one would have to pay to get all the available/leaked cosmetics in season 1, and needless to say the price is ridiculous. Tomorrow will be marking the start of the first free event in halo infinite, but even there, what they are advertising as a “free” event will have event related cosmetics in the shop that can only be bought.
Some streamers predicted that this game would be dead in less then a month from launch because of it not having battle royale. It seems they were right about the game dying, but the reason though, is not the absence of battle royale…