Let me start off by saying; I don’t know if what 343i has done was by design. It very well could be, but that doesn’t mean we can’t plead our case so that’s exactly what I’m going to do. It saddens me to see so many people getting more and more upset over a game that I’ve really been enjoying a whole lot, even with its blatant issues. Let’s try to keep it civil and actually provide them with constructive criticism, rather than hate. This will help way more.
So, with that out of the way, here’s my list on how to fix Infinite for the short term:
- Give 150 XP per match
- Give us unlimited weekly Challenges that go on after we complete our Ultimate. I just complete all of my challenges one or 2 days and after that, I need to play 20 games to get ONE tier in the BP. This is just not fair
- Remove the weapon/gametype specific challenges. Instead, turn them into things like “complete so and so many objective matches” or “get so and so many kills with a precision weapon.” Those are way more acceptable than the current system
- Decrease store prices by 80% (yes, it’s that bad right now)
- Add more playlists. Some important ones: Team BR, SWAT, Infection, Grifball, Fiesta Team Snipers, BTB Heavies
- Give us the option to choose what we want to play
-Add Jeff’s callouts to BTB
If you implement all of these, which should really not be hard at all, you’ll have fixed the game enough to where it’s acceptable
Now some things that are important in the long run:
- Get on top of Forge and co-op. You CANNOT make people wait 6 and 9 MONTHS for these features, which have been a staple of Halo for about 15 years! 3 and 6 months was already too long!
- Give us an actual progression system that awards us for our in-game accomplishments (like, earning medals, objective points and kills)
- Add back ranks. Preferably like Halo 3, where you could go from Recruit to General and a 1 - 50 ranking system, but to make it more accessible to casuals, you could do Reach ranks instead so that skill isn’t the biggest flex of the game by reaching skill lvl 50
- Make it so that every week, you can earn ATLEAST one of the smaller bundles simply by playing the game. Preferably, we should be able to earn it all, but we should atleast be able to buy one of them with in-game currency
- Let us earn back our battle pass (although this is kinda the same as the previous point)
- Bring back assassinations
- Bring back Commendations from Reach so that we have something other than rank and cosmetics to grind for
- Bring back playable Elites. I personally don’t care much about them, but a sizable part of the oldschool fans LOVED playing as an Elite and they were all hoping Infinite would finally give them what they’ve wanted since they were introduced in Halo 2; a similar customization treatment
- Add more of the classic weapon sandbox. The sandbox is fun but not nearly diverse enough, and a lot of classic, iconic weapons are just missing. This shouldn’t be slept on for too long
- Now although this isn’t a must, a lot of us old fans would LOVE to see some of the classic maps remade in an engine that we all actually really like. Think; Valhalla, Blood Gulch, Guardian etc. This engine is really good and it would give all of us a huge smile om our face, guaranteed
So yeah, that’s all I can think of right now but I think these are all important factors. 343i, if you’re actually reading this, please take it to heart. We all care about this franchise. Most of us think you’ve created something truly wonderful in terms of gameplay, and it has a LOT of potential to be the single best Halo since Halo 3. It just really does need a lot of work. You’ve laid a great foundation, now please guys, please expand it and do it fast. The state of the game right now just isn’t good enough