I loved completing commendations such as weapon mastery, splatters, etc. It was nice to have some overarching career-long goals to check periodically. Definitely sad to see them absent from Infinite.
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Agreed. Commendations where one of my favorite things from halo 5. The weapom Commendations made super Fiesta so much fun, even if it was an unevenly matched game guaranteed to lose. I still had something to strive for besides getting the game over with. 343 missed an opportunity to use them for some skins or even extra xp for the battle pass
I totally agree. There is a total lack of meaningful progression in Infinite and it’s really disappointing. I mean, I can’t even see how my actual gameplay progresses because, so far as I can tell, there’s no real Service Record or genuine stat tracking.
I can’t unlock cool things by doing specific tasks in the game, I’m not rewarded for good play and I am unable to evaluate my improvement (or lack thereof) over time. There’s a lot about the game that feels half-baked. That said, the core gameplay is amazing and the maps, albeit a slim selection, are really good. The game is fun to play, but it’s all the other stuff that is either poorly executed or missing entirely.
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Commendations have been in Halo in some capacity since Reach and one of the biggest requests for infinite besides the xp/challenges debacle is an overall career experience system to show how long people have played and what they’ve done. I feel like bringing the commendations back but updated to something like Destiny’s triumph system would be a great answer to these problems and more.
You could display your commendation score on your emblem and know at a glance how long someones played, earn xp towards your battle pass which helps that whole problem, and get shaders or emblems for completing some too.