I feel the outrage is being overblown first I do admit 343 is dropping the ball but I feel the outrage is directed toward BTB and possibly Rank, not casual arena and I want to break down the “need more maps and Mode” argument.
MAPS:
First BTB I will admit although I love Halo Infinite BTB more than any shooter out there this is where they dropped the ball and with Season 2 being very underwhelming
Right now, BTB has 3 maps Fragmentation. Deadlock, and Highpower with adding the new map in Season 2 brings it to a total of 4 maps. There is no argument that 4 maps for 6 months is not enough, now if 343 can come out and say Season 2 BTB will be getting 2 more new map making it 6 than, acceptable but great
Arena Casual: Live fire, Bazaar, Behemoth, Recharge, Aquarius, Streets, Launch Site (did I miss one)
So I am counting 7 maps for Arena Causal with the extra map in Season 2 brings the total of 8 maps.
I feel for 1 year 8 maps is not shabby but yes I too want to be greedy and hope 343 will announce 2 more maps coming in season 2 for a total of 10 maps in Arena Casual. I feel the main issue is not that Arena does not have enough maps but that 343 dropped them too fast if they would have started with 5 maps and than dropped one a month January to April of course people would complain but more would be fine.
second issue is not enough game modes once again I feel this is more targeted toward BTB and maybe Rank although this is not about rank but casual play.
First lets list the modes coming in Season 2 including the maybe ones. The three that everyone is talking about King of the Hill, Land Grab and Last Spartan standing now possible modes are Rumble Pit, Team Sniper, Team Doubles, Social Skirmish and Social slayer Granted not sure if the last two is even a mode, also the possible modes Ninja Slayer, Vampireball and Rocket Repulsors and they claim even more coming in Season 2 plus lets not forget Attrition, and the rumor that Fiesta will get object base game modes,
so if you do count all of these mode that is 11 new gameplay modes coming to Halo with the word more to come.
BTB once again I feel this is where the problem for people come from.
Slayer, Capture the Flag, Control, Stockpile so right now BTB has 4 gameplay mode and yes that is not much and strongly need more, we do know one mode is coming to BTB not sure which one but if just one you only get 5 gameplay modes and 4 new maps for BTB which is strongly underwhelming. I feel BTB needs minimum of 6 maps and at least 6 game modes although 8 even better.
Arena Casual once again I feel we cannot say we do not have a variety of game Modes in Arene in and out of Quickplay.
Capture the Flag, One flag (more maps please), Slayer ( take out of quickplay), Fiesta, Stronghold, Oddball, Tactical Slayer, FFA, Team Slayer, so we have 8 modes in Arena (team slayer in Quickplay and Team slayer 1 mode). That is a lot of modes and out of the 11 new modes being added if you count just five of them is 13 modes for Arena if you count 7 than you get 15 different modes and I am sorry that is a lot of variety. I also did not add Attrition that should be coming back as a Quickplay modeso almost 16 new modes in Season 2.
For Arena I feel the problem is Quickplay not giving you the option to play just the modes you wish to play, and having to play modes you do not like to get to modes you like, that is what we should be complaining about, 343 gave Slayer its own option Team slayer, FFA and Tactical Slayer. 343 can do something similar to COD where you can edit out modes you do not want to play and just cycle through the modes you choose. If you do not Capture the flag or Slayer you check them off and it only Cycle through Stronghold, one flag and Oddball but they make it where you must keep at least three modes making it easier and quicker to find a game.
Last I will admit Rank is dead but Casual mode is not and I feel 343 should give us a level system that is linked through our medals earned. And in matchmaking you are not judged for win or loss or even KDA this is simply through Medals there are 3 tiers of Medals from easy to kind easy to hard and some goes up where with a double kill you can earn an extra 50 points or an extra 100 points where Killionaire maybe 1000 points since it is so hard to do. a back smack 50 points, pancake 75 points. like COD there can be 5 prestige levels at 100 levels per prestige. So I might be finished with the battle pass and my weekly challenge is complete (or just don’t care for the reward) but I need to continue to play to level my spartan up and get as many medals possible, it gives me a reason to keep playing. Also why is it I can go to another website put in my gamertag and see my spartan profile and all of my medals I have earned and how many of each and the ones I have not, also my time playing my Kill to Death ratio and more but 343 cannot do it in game I am not programmer but if a separate website can do it that fast 343 should be able.
Last selfish plug if 343 just so happens to read this I have what I feel would be an amazing BTB gameplay mode to create but I suck at forge and if it means anything I mentioned doing the Rocket Repulsor game mode idea in February stating I cannot do it in custom games but it would be a fun mode to try. a Slayer variant that would be new and a blast full of Mayhem.