I’ve really enjoyed playing the game and I’m super excited for the full release and next weekend still, but I’m frustrated with the leveling system. I am incredibly bad at Halo, and pretty much every other FPS I have ever played, but I still have a lot of fun playing. With the challenges being the only way to “level up” though I feel a lack of motivation to even try that hard in matches, which is killing some of the fun. I am not good enough to complete some of the harder challenges without a decent bit of luck, so I mostly am relying on leveling through the “number of matches played” challenges. But eventually it just feels like I’m just running around to get slaughtered over and over, and even when I do kill someone it’s pointless because I don’t really care about my performance since I just need to complete the match to keep leveling up.
I am just disappointed there is no XP incentive or other inventive to motivate me to get kills, win a match, or other things like that. I just really feel like there is lacking a reason to play any way besides exactly what the challenges demand if you are just trying to grind out the battle pass to unlock armor, which ends up making the game less fun me. It’s a minor issue but it has really been bothering me.