So let’s talk about the customization in Infinite.
Anytime when you have a new game and instead of giving you more options, you get less, it’s a problem. The customization of Inifinite feels that way for me.
The color selection: I do not understand the reasoning behind blocking selecting your 2, 3 or 4 colors manually and applying them to your armor. Instead, we are told it’s better to select from a limited selection of curated colorways (can’t remember the term they use). The problem is, everyone has the same colorways and that seriously diminishes the feeling of being unique or creative.
Armor cores: This is something that I thought I wouldn’t like and boy was I right. In the past, you could unlock your body, helmet, visor, arms, legs, etc, and mix and match to your heart’s content. Not anymore. You can only combine items from, you guessed it, carefully curated sets. So, again, you are stuck looking like everyone else.
This hit home recently when I unlocked the EVA helmet. I was excited to equip my nice new helmet and use it with the blue and red colorway that I had unlocked and had been wearing for a while. Nope! Not allowed. I unlocked the colorway for my gen 4 armor core and this helmet (arbitrarily) only fits on gen 5 armor cores. Geez. Talk about lame. Without getting too much into how sparse the battle pass feels, I finally unlocked a helmet I was excited about and I can’t even use it with the only colorway I’m excited about. Talk about taking all the fun and excitement out of unlocking items.
I really hope 343 takes this kind of feedback to heart because, honestly, the cosmetics are not fun to unlock at all.