Since there’s no sign of hope we are getting Classic looking medals with each one appearing unique;
I have an idea:
Medal Skin packs.
You beat the campaign on any difficulty and you are rewarded with the “Classic Medals Pack” which reskin your medals to an art style and theme reminiscent of the first 3 games.
Then, 343 can package up bundles and sell us a variety of skin packs.
Tenrai pack: medals appear like traditional Japanese Art, or have flower blossom animations to them… like right out of Okami
Neon FX pack: pretty self explanatory with the upcoming store content.
ODST pack: medals look like they were ripped from the streets of New Mombasa at Night
Covenant Pack: Grunts, Brutes, Elites… all have a unique look to them. Could do three separate packs, even a high council one
Mister Chief Medals: all medals have that 1st grader hand drawn appearance
I mean there’s a lot of room to monetize here while rewarding players who purchased the campaign (entices the sales of campaign post launch too).
I’m personally not a fan of the current line of thinking with color coding medals; although if the system is used for a baseline to implement something above, I guess it makes sense in the long term.
However, no classic medals option whatsoever really makes the current set feel bland and uninspired.
(Hey the game was rushed and this is an area we can tell it was, so the excuse of color coding is wearing thin since the removal of color coding from gameplay contradicts this decision completely… just pay someone to do the above, you’ll make the money back on whatever it costs due to how much players wanting anything than what is currently given for medals)