After the backlash of the 20 dollar Hazop bundle, no more unreleased REACH armor for the Mark V(b) core was sold in the shop. And rightfully so. That armor should’ve been part of the Season 1 battle pass, but wasn’t.
Many bundles with REACH armor were already leaked. Including bundles with Emile’s right shoulder, Carter’s left shoulder. But also full sets like JFO. Never mind missing helmets like CQC, CQB, Mark V, et cetera. But also several helmet attachments for helmets like ODST and Recon.
Anyway, these items are already made for the game, but were never released. I was expecting them to be added to the Season 2 battle pass, but they aren’t. So what is 343i’s plan for these items? I don’t think they should be sold, unless for an insanely super cheap price. Adding them as weekly rewards is also a bad plan, because people might miss out on their favorite Halo REACH armor if they for whatever reason cannot play a certain week.
So, a free mini battle pass released somewhere in the 2nd half of Season 2 seems to be the most appropriate. Also for a compensation of another season lasting 6 months. One of the most frustrating parts of Season 1 was staying at rank 100 for multiple months. And because Season 2 will last another 6 months, I know this is going to happen again.
On a side note, the Season 2 battle pass looks absolutely great and the Rakshasa armor is absolutely stunning.
Yeah, especially after Statsens speech about ‘themes’ of a battle pass being a ‘what if’ type of thing- I definitely think a REACH themed battlepass should include anything REACH related. Selling it in addition is just BM and bad PR. These are virtual clothing objects in a FPS game. The thing is, customizing your spartan has become one of the things that make Halo, Halo. Whether you don’t care at all or if you do, regarding cosmetics, the system they have now feels very garbled, needless to say.
Almost 50% of customization items that are modeled and in the game are under stay tuned for more details. Why? They’re there. Just unlock them and put them in the normal pass, S2 pass, put any missing reach stuff into the S1 pass since you will allegedly be able to equip different passes to level them up-
This whole ‘wait til it’s in the shop so you can look a bit more different than the other guy’ is such a terrible financial compromise for a videogame. $20 in 2010 got you map packs which came with actual content. Cosmetics being one of the pillars that make Halo unique and making it one of the most arbitrary points of financial compensation for the company is so dumb to me.
EDIT: Also, my $20 skin is now $12 because reasons. Rarity is artificially implemented by a limited shop. Any shop items, make them OBVIOUS that you bought them. Make them wacky. Only sell truly crazy cool stuff. Stuff like kneepads with an extra (this said ‘f l a n g e’, not sure why that’s censored) in a bundle with some shoulder pads that look slightly different than the base ones? Put that trash in the GAME. Why the hell are we paying money for these kneepads and shoulders over the others, when they look so similar and vanilla? The anubis set has some just terrible shoulders, and a terrible helmet. And it was $20. Arbitrary and artificial.
I’m definitely not paying for things that I got for free in a 10+ year old game. Technically we’re still missing the ODST helmet from Reach, they have the model from H3 instead for some reason, which sucks for me because the Reach ODST helmet is my favorite iteration of it.
I’d like to see something like a season 1 addendum onto season 2. Have a separate track for free that has the remaining missing armor pieces from Reach, but I know getting them free is a long shot
Those shoulders are my favorite so far for the MkVII, definitely not worth 20 or 12 dollars though.
Sure, but “Heroes of Reach” encompasses the “heroes” of Reach, not just Reach.
What “hero” wore Hazop?
And I say this fully recognizing MKVII content, and helmets like Recon and similar pieces present in the BP. 65 unlocks are Noble Team and “hero” of Reach (specifically ODST gear, not Superintendent) related.
I agree with the broad sentiment that it’s a bit ridiculous that 343i basically sold the S1 BP on the idea that you’d be able to recreate your Reach Spartan with it, but then withheld a solid percentage of the Reach armory to sell piecemeal in the shop.
A mini BP is an interesting idea and could be a nice solution for this. I hope 343i makes these sets available somehow and for a reasonable overall price. There’s no doubt that selling them for 1200 let alone 2000 cR in the shop is an optically gnarly thing to do on their part.
I meant as in marine, soldier, police- These heroes or nah? I’m just arguing semantics here but. I’d consider that class of people ‘heroes’, specially in a fiction where a planet gets invaded
That is infact, what I assumed initially, but now I guess they meant Reach as in the game and not the planet. Ooooor some spartans are heroes while the others aren’t. Either way, tomato potato.
Oh don’t worry I’m arguing semantics too. And besides like I said there’s stuff that made it in that has absolutely nothing to do with anything Reach related.
I’d hardly consider the Spartans in Lone Wolf (level) to be heroes. About all they did was drop weapons so I could go up against one extra wave for all I know.
that would be wonderful! a shame 343 doesn’t care and will add the rest in the shop for 10 bucks. because themed things being tied together just makes no sense apparently
One could argue Noble 6 if you chose to wear hazop as your armor… But even if you don’t wanna count that, how does that logic apply to the literal armor of the main spartans the season was focused on? Emile, Carter and Jorge, all have shoulders that were slated to be sold in the shop for $20. In fact BOTH of Emile’s shoulders were made to be shop items, and one of them actually appeared in the shop.
Ah yes it makes so much more sense for them to say to those free players “hey spend money and buy this armor that you still can’t even use because you didn’t also buy the pass!”
If anything, them giving free armor for the core now, will give incentive to people to go back and buy that core after the fact, because they’ll go “Oh cool this old core just got some new content making it more worth it!”.
By the logic that any armor the player equipped would be what Noble 6 wore sure, but an actual interesting little tidbit about Noble 6 is that their actual canonical armor was the MKV(b). Some sources say that it includes the UA attachment and others suggest it includes the shoulder plates (both based on promo images), and yet other promo images share lore of N6 requisitioning a Recon helmet.
Slated sure, and the models exist as such but only Emile’s “Base Security” and the attachment have actually been sold so far, so let’s use what we know as opposed to what’s been speculated.
Again speculation based on models in the game’s files, the only validation that can be gleaned is that “Base Security” and the attachment have been sold, whereas the actual Security (with or without knife) have not been sold yet with no official confirmation that they are in game.
I will concede that this set is one that could’ve been included in the battlepass, but it’s a single example against 65, and I’m still unsure what this has to do with Hazop?
So you’re saying it makes sense to have them spend money on something they can’t use? Because that’s what you just said. If you actually think that makes more sense, you’re hopeless. If you buy hazop for instance, from the shop, making you someone who HAS spent money, you still can’t even use that armor, unless you then spend MORE money to buy the battle pass and get the core. Meaning in order to use hazop, you need to spend a minimum of $20-ish bucks to wear 1 set of armor. That’s beyond dumb.
What do you mean no official confirmation that they are in the game? We’ve seen them in the game, in numerous forms via bots. We do in fact no they are in the game in a functional capacity, due to that, and as for the appearance of those items in the shop, that information was pulled directly from the game files, so again, we KNOW they intended to sell those other armor items in the store. If they didn’t they wouldn’t have been in the store files.
But again, if you really wanna be that obstinate about it, you still have no valid response or excuse to base security being sold in the store, which invalidated your thought process in your previous comment, because even those heroes of reach didn’t have their armor in the pass, and it was being sold for extra via the store.
They’re the ones choosing to spend money on something that they didn’t look into.
It literally tells you what core it goes on, so if they bought something they can’t use, that’s on them.
Those shoulders are my favorite so far for the MkVII, definitely not worth 20 or 12 dollars though.