1: 50 more XP for winning match.
2: x amount XP for playing the objective
3: x amount XP for assistance in objecting
4: kinda sums 2 and 3 up Performance XP
5: XP for medals.
Overall: they don’t have to be alot of xp but combined they add up. You can easily rack.
For example:
-100 XP for playing and winning.
50 XP for playing objective
5 XP per medal you get 10 medals. So 50Xp
performance equates to stopping a flag carrier x amount of times,
: saving your flag carrier/ball carrier, driving a
person to and from the flag,
:holding off attackers from position aka strongholds which total awards you 150xp
Overall winning the match completing the march helping and putting in that work coming out maybe mid upper leaderboard grants you 350xp
Now Monetization:
1: Armore Coatings and visors to be universal
2: Follow the reach formula
3: earn credits from gameplay.
example above would net you 60 credits.
4: don’t remove things from the store just expand( exception is event items)
5: Mae armor peices unlockable through commendations.
If you guys have any ideas to add to this or suggestions overa and thoughts let it out maybe 343 will see this and rethink stuff.
Go based on medals like guardian angels medals defender medals each one nets you x amount of XP. So if your playing the objective your going on earn those medals.
Killing flag carrier, grabbing flag, returning flag, capturing flag, assist in killing flag carrier. Same for oddball. Killing people in zones enemy/friendly, capturing zones, resetting enemy progress on a friendly zone.
These are all things we already get score or medals for. It can and has already been done.
Or they could just do this :
100xp for match completion
+100xp for Steaktacular
+50xp for podium finish (top 3 players of your team)
Blue Challenges instantly tier up the season pass instead of giving 200~300xp (feature brought over from Tenrai Event). You get 8 of these per week.
Normal Challenges all removed
Ultimate Challenge gives 2 tiers of Season Pass upon completion
This ends up with :
10 tiers of the Season Pass from completing all challenges per week
100~250xp per match
But this does not solve anything if 343 still leaves the Season Pass bare and shoves everything to the shops. Customization needs an overhaul as well.
Armor cores and their pieces need to be interchangable and can be mixed and matched. (Like using Reach armor with Tenrai for example)
Separate Colours from Coatings
Colours can be chosen, Primary and Secondary, this will change the colour of your Armor or Coating (for example making a Camo Print coating with White+Black)
Players are given a basic Colour palette by default (Snow, Steel, Sage, Brick, Coral, Gold, Lavender, Blue)
Players are then allowed to buy new palettes of colour featuring other sort of colours.
Match score already takes into account objectives, so if we have a system that gives you x% of your match score, playing the objective will net you more XP than just running around like an idiot. There’s no need to complicate it further.
Which they are so afraid of for some reason.
Not like the Season Pass has anything they are just straight up selling in the store cos we can’t get it anywhere else.
If someone grinds a pass, they deserve to finish it. But that’s on them if they are “bored” afterwards.
A lot of people think it is so they can sell more level skips. It could be as simple as they had a meeting and they said what don’t people like about battle passes in other games and it resulted in this system.
No amount of focus groups can end up with the conclusion of :
“Let’s take everything that could have been in the Season Pass and put those into shops, and just give horrible Challenges for players to grind and sell them Challenge Swaps instead. And why not put like 20 or so of these swaps into the Season Pass too, instead of 20 other customization pieces”
Make no mistake. This is intentional and malicious in full form.
The fact we can’t even have WHITE as a basic colour option for free is a huge red flag. Like heck, who on earth decided that “You can’t choose the colour combinations you want, we choose them for you” is a good idea?
Yeah I mean it was always gonna be hard to monetise the most profitable part of most games is the skins and Halo armour is so indifferent and generic most the time it would be practically impossible without throwing artistic design out the window and just letting people buy banana suits.
Some decisions will be with good intent and others will be the usual business filler. How can we get more money? I think it’s hard to tell because I see the merit in soke of what they’ve done but see others claiming it was purposefully done to be anti-player.
No no no, this is massively anti player. There is no ifs and buts around it.
There are ways to massively monetize a game’s cosmetic market while keeping it highly customizable.
Look to Warframe for a moment.
A F2P player has :
The Base Armor
A Base colour palette with primary colours. (around 30 options with hundreds of customizable combinations)
That’s it! And everything else can be bought or grinded through limited events. So if you wanna F2P you can still have a strong level of customization to look unique.
343 opted to take it all away from us.
You can no longer pick the colours you want
You can no longer make your own custom emblems (The huge wtf moment for me)
You can no longer even choose the colour of your emblems (So goodluck if you wanna make it match your armor)
Like heck, even in Halo 2, everyone was wearing the same Chief armor, but at least they could tweak their colours to look different, but you can’t even do that in Infinite.
Also I wonder if they could implement give Ng Ayers 2000 credits a month for having gamepass, and 1000 credits for buying the season pass. That alone let’s you get a few things without having to spend actual more money.
I’m specifically speaking on armor peices. Since armor customization as as essential and key to Halo as warn Ng and unlocked attachments for weapons is to COD.
Of COD which known as a cash grab started locking every second angle attachment for the weapons behind a paywall it would be hell.
That is the equivalent of what they have done with Halo Infinite. I’d say maybe between 10 to 20% of armor can be locked behind the paywall as that leaves 80 to 90% still earnable though gameplay, if they keep it as is. But if they allow credits to be earned in game at a relatively good amount that would justify it as you can grind to buy that armor.
But they also need to leave that armor in the store.
I think there’s a simpler solution, considering we’re already getting score in the game. IMO the XP should be equal your Score divided by 10. You sweat, play the objective like a beast and get 3000 score? Boom, 300 XP. If they want to keep challenges you can do Score divided by 20, so the progression isn’t too fast I guess.
And the season pass? Fill the pass with the all the “coming soon” armors and coatings, weapon skins and attachments. Then replace some of Boosts/Swaps/Grants with Credits that players can actually buy some of the shop cosmetics. Or you can buy the next season pass with these credits. CoD does it, Fortnite does it. You get to choose how you spend your hard earned Credits.
Oh and make the armor pieces/coatings universal, so the armor core only dictates your legs, arms and torso. The rest should be interchangable.
Honestly Great idea, granted I would have credits earned after each match. As is this system seems to be let’s push people to buy stuff with real money as the only option for vast customization options.
What they are doing is the equivalent of making COD players pay for all the weapon attachments for each weapon.
I think right now they went with the most extreme version to cash crop it. And too what players are willing to tolerate, so once they do fix it it looks like a great improvement. Remember this was done on purpose. This version of the battle pass the not earning credits all this was intentional.
The community got them to rework the game after that first campaign preview
The same.community can get them to basically give us Reach version of credits earned.
