This ranked is the new, “new” isn’t it? Copying other games, borrowing ideas straight from Reach, it’s kinda bland, and if you get placed top tier you’re like… done. So much for Halo Infinite being the most competitive game for the next few years if this is all there is to offer.
I want my Halo Infinite 50’s, not my Halo Reach Arena… tiers with a Battle Pass progression for cosmetics. It just feels like once you hit the top tier in Ranked you’re good to go, or you just don’t because the game doesn’t know how to rank you personally and you get annoyed and don’t even want to play to place higher. I personally want the Halo 3’s 50 where it had an even better 5 Star General AND it took 5,000 EXP!!! That means 1-2 EXP per game, 2,500-5,000 games of solely winning to get that EXP, and quitting took away an EXP and added a game so it made you look even worse!!! I don’t get the 50 EXP or 100EXP and 1,000 EXP for challenges with random, or bought, double EXP inserts. Just break it down into small numbers, not the Halo Reach “millions of EXP per player progression rank” nonsense. 1 EXP per game, 1 EXP per challenge, 10 EXP per Legendary Challenge or whatever you call it for completing all weekly’s, perhaps.
I do not get nor want the new “new” tier nonsense and just solely the battle pass that no one even sees or can view. I want the ranked style of Halo 3 where numbers are given and there is a clear skill gap between 1-20, 30-40, 40-45, 45-50’s. Let me see those Force Colonels who literally cannot get a 45 while we touch base with those Brigadier Generals who just don’t want those 50’s and those really bad -Yoink!- 50’s who wonder why they can’t get a 51. Then I want the tenure rank of the current Halo MCC where your “shield” levels up to different tiers itself. All of that ON TOP OF and including that tier ranking for that season like Halo Reach to show how good you are doing that season. But solely a tier? BORING.
What’s even worse is my fear tho. 343i literally reset MCC ranks 2x that I know of. I got 3 50’s in MCC and then BOOM, all ranks reset to 1 for what reason? They made another update and somehow a brand new playlist (Halo 4 Skirmish) was my top ranked playlist with a 24 rank even tho it just came out that day? (back then). 343i does NOT have a good track record with me and that’s why I feel they took the easy, noob friendly route. And on top of that their weekly or monthly ranked playlists would reset the very next time they re-emerged as a weekly/monthly ranked playlist again, so that made absolutely no sense.
So I see why they made it a Battle Pass for the season, and why they made it the Tier system. They don’t know how to put in place a system that was created by their forefathers in 2007, of which what, half their team is previous Bungie? Ske7ch, what happened? How did YOU let it get to be this way? Kapture, what happened to you, buddy? You don’t want to be the highest ranked and most EXP earned employee anymore? That Brigadier General was amazing to see from someone who helped make the game and could actually play it.
343i wants to appeal to more players. Cool. Bungie literally made Halo 3 ranks, never once updated it, and carried it on for years on end. Ever think of that? You have ranked and then you have social. You have ranked for a reason, and then you have social for a reason. Want to appeal to new players? You already are. Stop changing things that is literally changing Halo.