Before you go for my throat, I just want to quickly answer the header and say “YES”. I am currently 151 and will more than likely make 152 before Infinite’s release, so I know the amount of work it takes to get there. However, I just want to ask the community if people think that 343 should close off the 152 reward window at Infinite’s launch, keep it open, or let players do something within infinite that is comparable to the h5 grind to earn the watchdog coatings?
I posted a video today that goes in depth with this topic, because I saw some people earlier legitimately arguing for 343 to make the watchdog skins purchasable in Infinite. It gives some more context to this question I’m posing. Whether or not you check my video out, I wanna know where the community is at. How exclusive/permanent should the rewards be to those who earned it?
I’m all for exclusives, time gated rewards, etc. the only types I don’t care for are region locked rewards… where I have to either live in Japan for example to participate (or buy the reward off eBay), and cross title rewards.
Granted, I played a lot of H5 when it was in its prime. But I don’t want to have to go back to it to unlock something in a different game. I have both next gen consoles, and there’s a lot of other games I’d rather play for the next 6 months until Infinite comes out. So unlocks for Infinite, I’d rather earn in Infinite. They could even make it a secondary reward for max rank in Infinite as well. Where it’s still something to work for, and not cheapened by a direct purchase.
343i is all about earning and unlocking stuff at your own pace, something that is rare and should be commended. I’m all for having it available to anyone who reaches 152 in H5, regardless of when people reach that level.
It should be obtainable once you reach 152 no matter when you reach it. I powered through it because I wanted to be done with it and didn’t wanna play H5 when Infinite comes out.
There is no reason to keep it time-locked. 152 is still a big mountain to climb.
I think it should be unlockable for reaching SR-152 in Halo 5 no matter what, for 2 main reasons. For newer H5 players (like me) who have little to no chance to reach 152 before Infinite’s launch it will still give a opportunity to reach max rank. And 2: for people who are currently grinding but started at lower levels or don’t have much time on their hands to grind and have already spent hours on Firefight, they should still be given a chance to still earn the reward
Hard to unlock, but always available. Like 152, these should be hard to achieve unlocks, but they should not be gated by a timed exclusivity. - Easy to unlock, limited time. Anything that is available for a limited time needs to be easily unlocked by anyone who wants it (or have an alternate unlock method later). This means I don’t have to buy a product in a certain region, or do an insane task (like reach a high skill level) to unlock it. It should be more along the lines of “Play 10 matches this week” to unlock X coating. I think they can stick by this pretty easily. All of the product releases from Gamestop, Chips Ahoy, etc… need to have an alternate unlock method. They simply were too limited. They also learned the timed lesson in MCC- Don’t make achieving a certain rank the barrier, make winning x number of matches in 3 months the barrier. Even then, they have the potential to be unlocked later in the store for extra tokens.