They really need to reassess their marketing strategy and store items. I would have happily paid £60-80 for the game but they won’t be getting a penny from me the way things are.
There’s 10 of us in our group that play almost every day…the sum total spent so far is £10 and even he regrets buying the BP. They could have have had £600-800 from our group alone…multiple that by thousands of groups globally and it’s a massive amount of money they won’t be getting their hands on.
They could have at least made the coatings Universal if I have to pay for them.
Honestly I think they purposely did this to charge you more than once for the same color.
I mean why sell you basic red one time when I can artificially create a system that makes it to where I can sell you the same red an I finite amount of times.
Remeber in Halo 5 we had 60 default colors. In Halo Infinite they gave us 10. Now 343 plan is to sell us those same 50 remaining colors per item… Aka. Per armor core. Per weapon and per vehicle, so they don’t even have to be all that creative now as long as they maintain this model.
They purpose went against the idea of making a coating Universal to all cores or all weapons. Even though games like fortnite do this. And it’s because they knew that was the only way a lack of creativity developer could make profits
I’ll say it again: It shouldn’t have launched if it wasn’t finished.
Stop defending 343 for bad decisions.
Stop shilling for them.
Use your own common sense for a -Yoinking- moment. Would you buy a brand new car that’s only half built?
Would you buy ANYTHING brand new that’s only half finished?
When did people start believing that is okay?!
It’s entirely possible for them to have the coating system and customizable colors. They could have don’t something similar to emblems and allow us to choose a coating and a color combination for that coating. They could then treat the coating and color combination as primary and secondary colors when it came to recruit. With more exotic coatings they could even limit it to one color combination it they wanted. Boom!
Or they could have made choosing a coating optional, and had primary and secondary options which were only visible with no coating.
Of course there was the more expansive proposal most of us have probably seen by now, but the two options I mentioned shouldn’t be hard at all to implement. If they cared at all about keeping colors and having coatings they could have. I’m guessing the real reason we don’t have colors is because it would make their coatings they sell in stores less appealing. Not that it’s impossible to have colors and coatings.
It’s just for the sake of money. Destiny 2 does the same thing but their shaders are universal and aren’t actually charged for real money. Halo Infinite splits them up as weapon AND armor coatings so they can make bundles to sell you. That actually bleeds into the campaign too since things like the Banished Deception coating are split into 7 lockers because they give you several for weapons, armor, and vehicles.
Why make them universal when you can make several of the same one?
I don’t know if your reply was directed at me, but I wasn’t defending them; I was criticizing them for their poor management. And, people give them money (not including me), so what can you do, anyway? 
Yeah, the limiting to cores is purely to try and sell them to us again. If you use the Waypoint glitch you can confirm literally every coating works on every core without issue.
Can you even select Master Chief’s armor, period? I don’t think any of the armor pieces currently in multiplayer match up with John’s armor in the campaign. (Unless you mean his previous iterations like the Mark V and Mark VI armors)
You cannot currently. But I’m also certain they’ll sell you it as a core in the future. You want the armor in the campaign you already purchased? That’ll be $20.
Well then, my apologies. But I keep seeing people defending 343, posting “But the game isn’t finished yet…”
So I had assumed that’s what you were saying as well.
Again, sorry.
I’m playing the game, but using Game Pass.
Not buying it for the $60 until I think they’ve earned it.
Oh yea I discovered that a few days ago.
343 purposely locked out the players from an existing feature
We went back wards because money… Multiplayer is now “free” so they need to milk as much money as possible. Why give players freedom of colors, visors, and armor when they can sell them? Dice up all the combos and put a price tag on them. Sadly it works that is why so many games have went to this “free to play” model.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULeDlxa3gyc
Money. And not just any money, the money they’re swimming in thanks to the whales.