For me at least.
I had some serious real life issues come up recently and I had to stop playing for a few weeks. Now that things have settled down, and I saw there was an event for the Mk V helmet, I figured I’d jump back in.
Doing so, I’m now constantly noticing little things I ignored before I left. I mean, these are things that are baked into what Halo Infinite is.
Sprint is a lot less of an issue, but I personally am already super tired of how movement works in this game, and especially tracking targets. Everyone is constantly sprint-slide-jumping everywhere they go. Don’t get me wrong, people have constantly been doing things to make them harder to hit. This however is grating. From an aesthetics pov if nothing else, it’s just looks ridiculous, and just find myself getting annoyed. I know I could get past it, but that’s not the question I find myself asking. It’s instead: What does this add to the game? How does it make it better? Does it benefit everyone?
I just can’t get behind it.
Getting shot behind corners, ping jumping everywhere, and other network problems I don’t see in any other online game I’m playing spare on bad days. It just runs very poorly.
The Maps are boring. They feel like maps made for other games (spare the BTB ones for the most part). There’s nothing Dynamic about them. Theyre safe and unmemorable. I can’t name half of them by name, and every game feels the same. My strategy and the way I move through the map feels the same every game. So burn out has come much faster.
I don’t want to make this into a full rant post, but just wanted to give some feedback to the devs, so I’ll end on this point: The challenge system and the battle pass.
I hate battle passes, and I don’t like challenges. That said, I’ve played a lot of games with them, and this is the first time one has ever made me not want to play the game. Personally, I always felt battlepasses/challenges were the sign of a weak game.
To me it looks like “our game isn’t fun enough on its own, so here’s some superficial reason to keep playing”. So here comes Halo infinite. I just wanted the Mk V helmet. However I get challenges, that I don’t get game types for. Thankfully, because I don’t interact with the battlepass/challenge system I had 20ish swaps to use. However it gives me a pistol challenge. (I’ve only gotten the game type twice) so I use swaps to get something achievable. Do it. Then there are no more challenges. I realize I can’t progress, remember the other stuff that annoys me, and then realize I don’t want to actually play the game. I was here for a reward I can’t get. So I turned it off.
This has never happened to me in a Halo game before. You’ve made aspects of it so medicore and annoying that I’d rather play something else when I can’t do the challenges that I was doing for a superficial reward.
For me the honeymoon phase was over. When this game came out, I was so in to it. Got as many people as I could in. Now no one is playing it, and frankly, I won’t be either.
