So I’ve been thinking about the best way to make players happy with minimal effort on 343’s part.
First, create a variant of Halo 3’s ranking system and do tiers of 4 with the last being a special tier. Example: Captain 1,2,3, and Staff Captain. Then slap Reach’s “mythic” ranks on the end like Inheritor and such. Tie it to the same XP system as the battle pass and make it really grindy. People will actually like that cause it’s free and something to work for.
Now for the rewards. For this all 343 needs to do is design one new armor core with 8-10 armor variants. Make it Mark 6 Gen 3 (Chiefs campaign armor). Then use this armor core to introduce Halo 3 armors, which not counting Mark 6, there are only 10 of. I’m not sure if they could get the rights for Security or Hayabusa so it’s understandable if those get left out. Now stick the armor pieces at the “special tiers” and fluff the rest of the tiers out with coatings, nameplates, and charms. For the last rank give us something cool like the Haunted helmet from Reach.
Here’s the two benefits for 343.
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It will not require much resource dumping.
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They can now sell coatings and new armor sets for the new armor core in the store.
I think this is a good, low effort system that would make everyone happy. What do y’all think?