I’ve been playing Tactical Ops since last Tuesday. I had like 8 weekly challenges left today, and it’s taken me 7 hours to get through them. And now I’m going to be up all night trying to get Mangler matches for the ultimate. I’m in too deep to quit now, but this is not fun. I’ve been jumping off maps or going AFK, because I’ve been playing this for almost 8 hours, and I’m so incredibly bored, and I had other things I wanted to do today-- like play MCC, a Halo game that is actually fun and respects my time with its challenge system. And now Infinite banned me. Guess I should’ve just quit like I see people doing at the start of every match if I’m going to get banned anyway . . . It’s funny, when I was doing a challenge to get BR swat kills I was getting like one BR match per hour, and tons of Mangler games. Now that I have the Mangler ultimate, I haven’t seen a Mangler game. Hunh. Sorry, I’m just rambling now while I’m waiting to be unbanned, and I’m feeling slightly delirious from looking at a screen for 8 hours straight. Normally I make nice neat little paragraphs, but this unorganized block of text is a more accurate depiction of my mental state. Oop, there it is. Alright, back to the horrid hell of this grind. Hooray.
Why?
Just… … … … … … …why?
This happens far too frequently for it to be coincidence. It’s almost as if they want us to buy and use challenge swaps…oh wait, they do!
Seriously?
I’ve played about a dozen games over the week and ticked off 8 of the items.
The trick is to play around the challenges until you have 4 of them active and then switch into Tac Ops. That way you can do them simultaneously (and efficiently).
I’ll let the couple I have still active (stupid back smacks) expire tonight and finish the event in a game or two tomorrow. If I really wanted I could burn them with a couple of swaps (I have over 30).
Why the Hell would you burn yourself out playing a game mode you don’t like for 8 hours?
That way lies madness.
Is cool.
I want that green visor. If it were an emblem or a backdrop I probably wouldn’t bother.
Plus, I actually do like swat, and infinite’s gameplay/sandbox, as frustrating as its challenge system is. Just . . . not for 8 hours. The only thing I like doing for 8 hours is sleeping. Which I guess I won’t be doing much of tonight.
The Orange Banner challenges are the only ones that advance you through the event pass. And they are spread out just right so that you aren’t just grinding the event gamemode in order to complete the challenges and be done on day one.
If that were to be the case, then servers focused on that gamemode would likely begin chugging because EVERYONE would be gunning for the goods and grinding the event game mode.
Granted, they really do need to rework the event battlepass system. LIke… why not have it run parallel to our regular Battle Pass? I level up my Season Battle Pass, I also level up a tier for the event?
That’s what I did, but I ended up with a 25 swat br kill challenge, which took me 3 hours to complete.
Finally finished it, after 9.5 hours of playing Infinite.
Bro. Just stop playing. Don’t torture yourself. Its not worth it. You know those people who say “Reject humanity, return to monke”? How about we all reject Halo Infinite and return to MCC. At least until Infinite is worth playing.
A game studio done goofed up when you stand here and realize that Spongebob Squarepants: Battle For Bikini Bottom: Rehydrated has more views on Twitch then arguably the most anticipated FPS, no, most anticipated game of last year. Then again, Twitch never really liked Halo. Those people always preferred fast-paced games like Call of Duty anyway.
i do not understand how people can force themselves to do something they hate just to obtain a cosmetic item. like, in every halo game, cosmetics were just a bonus to me. i was only crazy for Recon once, but I was a mere dumb kid at the time.
i only play to have fun now, and infinite is faaaar from fun. i haven’t played infinite at all this year. MCC is great as hell with the custom game browser for both Halo 3 and Reach.
I had that “I’m in too deep to quit now” feeling last night, and figured it would add another 6 hrs for the 25 Mangler kills… but at some point you just gotta be like eff this game. I got work and other activities after that, so sleep is a little more important than a broken game with crappy cosmetics as your incentive to play 
And then we swap from BR to mangler challenge and then we cant find any mangler game and only get BRs lol. This system is just frustrating.
And this is what TLE do to us.
They are just bad.
Events should add stuff to the game permanently, not add it for a little bit and then take it away.
It would be a lot more fun to play the event mode if you knew “hey, I can just sit back, relax, and have fun, the cosmetics will be there next week so I can go at my own pace.”
Same for weekly ultimates.
There should be a pass just for weekly ultimates that just grows bigger and bigger until the end of the season.
Then a new pass starts and you can change back and forth between which one you want
Sounds like the problem isn’t the game, but you. Personal problems require personal solutions.
Just like you leaving the same response every time. Seek therapy.
I played with a friend yesterday… He had a Sidekick challenge for SWAT. After 4 games of not getting Sidekicks he used a challenge swap so the challenge switched to Manglers… Lo and behold, we got Sidekicks the next game. It’s so blatant it’s insulting.
Unless your going for the weekly item, the event itself last for another week if you pay attention to the timer…
You guys are mad. Cosmetics are not worth the hassle, in any game.
If you are not enjoying or struggling with a challenge, just ignore it.
These events are always either 2 weeks or over several weeks. Get what you can, and move on.