Congratulations 343, you’ve managed to ruin another Halo game for me. It’s so obvious that you’ve programmed everything around making the challenges as much of a pain to complete as possible. “Capture 3 flags in PVP”, oh look, 20 games and not a single one is CTF. “Get a kill carrying the ball” oh look, 5 CTF games in a row, but no oddball in sight.
Add on top of this the fact that I hate objective gametypes, but I don’t have an option to not play them. This is just unacceptable.
Same.
And when the correct game mode shows up, my teammates are completely trash because they dont “need” to win, but make 5 kills with the pulse gun. (i cant blame them tho).
So im left with my “Win 3 Oddball Games”-Challenge for another 5h.
This is why I’m no longer engaging with the challenges. It’s forcing me to play in ways I don’t want to and makes the game more frustrating.
Even worse is that it encourages my teammates play like morons to complete their own challenges instead of ptfo
No kidding. Right now the entire game seems based on “forcing” people to do things. 343 knows that there’s a huge divide in the player population over objective types and slayer. Some people only like objective, some people only like slayer. But nah, let’s force everyone into an RNG (which clearly isn’t actually just RNG) playlist to make them suffer while they play our game.
What’s worse is it’s not just forcing players to do things, but forcing them to do things there is no reliable way to even get an opportunity to do. Because there is no CTF playlist and there’s no way to guarantee access to certain power weapons or vehicles. It’s almost hand crafted to waste your time. I don’t do it myself but I honestly can’t blame all the people leaving at the beginning of matches because this set up actively encourages it.
The amount of manipulation is truly obscene.
Really disgusting and immoral at times but they won’t change it as that’s their entire business plan.
I don’t think you need “almost” in that sentence.
They should set up servers in a Challenges Only section, So the rest of us can just simply play the game without those people ruining it.
I too had CTF challenges. Used a XP boost and didn’t get a single CTF match after an hour. Infuriating.
I don’t even mind the idea of challenges, but they really are breaking the game with the way they’ve been implemented. If you want to do them, you basically HAVE to do your challenges in the rare 1 in 100 chance you get a game where you can do them.
Yep, there is no doubting it anymore, this entire system is by design so they can profit on creating an aggravating environment
I’m probably just going to quit playing Infinite’s multiplayer because it truly is a waste of time with how progression works & how regressive it is.
This is why I’m glad I didn’t buy the battle pass, among other things. From reading a lot of posts the last week or so, It looks like 343 took a page from Bungie and is trying to treat this game like a “looter shooter”.
News flash 343, Halo is not a looter shooter.
If you hate it so much just buy challenge swaps it’s that easy bro
I invite you to join my baseless conspiracy theory that 343 has built a matchmaking system that avoids what you need to complete changes.
best example, i need a sniper kill, no map shows up in hours with a snipe.
Currently i need a bulldog kill, first time i got it but i got disconnected, now i played like 5 games and all maps without shotgun. I searched the whole maps for it.
I mean it’s just for a halfway decent nameplate this week anyway so I’m not stressing for it. I try to work around getting the challenges for the xp but it’s all just meh either way. The gameplay is fun enough to keep me around for now, even with the bugs and inconsistencies ticking me off sometimes
I went back to the MCC 
Dont think thats even a conspiracy at this point. All signs point to it being true.
Look at the challenges in the MCC now look at Infinite’s. One game is a love letter to fans the other is a newly released F2P game with predatory monetization. One game you can easily complete your challenges without even looking at them, the other game sells challenge swaps. One game you can pick exactly what game mode you want to play, the other has no playlists but has playlist specific challenges.
Dont need any tinfoil to see what is happening.
we need more playlists and slayer been a solo list, not a mix.
I got the flag challenges, completed in 1 match. but I got another that was “get an electric chain of at least 4 spartans” or something like that, and that’s just crazy.
not every challenge is fun to complete
better challenge and better playlist
Makes sense since theyre encouraging people to buy swaps.