Let me preface this by saying that I’ve been playing Halo since I’ve been 8. I love Halo and its been a core part of my life.
So far, I’m in love with infinite. The campaign, how it handles, and how the multiplayer is structured. However, there is room for improvement, namely in the multiplayer department. Here’s my thoughts and why Im thinking this way.
Up to this point, after the weekly reset I’ve noticed more than a few times that there’s around 5 or so challenges that can be completed in BTB, Quick Play, Ranked, or Bot Battlegrounds. After that, it becomes all PvP with the exception of the standard “Play a match” challenge. E.G. Win a Quick Play Match, Complete a Stockpile Match, Get X Kills with Y Weapon in PvP, etc.
I’m not gonna lie, I’m terrible at PvP. Cant think of more than one match I’ve won in Quick Play, QP hereafter, or BTB. This means I’m constantly losing and I’m just not having fun. I’ve seen that in QP my opponents are extremely skilled while I get teamed with people who seemingly don’t know what the objectives are. Same thing in BTB. It makes doing challenges extremely unenjoyable and difficult to progress through the battlepass.
A thought I had last night after a loss in a matchmade Oddball game is this: What if they added more PvE challenges and/or made PvE challenges more common. Now, granted, Bot Battlegrounds is meant to be a training playlist so people can get a feel for the game before going into PvP; hence its super easy. If they were to remove Bot Battlegrounds after, say, 20 matches and from then on its Marine+ level bots, that could make it closer to actual PvP and more challenging, hence more rewarding. I feel like this, coupled with the aforementioned challenge changes, would be a way to let less skilled people, like myself, progress through the battlepass like everyone else as opposed to either buying levels in the pass or, to borrow from another community, sucking long enough to max out.
I love playing Halo and Halo Infinite. I play it every day after work. But currently being forced to either rank up 50xp at a time, after the daily bonus xp matches, in PvE is tedious to the point of boredom. On the other end of the spectrum is struggling for 5+ matches of PvP trying to complete a 200xp challenge. Neither of which is fun.
I honestly feel like this would be a happy medium. People of low skill level, like me, wouldn’t feel forced to go into PvP to progress without wallet warrioring our way. While it wouldn’t pull everyone from PvP cause too easy progress.
Did I miss anything? Am I forgetting to account for something? Constructive criticism is greatly appreciated. 