In any case, Battle Passes can eff right off. They could put a voucher for a free jerk session at a massage parlor in the BP and I still wouldn’t buy it. Battle Passes are a plague on video games that has spread too far.
The only way Season 2 will pull me back in is with CANON content. A PVE mode with a good story explanation and cool before/after cutscenes? Yeah. A Spartan Ops style short PVE campaign? Sounds good. A campaign expansion? Hell yes!
But generally yes, more campaign or at least updates to the campagin are essential for me.
Right? Everyone hates on it, and don’t get me wrong, it was executed poorly… but the idea itself is pretty sound IMO.
I like to imagine that a proper season of content could include a short bit of campaign (maybe just 2 hours or so,) that ties into a longer series of “Spartan Ops” style missions, that could both take us to the new locations from the campaign addition, as well as returning to the map from the original release. There could be a cool hand-off where you’re playing as Chief for the campaign then you meet your multiplayer Spartan and trade perspectives to play as your MP Spartan in the Spartan Ops.
There could then be tied in firefight style PVE missions, and in my dream of dreams, a mix between invasion and warzone with Spartan players fighting Elite players, and Marine/ODST/Grunt/Jackal bots. This would draw me into MP so much more.
The idea? It is the best thing 343 did (after Warzone)
The execution however, like you said, was horrible.
If they could do it correctly and make it good, it would be a really cool feature for seasonal content.
I don’t know about anyone else, but that would get me coming back each season, just to play the seasonal Spartan Op, especially if there were rewards at the end of it.
That sounds great.
It would also be good if the missions were unique.
Like, one mission you could be rescuing a high-value target (or taking one out) or you could simply be surviving against a flood outbreak (less likely due to the “T” rating, but still sounds cool in concept)
A Halo-Battlefield type of game would be awesome imo.
I can only imagine what a large-scale gamemode like that would play like in Halo…