Which Halo season should i work on

Games Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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Or maybe the OP was just curious about the general opinion? You know, like the general opinion that Halo 3 is the best Halo game? (Well, not for me. Each game has it’s high and lows).

Maybe this thread just isn’t right for you, since your answer has absolutely nothing to do with the OP’s question. You’re the only person here ASSUMING the OP is worried that the items in the BP give any gameplay advantages, and telling them it’s not worth to put in the work just because of that. Why do you think H5’s customization got so much flack? Why do you think the community criticized so many of 343’s armor sets in H4 and 5? Why do you think everyone was excited for more customization options in Infinite despite knowing none of them would give you any gameplay difference?

Your arguments are not only misplaced, but have no real weight. No one cares if the armor gives gameplay advantages: we just want to express ourselves in our own ways.

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The OP clearly stated he was new to the game and on which season was worth spending the points. To the best of my knowledge, no season is worth spending points on as none of the items therein actually do anything. Sorry to have answered the OP’s exact question the most honest and succinct way that I could.

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You’re right. You did answer and are correct. But the way you delivered that answer, I don’t think was the most… appropriate, let’s go with that.

In your opinion, it’s not worth it because they provide no gameplay difference. But that’s it: your opinion. It’s YOUR choice and belief that they’re not worth it. But for the vast majority, we choose to invest because it may be fun? Fulfilling? Either way, again, no one cares if they make a difference or not. Why not play skillfully and look cool your own way while doing it?

Nothing is lost for investing in the BP, so why shoot down the idea at all?

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Oh come on man.

Off the top of my head, if you like Reach best, you should probably focus on season 1
If you aren’t a CE fan, you can safely skip 2, or if you don’t play an Elite in 3, season 7 will mostly be a waste of your time.
If your game tends to crash when Halo 3 skins are on, then season 5 is a huge waste of time.

People gave thoughtful answers to the question several times, then you came in and crapped on customization in general.

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If its more ODST armour you’re looking for then raven season is good for that kind of stuff.

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If the OP likes Reach the most, all he has to do is search Reach playlists, it’s that simple. Obtaining any of the items from whatever season Reach happens to be will be completely ineffectual for him as he enjoys the game. Unlocking things that do nothing at all is certainly not fun or fulfilling, it’s just a disappointment as I found out the hard way on 360 Reach. If one goes through the trouble of unlocking something in a game it should have an effect of some sort, even if very minor. Things that do nothing should be available from the start as armor colors are.

It’s not my opinion that they aren’t worth anything, it’s a fact. 343 could get rid of the all of the content in all of the seasons and guess what? The game would be exactly the same. Actually from what I have been experiencing lately everyone that plays the game should toggle off all of the useless armor, different pixel coloration of weapons, etc… as they have been crashing games since season 8 released. Past few days I’ve been playing, the game has crashed multiple times through no fault of my own and it’s because of the things I mentioned. In Reach anyway and apparently in 3 as well, not sure about the other games.

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This isn’t just the worst take I’ve seen in this website, it’s also the most selfish and egotistical one.

Yes. It’s YOUR opinion. It doesn’t go beyond that. Cosmetics don’t matter to you, but they matter to everyone else at a personal level, something you seem to fail to grasp. You literally can’t change that, yet you’re arguing that your opinion is a fact.

Again, and I hope this is the last time I have to say this: no one cares if they affect gameplay or not. It’s just personal flair that we can change to make us standout.

And yes, unlocking items, cosmetic or otherwise, is fun and fulfilling. Evidently not for you (for a pity reason), but for the vast majority of the playerbase. Remember Recon armor for Halo 3? Everyone was crazy for it back in the day, as it usually meant that they either were noticed by Bungie themselves, or had all 7 Vidmaster achievements across Halo 3 and ODST.
The Haunted helmet (the one helmet that had a skull behind the visor) meant that person dedicated many hours to reach the max rank.
Halo 4 had the Mark VI armor unlock from full Legendary completion.
Halo 5 had Helioskrill unlock from full Legendary completion across all 4 Halo games in MCC (since ODST and Reach weren’t there at the time).

Were any of these a show of true skill? Maybe, maybe not. Was anyone upset they didn’t change gameplay? No. Did anyone even care if they changed gameplay or not? No. All of these were unlocked knowing they wouldn’t make you play automatically better.

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Of course I remember the recon armor, but I doubt I even noticed or cared that anyone was using it. Sure, some of the achievements required to obtain it were challenging and took skill but the armor itself did nothing. Same with the other ones you mentioned - the haunted helmet in reach as you stated only meant you played a lot not that you were actually good at the game. You have no idea how many inheritors I played against that had negative k/d. Beating the games on vanilla legendary to get the armor in the other games is easy enough - that armor is similarly useless.

I’m sure more people than you realize don’t bother with the armor as they know it won’t help them. I played with a lot of very good highly-ranked players on reach and most of them didnt waste their time with it. The only change they made as I recall was opting to be female in-game as their character would be smaller(whether or not that affected getting hit I do not know).

I do concede however that kids must love it, they must feel like it’s helping them in some way or other or making them look “cool”. I would think even children would tire of it quickly though as they can’t even see it in-game. In reality nobody even notices if they look “cool” anyway, other players are just trying to kill them and couldn’t care less about whatever armor they have.

I notice you avoided my completely factual statement about how the game would be exactly the same if the store or whatever it’s called were taken out of the game and all of what it contained happened to be removed. To be honest it would make the game better - it would crash less.

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And, again, you continue to demonstrate an utter lack of understanding about personal value and individuality, how everyone is acknowledging you’re technically correct, but you keep answering with the same logic and acting like it’s a mentality everyone should have, just because you don’t see what is special in this system where we are allowed to express ourselves in our own ways.

We’re thousands of different people playing the game. You say nobody will look at what we’re wearing, but that’s because you’re looking at only your lens. You think that just because you don’t care, nobody else does. We’re not robots nor a hivemind.

Yes. Only “kids” love the customization feature. Because even grown adults who own popular YT channels or some other account haven’t made it clear enough that customizing your avatar is a part of Halo.
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I didn’t answer it directly. The Exchange is only there for people to get items they missed out (or that 343 couldn’t fit into the battle passes). Been pretty handy to me these many past weeks.

And who’s to say it’s the skins that are causing crashes? You’re aware of the many, many systems that run under the pretty image the games give us, right? I’m impressed at your devotion of hating a system so much, you blame it as the reason the game’s failing in a technical sense (and try to pass it off as a fact). Sure, the seasons bring superfluous items for the most part, but when games are built so intrinsically complex, changing something is bound to somehow break another. It’s never easy, especially when the engines (or in this case, many of them) are already difficult to work with.

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Put your points in the season that appeals to you the most.

end of discussion.

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It’s a known fact that they were causing crashes, this has been stated elsewhere on the forum and also other places online. I’m not just making it up. Someone else in the thread also said that the same was happening in halo 3 whereas I experience the issue in Reach matchmaking.

There’s nothing special about the armor at all, no matter how much or what types you use it has no outcome on any game and you can’t even see it during said game. Explain to me how it has any value knowing these facts? I don’t know what playlists you’re in where people walk up to you without shooting and just look at your character…that simply doesn’t happen. Did you happen to play griffball in regular Reach? If so I could see the boosters doing it there while waiting out the clock, that playlist was a cesspool.

I didn’t mean the exchange(though that’s equally as useless) I meant whatever tab opens up all the season stuff. I never use it so I can’t think of the name offhand. If that all were to be removed the game would still function and be just as enjoyable as it is now.

I guess those YouTubers haven’t been playing halo for that long if they feel that way. Halos 1 and 2 were quite popular and featured none of any of it, and no one complained. I guess the useless armor started in 3, and just got worse from there on out. It’s a shame bungie didn’t design it to actually do anything, then it would be something of value.

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Just so you know, none of whatever items are available in any of the seasons will affect his MCC experience.

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I only experience crashes when using Custom Games Browser. Which may, or may not fuel your argument, since only HCE, H3 and HR are in there as of now. Outside that, I never experience crashes.

Because it gives us PLAYER EXPRESSION. That’s all that it boils down to. A different look so you don’t look like a clone of Master Chief, and also to immerse yourself into the Universe. Not just that, but the unique configuration of our armors makes us stand out and recognizable to anyone, ally and enemy alike. It’s how I can always identify my friends and -Yoink!- their recently deceased corpse, as they watch from the beyond. If we didn’t have armor customization, it’d be hard to tell apart who’s your friend and who’s some rando. Same thing for the other way around. If an enemy teabags me, I can memorize their armor pattern, and -Yoink!- them back when I kill them. It’s things like this that make Halo, Halo. If everyone’s an MC clone, I can’t do that without shifting focus between the battle and the killfeed and hoping the guy I killed is the same one that teabagged me.
If I wasn’t using this comedic lawn-mowing Arbiter pfp, I’d probably be using my Reach Spartan, since it’s how I personally like to view my digital avatar anywhere.

Yes, no one is going to walk up to you to check your armor. But they don’t need that close of a look to memorize what you look like. A simple glance is all that’s needed.
And yes, I did play Grifball in OG Reach. I quit it after it turned into the boosting cesspool (actually, I just quit Grifball in general because of that)

The Battle Pass, the term that was thrown around pretty much everywhere in gaming since Fortnite made it a trend.

How is that even related? No one complained about looking like Master Chief, but once we were given the option to look different, everyone welcomed it. And when Reach came around offering expanded customization, everyone welcomed it. When H4 rolled around with a new artstyle, everyone criticized it. When MCC launched, everyone criticized the fact it was all presets, and not per-piece customization. When Halo 5 came into town, everyone criticized both the armor designs and the lackluster options (being only the helmet and body armor), and then becoming pissed once someone was able to find out it was technically possible to change arms and legs individually from the chest. And finally, everyone was delighted when infinite offered this expansive customization… and pissed because of how much was locked behind different paywalls that were as much or more expensive than the Battle Pass.
Majority of those YTs were there when Halo begun and continue to pump out videos about it. The fact that you call them “new fans” because they also complain about cosmetics just proves that you still haven’t learned to look beyond your lens.

Ultimately, the basis of this discussion is simply because you’re unable to accept other people’s points of view and continue to pointlessly gatekeep new fans from expressing themselves. You also continue to demonstrate a failure to look through other people’s lenses.

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To be fair, when the pair of you say, “No one will check your armour.” - I have goofed off with randoms in Infection before now where we will normally look at each other and communicate through teabagging. That’s just the norm in Halo 3’s Infection, really, lol.

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You may have already done this, I think, but did you know that if you click a profile pic, a little summary box appears for that user? If you click that, their Summary screen diaplays and from there you can click to view their activity. Doing that can be very enlightening. As a generalisation, sometimes you can pick people playing games luring people into discussions to see how long they’ll keep replying before giving up. Sometimes you can pick people have interesting discussions who are well worth engaging with.

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I wasn’t trying to argue about the crashes just trying to inform everyone to toggle the new useless armor off so the game crashes less. This benefits us all.

Who cares if their in-game player resembles a fictional character like master chief? The bottom line is that this in an FPS and all of whatever is unlocked does nothing to enhance the game at all. None of it does anything and all of it can be ignored; the gameplay is exactly the same either way. I’m not sure how you can even argue this unless you can prove that some of the unlockables actually have some kind of effects. Why would you ever even think about looking at armor if an opponent teabags you!? It says who killed you on your screen…not to mention if it’s a 1-on-1 when you die and they kill you, you obviously know the name of the opponent. As for teammates they all have identifiers during the game, their armor is irrelevant.

I play a lot of FFA and can usually tell my opponents apart by what color they have selected. If there are multiple of the same color, well, I’m not going to go to the trouble of ignoring one of them just to get to whomever taunted me last. I’m going to try to kill them. At least you agree with me on griffball. I’ve never played fortnight or any other such game to know what the BP was referring to.

As for your next block of text…why on earth would anyone welcome unlockables that did nothing at all!? That makes no sense. Once a player realized they did nothing they would simply avoid them altogether. I admit, I mistakenly unlocked all of the armor in 360 Reach. The first was the grenadier legs, I kept dying to grenades so I figured these would reduce some of the damage. I spent a lot of time in forge world trying to pin down exactly how much damage was being reduced but no matter what I did nothing changed. I couldn’t believe it, but I thought I must be doing something wrong. I also tried testing out other items but no dice, none of them did anything that I could see. I was so disappointed. I’m not falling for that again so I’m avoiding all armor altogether and yet I have no issues competing with others.

Ultimately, the actual basis of this discussion is that all of the various armor is completely useless, can’t even be seen while you play, and will not actually provide any customization - a fully “armored” spartan will function exactly the same as my default one in all games here on the MCC.

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In my opinion, Season 6.

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Omfg (oh my frigging gosh), you are not kidding :rofl:

There are some wacky posts from that dude

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My guy, I won’t even bother anymore. Think whatever you want, believe what you want, just please, stop gatekeeping people from a feature you don’t like that others may like. You’re just being egotistical and especially selfish. You either can’t learn, or you refuse to learn to look beyond your lens. And no, it’s not just placing yourself in their eyes, it’s also trying to understand their logic.

With that said, have a good day, and please stop gatekeeping people from their own fun. Thank you.

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It mostly depends on which halo you enjoy the most. But if you unlock halo reach and halo 4 armour then you get to customise your own spartan for the halo reach campaign and the spartan ops story as well.

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