The armour lockers literally only contain coatings, emblems, and nameplates. What a joke, you can’t even unlock meaningful customization in the multiplayer through the campaign you pay for.
Who in their right mind thought it would be a good idea to include zero, actual armour unlocks in the campaign? The unlockable armour, without paying a premium, is all locked behind extremely high levels in a still slow moving battle pass.
I get it, this sort of thing has been complained about time and time again. But, I can’t help but feel bummed at the lack of real reward without shelling out extra cash. Then you get the actual store stuff, $20 for an armour set? $10 for a colour pallet? The customization needs some serious work, even other F2P games have meaningful customization that you can unlock without paying a dime behind a more reasonable grind. Hell, some have a way to grind the game to even get the premium currency they offer.
Players need some kind of meaningful reward for progression, free to play included. And, until this changes I’m paying a dime on anything Halo Infinite related. This is literally Halo’s last chance, and outside of the gameplay itself the ball has been fumbled repeatedly. And, even then, the gameplay has rough spots like the total lack of identity for half of the sandbox and a myriad of unaddressed bugs.
They didn’t even attempt to reach a middle ground with previously set precedent in the series, as a long time player who’s played since CE I just feel bummed and that drawing a newer audience is the priority over keeping the old.
This games as a service thing is such terrible, garbage trend in the industry.
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Cause they want your money.
Player last!
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When I got my first armor locker and it was a coating, I thought “ok that’s kinda boring but a least I’ll get some real armor pieces later…” Then I got another locker, and another, and they’re all coatings. Then I think “ok kinda weird, but actual ARMOR PIECES from the ARMOR LOCKERS soon right?” A few more coatings later and I finally look it up to see, not a single piece gets unlocked thought the story mode. Game already doesn’t over half the things that make a Halo game in the first place, but you can’t even put actual collectable armor in the armor lockers? It feels so underwhelming, I just gave up trying to find them after a while cause it feels so pointless.
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they’re not actually called armor lockers. you gave yourself the expectation there’d be armor unlocks in campaign and set yourself up for disappointment. it would be cool as hell and a nice gesture of goodwill from 343i but realistically I never saw it happening.
If the best multiplayer unlockable that we will get from paying 60!! USD is a -Yoink!- coating then this is a joke….
We’re getting robed in terms of pricing and item quantity due to the free to play multiplayer AND when we pay FULL price for only campaign when 343 promised us valuable unlocks in it.
IM LOVING THE CAMPAIGN, PLAYED 10 HOURS ON THE 8th
BUT PLEASE at least have the decency to give me ONE armor piece!!!
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Why would I waste time looking for some stupid emblem or tag???
Absolutely pointless
At the very least make them random and have a chance in unlocking ONE armor piece
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Jeez…chill out there for a second.
You buy a GAME for 60 bucks. Not a chance to unlock stuff for a F2P multiplayer.
Multiplayer that has historically been part of the base game, you can’t ignore past precedent. Especially when that precedent includes campaign having multiplayer unlocks.
People really, really need to stop making excuses and defending this crap. People who defend them are literally a large reason why they’re doing it, because they can get away with it. The hottest take I have with all of this is the fault is shared with both 343 and the players who just throw their money at everything regardless of quality or how much of a ripoff it really is.
Understandably, a lot of long time fans feel burned and are upset.
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I’m not defending anybody. I just think that the amount of drama is too damn high.
Just recently i’ve stumbled upon the Reach armor set that you were able to unlock for your XBox avatar and as much as i’d really love to have that again with Infinite, i know that it’ll never happen.
And i’m totally fine with it.
For me, it comes down to this:
Is pay to win involved? No, it’s not.
Do unlockables influence your performance? No, they don’t.
So it’s equal oppurtunities for everybody and that’s a good thing.
Does that mean that i like and support the way monetization in games is evolving? No, absolutely not.
But the only chance to have a say in this, is if you “vote with your wallet” so to speak.
Don’t like it? Don’t buy it. Don’t support it with mtx.
That’s easier said than done, especially when you love a franchise, i know. But there is this fork in the road and you can go one path only.
It’s sad, but that’s the way it is.
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We should at least get chief’s armour
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The worst part of this is they used the phrasing armour unlocked from campaign multiple times.
What a bait and switch. How absolutely scummy.
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If its not an armor locker then why does it say “OPEN ARMOR LOCKER” when you go up to one?
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because… how else are they gunna re-sell the same coatings from the campaign in a BP or store, except for the other cores, making said customization not unique? and how else are they gunna have you pay in order to get any sort of armor? they have to put food on the table, they’re a business afterall
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Tbh even Anthem wasn’t this damn bad. You could play a few weeks and EARN your armor. Really a shame what has happened to Halo mp.
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Moving forward I think it would be cool if every now and then they add more armors and throw them into the campaign. Since everything is apparently supposed to keep getting updates for the next 10 years.
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To qupte mr Krabs:
“Hello, I like money”
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Paid shill detected.
Even Halo 3 had “play X mission on Y difficulty to get Z armor piece”
I knew the armor coating thing ahead of time and it’s still lame
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The presence of these “armor lockers” in the campaign at all is just a very perplexing design decision… until viewed from the lens of the bad-faith monetization that was unfortunately jammed into this otherwise wonderful game.
It would not be surprising if these “armor lockers” were named as such because they were originally supposed to have armor in them. Hence “armor lockers” and not “lockers” or “crates” or some other name that doesn’t have the word “armor” in it. Just using some basic logic here. Stands to reason armor was removed to monetize it, most likely.
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