Guess they didn’t look at rebalancing the Ultimate challenge (which is Win 5 Ranked Matches).
The other weeklies were buffed, mainly just the ones related to Ranked which are also the only ones that can grant you 500 XP if I’m correct. Meaning if you swap out those challenges, you’ll get back another Ranked-tied challenge.
I really don’t get it why a side-progression has to be tied to a Ranked playlist in any game. Besides, I despise Halo Infinite Ranked for whatever reason. I just can’t get along with it. The new challenge system is definitely forcing me to play Ranked regardless of the Ultimate challenge since I can not swap those out for another game-mode. (I swapped out the win one CTF Ranked match and got the two Ranked wins one first, swapped it again and got the 4 Ranked completions one)
The weekly challenges with the increased XP are just due to the HCS event this week.
Ranked related challenges will return their normal amount next week.
Though it would have been nice if the Ultimate Challenge this week also granted additional XP due to its ranked nature and consistency with the other ranked challenges this week.
Wait, did I miss something? I thought that increase of XP was part of the rework.
To commemorate and celebrate the first Halo Infinite major esports event – HCS Raleigh – players will be able to earn double XP for a new set of ranked-focused challenges for one week (Dec. 14 – Dec. 20).
https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-infinite-playlist-challenge-update
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hey bro, how you been liking Infinite in general?
I feel that the challenges/Battle Pass is meant to be the actual progression system (even though they’ll surely add something larger over time) and its sort of designed to where you aren’t supposed to complete all of them. This week is focused on Ranked, next week could be Tactical Slayer and etc.
You’ll hit level 100 easily without any of the weekly challenges so I wouldn’t be too worried about it. I’m level 89 already. New BattlePass probably won’t be coming til after May which is 6 months away so no rush.
Mixed feelings really. Campaign was nice, though a bit easy and short.
PvP is… weird…
BTB is probably my most favorite mode but can’t play it right now since I’m unable to join any game so there’s that.
Ranked sucks, I don’t like anything about it. Somehow I’m terrible with the BR and I keep trying to compare what I’m missing but I can’t find anything even if I look at the videos of the match and inspect other players. My aim is on point but it feels like as if my bullet magnetism doesn’t take effect properly. And the Ranking system is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Downranking is nearly impossible until you reach Onyx. Even with a terrible performance I keep gaining MMR.
Generally the game favors putting me onto west US or Australian servers for whatever reason unless it’s Ranked.
Battle-Pass design is really lame, yet extremely easy to complete. You’re literally forced to buy something if you want to make your Spartan look like something else than a Budget Spartan. I assume intended but you can really feel the companies intention here… good thing I’m not too worried about skins.
I’m at level 71 without having bought anything.
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“Win X ranked matches”, I’d rather eat a bowl of thumb tacks lmao.
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I find the radar in infinite not very helpful. I was so used to the radar from all previous Halo titles I had to change my gameplay. But I think it made me a little bit better player since I don’t look on the radar anymore. So, no radar = every game feels like ranked.