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Simply playing the game rewarded no XP until 343 hastily patched in challenges that rewarded playing your first few matches.

Others required using certain weapons or playing in a specific way, like a melee hit to the back.

Many required specific gametypes that players just had to hope to get into via matchmaking.

For example, Infinite launched with a progression system based around daily and weekly challenges. However complex they were from a development standpoint, they seemed frustratingly simple to players. Issues that players felt needed to be addressed immediately were clearly way down the roadmap. The reality turned out to be worse than the fear. 343 announced that the first season would drag on six months, cementing the dread that Infinite's core multiplayer issues were a long, long way from being solved. MIA Forge exacerbated Infinite's greatest failing: the content drought throughout 2022īy the time campaign landed in December (to overall quite positive reviews) the mood on the F2P multiplayer had turned venomous, based on a crappy battle pass, a narrow map selection and limited playlists.

No way to earn most armor customization simply for playing.Ģ.

As summarized by a player on Reddit: "You have to pay for the color blue."

Thanks to the F2P progression and customization system, you could no longer pick a simple color for your Spartan the way you'd been able to do since 2001.There was no SWAT playlist, a perennial favorite and simple mode to implement.And when launch arrived, the lack of Forge and co-op formed the core of a snowball that picked up more and more criticisms of absent features, like: What they see is a game missing things they've expected for a decade. None of that matters, because that's not what players see or touch. There are doubtless far more insidious complexities to do with Halo Infinite's engine and design that I don't understand.

Halo 3's Forge was vastly simpler character models and maps and lighting were all far less detailed the old games had to run on a single console, instead of across two consoles and PCs, with dedicated servers and a network system that can seamlessly interlink between Steam and the Xbox backend. Infinite's campaign was a series-first open world sandbox. Modern game development is expensive, in both people and time. After it seemed like 343 had finally nailed the essence of Halo's arena gunplay, not having these two core features was a bitter chaser. Halo 3, Reach, and 4 all launched with Forge.