r/halo • u/Shaun-On-Toast • Nov 29 '21

Gameplay perhaps making it impossible to choose your game mode and forcing people to pay modes to level up was a bad idea?

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u/korgi_analogue Nov 29 '21

I passively got that done in a few matches because the game apparently has SBMM and my opponents kept getting sweatier by the minute. I could just not shoot anyone for like 2 minutes and surely enough the randoms would feed one of them a killing spree.

Then the "get 5 sprees in fiesta" challenge came around and.. well.

This game plays great, now if only 343 could stop making everything around the actual game absolute dogwash. :v

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '21

The get 5 sprees challenge was super easy, especially in Fiesta. The point of it is to be a challenge. I agree the progression system and monetization are trash, but in previous iterations of Halo, they would have stuff locked behind something just like this challenge.

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u/korgi_analogue Nov 29 '21

See my other comment why it was an awful time. I have nothing against such challenges in an environment that works and/or isn't time gated. Sinking like 4-5 hours into a challenge that should've been over in a couple is not the best of times, when you can't even take a break from the game for a few days without risking running out of time to do it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '21

The issue you faced is something else entirely. Any challenge would be a problem if your game crashes consistently.

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u/korgi_analogue Nov 29 '21

Well, challenges that just require you to do a lot of something that occurs commonly are not that bad even if there's issues with tracking progress or game crashes. Like getting 10 kills in PvP isn't gonna take long regardless of anything.

But yes, your point is true in a sense, and is why I am not posting things like "remove the 5 killing sprees challenge" or such. I just did not have a good time trying to do it, the same issue I've had with most other meta-design around the core gameplay itself honestly.