Seven Halo 3 Maps Join Halo Infinite Today Alongside Free 20-Tier Pass

Can we also talk about the fact that that this season's pass is the first one to not have any free rewards past level 40? In additional to the price increases on all the store items.

@InterceptorAlpha Is that really not normal? I don't know how it was before but at least in CoD free rewards are very rare in BP and almost always they are just some banners and profile pics. At best a skin? There are guns as part of it to be fair. But again Halo is hardly interested in creating new guns all the time. Franchise has been relying on broadly the same guns since Halo 4.

I think both of you bring up fair points. The Halo Infinite passes have been extremely generous up through Season 4, granting 1-2 free armor cosmetics and 1-2 weapon/nameplate cosmetics every 10 levels.

I think the most glaring issue is that the 50-tier season battle pass cost the same as the past four paid 100-tier battle passes. Hopefully we're not going to see the battle passes give less and less as you see in games like CoD or Overwatch.

That said, I'm not critical on Halo Infinite at all. I've been playing consistently since launch and have never understood the criticisms of this game except for he desync issues some players experienced during the first year. The battle passes have been great: they don't expire and they give you enough in-game currency (and there is only type of in-game currency) to buy the next season's battle pass. Pretty consumer friendly and certainly moreso than any other online multiplayer game I can think of.

@InterceptorAlpha The free stuff was in the first 20 levels.

They reworked the entire battle pass thing. It might seem sucky but believe it or not free players actually get MORE out of it than before. They bundled multiples of things into a single tier thank GOD.

Example, a green weapon coating for AR/BR/shotgun/sniper rifle would have taken up 4 separate tiers before now they take up 1.
A blue armor coating for 6 different cores would take up SIX whole tiers now they take up 1.
Shoulder pads would take up TWO tiers. One for left shoulder and one for right. Now, thankfully it's only 1 tier for a pair of shoulder pads or kneepads.

So theres actually more stuff AND they've front loaded all the free stuff in the first 20 tiers. So if you're a free only player you get all the free stuff first. AND they've bundled premium stuff inside the new free tiers together so if you actually buy the pass those tiers aren't wasted.

I'm not simping for Halo infinite. There's a LOT that this game does wrong. Oh my God the store prices are shocking right now. And there's a insane lack of BTB maps among other things but the one thing they do well is the season pass. Its the only thing I will defend of the game right now.

I still play Halo, lifelong gamer in my 40s now so never have really been into the whole battle pass and skins/cosmetics thing. But in my limited experience of battle passes the halo ones seem good. I like the way you can go back to old battle passes and also the free mini event ones when they drop.

I think Halo infinite is a really underrated game. Love that they’re still supporting it like they do. They all want as much money from the gamer as possible now but IMO halo isn’t as bad as the others. Not a fan of the in game shop but COD is horrendous compared to halo to the point where I no longer play COD or have an interest in it

@dreadful - lol just seen your post. Totally agree, not simping for halo but I think it does more right than wrong

Are the vehicle physics any better yet?

@BrilliantBill Not normal at all
Not played last MW2019. But even on it you had things ensr the end for the free battle pass to unlock. And even the biggest battle pass game of all Fortnite has them in the latter levels.

It seems those that actually have experience with battle passes understand that if you're using it to keep players playing, then you need to have free unlocks all the way through. Particularly because those that may not buy a pass may still be inclined to buy things in the cash shop. But if they stop playing, then there's 0% chance of that happening.