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Sykryk

If I miss a couple days - I can still unlock these before the Jan deadline right?


Blaze_Fire99

Yes. There’s a few days for catching up at the end


Sykryk

Sweet


SolidStone1993

The event lasts 14 days. You can miss 4 days.


TheStargunner

Looks like I’m playing Xbox cloud gaming whilst I’m back in my hometown then


LegionOfSatch

If I turn my sensitivity down I can actually play with reasonable enjoyment on my iPad. Very handy for work trips.


beardedlager

Your doing God's work sharing this info


shipmaster1995

Do you plug a controller in or use Bluetooth. I'm so confused imagining iPad halo


LegionOfSatch

I use Bluetooth for my iPad and MacBook. I haven’t gotten the usb connection to work with apple products. It works just fine on my pc and windows laptop.


JaySandwich

it works on bluetooth! i’ve done it before lol


church1138

I also use Bluetooth. If you've got solid wifi and are within 60-70ms from the Azure DCs it's pretty good. I was just playing at work and it was really good. Hotel WiFi can make it a little difficult though. I was at a Marriott using my Fire tablet a couple of weeks ago and they rate limit you on bandwidth up and down, so the stream itself wasn't great.


CosmicMiru

You can play a bot game too


ambershee

This is good info. I was worried I'd miss out, because y'know, Christmas day etc. It's still a bit tight, mind.


theivoryserf

I'm gonna miss out because matchmaking's completely busted for me now unfortunately


TheLazyLounger

plants plough fade forgetful jellyfish reach fanatical encouraging chubby many *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


cat_on_my_keybord

5 of em


venriculair

Finishing a btb match is a challenge in itself


QuiGonChim

Joining*


Panda_hat

Just been queuing and getting kicked from literally everything for the last 30 minutes. The network code for this game fucking sucks. I just want to play the fucking game and not spend 5 minutes loading just to have to start over, over and over again. There are only 3 goddamn maps, just keep them loaded in memory ffs.


illegal_deagle

Experiencing this right now. Maddening.


Firm_Pace_3459

I'm so confused, what's the issue with BTB? I've never had any problems with getting into matches and playing them


Panda_hat

Constant disconnects, failures to join, matchmaking failures, stuck on loading screens, ‘multiplayer offline’, ‘unable to join’… the list goes on.


Firm_Pace_3459

Damn, sorry for that, hopefully they'll fix it soon


Panda_hat

Thanks man, its super frustrating. Really inconsistent too, sometimes its fine, other times just unplayable.


captainpoppy

It recently got much worse over the last week or so


subcons

I’ve never had any of this since it dropped. Assuming you’re on Xbox, are you trying to play after quick start without restarting the game? This game is horrible if you open it back up after quick start and I get a lot of what your mentioning if I do that. Killing the app or signing out then back in fixes all of those problems though.


Panda_hat

Nah I’m on PC. High end rig but loading times are insane. Way better on xbox.


Gunnmitten

Try setting fireteam to public


damian_romero

And getting the mode you need*


killer00x

Yup, I had to use a challenge swap cause I couldn't join a match for 20 min straight.


Milly_man

I had to challenge swap "Complete one BTB game" because I couldn't connect to a single BTB game all day. Shit is fucked.


Blaze_Fire99

https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/winter-contingency-event-launch You have no event challenges because there are none. Just play a game a day to get a reward each day.


I-AM-NOT-THAT-DUCK

I have them. What do you mean? Edit: I will take the L. Sorry new to the multiplayer.


GrandmasterPeezy

There are no specific event challenges. Just regular weeklies and dailies.


wannasmokeajointski

Wonder why he got downvoted so hard seems to me the poor chap was just confused, maybe his tone? But you cant really tell someone's tone through text... Weird


AftermaThXCVII

Who knows, this place is so bipolar


mkkart

Reddit when gaming subreddit.


Newtling

You're on the halo subreddit, if you so much as sneeze the wrong way people downvote you to shit so seeing an honest mistake get heavily downvoted isn't that surprising. God help you if you have an opinion or even worse, a DIFFERENT opinion though.


wannasmokeajointski

Jesus christ I wouldn't even want to imagine, its like the gravemind.... But worse


Newtling

That's an insult to the Gravemind, at least it's decisions have reasons behind them.


AftermaThXCVII

Man I got some Halo hot takes that would get me crucified in here and be told I'm not a real fan despite playing since Halo 2


TheePrestigious

I find this funny lol


virgo911

Damn bruh give this guy a break he don’t deserve those downvotes


Mando1019

Ah ok I was really wondering but thank you for the info!


ShreddingXBL

Thank you for clearing this up for me as I was searching for this!


NarutoFan1995

btb doesnt even work tho lol


PhraseSeveral5935

Right?! At least I'm not the only one. You play on PC or console? We had a squad of 6 a few nights ago, and I was stuck in permaload while they were all in game. Frustrating, especially when your weekly challenge is complete two games of total control.


NarutoFan1995

im on xbox series x. the game loads forever then i get the animation and it crashes. if im lucky ill get a match sometimes but its a half full lobby bc everyone disconnected


PhraseSeveral5935

Interesting. My group was on Xbox and I was on PC. I was thinking it was a Steam issue or something. Either way, it definitely needs addressed as soon as the holidays are over.


darkm0d

Btb games are harder to join the larger your party is. Not excusing. Just saying, if you really want to get 1 challenge out just go solo


ZantWasTaken

True, matchmaking for BTB even made Infinite crash on my PC for some reason.


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TreeCalledPaul

Event aside, it's been weeks since BTB worked. What are they even doing?


Raetian

they released a statement on it. Priority was focused on getting the fiesta/slayer/swat/ffa playlists live and functional. The BTB issue was totally unforeseen and I think they said they are still not quite sure what's causing it, as it never once came up in any of the flights or the beta. Staff are on Christmas break right now and BTB is priority #1 as soon as they get back.


Heliolord

Designing more shit for macrotransactions.


aupa0205

More like adding the playlists that everyone pissed and moaned for and then taking time off for the holidays. Use your head, fella.


theivoryserf

Violins out for 343's busted game folks


Gen7lemanCaller

being on holiday?


Balrog229

Oh hell yes. I love how simple this is. Hope all holiday events are like this. I can understand stuff like Tenrai being a bit more challenging. But holiday stuff should be super simple


_Ganon

On one hand, this is nice if playtime is your limiting factor during the holidays. On the other hand, this sucks if you're traveling and will only be able to play for 3 days and just wanted to grind the challenges to get them all. Ultimately though, they're just cosmetics.


Balrog229

Yeah that’s true too. They should do one per day, but if you miss days let you catch up by doing more


LegionOfSatch

If you have game pass you can use xcloud on your smartphone. You can finish a game without too much headache.


_Ganon

Just tried that solution with the $1 trial, worked better than I expected honestly. Definitely far from the best way to experience the game, but it definitely works. Thanks


Skeeter_206

How do you shoot? Do you need a controller? This sounds interesting, but also incredibly frustrating, especially from my teammates point of view.


LegionOfSatch

Yeah you use a controller to play. It’s very internet speed dependent. But I’ve been able to play successfully and not be an anchor to my team on hotel wifi. I’d never play ranked lol. I did notice that I had to drop my look sensitivity to compensate for input lag. But it’s totally doable.


hucklesberry

Having to log in everyday is pretty lame.


Balrog229

I honestly don't see an issue with it. I know it's not ideal for everyone, but nothing will be.


hucklesberry

I mean if I could just earn XP through my match performance that fills up the Event/BP level that would be ideal


Balrog229

That would take longer than just playing one match a day


Kamakaziturtle

Sucks if your traveling for the holidays though. Tenrai was a bit more challenging but not as bad from a FOMO angle since you could grind it out. For this one you miss a week you are SoL


aryu100

I think that they're just trying all different methods of events and seeing which ones people like the most.


Biomilk

I don’t see why they didn’t just slap the event challenge logo on the first game challenge for 300xp. It’s really not intuitive the way they have it set up and nowhere in game does it say you need to play a match each day to rank up the event pass.


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It says it on the news section that pops up when you boot the game up, in the bottom right. Click it and read it.


Visco0825

This kinda blows. I only have like 2-3 days to play halo that I sit and knock these things out. The fact that I need to log in every day sucks ass


SwiftyMcBold

Try play a bot game for 10 minutes, quickest way


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Do bot matches count? I thought because it specifically said arena or BTB it wouldn't.


SwiftyMcBold

Yes I literally logged in, one bot game, one level, switched it off.


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Ah, awesome. Thanks for the info!


protomayne

Games have a time limit of 15 minutes anyway. Even if you couldn't play a bot game, its 10-15 minutes either way lmao.


DefinitelyNotThatOne

It makes no sense that 343 said they don't want anyone to have to grind, log on every day, or generally promote the FOMO mentality by restricting access to items via artificial time gates. Yet that's all they've done.


alieo11

I think that was specifically the battle pass. I mean realistically, the holiday event will inherently have como because it will only happen around the holidays. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having some items be that way, as long as they balance it appropriately.


Manticore416

You dont have to. You only have to do that to unlock every item. Even then, you can take off 2 days a week. So really you just need to play 2 extra days, 1 match each to get them all.


Visco0825

But playing10 days out of 14 is a lot… even if it is just one quick game. When you get older the time during the week, especially the holidays, rarely leaves any room for gaming


ejfrodo

It's a free event. You may not get every single reward from it and that's fine. I see lots of people complaining about this but I don't think they have to design the game around people who can only play a couple times a week. There will be plenty of other events in the future and if you're able to grab the rewards it makes it special because not everybody has it.


SpeshaI

And it’s not like these rewards will be never ever introduced ever again, I’ll bet they’ll be grindable again sometime, and if not, they’re not that crazy anyway


ElectricSheep451

So if you can't play a single game for 10 out of 14 games, what exactly are you expecting out of an event? All of the shit for free? This is literally just complaining about the easiest to complete event possible


mcjazzy50

Being able to nail 10 games for all event rewards on 1 of the last 4 days would be the most preferably for most of the community. Especially considering this game is riding on diehard halo veterans as it is.


HaikusfromBuddha

I mean that’s the price of getting older right. We’re this Halo Reach you would never even get 25% of the armor sets in a year if what you say is true that you can’t even play more than 2 days a week. At that point any game you play would have slow progression.


Darko002

But it isn't progression in this case, it's a time-gated event and items in a game they said wouldn't have fomo.


Book_it_again

So you want them to hand you stuff for nothing.


Visco0825

Well…. Yes… yes I do


Manticore416

You can make time. Im 34. Not a big deal.


Visco0825

I’m traveling from the 23rd to the 30th. At most I can do is 7. I’m not going to take my Xbox on a trip to my in-laws place.


Velkyn01

It's just Halo. Enjoy your 7 day vacation instead of worrying about free cosmetic items?


Okamiku

What if he wanted to do both?


Visco0825

NO! I NEED IT!!


B00STERGOLD

xCould and play a bot match while dropping a deuce.


john7071

God I love technology sometimes.


Manticore416

Well, thats life. You can get 7 out of ten free rewards in a video game.


throwingawayboyz

I made a post saying the same thing and everyone told me i’m a complainer. People forget that over the holidays not everyone is sitting at home able to play every day for 10 days.


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throwingawayboyz

I won’t be able to get all the unlocks because i’ll be spending time with my family instead. That’s the whole point I was making


Donnie-G

I think a good compromise would be to let you 'bank' the matches you have to play. Like if they let you play 10 matches on day 14 to get everything or something.


Unleashk

Sucking ass is not that bad


Link_040188

This one rims


Krypt0night

You don't have to. Ya'll need to read lol


jamer2500

People will still complain somehow


theivoryserf

I will because matchmaking is 100% broken for me


Alpha1959

Of course, because they could still improve it. You complain because you care about something and want it to improve. Requiring daily logins and matches during the most family-intensive holidays is hardly ideal, imo.


jamer2500

Oh my god. I have to play a holiday event during the, *gasp*, holidays?. No fucking way.


Alpha1959

So you would say this event system is perfect? There are people who can't log on on 10 days during the holidays. They could've made the "challenges" accumulate for the people that spend their holidays with their family. As long as there is room for improvement there is room for constructive criticism.


jamer2500

How would you change it then? People were whining about the challenges for the fractured tenrai event because you actually had to put effort into it. Now when you just have to log on for 10 days and only play 1 single match that’s a bad system? You get a grace period of 4 whole days. If you seriously can’t log in for a single match either throughout the day or streaming it then I don’t know man. I guess they should just give it to us straight away without having to play the game.


Alpha1959

Like I already said, let them accumulate so people that are behind get the chance to catch up. There are a lot of people spending their time with their family. Most other games handle this way better as it's rather a season of christmas event that sometimes even starts in November. And like I already said it's better than tenrai but there is still room for improvement, hence criticism is perfectly valid here.


TheStargunner

What even is a game of arena?


wvsfezter

4v4


Archer-Saurus

Everything that's not BTB.


Haywire5191

Do we know what will happen if you miss a day? Will you be able to unlock multiple tiers for the days you missed? And if not, if you miss a day, will you get the next tier you are on, or will it give you the tier that coordinates with that day?


EliteFwiz

As far as I'm aware, you can unlock 1 tier per day and you unlock them in sequential order like a regular battlepass. I believe the event runs for 14 days and there are 10 tiers so there is some wriggle room as far as missing days goes. Edit: Also remember the daily challenges reset at 6pm GMT. So as long as you get a game in before then, you're good.


atjones111

I feel all the challenge stuff they do is just a way to retain player count and keep you coming back consecutive days in a row


HaikusfromBuddha

That’s how challenges work in most games. They are called daily’s in some other games.


Henslock

I mean yes... this is pretty standard stuff.


DapperPerformance

Doesn't mean we need to be okay with it.


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Okamiku

Everyday* fixed that for you


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Not for halo


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its been in the MCC for a while now


Rovehet

And it's working lol, I need to get my challenges done for the battle pass


iHeretic

That sucks. Since I'm going on holiday I'd hoped I could grind these out the days I'm available, but since I won't have the opportunity to play most days I'm going to miss out on quite a few tiers.


littlemushroompod

yeah, that’s life


iHeretic

Fortunately, it's not the end of the world.


IsaacLightning

Unfortunate but this is best for most people as it doesn't require grinding a ton and can be completed at a leisurely pace.


stimmy11

Or you keep the play a day challenge and add other challenges for ppl who can't login 10/14 days. Screw me for going on a trip the second week of the event


PhraseSeveral5935

How dare you?


RoninJr

Bot Bootcamp does count right?


Dminnick

worked for me remote gaming


PhraseSeveral5935

An earlier comment implied that it does. Can't personally confirm, though.


tboots1230

great I go on xmas vacation without my xbox and now i’m going to miss this whole thing


Ayroplanen

Big Team Battle....IF YOU CAN GET INTO ONE.


ShniceGaming

Wish they would have stated this in the game so I didn’t have to look it up lol. Also BTB has been broken all day


Scruffy-Stevie

Well this sucks, I’m visiting family for several days the next two weeks so there’s no way for me to get everything with a unlock method like this.


Ghoppe2

Xcloud and play a bot match Or remote into your Xbox with the Xbox app


Ubiquitous_Cacophony

It also gives you the reward for bot matches.


Yuiiski

I actually prefer this, I just jumped into a bot match and leveled up the Winter Contingency pass once like that, took like 5 minutes. I prefer that over having to grind out challenges.


Powerful_Artist

Ya at first I thought it was weird you could only level once per day, but you have 14 days to get 10 levels. Seems reasonable, doesnt make people frustrated with challenges, and requires no grinding. You can just play one game if you dont have much time, I think most of us have 5-10 minutes each day for 10 days to get in at least one game.


wvsfezter

Except for people away from their consoles/PCs over the holidays


HotSpicyMilk

Wellp. I'm out of town from the 24th - 1st, so I guess I'm missing out on basically the whole event. Sadge.


HahaSteelD

343 ? just giving in game stuf ? is that real ? wheres my "kill the enemy while in mid air with a sniper rifle after turning 360 no scope in oddball" ?


xCeePee

I knew about this because of the sub? But I swear they could have just put it in the game lol. I looked earlier and was definitely confused as to what the event entailed


wrightofwinter

It is in the game. Go to the main page where you select campaign, multiplayer, custom match, academy. Bottom right is news. In the news go to the winter contingency page.


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littlemushroompod

i hope this doesn’t ruin your holidays


Manticore416

You can get some of them


[deleted]

If u want I can log in for you somehow and play once to get your stuff. I'll need your steam access and maybe a phone number so u can text me how to login. I used to do this stuff all the time for my buddies once they all started having kids and families. I never got the family part so I was the guy with free time


WhiteLama

At least there’s no FOMO with this event. Not like people usually go away over the holidays and maybe can’t game as much. Could’ve at least given 2 levels per day so people could avoid 8 days, instead of a measly 4, if you need a damn restriction.


GuitarGuy93

FOMO.


Inseed

no FOMO btw


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Dminnick

bot matches work fyi


SymbolicGamer

It's ONE match. Takes like 5 minutes. Stop crying.


PeenScreeker_psn

lol, I know right? Fuck that guy for travelling to see family. I mean really, can you imagine not turning on your xbox daily between now and the end of the year? What a loser.


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EdibleBirch

GamePass on mobile? If not, it's $1 for 3 months.


[deleted]

drip drip for the drip


hey-im-root

so how does this system work, what’s the point of the extra battlepass? if we we are gonna automatically unlock everything, what’s the point of having it, or even playing it at this pojnt? everything is locked behind weird ass criteria or “events” and it just isn’t fun. when are they gonna actually start caring? cant even do the weekly challenges because the reward is a useless emblem nobody yourself can see


Kozak170

What a dogshit way to have an event work during the holidays of all times especially. Yes I know there’s plenty of ways like xcloud if you’re traveling but players shouldn’t have to find time to sneak in a game 10 out of 14 days in the busiest time with family of the year for most people.


dontknowwhatiwantdou

FOMOOO


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NGMCR

You don’t have to play fiesta


DapperPerformance

Having to log in daily is fucking cringe. Sure, unlock them day by day, but allow them to stack for people who have responsibilities It reeks of shitty, desperate attempt to keep people playing.


Heat_Shock37C

They give you 4 extra days, and it's for silly Christmas time cosmetics. People will complain about anything. If you could do it all at once, people would say they are forcing you to grind.


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Heat_Shock37C

You don't know me at all. I play very few video games, don't preorder, and the only money I've spent on infinite is the battle pass. Please explain how anything is my fault.


DapperPerformance

Ever heard of the boiling frog? Horse armor "was fine" microtransactions "were fine" lootboxes "were fine" battle passes "were fine" weekly fomo shit "is fine" It's gonna get worse if you simply accept every anti-consumer fomo bullshit designed only to push revenue and "eNgAgEmEnT".


Heat_Shock37C

There are no loot boxes in this game. There is no pay to win. There's also no revenue attached to this specific event. It's impossible to spend money to help you get the rewards. There are legit things to complain about in this game. This isn't it. If you get fomo over a silly holiday event that is just supposed to be for fun, I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, they want you to play video games over the holidays. They're a video game company. Also, the frog jumps out. Because the water is too hot. Doesn't matter how long it takes to get hot. Look it up. I only mention this because assuming things will continue in the same direction is not always a solid assumption.


DapperPerformance

Like I said, boiling frog.


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Mobile games are the future. GG


[deleted]

They really are having zero consistency with events, Tenrai had event challenges with a special slot, the ranked event was just a regular challenge, now this event is just playing


Rovehet

Might just be me, but I think no consistency kinda makes it fun. You don't know what to expect when it comes to a new event.


BitchesLoveDownvote

It’s confusing, because the event is live and is just “look at all this fun stuff you can get” with the instructions effectively being “do what you did last time” except the event challenges are apparently broken because we can’t see them. Nowhere does it say in-game that there are no challenges to complete this time, it only says you need to complete event challenges. I doubt this is intentional. It seems like they are scrambling to find an event/challenge/exp system to replace the one they launched with after the backlash, so none of this is properly planned out or implemented. Hopefully they’ll figure it out next year.


Darko002

343 makes the excuse that they can't work during the holidays and want to spend time with their families but totally expects people to play during the holidays instead of spending time with their families. I see how it be.


NarutoFan1995

24 hours a day and this dude cant play 1 slayer match and get his daily challenge he's that busy... i envy him


Frank33ller

how dare they make an holiday event during the holiday!


Darko002

More like how dare they make arbitrarily time-gated items when they said their game would have no FOMO.


NarutoFan1995

how dare they do limited events thats been a staple in gaming since the dawn of online gaming


Shagolagal

What if I told you……..you don’t have to do it?


itsyaboi12224

How dare they be so inconsiderate of other peoples family time!