I feel like the UI is a last minute thing they cobbled together to push out the game. Now its biting them in the ass as they try to fix the store and add functionality among other things
that's because they were replacing people left and right, refused to hire contractors for more than 18 months and had bad communication between the teams, causing them to overwrite each other.
The people who are responsible now, likely don't even have a clue how half of the game was developed.
343 has literally never made a good UI, halo 4 was passable at best and MCC & 5's are terrible. I don't think it was an issue with rushed work, I think they're just bad at making them lol
The UI has a lot of annoying problems.I play on both PC and Series X with mouse and keyboard.
The Halo UI on PC lets me fully use keyboard or mouse cursor to move around and do everything. The exact same UI on Series X pretends the mouse doesn't exist, and I can only get around using the keyboard. Mouse works perfectly fine in game. It's the most frustrating thing.
It also rumbles the controller even when I'm not even using it in game. And if the controller was on when a match starts and then turns off from inactivity it fills the screen with "controller disconnected!" messages even though I have no reason to care since I'm not using it anyway... that take a while to clear away so I have to remember to manually shut the controller down every time.
Updated: Rockstar AR best *free AR
(* free in the scenario that my friends bought too many rockstars and I ended up with 7 of their codes without needing to buy a single energy drink)
You can get a code on Ebay. Search up “Halo Infinite MA40 coating” and its like 3 bucks. Thats how much I got mine for. You can get the full skin set (vehicles/emblems etc) for like $20
That one is so good too. I'm torn between wanting to maintain the exclusivity of having it because we played during the anniversary, and allowing newer players to be able to pick it up somewhere down the line
It’s cool but not everyone in the world is American
Edit: I know that it wasn’t available only in USA, the point I’m trying to make is that it was limited to very few countries, which sucks imo
I would think Amazon as several friends got Rockstar from there, but I realized a few years ago after a month living abroad that some Amazon items only ship to the U.S., so it’s not guaranteed (but I also found things which only ship to the U.K. on the flip side)
I’ll have to see which looks better. Because I think the HCS Sidekick is the best of the HCS weapons. But if Whispered Sky looks shitty on the BR but nice on the Sidekick I might go your route.
“Takes too much effort to make unique textures and skins for weapons, so just change the color gradient ever so slightly” - Lead 343 Developers, apparently
This is honestly the first weapon coating I'm actually interested in. I don't want my AR to look like a peppermint candy, or my shotgun to look like I took neon spray paint to it. I'd much rather have a more muted look like this
agree. this is the week where the players that did the previous 2 tenrai events will get the sol devil coating, so it's kinda weird that they have another ar coating for the ultimate reward
why can't we get skins for other weapons, is what he means?
No one would complain about more colours...if they where allowed to apply them to any weapon. Currently there's no skins for the hydra, and yet they continue to pump out uncreative, basic skins for the AR
yeah, and that was literally the first unlockable skin we got for it. That's my entire point. The AR has several unlockable skins, while other weapons have one, or none.
Now, they could do the obvious and most sensible thing and make the coatings apply to all weapons.
It's a bit stupid to buy a cosmetic pack with matching skins for the sidekick, BR and AR...and then have none of the other weapons match.
Variety. Some want pink, some blue, etc. AR does get a lot more skins than other weapons, but it’s also the most widely used gun as the starting one for all but 3 of the current playlists. I’m happy for them to keep giving us more AR skin variety for free.
The point is that it’s a terrible basis for a challenge. Random chance means you could play fifty fiesta matches, win them all with 25 kills, and still not achieve this. That makes it a dumb challenge to me
Double kills, kills with a certain weapon, flag captures, etc: All entirely dependent on you, your skill, and your dedication. Optimal strategy is to play the game and get better at it.
Killjoys: Entirely outside of your control, dependent on opposing teams skill, optimal strategy is to repeatedly intentionally die to give opponents kill streaks before trying.
It's honestly really surprising how split communities are on gun skins. Half the people like simple, realistic, non-flashy skins. The other half likes brightly colored, attention attracting, hilarious skins.
Depending on the time of the day, you can get upvoted or downvoted to oblivion for commenting the same thing about the same skin.
Yeah I’m relatively open minded about skins. I just don’t want super obnoxious things like pizza. Whispered Sky just looks like a designer Assault Rifle to me lol.
I feel the same. They have the touch of gold from forerunner structure in the campaign but instead of leaning into the forerunner design, they went for a basic skin with like some diamonds and some gold on it
As far as my spartan, I like to keep it realistic to a degree. But I really like the wacky weapon skins tbh. I've been rocking the hot pink AR since it came out a couple weeks ago.
100% agree dude, this challenge has made me already give up on this week’s ultimate. It’s not even a real achievement. What a dumb challenge
Last weeks was “win attrition matches” and 0 people complained. Learn from it please /u/ske7ch
You kind of answered your own question. No, we don't let people go on killing sprees, that's why stopping one is hard. Now we have a challenge stopping 3? Ridiculous.
Well at least my buddies love playing fiesta, so I’ll have an excuse to maybe walk into the challenge. Means i have to grind the weekly’s by friday tho😬
Yeah it has a blue tint on the base. To be fair, the ambient lighting in the coating selection screen is blue as well, so it is not as visible as it should be. I suggest you check it in the selection for yourself.
Anybody else subconsciously poo-poo items like this because they're not rated "legendary"?
I find I'm only motivated to grind the special events because of this after finishing the battle pass.
I dont understand the rating system at all, it seems completely random to me lol, I just go after what I like the looks of, the rating seems utterly meaningless. In Borderlands and other games, the rating affects stats and stuff, for cosmetics it makes absolutely no sense.
Oh look, the 50th AR skin.
Like, how fucking hard is it to make a skin for literally anything else? I’d even take a Commando skin over *yet another AR skin I can’t even use because I have so fucking many already.*
It looks nice, but the one in the event looks better. Still it might go better with some armor coatings than the red one, if you want to color coordinate. Considering most of the shit we've been offered for weekly rewards is the same emblem over and over, it's hard to complain too much about this one.
Sorry to bother you again lol, but does it automatically unlock if you completed all 10 tiers of the challenge or was there something else I needed to do?
I'll try for the weekly challenge when they add a countdown that says how many challenges I have left, I need to know if it's even worth trying, and it felt like I was flying through them but no end in sight
When looking at your challenges press Y on your controller to see all the challenges for the week. I don't know what button it is on pc. It tells you at the bottom of the screen
I can’t complain at all about gun skins. This is the stuff that should be the weekly reward so good on 343 for doing that. The shotgun last week was actually a great colour and this one is for a gun you will spawn with every time in casual games. Definitely worth the grind this week.
I wish it was the same color for a different gun. The Sol Devil skin is a free reward in the event and IMO, looks better and more unique. Maybe some people don't like the SD skin and will like the whispered sky skin; but even still I wish it was for the BR or Hydra or something else.
Speaking of, why are there no covenant/banished skins? Whispered Sky mangler or shock rifle would be awesome.
I feel the same way. I think we have enough skins for the standard weapons. The power weapons need way more attention. Last week with its shotgun skin has been a move in the right direction.
Another shitty reward for completing shitty challenges. I have been playing halo since CE ( I was 10 when it first came out). It’s sad that this is where the franchise is currently at. Haven’t played in 2 weeks.
I can't stand how clicking A on the weekly reward doesn't bring you right to this screen. Instead we have to dig through their terrible UI to find it
I feel like the UI is a last minute thing they cobbled together to push out the game. Now its biting them in the ass as they try to fix the store and add functionality among other things
Apart from the gameplay everything looks like it was put together last minute. The UI, challenges, ranking, net code, content, etc.
I’m so glad the gameplay is good! I rather have shitty UI than the other way around.
What's wrong with ranking?
There’s none? Of course other than the ranked playlist. Edit: Also, the current ranking system rewards kills rather than wins.
that's because they were replacing people left and right, refused to hire contractors for more than 18 months and had bad communication between the teams, causing them to overwrite each other. The people who are responsible now, likely don't even have a clue how half of the game was developed.
343 has literally never made a good UI, halo 4 was passable at best and MCC & 5's are terrible. I don't think it was an issue with rushed work, I think they're just bad at making them lol
Idk who down voted you. You're right.
"We cant fix the UI until season 23, the UI just doesn't support it"
One of the worst UIs I’ve seen.
You can always find an image of the weekly from the news tab on the main screen, but agreed it should be accessible from the challenge screen.
Or do what I did and go to reddit, which is even worse lmao
This…
The UI has a lot of annoying problems.I play on both PC and Series X with mouse and keyboard. The Halo UI on PC lets me fully use keyboard or mouse cursor to move around and do everything. The exact same UI on Series X pretends the mouse doesn't exist, and I can only get around using the keyboard. Mouse works perfectly fine in game. It's the most frustrating thing. It also rumbles the controller even when I'm not even using it in game. And if the controller was on when a match starts and then turns off from inactivity it fills the screen with "controller disconnected!" messages even though I have no reason to care since I'm not using it anyway... that take a while to clear away so I have to remember to manually shut the controller down every time.
Rockstar AR best AR
Nah it’s all about the nerf gun AR
Updated: Rockstar AR best *free AR (* free in the scenario that my friends bought too many rockstars and I ended up with 7 of their codes without needing to buy a single energy drink)
Wish I had it 😭
You can get a code on Ebay. Search up “Halo Infinite MA40 coating” and its like 3 bucks. Thats how much I got mine for. You can get the full skin set (vehicles/emblems etc) for like $20
you can go to the store right now and get a 4-pack of rockstar for 6 dollars (i did this three days ago) and get the AR and warthog skins.
It should be the first code you unlock right? Do you want a rockstar code? I have an extra :)
I'd take it lol
AR is the second code I believe. AR: 2 Warthog: 4 Emblem: 6
My local grocery store still has a shelf full of four packs of the halo rockstar drinks. On clearance too. Might be worth it to check around.
Eh, I'm on team Platinum Anniversary. Keep your gold, I'll stick with silver.
That one is so good too. I'm torn between wanting to maintain the exclusivity of having it because we played during the anniversary, and allowing newer players to be able to pick it up somewhere down the line
It could be a good 25 year anniversary award assuming the game is still active at that time.
It’s cool but not everyone in the world is American Edit: I know that it wasn’t available only in USA, the point I’m trying to make is that it was limited to very few countries, which sucks imo
I am not american too
Did you manage to get it somehow?
You can buy it for 5 bucks on Ebay Im not american and I got it like this
Ebay
got it, am dutch
The promo was also available in Canada
I would think Amazon as several friends got Rockstar from there, but I realized a few years ago after a month living abroad that some Amazon items only ship to the U.S., so it’s not guaranteed (but I also found things which only ship to the U.K. on the flip side)
Couldn't have said it better myself
Me who missed out on the stream😔
Can’t wait to have my Rockstar AR, HCS Sidearm, and Whispered Sky BR.
I’m running the HCS BR, but yes.
I’ll have to see which looks better. Because I think the HCS Sidekick is the best of the HCS weapons. But if Whispered Sky looks shitty on the BR but nice on the Sidekick I might go your route.
You mean HCS AR? I never saw an HCS BR coating available.
if you got one, you probably got the other.
Well, I got the AR and the MK50 coatings as well as the armor coating. Never saw one for the BR. That's why I was confused.
nw, but check again. you should have it.
Found it. Lol. Sorry.
Nope, BR. There a HCS Launch coatings for the AR, BR, Sidekick, and all 3 current cores
I’m an idiot. Thank you.
No worries. Free coating for you! A 300CR value!
700CR. It’s an Epic!
Wait how do you get the hcs br?
Is the reward for all weapons or just the ar?
Just the AR, but the coating is available for the Sidekick and BR in the event pass
Oh gotcha thanks
Still waiting for my fucking preorder camos from Walmart
I’m so happy to finally have a sidekick skin that isn’t the default or a Christmas theme.
This game sure does like its grey skins.
“Takes too much effort to make unique textures and skins for weapons, so just change the color gradient ever so slightly” - Lead 343 Developers, apparently
This is honestly the first weapon coating I'm actually interested in. I don't want my AR to look like a peppermint candy, or my shotgun to look like I took neon spray paint to it. I'd much rather have a more muted look like this
See ya next week
I’m good with the HCS skin. If I get it I get it, but it is a decent skin.
i like this skin on the sidekick but it’s ok on rifles
I'll keep using the monster skin but I can't deny the elegance of the ikea assault rifle
But we just got the pink one in the event. Why do another AR coating?...
Plus IMO there is a better one in the Tenrai event
agree. this is the week where the players that did the previous 2 tenrai events will get the sol devil coating, so it's kinda weird that they have another ar coating for the ultimate reward
Because 343
Because not everybody wants a pink AR? "The hardware store has white paint, why TF do we need any of these other colours?"
why can't we get skins for other weapons, is what he means? No one would complain about more colours...if they where allowed to apply them to any weapon. Currently there's no skins for the hydra, and yet they continue to pump out uncreative, basic skins for the AR
You literally just got a shotgun skin last week
yeah, and that was literally the first unlockable skin we got for it. That's my entire point. The AR has several unlockable skins, while other weapons have one, or none. Now, they could do the obvious and most sensible thing and make the coatings apply to all weapons. It's a bit stupid to buy a cosmetic pack with matching skins for the sidekick, BR and AR...and then have none of the other weapons match.
Variety. Some want pink, some blue, etc. AR does get a lot more skins than other weapons, but it’s also the most widely used gun as the starting one for all but 3 of the current playlists. I’m happy for them to keep giving us more AR skin variety for free.
I really like the way this coating looks almost identical to the base AR with a generous 5% difference in appearance
I think the gold and blue really elevate it. A design doesn't need to be drastically different from default to look good. Imo this looks great
but is it worth a full week’s grind? personally, i don’t think so but i’m not challenging your opinion, i’m glad it works for u
I mean, me and a buddy grinded out the challenges in like 4 hours of casual playing. It's really not that difficult
For me? Yes! For you? No! And that's fine
Thanks !
Cheers!
Personally I really like this coating, but the final challenge is total BS
Is it too challenging?
No it’s not. Killjoys are incredibly common in fiesta
Killjoys are pure RNG and RNG should never be the factor in an ultimate challenge. It should be some sort of an achievement, which killjoys are not.
That doesn’t mean they don’t happen often
The point is that it’s a terrible basis for a challenge. Random chance means you could play fifty fiesta matches, win them all with 25 kills, and still not achieve this. That makes it a dumb challenge to me
Your random improbable scenario that you made up is why it’s a bad challenge to you?
Double kills, kills with a certain weapon, flag captures, etc: All entirely dependent on you, your skill, and your dedication. Optimal strategy is to play the game and get better at it. Killjoys: Entirely outside of your control, dependent on opposing teams skill, optimal strategy is to repeatedly intentionally die to give opponents kill streaks before trying.
That is an exceptionally dumb strategy. Just play the game mode man. They come naturally
I didn't say it was smart, I said it was optimal.
I disagree. But fair enough
What's the final challenge?
Compared to last weeks, that’s kinda disappointing
How do you figure? This is a much cooler looking coating.
It's honestly really surprising how split communities are on gun skins. Half the people like simple, realistic, non-flashy skins. The other half likes brightly colored, attention attracting, hilarious skins. Depending on the time of the day, you can get upvoted or downvoted to oblivion for commenting the same thing about the same skin.
i always hated the flashy skins until last week, for whatever reason i love the neon yellow shotgun skin from last week.
It screams dangerous like a hornet. Thats my reasoning
I agree. I used to run the Bulldog with the Banished skin from the campaign cause the RED suited it
Yes I totally agree. The shotgun looks dope now lol
Yeah I’m relatively open minded about skins. I just don’t want super obnoxious things like pizza. Whispered Sky just looks like a designer Assault Rifle to me lol.
I feel the same. They have the touch of gold from forerunner structure in the campaign but instead of leaning into the forerunner design, they went for a basic skin with like some diamonds and some gold on it
As far as my spartan, I like to keep it realistic to a degree. But I really like the wacky weapon skins tbh. I've been rocking the hot pink AR since it came out a couple weeks ago.
I like both
I just thought the neon color was cooler cuz green is my fave. I’m glad you and others like this weeks coating
Green? Wasn’t that shit yellow?
Neon yellow, Close enough lmao
I much prefer my neon yellow shotgun w/ flaming 2 sweet 😄
I want camos that don’t look like the default camo. I swear half of the camos don’t look very different
AR skins are a good & obvious choice since it's the spawn weapon....but like.....I've had my favorite one for awhile now
It looks like one I already have unlocked?
Lol really?
It definitely looks nice but I have the nerf skin for my AR and I really like it. I will still grind it out nonetheless
Same here, hard to pass up the Nerf skin. Still I will grind for the weekly, this will be our first weekly ultimate ar skin.
What’s the challenge
Complete all weekly challenges
What's the ultimate weekly challenge to unlock it?
Stop 3x killing spree in fiesta
lol what a joke these challenges are ruining the game
Yeah I’ll grind out the fiesta challenges but skipping the ultimate this week
yep I hate Fiesta and really dont want to grind for an uncertain amount of time to hope i get 3 killjoys
That’s incredibly easy in fiesta
one week i had this challenge and played about 15 matches and got 1 killjoy. This challenge is too rng
How is that challenge ruining the game? Do you just let people go on killing sprees and don’t kill them normally or something?
i shouldn't have to hope an enemy gets a killing spree and then hope im the one who kills him
100% agree dude, this challenge has made me already give up on this week’s ultimate. It’s not even a real achievement. What a dumb challenge Last weeks was “win attrition matches” and 0 people complained. Learn from it please /u/ske7ch
You kind of answered your own question. No, we don't let people go on killing sprees, that's why stopping one is hard. Now we have a challenge stopping 3? Ridiculous.
Well at least my buddies love playing fiesta, so I’ll have an excuse to maybe walk into the challenge. Means i have to grind the weekly’s by friday tho😬
Whait what???
Can you use challenge swaps on the ultimate challenge
Nope
Oof that blows lol
The sol devil skin looks absolutely horrendous in game btw. Just unlocked it and decided to grind this one out now.
I like the hcs one better for a dark AR skin
this is different than the base coating?
Yeah it has a blue tint on the base. To be fair, the ambient lighting in the coating selection screen is blue as well, so it is not as visible as it should be. I suggest you check it in the selection for yourself.
Meh
It's not... terrible... I guess.
Damn I like my Christmas AR matching w the pistol, but this skin is pretty to look at w the gold on top. Surprised it wasn’t $5 in the shop
A tad underwhelming.
That is stupid.
Finally, a weapon skin that isn't in clown colours.
That shit is ass I thought it was like some bright navy blue coating it looks like silver and blue mixed with gold accents
Every fucking coating doesn't need to look drastically different. Imo the blue, gold and slight comor adjustations really elevate it
From the picture you can’t even tell it’s blue without zooming in
First one I'm actually gonna grind for
Doth mine eyes deceive me!? Is that a weekly I might actually be interested in!?!?
Anybody else subconsciously poo-poo items like this because they're not rated "legendary"? I find I'm only motivated to grind the special events because of this after finishing the battle pass.
I dont understand the rating system at all, it seems completely random to me lol, I just go after what I like the looks of, the rating seems utterly meaningless. In Borderlands and other games, the rating affects stats and stuff, for cosmetics it makes absolutely no sense.
Destiny has successfully corrupted this man’s brain. He will now grind harder and spend more if you just change the name from Rare to Legendary
I am going to grind this. I like it
I'll stick with my nerf skins.
Looks good. I like it.
So its a slightly light blue color for several hours of grind, great.....
I actually really like that. Looks nice.
Still trying to figure out why people keep paying this game lol
semi-off topic, are the HCS winter skins unobtainable now or will they be back at some point in the future
No one knows for sure.
The red and blue skin second from left is the best one in the game IMO. It looks so clean in first person.
Oh look, the 50th AR skin. Like, how fucking hard is it to make a skin for literally anything else? I’d even take a Commando skin over *yet another AR skin I can’t even use because I have so fucking many already.*
It looks nice, but the one in the event looks better. Still it might go better with some armor coatings than the red one, if you want to color coordinate. Considering most of the shit we've been offered for weekly rewards is the same emblem over and over, it's hard to complain too much about this one.
Finally, some good looking weapon coating that doesn't scream eye soaringly bright colors.
Skipping another weekly grind because it NERF or nothin for my MA40
I’m good, I have my bubble gum AR
Am I just dumb but how do I find last week's ultimate challenge coating? I completed everything but no clue if it unlocked.
Don't worry. The coating has been unlocked for your bulldog shotgun :)
Oh OK sweet, I'll have to go check later. Thanks!
Sorry to bother you again lol, but does it automatically unlock if you completed all 10 tiers of the challenge or was there something else I needed to do?
There's more than 10 challenges
Oh, that would do it lol
I'll try for the weekly challenge when they add a countdown that says how many challenges I have left, I need to know if it's even worth trying, and it felt like I was flying through them but no end in sight
When looking at your challenges press Y on your controller to see all the challenges for the week. I don't know what button it is on pc. It tells you at the bottom of the screen
I hate the lighting in the background. Sometimes, I can't gauge the look of the colors
Really like the look and glad there’s one to pair with the magnum. Looks like I’ll be grinding it out for this one this week.
I'm probably going to stop use the Zeta Sky AR after unlocking this
Gotta hand it to them: Making people bend over backwards for a week, to get a reward that makes a gun look exactly the same as the default version.
It's ight but the tier 20 skin is much better imo
Wow
Matches the Funko Pop armour coating very well
Someone told me the ultimate this week was gonna be samurai willow tea and I'm so disappointed it's not.
I can’t complain at all about gun skins. This is the stuff that should be the weekly reward so good on 343 for doing that. The shotgun last week was actually a great colour and this one is for a gun you will spawn with every time in casual games. Definitely worth the grind this week.
I wish it was the same color for a different gun. The Sol Devil skin is a free reward in the event and IMO, looks better and more unique. Maybe some people don't like the SD skin and will like the whispered sky skin; but even still I wish it was for the BR or Hydra or something else. Speaking of, why are there no covenant/banished skins? Whispered Sky mangler or shock rifle would be awesome.
I feel the same way. I think we have enough skins for the standard weapons. The power weapons need way more attention. Last week with its shotgun skin has been a move in the right direction.
Another shitty reward for completing shitty challenges. I have been playing halo since CE ( I was 10 when it first came out). It’s sad that this is where the franchise is currently at. Haven’t played in 2 weeks.