I've been screaming it everywhere: take armor cores and armor coatings and throw that shit away. Railroading me into certain armor styles and specific color layouts is the most unHalo thing I've ever experienced, let me mix my armor pieces and let me choose my specific colors.
They really had Halo Reach and 4 to look at when it comes to customization option and leveling system. And they said ‘’no, we *SOMEHOW* know better than what the fans want when it comes to making an actually good game.”
You know that feeling when you know somethings wrong but you just can’t pinpoint exactly what it is? You hit every nail on the head and I’m glad I can see what I was feeling, fantastic video as always
@@fergusonthereaver6686 No one is complaining about the game pass, they're complaining because there's nothing to do besides the game pass. Winning isn't even a goal unless you play ranked
@@fergusonthereaver6686 Yo chill its been a month. As if being free justifies anything bad about the game. People like you and game devs need to learn how to handle valid criticism instead of calling us "ungrateful kids" who don't know what is good for the game
@@fergusonthereaver6686 You need to chill out and figure out how to take criticisms and turn it into advice. Hate how people equivalate criticism to begging. There are people like you and there are actual Halo fans who want to see their game become better. Btw "why don't you make the game yourself then" is a terrible argument. Do you even know how game development works? Consumers provide feedback. That's how it's always worked.
@@fergusonthereaver6686 Lol like what? Nothing you said is advice. Just a temper tantrum which boils down to "you're an ungrateful kid who begs too much, just have fun." Yeah great advice thanks.
A wonderful game bogged down by an atrocious monetization and customization system. The fact that the first free helmet unlock is tier 81 is just disgusting, and there’s no armour unlocks from campaign, only coatings. Customizability has been a core aspect of halo since 3, and halo reach right after had the most expansive selection yet. The fact that we have a reach battle pass and it doesn’t feature all the halo reach armour in it, much less basic colours for your Spartan like White and Black, but are rather locked behind 20 dollar pay walls hurts… oh and that 20 dollar pay wall is only for one Spartan core… yeah… yeah this hurts. It sucks because the gameplay may be the best in the series.
I agree but I don’t care that much to customise my Spartan. The core gamely is the best we have had. I can’t remember the Last time in the passed 10 years we have had a better arena shooter
@@zackrose6261 TL;DR Its probably a nostalgia thing, but most people aren't saying the game is bad, just its progression/customization is and its enough to put the game down I think a lot of people haven't realized that the older generation playing Halo have been playing it since they were kids which adds in a whole nostalgia component. I remember playing Halo:CE as it came out when I was like 9. I've had the same Emblem ever since the launch of Halo 2 when I made it cross-legged on the floor of a coincidentally timed middle-school birthday party. In the coming years, on Fridays, my friends would bring their dang xbox's to school so we could LAN at my house over the weekend. Everyone had their own Spartan/Elite. Every time I saw that Emblem when playing MCC, a small part of me was reminded of those times, probably some of my best gaming memories. Yes, making a custom Emblem (I'm probably the only person that cares about this lol) or having your spartan look how you want is just a novelty, but humans have a weird way of giving novelties sentimental value. Then, when it feels so bad trying to get access to that sentimental value, well... I see few people directly saying its a bad game without hyperbole. Most are saying its a predatory one because, frankly, if you care about customization it is predatory and that is bad. It's practically a step backward, akin to something like smashbros forcing you to buy a battle pass if you want different skins for your characters. I'll be the first to stand up and say the game has never felt better, but I gotta sit back down when they want to squeeze so much out of me for something that has always been easily plucked from the tree.
You wanna know what fucks me up the most? The fact that everyone forgets 343 already had a great customization system in Halo 4. There were so many parts to choose from and a lot of interesting new sets you got from either unlocks or special challenges you got after hitting a certain rank. It feels like they've been regressing ever since 4 in terms of player expression and choice when it comes to making your profile yours. And my theory is that the MP was divorced from the single player to justify monetizing the hell out of it, because delaying 1 year and this is what we got? How fucking broken was it a year ago? If the singleplayer isn't the best campaign in the entire series it will not justify that $60 price tag I can guarantee that.
You’re right, halo 4 customization was great, I remember trying to build a really bulky, tanky looking spartan and spent weeks getting all the challenges done. Once I did I had a spartan that was built for me and only me. Nobody else had my exact design. Meanwhile in halo infinite you see people who haven’t even learnt the basics of halo multiplayer running around with Emile, odst, and recon armor. It’s so disrespectful considering how hard we had to grind to get such a unique piece of armor in previous halos. Then, halo infinite comes along and throws the armor at the player as if it is a vending machine spitting out Diet Coke.
Campaign was solid. Got me 18 hours of gameplay and I only got about half of the collectibles. Heroic is balanced and fun. Best characterization and humanization of chief in the series as well as the best dialogue the series has to offer (except maybe gravemind). Worth the money imo, gonna replay is twice more for the speed run and collectibles achievements.
It's crazy to think that its so hard for developers to simply copy/paste Reach's best parts. Nobody has ever said a bad word about Reach's progression/customization.
Something I love is that there's a sound cue for when an enemy's shield goes down. Hearing that blip helps a lot when deciding whether or not to be more aggressive
20:00 - Selling challenge swaps as a work-around for bad challenges is like selling handbags as a work-around for the limited pocket space in women's clothing, or Apple selling their brand of wireless headphones (Airpods) as a work-around for their phones not having a headphone jack.
Aside from the agregious monetization and customization issues, I absolutely love Infinite's multiplayer. The sandbox, the gameplay, the map designs, all of it. Edit: Also I just realized Brick's title is a Rogue One reference lol
@@JimmmmmmmmmmmY It isn't shit, you just refuse to adapt to the new mechanics. Sprint isn't there to bolt around the map quickly or escape danger like it is in COD, it is used to traverse larger open areas slightly faster but most importantly gives access to slide. Aside from disliking sprint, which is a personal opinion, the gameplay, weapon sandbox, and etc I listed above are all near perfect. I have zero understanding how someone who enjoys the old Halo games could NOT like these things things. It is legitimately a perfect blend of most of the best mechanics and ideas from each game. I suggest you go back to playing Halo 3.
@@Jormyyy Yup. Back to halo reach and 3 cause those games are better games and also... better halo games. I do feel kind of bad that you weren't around in halos better days.
The part that hurts the most about armor cores having their own separate cosmetics is that the bots in custom games have mixed cosmetics from different armor cores thus proving it's possible but just not allowed xd
It's so accurate; when gameplay is this good, it makes the flaws surrounding it all the more glaring. Here's hoping we get a progression system fix soon that doesn't make it feel like we're army-crawling through broken glass and shattered dreams
A cosmetic system where you unlock stuff with points from gameplay, and then have a shop without fomo where more absurd cosmetics are would be great and alot of people would use it.
Coming back to this video 10 months later knowing absolutely nothing has changed and the game still has all of the exact same problems is heartbreaking...
I have always been saying that about halo, that gun skill can really matter. Can you get 1 good shot? How about 4 good shots while underfire, being pushed, or moving from a nade? It's not a THE superior FPS out there, and any claim like that is igrorant, but it certainly is up there and this game has really returned to that.
not true cause they compensate you with not a lot of movement after you are shot, you are like a turret, and that not realistic or competitive either, you got shot is not like you can go all blazing back afterwards, there is no skill in halo just don't try to fool yourself, this game lacks speed other games are way faster and thinking fast and react fast its talent and skill, not that you got shot in the back and you live to kill the other guy, wtf is that ANIME?
@@Bashman20 Maybe not everyone likes games where you get killed in 0.002 of a second and everyone just defaults to the 2-3 guns that do so while having enough ammo and accuracy (m4/ak in cs:go). Higher damage as a means to make gameplay faster as thus "more exciting" is not always a good thing. I know it's not a shooter, but the last few seasons of league of legends are a great example of it. It's oneshot or be oneshotted.
@@Bashman20 Who said anything about realism? If you want that, go play tarkov. We're talking about GUN SKILL within the parameters of the games sandbox. CSGO, COD, BF, Tarkov, all go for more realism in that a bullet ends you, but what makes halo so fun is that you're a literal super soldier. One shot to the head? Okay, git gud with the sniper to do that, otherwise you better learn to be CONSISTENT with your shot groupings to be better.
One of my randomly generated day one challenges when the multiplayer first came out was to splatter with a vehicle 5 enemies using the repulsor, life was pain until the challenges got swapped.
I've never played a single minute of any Halo, but here I am listening to this beatiful bearded god talking for 25 minutes about a multiplayer and his CBT. Awesome content Bricky! :D
speaking of challenges, my friend had to destroy an enemy warthog. Not help destroy it, last hit it. Doesn't sound hard on paper, but then you have to get the powerweapons. The rocket doesn't one shot warthogs. Enemies jump out of dying vehicles. this ended when he got a re-roll to get rid of the challenge
Honestly one of the easiest ones to get. Just defend on CTF with a hydra can’t tell you how many warthogs I destroyed with that strat. Plus plasma grenades can do the trick too.
Easiest one yet, hammer 1 shots warthog, skewer does insane damage and 1 shots it if it is anything less of 90% health, there are easier ways but that challenge is not hard
@@titoskeleton9571 I guess i'll just tell my friend to camp the hammer along with the other 5 people camping it. Or just hit a warthog twice with the slow to reload skewer. I get what you're saying but other things affect the challange. Also the power weapons can just kill the driver without destroying the warthog
@@uBpGK Ok, but you can't always get the hydra, he mostly plays big team battle rather than 4v4. So there is a lot of people grabbing weapons. Also the hydra can kill the players in the warthog before destroying the warthog, and like I mentioned before, they can just jump out before the warthog is destroyed
@@Nixtrick two of the big team maps the hydra respawns pretty fast and in two places for some modes. Plus that’s they explode when you’re defending most times because they already go through the gauntlet of shots if your team shoots them up a bit. But I get what you mean about people dying before it explodes
Bricky you vocalize something I think a lot of halo fans are feeling. Thanks for listing fixes instead of just complaining like a lot of other people are doing. This was great and I hope they listen.
The more time passes the more this video depresses me because you're exactly right. They were SO close and they just completely fumbled it at the finish line.
Agree with everything but one thing. They didn’t mess up the BP they designed the progression to be painful so people would be more likely to spend money.
The problem is that these companies aren’t trying to make the best game they can. They are trying to make a game that is juuuust good enough that you will play it in spite of all the greedy bullsht ruining it.
The problem is 343 game devs did actually make the best game they could, in terms of gameplay. Game devs themselves clearly spent hours racking their brains to create the best halo experience they could here. Harkening back to the good ol days halo 2, 3, and reach provided us with the gameplay and creating in my opinion a very good forward thinking halo campaign. I feel as if the problem lies in halo being such a massive property for one of the most profitable companies in the world (microsoft) and that there's pressure from all sorts of people to monetize the game in spite of the greatness the game could have. Obviously the progression system is trash. Drip feeding us content such as fan favorite playlists is trash. But man the game is really good. I hope community backlash continues to reach people who need to hear it.
I’m going to be honest, I always expect a bad game launch, and this one was amazing at its core. It’s got a ways to go, and thankfully it’s going in the right direction ❤️
As long as the devs keep an ear out and keep working out the issues they get pointed to they'll make this a great game! Should focus on the issues before releasing any new content after release making sure that the new content doesn't also need to fixed.
Bro I legit feel crazy man, since when are we praising AAA devs backed by trillion dollar companies literally just because the game they released works for the most part. This is insane to me.
Yeah right just two game modes forcing us to play modes many hate and wouldn’t wanna play. Zero customization, bland music, spam grenades. I can go on I would have liked to purchase the game so each match gave me some kind of reward for unlocking modifications but nah we got the infamous Fortnite store in a game that’ll die out in 1-2 years
Always happy to see a level-headed critique that is so punchy and easy to get behind without dogpiling 343 and throwing them under the bus. The progression for Reach was fantastic but the core MP experience had glaring issues with a quarter to half of the weapons nearly ever being used with armor abilities and loadouts drastically affecting the meta and flow of Halo's core gameplay. I'm gonna say it, 343 made a better Reach MP successor. Customization and progression has a long way to go and providing level-headed constructive feedback is the best way to make the pinnacle of Halo MP experiences and Bricky is a shining example to follow!
Yeah sadly the Community is full of so many POS that they even had to shut down the subreddit. The game hit so many things right and only screwed up one thing, and that one thing is an easy fix.
"You don't feel horribly awful if you get killed by these special weapons" Speak for yourself, this game tilts me like none other haha. Still love the game, just I've never been good at Halo MP.
If they bring back map voting, I hope the do it like how mario kart 8 does it. Where it's not the majority vote that votes for it like most. It's more like raffle where the game would randomly pick player votes, so that even the map with the least amount of votes still has a chance. It's a lower chance, but still a chance
@@xXNeoNashXx you do know the majority vote would usually vote for the same maps most of the time. So it might be fine for someone who just got in, someone who has been playing for a while would play the same two maps give or take. Variety is the key for a game's longevity, and playing the same one or two maps for a long period of time without any changes gets boring no matter how good it is. Plus if a challenge requires playing on a specific map, people would keep playing that same map for weeks maybe. If 343 ever add a challenge like that. Also there's a chance the majority vote would choose the worst match because trolling
"Goose Juice" Get 15 kills with the gun goose. Yea so I played 10 matches and only one of those matches got the gun goose and a teammate got it and immediately died with it, well I rerolled.
%100 agree with you bricky, me and my friends all say the same and it’s a shame they ignored the alpha testers who told them the same issues but hopefully they fix these things in the new year like they said they would
Okay, I know this is gonna sound fucking weird. But my final exam is to pick one really good presenter and explain why they're so good at presenting their topics, and I chose Bricky lol Wish me luck lmao
Would love it if the challenges were just like, Kill enemies with energy weapons, Kill enemies with precision weapons, vehicle kills, complete map objectives just simple stuff like that would be way easier, more fun and would just progress as you play the game
I have no idea how titanfall 2's idea of a customizable playlist never caught on. you can select any number of gamemodes, or one specific one. That's how I feel like all matchmaking in these games should be.
Finally someone explains the whole situation about the battle pass. It uses XP because there's nothing else to level. And that's a big hugenormous problem.
I am pretty optimistic that they'll be fixing a lot of this, but at the same time it feels like there's some weird internal struggle going at 343/microsoft. The stalling for time, excuses as to why things should be easy to fix but aren't, etc.
Totally agree on reach having the best system. Was so cool. Ranking system was sick. Buying nothing and saving up for Inclement Weather had the biggest dick energy.
Halo infinite is like a 5 star cheeseburger, except it comes with soggy fries and an extremely carbonated Diet Coke. The cheeseburger is the core gameplay and the sides are the customization and progression system.
I never played much Halo before (maybe like 3 hours total) and I thought it was alright. After watching gameplay recently and now this video, I now understand why this game is loved so much. Now that I can play it with a mouse and keyboard, may just pick it up. As for what you said about the cosmetics, couldn't agree more. There aren't many games that do battlepass/progression system well. I imagine those in charge of planning out the system err on the side of caution and don't want to give too much away.
God I miss the days when you just bought a game on disk and there was none of this extra money grabbing bullsh*t 😅 it seems every game I've purchased ends up costing 3 times as much in reality to actually get the full damn game
An extra 5 or 10 exp for each metal that you get in a game would be really nice too. I'd like to feel rewarded for my triple kills and killing sprees lol
The sound effects of this are actually kind of cheap and off sounding/jarring. There isn't even footstep audio. I was definitely confused why he brought that up as a plus.
One of THE most important parts of this video, to me, was bricky stating that "you don't mind as much when you get killed and your car does a ton of spins" The beauty of halo is that you don't really get mad if someone kills you with some nigh on inpossible grenade toss, physics shenanigans etc. It's a joy for pro's and casuals alike. Because whether you're good or bad at the game, it's enjoyable for everyone.
Yeah, but sadly the clipping through enemy players is f-ing me up bad. Makes my death feel cheap when my brain just doesn’t forget all other Halo games. Never react right to them being behind me all of a sudden instead of in front, or to my side. Gets me killed every time. Why would they think this was a good idea though?!
Halo Infinite is like a cake. It sucks that there's no icing, but I'm fine with waiting for it, cause I have a feeling that they're gonna cover that shit in sprinkles too.
Bruh the campaign is padded out open world trash and the story is awful. Most people don’t know who atriox is from halo wars, they introduce him, he disappears once the game starts. They introduce the weapon as if were supposed to know who tf that is. Chief, the scientifically engineered killing machine, is now some emotional sad boy becuase he’s finding dead Spartans when the planet he was pretty much raised on and almost everyone he ever knew were glassed during reach and he literally never brought it up once because it didn’t affect him at all, what about that scene where your buddy in the pelican is literally on the verge of self deletion and master chief cheers him up with two words and he’s suddenly mr positive? How about them introducing some new threat somehow worse than the flood even though the whole point of the flood is it’s such an unstoppable force that god aliens made planet sized super weapons to stop it? 343 fundamentally doesn’t understand halo and just making a story emotional doesn’t make it good
@@didyfinkise9033 hahaha dont use Reddit and DONT even understand the fedora thing, just making totally valid criticism of the game, but I know its hard when ppl are meanies about the game you’re too fanboyish to critisize
I’m not a huge halo fan but I adored Reach when it was popular. On sound, one thing I noticed personally was the sound of the assault rifle. It was always my favorite gun in just asthetic and simplicity but in reach I felt it’s sound was lacking. It wasn’t bad by any means but I felt like it’s look didn’t match it’s sound. Infinite definitely did the sound of the assault rifle justice IMO. Great video as always my friend!
I would rather a game have to fix its cosmetic/progression system than have to fix its gameplay loop. 343 has been very open about listening to feedback and have talked about introducing a personal progression system. Thank you for this Bricky, Halo Infinite has become my new favorite Halo game and I hope to see you make a new video a couple years from now about Infinite and where it’s at.
They should let us at least mix and match the armor coatings/colors we've already unlocked/bought. The fact that you're so restricted to customizing your guy is pretty dumb. I also agree, the progression system needs to have incentive. So many matches people quit out or dont do the objective, because they're trying to do their challenges.
Reach had a good progression system, but i still feel like 3 was better. In reach you just know who had no life. In halo 3 you saw who actually accomplished hard things in multiplayer, like seeing people with the katana and finding out how they got it, reach had none of that.
Also bring back the reticle turning red when you target an enemy, as a halo vet its annoying not seeing that feedback that's been in the game for years and it's gone for no reason.
95 hours since multiplayer came out... having way more fun than dota or cs, which were my usual for years. The only real issue so far is sometimes getting killed while WAY behind a wall.
I'm at least hopeful about changes to their progression system. The fact that everyone is making a stink and they are actually acknowledging it makes me hope that the current bandaid of daily game bonuses won't be the only changes.
This was a dope critique. Talking about what was good as well as bad. Being detailed about the specifics that made it good and bad. Then being even more specific about the changes that would make the game feel better. Chefs kiss, take my like and comment.
To be honest, I'm happy with the multiplayer. Yeah, I can't get a bunch of cosmetics without buying something. At the end of the day, though? That's all they are - cosmetics. Nothing to change skill, nothing to change gameplay.
Hello, I have come from the future to warn you what happens when they make the progression system easier. You burn through the battle pass in half the time then you get to wait for 3 months for anything new.
Invasion in Reach was good with the loadouts (for the most part) because it gradually unlocked loadouts depending how far along the match goes. I hope it makes a return in some form but that will be a while
A small, prickly part of me wants to say, "The reason to want to win should be victory," but intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are two separate things and different people respond differently to each, and context matters a lot.
I totally forgot about your CBT video but was trying for so long to describe to a friend why I didn't really want to play/care about playing infinite even though like everything in it felt great to play. And you nailed it 100%. It's missing the B, I NEED THE B! *insert meme saying 'you were on the verge of greatness, you were this close!'*
I don’t understand why people say this game is free. Campaign mode still costs $60. Multiplayer is just that free sample to bring you in and entice you to buy the game for full price. It’s a common strategy used by drug dealers.
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Bricky bless you and your amazing Ads!
Also your vids are awesome!
You're literally so underrated its not fair
I need to know your opinion on space marine 2
that was the best ad ive seen yet
Hey Bricky mind saying what camera/mic you are using?
"For a brick, he reviewed pretty good."
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Nice
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Best yt comment I've seen in a while
Good joke
I've been screaming it everywhere: take armor cores and armor coatings and throw that shit away. Railroading me into certain armor styles and specific color layouts is the most unHalo thing I've ever experienced, let me mix my armor pieces and let me choose my specific colors.
But how else are 343 going to be able to resell the color blue for $8? /s
@@trevordavis6830 I know I wanna pay 10 dollars for purple
They really had Halo Reach and 4 to look at when it comes to customization option and leveling system.
And they said ‘’no, we *SOMEHOW* know better than what the fans want when it comes to making an actually good game.”
Very much this. It's just not a good system and it limits the player's creativity.
@@trevordavis6830 it’s not even a cool blue
The slight zooms when hammering home a point is really subtle and feels good. Great job editing.
Zooms in one baldness
I dont know what it is about well timed zoom ins, but they always get me.
Ooooo we got an editing cuck in our midst
May you give a timestamp showing what you mean? :)
@@PriyanshuBharadwa 14:43 starts one
You know that feeling when you know somethings wrong but you just can’t pinpoint exactly what it is? You hit every nail on the head and I’m glad I can see what I was feeling, fantastic video as always
What 343 meant when they said millions of options:
“Your options are only as limited as your bank account”
@@fergusonthereaver6686 yikes
@@fergusonthereaver6686 No one is complaining about the game pass, they're complaining because there's nothing to do besides the game pass. Winning isn't even a goal unless you play ranked
@@fergusonthereaver6686 Yo chill its been a month.
As if being free justifies anything bad about the game. People like you and game devs need to learn how to handle valid criticism instead of calling us "ungrateful kids" who don't know what is good for the game
@@fergusonthereaver6686 You need to chill out and figure out how to take criticisms and turn it into advice. Hate how people equivalate criticism to begging. There are people like you and there are actual Halo fans who want to see their game become better.
Btw "why don't you make the game yourself then" is a terrible argument. Do you even know how game development works? Consumers provide feedback. That's how it's always worked.
@@fergusonthereaver6686 Lol like what? Nothing you said is advice. Just a temper tantrum which boils down to "you're an ungrateful kid who begs too much, just have fun." Yeah great advice thanks.
A wonderful game bogged down by an atrocious monetization and customization system.
The fact that the first free helmet unlock is tier 81 is just disgusting, and there’s no armour unlocks from campaign, only coatings.
Customizability has been a core aspect of halo since 3, and halo reach right after had the most expansive selection yet. The fact that we have a reach battle pass and it doesn’t feature all the halo reach armour in it, much less basic colours for your Spartan like White and Black, but are rather locked behind 20 dollar pay walls hurts… oh and that 20 dollar pay wall is only for one Spartan core… yeah… yeah this hurts.
It sucks because the gameplay may be the best in the series.
yeah agree but for game that got scrapped and got worked for 3,5 years is great but i hope they will add select gamemodes and after match lobby
I agree but I don’t care that much to customise my Spartan. The core gamely is the best we have had. I can’t remember the Last time in the passed 10 years we have had a better arena shooter
@@MrDustyGaming yeah customization has always really been a novelty for the most part, albeit, a very important one.
@@why8298 Pretty much, But I don't get how people seem to correlate it to being a bad game, when it's really only a cosmetic thing.
@@zackrose6261
TL;DR Its probably a nostalgia thing, but most people aren't saying the game is bad, just its progression/customization is and its enough to put the game down
I think a lot of people haven't realized that the older generation playing Halo have been playing it since they were kids which adds in a whole nostalgia component.
I remember playing Halo:CE as it came out when I was like 9. I've had the same Emblem ever since the launch of Halo 2 when I made it cross-legged on the floor of a coincidentally timed middle-school birthday party. In the coming years, on Fridays, my friends would bring their dang xbox's to school so we could LAN at my house over the weekend. Everyone had their own Spartan/Elite.
Every time I saw that Emblem when playing MCC, a small part of me was reminded of those times, probably some of my best gaming memories. Yes, making a custom Emblem (I'm probably the only person that cares about this lol) or having your spartan look how you want is just a novelty, but humans have a weird way of giving novelties sentimental value. Then, when it feels so bad trying to get access to that sentimental value, well...
I see few people directly saying its a bad game without hyperbole. Most are saying its a predatory one because, frankly, if you care about customization it is predatory and that is bad. It's practically a step backward, akin to something like smashbros forcing you to buy a battle pass if you want different skins for your characters.
I'll be the first to stand up and say the game has never felt better, but I gotta sit back down when they want to squeeze so much out of me for something that has always been easily plucked from the tree.
You wanna know what fucks me up the most? The fact that everyone forgets 343 already had a great customization system in Halo 4. There were so many parts to choose from and a lot of interesting new sets you got from either unlocks or special challenges you got after hitting a certain rank.
It feels like they've been regressing ever since 4 in terms of player expression and choice when it comes to making your profile yours. And my theory is that the MP was divorced from the single player to justify monetizing the hell out of it, because delaying 1 year and this is what we got? How fucking broken was it a year ago?
If the singleplayer isn't the best campaign in the entire series it will not justify that $60 price tag I can guarantee that.
Exactly! Halo 4's customisation was really good
You’re right, halo 4 customization was great, I remember trying to build a really bulky, tanky looking spartan and spent weeks getting all the challenges done. Once I did I had a spartan that was built for me and only me. Nobody else had my exact design. Meanwhile in halo infinite you see people who haven’t even learnt the basics of halo multiplayer running around with Emile, odst, and recon armor. It’s so disrespectful considering how hard we had to grind to get such a unique piece of armor in previous halos. Then, halo infinite comes along and throws the armor at the player as if it is a vending machine spitting out Diet Coke.
Too be fair, halo 4 arts style makes most of the non helmet armors look the same. This may be why most forgot halo 4 armor customization.
Campaign was solid. Got me 18 hours of gameplay and I only got about half of the collectibles. Heroic is balanced and fun. Best characterization and humanization of chief in the series as well as the best dialogue the series has to offer (except maybe gravemind). Worth the money imo, gonna replay is twice more for the speed run and collectibles achievements.
Campaign is absolutely worth it.
It’s become one of my favorites in the series because of the dialogue and just straight up fun factor of it all
I was checking this channel yesterday wondering dang when’s the next brick drop… well here it is. Very epic
For a Brick, he drop pretty good! :v
100% Poggers
It's crazy to think that its so hard for developers to simply copy/paste Reach's best parts. Nobody has ever said a bad word about Reach's progression/customization.
but how will they introduce crazy monetization catering to whales, if people can have good progression system without paying shit load
I can say a "bad word" about Reach's customization: It's FUCKIN' great
Speaking of sound design in FPS games, I always found the Titanfall 2 kill sound sooo satisfying
Agreed
*See's "Get 5 assists" challenge*
*Sighs*
*Runs to commando*
When I get that challenge no lie I race for the Disruptor or Dynamo grenades.
@@sternritternovad Disruptor is actually great for it
Easy, just drive and let someone shoot and you will get the assist. Everyone wants to be a gunner but not a driver.
You don't get assists naturally? Lemme guess, you don't team shot at all, right? Lone wolf kinda guy.
@@hysterheister0947 it’s really annoying to have teammates steal your kills lol
Something I love is that there's a sound cue for when an enemy's shield goes down. Hearing that blip helps a lot when deciding whether or not to be more aggressive
20:00 - Selling challenge swaps as a work-around for bad challenges is like selling handbags as a work-around for the limited pocket space in women's clothing, or Apple selling their brand of wireless headphones (Airpods) as a work-around for their phones not having a headphone jack.
When he went on the Reach tid bit, I could hear his "It's about the Mets" voice coming out
"Its about the reach progession titles Spider-Man"
"You don't have to pay any real money to unlock everything"
You lied to us 343
Aside from the agregious monetization and customization issues, I absolutely love Infinite's multiplayer. The sandbox, the gameplay, the map designs, all of it.
Edit: Also I just realized Brick's title is a Rogue One reference lol
Infinites multiplayer is still shite. Look man... I always hated sprint. I'm not a fan of that.
@@JimmmmmmmmmmmY It isn't shit, you just refuse to adapt to the new mechanics. Sprint isn't there to bolt around the map quickly or escape danger like it is in COD, it is used to traverse larger open areas slightly faster but most importantly gives access to slide. Aside from disliking sprint, which is a personal opinion, the gameplay, weapon sandbox, and etc I listed above are all near perfect. I have zero understanding how someone who enjoys the old Halo games could NOT like these things things. It is legitimately a perfect blend of most of the best mechanics and ideas from each game.
I suggest you go back to playing Halo 3.
Same
@@Jormyyy Yup. Back to halo reach and 3 cause those games are better games and also... better halo games. I do feel kind of bad that you weren't around in halos better days.
@@Jormyyy I dont care what mental gymnastics you do, its not Halo.
The part that hurts the most about armor cores having their own separate cosmetics is that the bots in custom games have mixed cosmetics from different armor cores thus proving it's possible but just not allowed xd
The bots do not have mixed cosmetics. That is a lie perpetuated by youtubers. Its not possible.
@@Wylie288 They do but apparently 343 said it's a bug
It's so accurate; when gameplay is this good, it makes the flaws surrounding it all the more glaring. Here's hoping we get a progression system fix soon that doesn't make it feel like we're army-crawling through broken glass and shattered dreams
One thing longer TTK enforces, that is often overlooked, is _when_ to engage.
There should be bonus exp rewarded to the team that wins, to the best player on each team and overall, person with the most medals
A cosmetic system where you unlock stuff with points from gameplay, and then have a shop without fomo where more absurd cosmetics are would be great and alot of people would use it.
Just found out that I'm a CHAD for doing what I love, driving into people with some stragglers on my back shooting them while I do so.
Coming back to this video 10 months later knowing absolutely nothing has changed and the game still has all of the exact same problems is heartbreaking...
Rip R Lee Ermy, had him and the snoop dogg announcer packs. I’d love a Sgt Johnson AI
I have always been saying that about halo, that gun skill can really matter. Can you get 1 good shot? How about 4 good shots while underfire, being pushed, or moving from a nade? It's not a THE superior FPS out there, and any claim like that is igrorant, but it certainly is up there and this game has really returned to that.
not true cause they compensate you with not a lot of movement after you are shot, you are like a turret, and that not realistic or competitive either, you got shot is not like you can go all blazing back afterwards, there is no skill in halo just don't try to fool yourself, this game lacks speed other games are way faster and thinking fast and react fast its talent and skill, not that you got shot in the back and you live to kill the other guy, wtf is that ANIME?
@@Bashman20 Maybe not everyone likes games where you get killed in 0.002 of a second and everyone just defaults to the 2-3 guns that do so while having enough ammo and accuracy (m4/ak in cs:go).
Higher damage as a means to make gameplay faster as thus "more exciting" is not always a good thing. I know it's not a shooter, but the last few seasons of league of legends are a great example of it. It's oneshot or be oneshotted.
@@Bashman20 Who said anything about realism? If you want that, go play tarkov. We're talking about GUN SKILL within the parameters of the games sandbox.
CSGO, COD, BF, Tarkov, all go for more realism in that a bullet ends you, but what makes halo so fun is that you're a literal super soldier. One shot to the head? Okay, git gud with the sniper to do that, otherwise you better learn to be CONSISTENT with your shot groupings to be better.
@@Bashman20 you're under 20 it's not your fault your take is terrible
@@Bashman20 reaction time is barely a skill. There is a reason the most skill FPS is Quake and not CS:GO.
One of my randomly generated day one challenges when the multiplayer first came out was to splatter with a vehicle 5 enemies using the repulsor, life was pain until the challenges got swapped.
I love your name and picture
@@Hammudiii Hey thanks!
"Cmon guys, 343 will get it right this time they finally learned..."
Do you know the definition of insanity?
I've never played a single minute of any Halo, but here I am listening to this beatiful bearded god talking for 25 minutes about a multiplayer and his CBT. Awesome content Bricky! :D
Give it a shot! Infinites multiplayer is free!
speaking of challenges, my friend had to destroy an enemy warthog. Not help destroy it, last hit it. Doesn't sound hard on paper, but then you have to get the powerweapons. The rocket doesn't one shot warthogs. Enemies jump out of dying vehicles. this ended when he got a re-roll to get rid of the challenge
Honestly one of the easiest ones to get. Just defend on CTF with a hydra can’t tell you how many warthogs I destroyed with that strat. Plus plasma grenades can do the trick too.
Easiest one yet, hammer 1 shots warthog, skewer does insane damage and 1 shots it if it is anything less of 90% health, there are easier ways but that challenge is not hard
@@titoskeleton9571 I guess i'll just tell my friend to camp the hammer along with the other 5 people camping it. Or just hit a warthog twice with the slow to reload skewer. I get what you're saying but other things affect the challange. Also the power weapons can just kill the driver without destroying the warthog
@@uBpGK Ok, but you can't always get the hydra, he mostly plays big team battle rather than 4v4. So there is a lot of people grabbing weapons. Also the hydra can kill the players in the warthog before destroying the warthog, and like I mentioned before, they can just jump out before the warthog is destroyed
@@Nixtrick two of the big team maps the hydra respawns pretty fast and in two places for some modes. Plus that’s they explode when you’re defending most times because they already go through the gauntlet of shots if your team shoots them up a bit. But I get what you mean about people dying before it explodes
Bricky you vocalize something I think a lot of halo fans are feeling. Thanks for listing fixes instead of just complaining like a lot of other people are doing. This was great and I hope they listen.
The more time passes the more this video depresses me because you're exactly right. They were SO close and they just completely fumbled it at the finish line.
Agree with everything but one thing. They didn’t mess up the BP they designed the progression to be painful so people would be more likely to spend money.
Grounded Guy??
The problem is that these companies aren’t trying to make the best game they can. They are trying to make a game that is juuuust good enough that you will play it in spite of all the greedy bullsht ruining it.
Exactly this, they arent making a game for people to play, they are making a game for people to spend money on.
Its a glorified supermarket.
That is the perfect way to put it
The problem is 343 game devs did actually make the best game they could, in terms of gameplay. Game devs themselves clearly spent hours racking their brains to create the best halo experience they could here. Harkening back to the good ol days halo 2, 3, and reach provided us with the gameplay and creating in my opinion a very good forward thinking halo campaign. I feel as if the problem lies in halo being such a massive property for one of the most profitable companies in the world (microsoft) and that there's pressure from all sorts of people to monetize the game in spite of the greatness the game could have. Obviously the progression system is trash. Drip feeding us content such as fan favorite playlists is trash. But man the game is really good. I hope community backlash continues to reach people who need to hear it.
It's like inventing "malaria" then handing out the "cure" to "malaria". Damn Bricky, like you that much more!
its not like any big country would really do that right ? ...right ?
@@TheBigRaisi remember, the government only has done evil things in the PAST. No way they'd do that in modern times...right??
@@AlphaRebel yeah no way ! Government is only here to serve people not to use and exploit them
I’m going to be honest, I always expect a bad game launch, and this one was amazing at its core. It’s got a ways to go, and thankfully it’s going in the right direction ❤️
As long as the devs keep an ear out and keep working out the issues they get pointed to they'll make this a great game! Should focus on the issues before releasing any new content after release making sure that the new content doesn't also need to fixed.
@@brandoncoutu430 this has nothing to do with the devs. This is monitisation of the managers manipulating people like you who still have hope.
Bro I legit feel crazy man, since when are we praising AAA devs backed by trillion dollar companies literally just because the game they released works for the most part. This is insane to me.
@@TrueGamer22887 unfortunately, reputation is now more important than love of the craft or content. That’s why indie devs struggle as much as they do
Yeah right just two game modes forcing us to play modes many hate and wouldn’t wanna play. Zero customization, bland music, spam grenades. I can go on I would have liked to purchase the game so each match gave me some kind of reward for unlocking modifications but nah we got the infamous Fortnite store in a game that’ll die out in 1-2 years
Always happy to see a level-headed critique that is so punchy and easy to get behind without dogpiling 343 and throwing them under the bus. The progression for Reach was fantastic but the core MP experience had glaring issues with a quarter to half of the weapons nearly ever being used with armor abilities and loadouts drastically affecting the meta and flow of Halo's core gameplay. I'm gonna say it, 343 made a better Reach MP successor. Customization and progression has a long way to go and providing level-headed constructive feedback is the best way to make the pinnacle of Halo MP experiences and Bricky is a shining example to follow!
Yeah sadly the Community is full of so many POS that they even had to shut down the subreddit.
The game hit so many things right and only screwed up one thing, and that one thing is an easy fix.
"You don't feel horribly awful if you get killed by these special weapons" Speak for yourself, this game tilts me like none other haha. Still love the game, just I've never been good at Halo MP.
If they bring back map voting, I hope the do it like how mario kart 8 does it.
Where it's not the majority vote that votes for it like most. It's more like raffle where the game would randomly pick player votes, so that even the map with the least amount of votes still has a chance. It's a lower chance, but still a chance
Thats crap, if the majority votes it should be that, if ure not the majority u can leave
@@xXNeoNashXx you do know the majority vote would usually vote for the same maps most of the time. So it might be fine for someone who just got in, someone who has been playing for a while would play the same two maps give or take. Variety is the key for a game's longevity, and playing the same one or two maps for a long period of time without any changes gets boring no matter how good it is.
Plus if a challenge requires playing on a specific map, people would keep playing that same map for weeks maybe. If 343 ever add a challenge like that.
Also there's a chance the majority vote would choose the worst match because trolling
Bring back lobbies in general man.
"Goose Juice"
Get 15 kills with the gun goose. Yea so I played 10 matches and only one of those matches got the gun goose and a teammate got it and immediately died with it, well I rerolled.
This video is far more optimistic than the title suggests. You should changed it to 'You are THIS close to greatness'
Another thing about "personal status" is that there are no stats in Infinite unless it's competitive
No KD, no Win\Lose
Nothing
%100 agree with you bricky, me and my friends all say the same and it’s a shame they ignored the alpha testers who told them the same issues but hopefully they fix these things in the new year like they said they would
I remember reading that World at War's headshot sfx was created by the combination of a hammer hitting metal, and a watermelon being smashed
An AI companion in the shape of a brick would be great
Okay, I know this is gonna sound fucking weird. But my final exam is to pick one really good presenter and explain why they're so good at presenting their topics, and I chose Bricky lol
Wish me luck lmao
Would love it if the challenges were just like, Kill enemies with energy weapons, Kill enemies with precision weapons, vehicle kills, complete map objectives just simple stuff like that would be way easier, more fun and would just progress as you play the game
Honestly if we got challenges like that they’d probably slash the amount of XP we’d get for those, just seriously seems like something they’d do.
I have no idea how titanfall 2's idea of a customizable playlist never caught on. you can select any number of gamemodes, or one specific one. That's how I feel like all matchmaking in these games should be.
"Were it so Easy"
Finally someone explains the whole situation about the battle pass. It uses XP because there's nothing else to level. And that's a big hugenormous problem.
I am pretty optimistic that they'll be fixing a lot of this, but at the same time it feels like there's some weird internal struggle going at 343/microsoft. The stalling for time, excuses as to why things should be easy to fix but aren't, etc.
1:04 I know it's a simple thing, but as an editor that zoom/pan aligned with the clap was SO clean. GG editor.
Totally agree on reach having the best system. Was so cool. Ranking system was sick. Buying nothing and saving up for Inclement Weather had the biggest dick energy.
10:41 *people who remember Dinklebot from Destiny 1:* "No thanks, I'm good."
Man, Bricky, you've come a long way from the edgy days s century ago. Not gonna lie I'm nostalgic and proud.
my biggest issue is that i can't select a specific playlist
and that they don't have fucking swat or infection
I love this new multiplayer. The best since Halo 3, in my opinion.
It’s just a trash halo 5
@@cb6667 Nah you tweakin
@@cb6667 ok zoomer
@@cb6667 you have 666 in your name be quiet little boy
Halo infinite is like a 5 star cheeseburger, except it comes with soggy fries and an extremely carbonated Diet Coke.
The cheeseburger is the core gameplay and the sides are the customization and progression system.
I never played much Halo before (maybe like 3 hours total) and I thought it was alright. After watching gameplay recently and now this video, I now understand why this game is loved so much. Now that I can play it with a mouse and keyboard, may just pick it up.
As for what you said about the cosmetics, couldn't agree more. There aren't many games that do battlepass/progression system well. I imagine those in charge of planning out the system err on the side of caution and don't want to give too much away.
Another thing I find amazing, but it's always been good in Halo for the most part, is the SOUNDTRACK! It's amazing!
God I miss the days when you just bought a game on disk and there was none of this extra money grabbing bullsh*t 😅 it seems every game I've purchased ends up costing 3 times as much in reality to actually get the full damn game
Xbox generation:a hidden unlockable class, Xbox 360: dlc bonus class, xbone: dlc character plus dlc skin and skillset
An extra 5 or 10 exp for each metal that you get in a game would be really nice too. I'd like to feel rewarded for my triple kills and killing sprees lol
Loving the video. I do wish you’d played the sound effects you’re talking about though, especially as someone who’s never played a halo game XD
The sound effects of this are actually kind of cheap and off sounding/jarring. There isn't even footstep audio. I was definitely confused why he brought that up as a plus.
2:03 Oh God im dying hahaha i thought of an actual Mongoose X"D
One of THE most important parts of this video, to me, was bricky stating that "you don't mind as much when you get killed and your car does a ton of spins"
The beauty of halo is that you don't really get mad if someone kills you with some nigh on inpossible grenade toss, physics shenanigans etc.
It's a joy for pro's and casuals alike.
Because whether you're good or bad at the game, it's enjoyable for everyone.
Yeah, but sadly the clipping through enemy players is f-ing me up bad. Makes my death feel cheap when my brain just doesn’t forget all other Halo games. Never react right to them being behind me all of a sudden instead of in front, or to my side. Gets me killed every time. Why would they think this was a good idea though?!
Halo Infinite is like a cake. It sucks that there's no icing, but I'm fine with waiting for it, cause I have a feeling that they're gonna cover that shit in sprinkles too.
Playing Halo is kind of like doing move combos in a fighting game except it's an first person shooter
22:43 He just got the grapple then got ran for his foams. Felt that too many times
At least the campaign is pretty awesome, can't wait to see what modders do with it.
Bruh the campaign is padded out open world trash and the story is awful. Most people don’t know who atriox is from halo wars, they introduce him, he disappears once the game starts. They introduce the weapon as if were supposed to know who tf that is. Chief, the scientifically engineered killing machine, is now some emotional sad boy becuase he’s finding dead Spartans when the planet he was pretty much raised on and almost everyone he ever knew were glassed during reach and he literally never brought it up once because it didn’t affect him at all, what about that scene where your buddy in the pelican is literally on the verge of self deletion and master chief cheers him up with two words and he’s suddenly mr positive? How about them introducing some new threat somehow worse than the flood even though the whole point of the flood is it’s such an unstoppable force that god aliens made planet sized super weapons to stop it? 343 fundamentally doesn’t understand halo and just making a story emotional doesn’t make it good
@@TrueGamer22887 I can smell the reddit energy coming our of your fedora
@@didyfinkise9033 hahaha dont use Reddit and DONT even understand the fedora thing, just making totally valid criticism of the game, but I know its hard when ppl are meanies about the game you’re too fanboyish to critisize
e e except hes right fanboy.
@@didyfinkise9033 great way to show that he's right and you can't argue against anything he said
I’m not a huge halo fan but I adored Reach when it was popular. On sound, one thing I noticed personally was the sound of the assault rifle. It was always my favorite gun in just asthetic and simplicity but in reach I felt it’s sound was lacking. It wasn’t bad by any means but I felt like it’s look didn’t match it’s sound. Infinite definitely did the sound of the assault rifle justice IMO. Great video as always my friend!
Stg I’ve never been so sick of playing oddball before. The randomized mode playlists are literally sucking the joy out of good halo multiplayer modes!
Ok Halo devs, listen to this and do it. Bricky spitting out facts
Halo has always been a blend of gun play, map control, and power weapons
You’re stuff is gold my man. Keep it up, you’re destined for greatness.
I would rather a game have to fix its cosmetic/progression system than have to fix its gameplay loop. 343 has been very open about listening to feedback and have talked about introducing a personal progression system. Thank you for this Bricky, Halo Infinite has become my new favorite Halo game and I hope to see you make a new video a couple years from now about Infinite and where it’s at.
They should let us at least mix and match the armor coatings/colors we've already unlocked/bought. The fact that you're so restricted to customizing your guy is pretty dumb. I also agree, the progression system needs to have incentive. So many matches people quit out or dont do the objective, because they're trying to do their challenges.
Would pay for a bricky ai
I can always count on bricky to perfectly explain how I feel about a game.
Sadly they didn’t fix the easy shit
Bricky : “You could even get someone from the community, who knows” totally not alluding to himself
Reach had a good progression system, but i still feel like 3 was better. In reach you just know who had no life. In halo 3 you saw who actually accomplished hard things in multiplayer, like seeing people with the katana and finding out how they got it, reach had none of that.
Also bring back the reticle turning red when you target an enemy, as a halo vet its annoying not seeing that feedback that's been in the game for years and it's gone for no reason.
Honestly the lack of content hurts it more than the abysmal “progression”. Only 10 maps and like 5 game modes?
Your glee for the ultrasmurfs is now lore as it is spoken by loremaster luetin. All hail lord bricky
Remember firefight?
95 hours since multiplayer came out... having way more fun than dota or cs, which were my usual for years. The only real issue so far is sometimes getting killed while WAY behind a wall.
I'm at least hopeful about changes to their progression system. The fact that everyone is making a stink and they are actually acknowledging it makes me hope that the current bandaid of daily game bonuses won't be the only changes.
This was a dope critique. Talking about what was good as well as bad. Being detailed about the specifics that made it good and bad. Then being even more specific about the changes that would make the game feel better. Chefs kiss, take my like and comment.
To be honest, I'm happy with the multiplayer. Yeah, I can't get a bunch of cosmetics without buying something. At the end of the day, though? That's all they are - cosmetics. Nothing to change skill, nothing to change gameplay.
Yeah but saying this seems to just piss everyone that lives to complain off. In other news, the campaign is phenomenal 👌
I really miss being able to play as an Elite in Halo. Spartans are fun but wort wort wort is supreme.
Hello, I have come from the future to warn you what happens when they make the progression system easier. You burn through the battle pass in half the time then you get to wait for 3 months for anything new.
Invasion in Reach was good with the loadouts (for the most part) because it gradually unlocked loadouts depending how far along the match goes. I hope it makes a return in some form but that will be a while
A small, prickly part of me wants to say, "The reason to want to win should be victory," but intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are two separate things and different people respond differently to each, and context matters a lot.
Your evolution on youtube has been the absolute best! You've done a great job over the years!
I totally forgot about your CBT video but was trying for so long to describe to a friend why I didn't really want to play/care about playing infinite even though like everything in it felt great to play. And you nailed it 100%. It's missing the B, I NEED THE B! *insert meme saying 'you were on the verge of greatness, you were this close!'*
I don’t understand why people say this game is free. Campaign mode still costs $60. Multiplayer is just that free sample to bring you in and entice you to buy the game for full price. It’s a common strategy used by drug dealers.
Bricky always manages to take the collective unconscious of a community and put it into comprehensible words
With the way Bricky describes Halo, Halo PvP is the Smash Bros Ultimate of First Person Shooters.
The "Go away" and "Shoo" killed me 😂
Can we pitch the idea to have Bricky show up to all these board meetings and just lay out the pros and cons for them in 1 sitting?