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New Free Halo Infinite Skins Look Almost Identical To Halo 5 Max Rank Rewards

343 Industries rewarded players who reached the max rank in Halo 5: Guardians with a special batch of skins for Halo Infinite. Fast forward a few months later, and skins that are nearly identical to the rank 152 reward skins are now being given away for free, upsetting some longtime fans.

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phoenixwing1169d ago (Edited 1169d ago )

Would it even matter if they were exact copies? I don't see why this is newsworthy.

just_looken1169d ago

This mentality is why cod mobile makes 1 billion a year.

Jin_Sakai1169d ago (Edited 1169d ago )

“Fast forward a few months later, and skins that are nearly identical to the rank 152 reward skins are now being given away for free, upsetting some longtime fans.“

So they took something that required 152 ranks to earn and give it away for free now instead of making new skins? Sounds just like something 343i would do.

phoenixwing1169d ago (Edited 1169d ago )

In different games though. So something from a different game is used it's all of a sudden a slap in the face? Did they make it any easier for halo 5 players to get in their game? If they didn't the value still stands. I don't even like Microsoft much and I can see how much of a non story this is.

porkChop1169d ago

I think you're misunderstanding. For getting max rank in Halo 5, players were given special skins to use in Halo Infinite. Both skins are for Infinite.

phoenixwing1169d ago (Edited 1169d ago )

@porkchop
oh, my bad. That sucks then. Giving out skins like that after making people work for them earlier kind of makes for a bad time for the people who worked on getting them. I thought they were for separate games.

z2g1169d ago (Edited 1169d ago )

Gasp…..

Meanwhile Russia is about to invade Ukraine, but uhhh I guess this is important news too…

Only gamers could complain about free stuff given to them for gaming.
I hardly think any of those halo5 players were suffering… putting in long hard hours into a game they willingly purchased and chose to play, and then rewarded free stuff for doing what they wanted to do in the first place. The entitlement is real. Those rank skins aren’t gonna drop any panties at the clubs just fyi lmao.

CrimsonWing691169d ago

I don’t want to be that guy, but you’re on a news site for games and yes, reporting on 343i giving out a skin for free looking identical to a skin that should be very exclusive to those who put in the work for it, is kind of a topic to report on. You’re not always going to get bangers with any news site.

IanTH1169d ago (Edited 1169d ago )

You're 100% right to be that guy. That mentality makes no sense. If you only focus on the worst things going on in the world as your measuring stick, then literally no one is ever in a position to complain about anything unless they're in the worst position of any single person in the entire world.

I mean, Russia is about to invade Ukraine, so I think this guy should probably not be wasting his time reading gaming websites, much less writing comments on them. If the news is not worth reporting, what is the comment designating it so worth?

agnosticgamer1169d ago

You are in a videogame forum. What do you expect to read about?

Atticus_finch1168d ago

The point of being here is to kinda get away. Not everything has to be serious all the time.

PhillyDillyDee1169d ago

Sure they look similar. Wouldnt they be more upset that the skins they got are completely boring? These all look super low effort.

EvertonFC1169d ago (Edited 1169d ago )

I don't like halo but today's gamers are puss*ies. This new woke generation moan about everything.
Ever heard of just playing the games ffs, it's like you lot look for the negatives before even waking up in the morning.

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Halo Infinite Scrapped 10-Year Content Plan Allegedly Revealed

Details regarding the 10-year content plan for Xbox Game Studios and 343 Industries' Halo Infinite have allegedly been revealed.

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RaidenBlack47d ago

"The story would have been expanded through yearly campaign DLC, so players would not have to wait for another mainline Halo title." ~ this seldom works
But I still think, they should've tried 1 last Halo sequel based on that slipspace engine, that they invested so much on but made for current gen only, before going all in on UE5.

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Even Halo’s biggest voice actors have heard nothing “at all”  about Xbox’s new projects

The biggest voices of Xbox’s Halo franchise have been told nothing about the multiple new games in development.

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jznrpg160d ago

Maybe they were replaced by AI.

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franwex160d ago

Call me a cynic. But it seems that not even the people working in the studio know what’s the status of Halo.

They were going to add a BR mode, which then got cancelled, but now it’s a sequel to infinite, but may be a reboot of the first game?

It may be normal for development to be like this as super Mario galaxy started as cut content from Mario 128, which then became a tech demo, which became pikmin, which eventually became Mario galaxy.

But 343 or whatever they are called now-certainly don’t have a good track record so it makes me wonder what’s happening.

porkChop160d ago

The Halo: CE remake is a separate project from the Infinite sequel.

Knightofelemia160d ago

Maybe all the staff got laid off.

TheColbertinator160d ago

I'd be much more comfortable with the future of Halo if "343" or whatever they call themselves now were no longer in charge of the series.

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Halo Bowling comes to Infinite as the best game since Grifball

Halo Infinite now has a functional bowling alley thanks to this amazing Forge map available for free on Xbox and PC.

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Ra3030170d ago

WTF!!!? Can we add Tic-Tac-Toe, maybe Connect 4? How bout the card game Go Fish? Microsoft should shelve the Halo Franchise for 10 to 20yrs or sell it clearly they have no new ideas to take Halo forward and putting a "Hey gamer finish the game for us" mode and we can make more money off it and we can fire some more game Developers that we really don't even care about.......Microsoft is done even trying to make Halo a game worthy of even a little bit of our time.