343 Industries was already preparing to give us an early Christmas present by launching Halo Infinite on December 7. Well, some might consider it a late Christmas present since the game was actually supposed to launch alongside the Xbox Series X|S over a year ago. However you frame it, 343 is in Halo fans' good books due to its surprise launching Infinite's free-to-play multiplayer almost a month ahead of time earlier this week.

That naturally made a lot of people happy and despite launching on a Monday night, Infinite quickly became one of the top 25 most concurrently played games in Steam history. While feedback has been mostly positive, there was always going to be something that didn't sit right with players. In Infinite's case, it's the battle pass. Players quickly clocked that unless you play Infinite in a very particular way, progressing through the battle pass is incredibly difficult.

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The only way to earn XP was by completing challenges. That means those of you who just want to play the game and not go on what are, in a lot of cases, akin to side quests would struggle to level up your battle pass. 343 has listened to that critique and made tweaks to the way that you can earn XP, as has been revealed by Halo's community manager John Junyszek.

“We'll be adding 'Play 1 Game' challenges to help make sure you consistently progress through the Battle Pass by playing matches the way you want,” Junyszek tweeted earlier this week. Those changes have now been made according to PC Gamer and you can now earn XP in Infinite by simply competing, no more having to complete challenges you have no interest in just for the rewards.

That does come with an annoying caveat, although 343 has addressed that too. In order to make the changes, the progress players have made in their weekly challenges up until this point has been reset. To make up for that, everyone who logs in between November 23 and November 30 will get this week's Ultimate Reward, the Sigil Mark 7 Visor. A strong start to life for Infinite, not just because its multiplayer is great, but because its devs are listening to players and acting quickly on any complaints they have.

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