Call of Duty pros stunned by Halo Infinite Beta\u2019s ranked mode & team skins Activision \/ 343 IndustriesHalo Infinite released a multiplayer beta early and, within moments, brought suffering to Call of Duty pros. Shocked by the game\u2019s competitive offerings, CDL pros have honed in on Vanguard\u2019s lack of ranked play and team skins. The relationship between a game and its esports scene is a complicated one. While developers want their games to be as accessible as possible to casuals, the competitive itch needs its scratching too. Ranked play is often seen as the linking point between a casual game and its esport. It\u2019s typically a playlist where players can dip their toes into the esport experience. Similarly, having team skins is oft-regarded as an easy way to give the esport some love with casual cosmetics. Halo Infinite released its multiplayer early, with both ranked play and team skins, and immediately gave accompanying news about its HCS esport. While this was exciting for Halo players, CoD enthusiasts \u2014 particularly the pros \u2014 are pained by the beta\u2019s competitive offerings. Halo Infinite beta releases early with ranked play and team skins CoD community is taking the Halo Infinite news very well \ud83e\udd17 pic.twitter.com\/6hzTghUAHn \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) November 15, 2021 Within moments of the Halo beta dropping, CDL pros were quick to react. The LA Thieves\u2019 Dylan \u2018Envoy\u2019 Hannon responded to the team skins and ranked play additions with a gif of Spongebob\u2019s Mr. Krabs twitching in agony. Minnesota ROKKR coach Brian \u2018Saintt\u2019 Baroska joined in, tossing in a gif of a lady screaming while noting that Halo got those aforementioned perks while Vanguard has \u201csquad spawns and damage rounds.\u201d While there are already Call of Duty League team skins, there aren\u2019t any new ones with Vanguard yet. And, to many\u2019s disappointment, the new game also released without a ranked mode \u2014 for the third time in the CDL\u2019s three years. Vanguard players want a ranked playlist ASAP Some say a game\u2019s ranked mode is vital for its esport\u2026 So who has better ranked play, CoD Vanguard or Halo Infinite? \ud83d\ude16 pic.twitter.com\/c85FeuoZ4J \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) November 17, 2021 On Twitter, we asked players what they thought of Halo\u2019s team skins compared to Vanguard\u2019s. CoD pros like the Atlanta FaZe\u2019s Alec \u2018Arcitys\u2019 Sanderson immediately laughed at the question. Other fans wondered why such a question would even be asked when Vanguard doesn\u2019t have skins yet. Similarly, we trolled by asking whose ranked playlist is better \u2014 highlighting the absence of ranked play for Vanguard thus far. One user responded by appreciating Halo\u2019s developers: \u201cThe devs that care have the best ranked.\u201d One has to imagine that ranked play and team skins are coming to Vanguard, but the timelines are uncertain. In the meantime, CoD players seem to be looking at Halo with mixed feelings. They\u2019re happy that Halo is treating its competitive community so well and so early, but suffering a little because that\u2019s so different from their own experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Call of Duty pros stunned by Halo Infinite Beta\u2019s ranked mode & team skins Activision \/ 343 IndustriesHalo Infinite released a multiplayer beta early and, within moments, brought suffering to Call of Duty pros. Shocked by the game\u2019s competitive offerings, CDL pros have honed in on Vanguard\u2019s lack of ranked play and team skins. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}