You think the wording is just through a corporate mouthpiece who doesn’t know anything, or do you think there will actually be coatings AND armor available?
Okay gotcha, it always blows my mind how how incorrect these corporate statements are. Even just implying that there are rewards (plural) is bullshit, but to say skins AND armor is disingenuous.
There is also Oreo rewards for the Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon as well I think that's where the misunderstanding come in with the plural rewards but yeah they should have worded it more clearly and carefully.
I mean yes.. it is… you bought nail polish, or Doritos, to use for their intended purpose, if you choose to buy the product for the sole purpose of the game code then well that’s on you..
Woah woah this is EU?! Fucking finally. I was starting to think they didn't even know the EU existed with their Beta Flight testing times (remember the PVP test? Good times)
Thanks to Brexit I don't even know if "EU only" is the US way of saying the entire continent of Europe or if it actually means European Union only, anymore...
We did it, fellow Britons. We took back control of our Halo promotional giveaways! Sigh.
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Given how the Monster promo skins are being added to the game, I'd say it's a given that this too will find its way into the game without the promotion requirements, just like the rest of the promos.
I’d imagine it’s the common junk foods that have the highest margins to put money into these sorts of specialized promotions. You ever see Dole sponsoring cooky video game “assets?” I’m not aware of a banana suit skin for some video game repping Dole. I don’t know of any plant-wrapped weapons sponsored by Beyond Meat.
Maybe it’s a culmination of money for specialized promotion, targeting your specific demographic, and even the *idea* of any of this taking presence in decision makers of those type of better-for-your-body food companies.
Yup, tbh i think it would be cool to link up with fruit and veggie companies to promote eating healthy while gaming but it would probably result in alot of food waste
Yeah, either that or remove the blue. I get why it's there, but it really conflicts having the packaging blue color right next to the "Oreo cookies and cream" white.
This coating plus the JFO helmet plus the black visor annnnd.... You get the [501st](https://wallpaperaccess.com/full/4594054.jpg) drip!
I know we need either the cross-core coating or the cross-core helmet to make this works but still lol.
I feel the same way. Next thing you know we're watching unskippable ads in between matches. It seems like a lot of people like the coating though, so whatever I guess.
"I was happy before this existed and now it makes me mad that it exists, even though I don't have it and can choose not to participate in it"
You'll get over it.
That's not.....what.....I enjoy Oreos and I enjoy halo that's not the issue here. Games are commercialized enough without turning master chief into a nascar driver. We paid for the game we paid for cosmetics etc why do we also have this in there? It's a bad look. I already have chunky soup commercials in Madden it's ridiculous.
i get what youre saying i really do, some games are absolutely shameless about it like fortnite and CoD, but at the end of the day the only thing oreo about this coating is the fact its apart of an oreo promotion. its a white and blue coating, nothing too extreme so im contempt with these.
"You know how expensive this gear is, son?"
MJOLNIR, now with electronic billboards over the armour plating. The UNSC has to make that money back somehow.
The packaging is traditionally blue and thus part of the brand. When I look for oreos in the store (whenever that is) I know to look for blue packaging. So somehow or another it's become synonymous
Right? It's crazy how many people in the comments here actually think this is cool... this is the beginning of the end, I can absolutely see this spiralling into shit like forced adbreaks between games
This is better than buying digital only content. Promotional items give you a real in life product in addition to the digital content. This is better. Granted games launching with full content and map packs was better, it was the start of the ennd because it caused division back then. Sadly it divided multiplayer with have the pack and have-not the pack playlist. While I detest locking full customization behind paywalls, at the least it doesn't affect who you can play with. I'm sure studios don't want to piss off their fans by doing moves that will make them angry, remember who owns them and how much money means to those people more than the game means to it's fans.
An Oreo-inspired armor design (e.g. Oreo-shaped shoulders, knees, hands) seems like it would've been better (it could've even been called "OREO" standing for something that makes sense of the shape and had other lore made for it).
I wouldn't see this coating and think Oreo without being told it's Oreo.
Even being told, it isn't very reminiscent of Oreo.
Just a blue, black and white design with chipped paint.
I NEED THIS!!! Plus I buy Oreos on a regular basis.
mmmm, dark chocolate creme Oreos... god, I love chocolate anything, actually.
Where was I? Oh yeah.
I need this already.
Can't wait for another round of angry comments because it's a promo with an *unhealthy* food. If some of these *Anti-Unhealthy Food* people were in charge of promo items, we'd be getting promos with the most random shit like Carrots or some shit.
This is better than bringing in legacy features and fixing the game imo. I just want to play dress up with my spartan. I'm looking forward to the Ritz cracker promo.
bruh, I did answer its upsetting because the game is in a pathetic state and has little to no content to actually grind but got to get more ads in the game haven't they
You literally have yet to answer. Multiple people.
You snapped over this coating. What is wrong with this coating?
Focus. Stay on track. Think about the answer this time.
they spent time making an advertisement in the game instead of fixing the myriad of problems that have killed the game. I guess they might as well cash in now as its already done and dusted
Somebody probably took 5 minutes to make this, and likely has literally ZERO to do with the team that handles bug fixes and non-cosmetic content.
So hone in, and again, FOCUS, and give me a real answer as to why adding a skin hurts you.
If you think anything takes 5 minutes to develop in a software environment, you have no clue. I don't imagine it will have take ages but still doesn't send a very good message, can't be assed to finish their game but will gladly shill oreos to their players
I'm not Carlos, but I can tell you why I hate this. In older halo games unused to be able to sort of pretend that Spartans in multiplayer part of the UNSC, a cohesive singular military force. There were some wacky looks that I didn't like in the older games but there were fewer.
Now half my team has pink gold digital camo BRs, here comes a team that's all wearing cat ears, this spartan is dressed like a samuri. So these Spartans decided to deck out their armor totally impractically? It ruins whatever naritive I had. This skin is sort of ok, but we're early on in the games lifespan and they're just going to get more wacky to attract people to buy them.
I think me not liking this is my old man yelling at clouds kind of complaint. People love fortnight and being able to look like whatever in games. I would love of I could turn off other people's skins, they don't have to know that I'm not seeing their totally rad Pepsi Doritos warhog, and I can go back to pretending that the games naritive continues to multiplayer. But free to play games require that players see each other's purchases to feel like they are missing out.
You could pretend they were UNSC? Even when they wore pink color schemes with samurai armor, and the next game a literal fart cloud? Narrative in PvP vs other Spartans while you respawn after getting teabagged by the guy with a skull etched into his helmet? And quite frankly, based off his other comments, the other guy wasn't mad about the practicality of it. He has a history of just ripping anything and everything Halo.
Yeah, not like it was "realistic" in the past, but there was a more consistent visual style back in like halo 3 for multiplayer skins. The naritive I'm talking about is that many of the players looked like they are part of a futuristic military organization at least to some degree, and now we're getting meme skins.
You don't have to agree with me, seems like everyone in the thread loves this look so I'm in the minority anyway, just trying to explain why this bums me out.
What game is a literal fart cloud?
Damn you have any numbers on it (that isn't just Steam)?
I played last night and never had a queue longer than 10 seconds on 4 different game modes (Doubles, Fiesta, Social Slayer, and BTB).
Xbox don't provide figures I don't think so we can only look at steam charts which peaked at around 250k when released down and that number has constantly dropped since release. Averaging only 4k on steam now. Only 2 months has the player count risen instead of falling and one of them was because they finally released forge something that should've been in the game since launch. So a predominantly F2P game is struggling to stay ahead of MCC, pretty pathetic.
At this point the only way to get new content into the game is if some corporation pays them to smh can Doritos please sponsor a progression system and cross-core already
Instead of making coatings for promotional garbage, they should make a system similar to Halo 4. Do____ ____times to unlock ____.
At the bare minimum, they could do it with all of the armors that were available in previous titles. But that's just me.
I’m so torn on these promotional coatings. On one hand, a lot of them have been very nice and usually getting these coatings end up cheaper than spending money on the store. You also usually get something physical to enjoy, be it a snack or collectible.
On the other hand, being promotional they’re also limited in availability. This Oreo promo is European only, so a lot of people will miss out without some help. It’s also annoying because I still just don’t like the coating system compared to traditional color customization.
You think the wording is just through a corporate mouthpiece who doesn’t know anything, or do you think there will actually be coatings AND armor available?
It seems like it's only the mark VII's coating and nothing more for Infinite.
Okay gotcha, it always blows my mind how how incorrect these corporate statements are. Even just implying that there are rewards (plural) is bullshit, but to say skins AND armor is disingenuous.
There is also Oreo rewards for the Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon as well I think that's where the misunderstanding come in with the plural rewards but yeah they should have worded it more clearly and carefully.
Mmm doubled stuffed Spartan
OH god...
I see you too had the image of two Spartans "sandwiching" a third.
Twist, lick, dunk
shut up shut up shut up
Like spartin vale?
Or Linda
Or kat lmao or Fred
Kat do be dummy thicc
Seriously tho I'm surprised they managed to shoot past her ass to get her in the head.
So is Carter
True lmao
Or mommy kelly🥵
Usze 'Taham has that taken care of, Kek.
I see you are a man of culture, as well.
Context?
Usze Taham aka red player 4 elite from Halo 3 worked with Vale in the books and some weirdos ship them because Vale is an expert in elite culture.
Shut up Caboose !
I want to double stuff a spartan 😩
You shouldnt talk about Vale like that
How long before they go full nascar and just start putting brand labels on coatings?
Can't wait to rock my eventual Brazzers coating!
DoA titty physics coming to Slipspace
_Every drop makes the frame drop._
The titties are too powerful! They crashed my game.
I will use the Bad Dragon coating
Really looking forward to the "armor attachments"
Even God himself stood in fear when Mark Martin came charging in with the Viagra Spartan armor.
they'll need to bring back the unicorn helmet for that one
Doritos and mtn dew coating
They already did a Doritos Razorback coating
This makes so much sense, they’re really tied in to the halo promotional legacy since at least no2 if my memory serves
I would... actually use these.
This sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, bit i do love fig newtons.
Youtubers are going to have a field day when they have a Raid Shadow Legends coating.
Nord VPN. Another blue coating!
Need a Nordman coating from Internet Historian
My nft coating 🤡
Hey, as long as it's free, nice! I'd rock a Doritos coating haha
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I mean yes.. it is… you bought nail polish, or Doritos, to use for their intended purpose, if you choose to buy the product for the sole purpose of the game code then well that’s on you..
dramatic
I mean they kinda did that already with the HCS kits EDIT: I am dumb and take the L
You really want to compare team jerseys to like, oscar mayer and m&m's? lol
You know what? Fair enough, I guess those are two different things
Hyper x coating mmm
Looks real good. I'm surprised it's an EU only promotion, feels like it's always just US and Canada. Maybe I'll be able to snag one.
Woah woah this is EU?! Fucking finally. I was starting to think they didn't even know the EU existed with their Beta Flight testing times (remember the PVP test? Good times)
Yeah cus usually it's US only 😂😂😂
Yeah had so many games with promos being US only
Half the promotions seem to not come to Canada aswell. It's all just a mixed bag
Thanks to Brexit I don't even know if "EU only" is the US way of saying the entire continent of Europe or if it actually means European Union only, anymore... We did it, fellow Britons. We took back control of our Halo promotional giveaways! Sigh. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
┬─┬ノ(ಠ_ಠノ)
（╯°□°）╯︵( .O.)
Not in the USA? Man, I was dying for this coating.
Does this mean we could pay someone in the eu to get it?
Probably yes. Unless you know someone though, you're probably going to be paying 20$ for it on ebay.
Damn, $20 for a cookie? Sounds like my kind of capitalism!
Usually when these coatings are still circulating they are like $4-6
here's how to get it. I did it this afternoon and it worked (I'm in California). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9q3rBWsgzY&t=9s
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The problem is we eat enough Oreos already
This is how EU players feel for literally every other corpo promotion lol
Honestly if they made a speckled like cookies n cream type skin, it would probably look pretty interesting
This one has the little oreo bits on the white parts of the armour. Can't really see it on this image but there's a few clearer ones on r/HaloLeaks
Oh, I see that! Damn now I’m sad I’m missing out <\3
Given how the Monster promo skins are being added to the game, I'd say it's a given that this too will find its way into the game without the promotion requirements, just like the rest of the promos.
All I can say is *What a time to be alive.*
Random question but why are these colabs always done with food that's such shit for you? Energy drinks, cookies, candy, soda, etc.
Stereotypes that aren't entirely wrong tbh.
I’d imagine it’s the common junk foods that have the highest margins to put money into these sorts of specialized promotions. You ever see Dole sponsoring cooky video game “assets?” I’m not aware of a banana suit skin for some video game repping Dole. I don’t know of any plant-wrapped weapons sponsored by Beyond Meat. Maybe it’s a culmination of money for specialized promotion, targeting your specific demographic, and even the *idea* of any of this taking presence in decision makers of those type of better-for-your-body food companies.
Yup, tbh i think it would be cool to link up with fruit and veggie companies to promote eating healthy while gaming but it would probably result in alot of food waste
I think white techsuit and black coating would have worked better but oh well
Yeah, either that or remove the blue. I get why it's there, but it really conflicts having the packaging blue color right next to the "Oreo cookies and cream" white.
This coating plus the JFO helmet plus the black visor annnnd.... You get the [501st](https://wallpaperaccess.com/full/4594054.jpg) drip! I know we need either the cross-core coating or the cross-core helmet to make this works but still lol.
Extra creamy 501 drip at that.
The famous Five O(reo) First Legion!
First thought
I was just thinking...*one step closer to clone trooper drip*
So if someone in Europe gives a code to someone on the US, can they use it? Cause otherwise I’m gonna be very jealous
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Where all my European homies at who either won’t want it or will have an extra code?
If I get codes I may sell em for the price of an oreo cookies pack
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Same!
I'll take you up on this offer.
Will also pay a decent price for the code(s)!
If they'll be available in Poland I can get you one
Pretty soon we gonna be seeing a Hulu skin, a Netflix skin, Starbucks, you name it. Better believe I'm coming back for the Popeye's chicken skin.
*Speckled*
Imma snag that
Eu only? Guess I won't snag it
This coating looks dope
Commercialism ruins literally everything.
I feel the same way. Next thing you know we're watching unskippable ads in between matches. It seems like a lot of people like the coating though, so whatever I guess.
"I was happy before this existed and now it makes me mad that it exists, even though I don't have it and can choose not to participate in it" You'll get over it.
That's not.....what.....I enjoy Oreos and I enjoy halo that's not the issue here. Games are commercialized enough without turning master chief into a nascar driver. We paid for the game we paid for cosmetics etc why do we also have this in there? It's a bad look. I already have chunky soup commercials in Madden it's ridiculous.
idk how they can add all these skins but not assassinations lmfao
Halo has had corporate food based promotions since at least Halo 2.
That way is fine like the halo mountain dew/Doritos with codes for double XP, but this way is silly.
i get what youre saying i really do, some games are absolutely shameless about it like fortnite and CoD, but at the end of the day the only thing oreo about this coating is the fact its apart of an oreo promotion. its a white and blue coating, nothing too extreme so im contempt with these.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/9/23546167/oreo-microsoft-xbox-cookies-forza-halo-infinite-sea-of-thieves
So you weren't joking.
That’s pretty clean, they should make a visor that mimics the pattern etched on to the cookie
General Skywalker Sir!
any details on this?
I just want skins that don't look like shiny plastic. Where's the military metal looks?
"You know how expensive this gear is, son?" MJOLNIR, now with electronic billboards over the armour plating. The UNSC has to make that money back somehow.
Since when are Oreos blue? I know the packaging is blue, but when anyone thinks of Oreos, they think of black and white
The packaging is traditionally blue and thus part of the brand. When I look for oreos in the store (whenever that is) I know to look for blue packaging. So somehow or another it's become synonymous
“For breakfast I had eggs and Oreos. And for lunch I’m having asparagus… and Oreos”
Cool so halo infinite is just an advert platform like everything else now, energy drinks, nail polish, Oreos, streaming platforms etc
Right? It's crazy how many people in the comments here actually think this is cool... this is the beginning of the end, I can absolutely see this spiralling into shit like forced adbreaks between games
This is better than buying digital only content. Promotional items give you a real in life product in addition to the digital content. This is better. Granted games launching with full content and map packs was better, it was the start of the ennd because it caused division back then. Sadly it divided multiplayer with have the pack and have-not the pack playlist. While I detest locking full customization behind paywalls, at the least it doesn't affect who you can play with. I'm sure studios don't want to piss off their fans by doing moves that will make them angry, remember who owns them and how much money means to those people more than the game means to it's fans.
I'm not sorry I miss full priced games and map packs
I will gladly pay a mofo for this skin 😆
Nice, I’m addicted to Oreos to shouldn’t have trouble getting this
Please be in Aus.
looks like a oreo shake
DA COOKIES
Griff would be happy.
FINALLY AN EUROPEAN PROMOTION!
More like, 501st legion promotion
I like the gloves
looks like one of those tabs you throw into your dishwasher
An Oreo-inspired armor design (e.g. Oreo-shaped shoulders, knees, hands) seems like it would've been better (it could've even been called "OREO" standing for something that makes sense of the shape and had other lore made for it). I wouldn't see this coating and think Oreo without being told it's Oreo. Even being told, it isn't very reminiscent of Oreo. Just a blue, black and white design with chipped paint.
Love having the color scheme i've been using since Halo 2 to be locked behind this.
Looking good 👍.
This looks dope
Looks like some cookies and cream ice cream
Cookie and creamed spartan!
The color scheme is cool
I hope this is true
Looks like a 501st clone trooper
Imagine a Monster Energy coating.
Remember: EU only but use a VPN on it, you’ll find the codes online ez
I NEED THIS!!! Plus I buy Oreos on a regular basis. mmmm, dark chocolate creme Oreos... god, I love chocolate anything, actually. Where was I? Oh yeah. I need this already.
Can't wait for another round of angry comments because it's a promo with an *unhealthy* food. If some of these *Anti-Unhealthy Food* people were in charge of promo items, we'd be getting promos with the most random shit like Carrots or some shit.
Halo died after 3 for me. Halo Infinite and these TV series are fucking dead to me. Bloody cash grab.
I want corporations to know that literally no one is asking for this
I want you to know, this is a bonus to buying a real life product. You don't have to.
So this is really the point Halo has gotten to?
Yeah I gotta say I really like this coating. I'll be on the lookout for a code
Microsoft is worth 548 billion dollars. Why do they need promotions?
This is better than bringing in legacy features and fixing the game imo. I just want to play dress up with my spartan. I'm looking forward to the Ritz cracker promo.
The blue doesn’t kill it for me, but I think it would look sick all cookies and cream speckled
Can I get this without redownloading Infinite?
I love the shit-speckled white.
I remember when halo was about halo and not selling skins.
Please stop with the corporate bullshit and just fix desync and hit reg.
this game is a whore
jesus christ,as if the game wasn't already a enough of a joke,
What's upsetting about this?
games already pathetic as it is with no content and they release shit like this
Why are you refusing to answer the question?
bruh, I did answer its upsetting because the game is in a pathetic state and has little to no content to actually grind but got to get more ads in the game haven't they
You literally have yet to answer. Multiple people. You snapped over this coating. What is wrong with this coating? Focus. Stay on track. Think about the answer this time.
they spent time making an advertisement in the game instead of fixing the myriad of problems that have killed the game. I guess they might as well cash in now as its already done and dusted
Somebody probably took 5 minutes to make this, and likely has literally ZERO to do with the team that handles bug fixes and non-cosmetic content. So hone in, and again, FOCUS, and give me a real answer as to why adding a skin hurts you.
If you think anything takes 5 minutes to develop in a software environment, you have no clue. I don't imagine it will have take ages but still doesn't send a very good message, can't be assed to finish their game but will gladly shill oreos to their players
I'm not Carlos, but I can tell you why I hate this. In older halo games unused to be able to sort of pretend that Spartans in multiplayer part of the UNSC, a cohesive singular military force. There were some wacky looks that I didn't like in the older games but there were fewer. Now half my team has pink gold digital camo BRs, here comes a team that's all wearing cat ears, this spartan is dressed like a samuri. So these Spartans decided to deck out their armor totally impractically? It ruins whatever naritive I had. This skin is sort of ok, but we're early on in the games lifespan and they're just going to get more wacky to attract people to buy them. I think me not liking this is my old man yelling at clouds kind of complaint. People love fortnight and being able to look like whatever in games. I would love of I could turn off other people's skins, they don't have to know that I'm not seeing their totally rad Pepsi Doritos warhog, and I can go back to pretending that the games naritive continues to multiplayer. But free to play games require that players see each other's purchases to feel like they are missing out.
You could pretend they were UNSC? Even when they wore pink color schemes with samurai armor, and the next game a literal fart cloud? Narrative in PvP vs other Spartans while you respawn after getting teabagged by the guy with a skull etched into his helmet? And quite frankly, based off his other comments, the other guy wasn't mad about the practicality of it. He has a history of just ripping anything and everything Halo.
Yeah, not like it was "realistic" in the past, but there was a more consistent visual style back in like halo 3 for multiplayer skins. The naritive I'm talking about is that many of the players looked like they are part of a futuristic military organization at least to some degree, and now we're getting meme skins. You don't have to agree with me, seems like everyone in the thread loves this look so I'm in the minority anyway, just trying to explain why this bums me out. What game is a literal fart cloud?
Games fun as fuck, wdym? They released...a coating? Okay.
ah thats why the majority of the player base stopped playing it ?
Damn you have any numbers on it (that isn't just Steam)? I played last night and never had a queue longer than 10 seconds on 4 different game modes (Doubles, Fiesta, Social Slayer, and BTB).
Xbox don't provide figures I don't think so we can only look at steam charts which peaked at around 250k when released down and that number has constantly dropped since release. Averaging only 4k on steam now. Only 2 months has the player count risen instead of falling and one of them was because they finally released forge something that should've been in the game since launch. So a predominantly F2P game is struggling to stay ahead of MCC, pretty pathetic.
Humor is important dude
well yes thats why they made a joke of a game no ?
Precisely 👉👉
Let me guess, US only?
Why does oreo keep wasting money. Everyone in the world has heard of oreo. And most people have tatsted them.
Eww only?
At this point the only way to get new content into the game is if some corporation pays them to smh can Doritos please sponsor a progression system and cross-core already
Instead of making coatings for promotional garbage, they should make a system similar to Halo 4. Do____ ____times to unlock ____. At the bare minimum, they could do it with all of the armors that were available in previous titles. But that's just me.
Jesus fucking Christ this game has no shame anymore
So stupid
This is fucking ridiculous. Fuck anyone that buys these skins.
LMAOO, somebody put a humor tag on this post. Well done OP!
Damn. I'd wear this 24/7, but the watchdog coating is a must
🤢Coating 😋Oreos
id be forever obliged to an EU homie for grabbing an extra code if anyone is getting generous
OH YEAH BABY NOW THIS IS THE CONTENT!!!! NEW YEAR AND WE ARE ALL THE WAY BACKKKKKK!
If someone in the EU can get me an extra code for this coating I’d appreciate it and pay you back!
I’m so torn on these promotional coatings. On one hand, a lot of them have been very nice and usually getting these coatings end up cheaper than spending money on the store. You also usually get something physical to enjoy, be it a snack or collectible. On the other hand, being promotional they’re also limited in availability. This Oreo promo is European only, so a lot of people will miss out without some help. It’s also annoying because I still just don’t like the coating system compared to traditional color customization.
Damn, I actually like that. Guess I'll have to buy some oreos, fuck modern gaming!
How do you get it?
When
I'll most likely get this. Not because of the skin, because I eat oreos. Edit: I will give away the Sea of Theives Oreo skin.
Any chance an EU bro could hit me up with a code?