Voodoo-j wrote...
I did blow a few hundred microsoft points on it just to get something I could work with.
(it was also before I seen the ending)
Once you play enough it's easy enough just to earn the points to buy the packs as needed.
It is far better to wait and get the credits for the packs. I definitely agree.
You can earn the credits for the packs, but they've worked it out so that they can get a lot of people to get impatient and pay for the packs.
You have to ask why they made MP more of a necessity for SP.
I know that for bronze level games, you get somewhere around 15,000 credits for a successful mission-around 7,000 or less for one that isn't. Consider that I am not the best player and my last 5 games, I've been the top player with 5 times the score of the second place person. I repeatedly healed everyone, was the last person standing many time, and sometimes the only person at the extraction point. So, getting a successful mission is getting pretty difficult. I've also had the game dump all other players in the mission multiple times so I was playing alone. I'd get through a couple waves, but...
Anyway, each game takes 20 minutes. To get the best pack it takes about 2 hours of solid, successful play time. It's doable, and I admit can be fun, but they are counting on people to be impatient. By that time a person no longer has any medigel, rail amps, mods, special ammo packs so they might use the credits for the lesser packs.
I've managed to complete a lot of successful silver missions and some gold ones and you really need the better packs for them.