Absolutely no offline campaign

Games Halo Infinite
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“yoUVE clEArlY NEva bUilT a Pc” boy please, i built my own pc cause my friends recommended I get on PC gaming. Still dont see the hype. 120fps + ? Ooooh wow. so fancy. 4k and high frame rate for bugging games and “betas” Lmao right right so much to offer right? Only thing its good for is buying legacy games on Steam that were COMPLETE and timeless because of it. Maybe fools like YOU are dumb enough to buy the next model of a console, not I. I KNOW how to take care of my consoles that last well beyond the next cycle. Sorry you and a bunch of other people cannot.

Like I said, my switch as well as my PS4 provided me with complete games that I could play offline that were filled with content that makes Infinite look like a freaking play test demo. Im sitting comfortably being able to pop in Last of Us 2, Final Fantasy 7, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Witcher and just happily play away offline. Crazy. Been gaming since Sega Genesis days, and wanna know something snowflake? With each console ive gotten, the gaming experience just got better and better. But all you have to flex for PC gaming is just…prettier graphics and framerate LMAO very sad. Tell me, does that suddenly and magically grants Co-op gameplay for the campaign? No? Hm. Tragic. Graphics do not make up for content that this game SEVERLY lacks compared to its early 2000 precedessors. Seen more content in a freaking 15 year old mario game. Miss me with that nonsense.

Yeah, 4k? Then you should be able to see lack of content in 4K :rofl::rofl:

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Show a little respect. The original Halo multiplayer owes its entire existence to LAN culture. Literally. Didn’t work without it and the Xbox was just a copy of a LAN cube

I’ll have my Steam deck soon enough so I don’t need a baby toy like the switch. I doubt I would wanna play Halo on it though

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Doesn’t surprise me in the slightest unfortunately. Most games nowadays will generally require day 1 patches in order to be playable. Don’t forget that the campaign being tied to “DLC” as opposed to the main game also presents bit of a problem.

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Can you set the mode to offline play on console? I know for game pass PC there is an option to have one device as offline.

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It sucks that you cannot play offline, but I’m almost completely certain (as per the all the development updates on Halo Waypoint for the last few years) that Halo Infinite is an online service game and has never actually advertised in any regard that it was otherwise. More content will almost certainly be added to Campaign months after it’s launch and I believe THAT in itself is a big reason why the game cannot be played in offline mode naturally. I could be wrong… but like I said I’m near certain that was the approach.

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I couldn’t use “continue” after I’ve started the game offline cause it disabled all the skulls in that save game. Skulls became active again after using load game…

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The thing people are worried about a full online future for gaming is that games will actually risk dying unless someone actually pulls the games out and makes pirated copies of them.

We ALMOST lost the entire PS1-3 library earlier this year, did you forget that? Sony was gonna pull the entire PSX library offline. Hardcopy is the only way to preserve these games for years to come, way past the 10 year plan they have for Infinite.

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Show a little respect for what? Halo was still a complete game on the original Xbox that blew cause even without online was a sensation with co-op and campaign, split screen multiplayer in 4s. So again, miss me with your nonsense. “show a little respect”

Respect yourself more instead of spouting nonsense from a bit you read online about what your PC GPU and cpu grants you.

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well setting your machine as home when on xbox one allows for entirely offline play of games meaning you literally don’t have to sign in at all. Unfortunately Halo Infinite doesn’t allow for this because a purchase screen pops up when offline and of course it can’t be validate offline despite the purchase being signed to the machine when entering your xbox as home

I mean fine if MS want to do this then it’s their call but I think more people need to know of this practice especially those that have now chucked £54 down the drain

It’s a real shame because I was rather enjoying the campaign but it’s just not how I game. If MS had stated this then I wouldn’t have gone near it

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Have the game thru steam, no wifi, ethernet not plugged in when I turn it on

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is there a certain amount of time that you can be offline with games on steam. I have an acount actually but I’ve read that it reaches out after so long so you can’t play it offline indefinitely

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I did not know that, thanks for the info.

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looks like MS got their way in the end, not that I think any of us thought they wouldn’t. It would have been nice to have had just one last Halo game to enjoy and I would have been entirely behind the model of purchasing dlc like many I’m sure. The trouble is I just can’t support this practice and I advise others think about what they feel about this themselves

very bad practice by MS and all it does it look bad on those at 343 who I’m sure want as many people to play their game

Yeah I’m out which is truly a shame considering I was very much enjoying my time playing campaign

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I already had a feeling that this would be the case. Stuff like this makes me want to abandon AAA games for good. You’re paying $60-70 for a license to play. Game pass might as well be the norm then (which is their goal of course)

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I suppose it’s like everything that ploughs on regardless, unless there’s a pushback then what chance is there to stop it. The trouble is a lot of folk wont even be aware of the issue until it’s too late for them. Ah well they were warned

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The ONE time I decide to purchase a game digitally, I encountered this issue too. Since I don’t have Internet at home, I downloaded and installed the game onto my XBox Series X at my friend’s house. Tried launching the Campaign, and got the same “BUY” screen that you got. I guess if I had purchased the physical disk, even though the Campaign isn’t on it, it apparently acts as a DRM check.

In any event, I submitted a ticket about this five days ago. Status on my ticket is still OPEN.

I think it’s crazy that you can purchase any other game digitally, like Forza Horizon 5, and after installing a Day 1 patch, you can play the game as much as you want online or offline. No DRM check, nothing.

To the person who says that you can switch from online to offline and still play the game, well, it worked for me for exactly 24 hours. I didn’t disconnect my XBox or anything. On Sunday around 1pm, my friend came over and allowed me to “sign on” to XBox from his phone, I was able to play the Campaign all day Sunday and Monday morning. Monday afternoon, the dreaded “BUY” screen comes back. So, it apparently is a once per day DRM check.

You would have thought about the negative reaction that MS got when initially introducing the Xbox One back in 2013 with a persistent online requirement would have caused them to think twice about even re-implementing it, even in a game. What was the fallout even after they reversed course? The PS4 completely outsold the Xbox One. Now, they quietly do this to their biggest franchise, and not surprisingly people are once again ticked off.

Yes, MS and 343I can do what they want, but they don’t just have shareholders to please, but their customer base as well. Even in this high-tech world, people don’t like being told HOW to play their games. Some don’t care about the Internet requirement; many, however, do, and that even goes to people WITH Internet! Imagine if you’re one of those Halo fans wanting to play the Campaign over the Christmas and New Year’s holiday up in a cabin in the woods that has spotty, if any, Internet service. Sorry. No luck for you.

MS and 343I botched this one. I hope they fix this, and that they don’t ignore my ticket. People like choice, not being dictated to.

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thanks for commenting. Yeah it’s just very disappointing and I’m guessing they didn’t think it would be noticed enough or simply thought to screw the fans regardless. A very poor practice by MS and 343. It means now that I’m unlikely to bother with any next AAA offerings from MS on the basis I have no idea if it will be the same situation

I bought Infinite campaign and I would have supported it too with dlc but this isn’t what I expect from a single player model. The game very much can be played offline indefinitely if it wasn’t for big brother MS forcing people to sign despite owning the game anyway

And while I do blame 343 also for this poor show of appreciation towards it’s fans, there’s bound to be many from there that are very unhappy to see fans treated this way but it still looks bad on them

Perhaps Joseph Staten should say a word or two on how this single player experience which is entirely playable offline were it not for the purchase validation screen, speak up on why such a decision exists. It cannot be justified and again just serves to make the whole of 343 look bad

Every campaign up to now is playable entirely offline and there’s no reason why this one needs to be again especially as it plays just fine offline until they hit you with buy it screen

so thanks for nothing MS and realise that like many I’m very much a loyal die hard supporter of MS. I’m not happy with this which means I’ll be going out of my way to negatively speak of what MS practices. And I will convince some along the way as will others no doubt. Keep pushing why don’t you while you talk of preservation and choice which evidently means absolutely nothing when you look at what you’re doing here

thanks by the way for pointing out that Forza Horizon 5 is also entirely playable offline as I wasn’t about to take the risk until now

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Not to mention the fact that objects placed in forge by the player would sometimes break and not spawn at all when new rounds start completely breaking game types for players forcing the host to end the game… oh and the fact the host couldn’t even kick players or manually start a new round while the match was going… (I’d have to hide a scripted button somewhere in the map so I could manually trigger the round to end if something broke which is just mind boggling to me)

Loved dedicating days to making custom game maps to then have them completely stop functioning after the first round or two… ending the game also meant losing 90% of the lobby since a lot of people would crash when a custom game would go back to the menu.

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Not necessarily true. There is over 14 gb of data on the disc. General Heed covered this. I do not know what that data is, but it appears to be the campaign. Here is his video on this: /watch?v=cpNB4BnWIA0

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If I can’t play the disc with no internet then theres no PLAYABLE game on there.

Pointing that out 14gigs doesn’t really say anything

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