Linky:
https://www.neowin.net/news/certain-affinity-reportedly-developing-accessible-mode-for-halo-infinite/
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So another casual mode. We only have ONE ranked playlist.
They need to stop catering to the causals. It’s the reason why we have grenade pads now
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I wish they would just make Infinite consistent and functional first since 343 isn’t worried about it.
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Casuals are where they are getting their money and they just want more $$$$
But adding more ranked modes should be a very low priority, the majority of the playerbase are casuals and there is barely any content there
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So are you ganna ignore the vast amount of posts asking for more ranked playlists?
We had a ton of ranked modes in halo 5 and that was never an issue. We wanted more gamemodes on top of those ranked ones. Not less. And not less of the ranked either.
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I don’t see nearly as many as people asking for more content in general
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We already have a ton of causal modes. What more gamemodes are people asking for? Oh right. Ranked ones. Sure there may be one or two posts asking for a new game mode that’s different entirely but not as much as the people asking for ranked
Let’s count them.
Slayer
FFA
Fiesta
SWAT
Oddball
CTF
Strongholds
Ranked modes
Slayer
Oddball
CTF
Strongholds
There’s only 3 more casual modes than Ranked.
So we only need to add 3 modes to Ranked and then you will have a ton, we don’t have to add anymore.
Glad we cleared that up 
False
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Why would you need an entire studio for a new mode? 
I am assuming it would have to involve some sort of map support if that’s the case?
- Battle Royale
- Conquest/Warzone (loads of players controlling locations on map)
- Warzone Assault (Breakthrough from Battlefield)
- Firefight
All the above would really need their own maps to work properly. Firefight in Halo 5 was bolted on.
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It must be a pretty huge mode, especially if it has its own progression system (I’m really glad 343 isn’t handling this, lol. It would just be another bad progression system)
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Since you wanna play word games.
Playlists. One ranked PLAYLIST.
even funnier that your counting gamemodes twice
So if certain modes aren’t casual then why aren’t they ranked?
We need infection and grifball. Actual causal playlists.
I heard about this a couple days ago and am interested to see how this turns out. Supposedly the mode may involve FOBs and hacking Sentinels according to one person so if this turns out to be a new Dominion or Warzone I’ll be all for it.
But at the moment a lot of this can be taken as grains of salt.
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Never did, lol
Your argument isn’t consistent, lol
Definitely
aren’t certain affinity the ones developing Forge mode as well?
The question that matters is what are they working on? Lots of speculation, mainly Battle Royale.
I hate to be that guy but I think that if 343i really want a Battle Royale mode to be successful they need to A) give community tools to support it and B) they need to allow the community to do all of this themselves. 343i nor CA in my opinion should be trusted to do something as ambitious as a Battle Royale mode, I don’t even wanna think about how stupid they’d go about creating a completely new mode from scratch like this but the bad things come to mind like they’ll make it so the maps cannot be forgeable and nothing is customizable (no custom games in BR mode basically) which would kill it.
Honestly this is all just speculation, its possible what they are doing is a complete waste of time and nothing remotely as interesting as a BR mode would be, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
That leaker has been wrong many many times, so their word carries no weight. Although I do think the possibility of PvE in Infinite could be amazing, so I wouldn’t mind if it were true lol.
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They’ve had a few hits though, as I believe they had correctly predicted the early “Beta” release, but we’ll see how this one goes.
Again, I’m taking it all with grains of salt but for Infinite’s future I’d really like them to focus on the likes of a mode akin to Warzone or Dominion rather than chasing the Battle Royale trend. Give players tools to pursue that route if they want but that’s about it.
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Yes but many were leaking that ahead of time, it seems pretty obvious that they just got that idea from other leakers. Their name is Surasia or something btw, for those of you interested.
The beauty of Halo is that it excels at so many different things. Battle Royale in my opinion just needs a few more things to be possible in Infinite. Mainly Infinite needs a large Forge canvas to be possible, then it could use something like ODST drop pods with animations to be great. Biggest question marks for a BR mode is 1. Can Infinite handle a BR mode technically speaking? and 2. Would it have any AI in it at all? Those 2 are the biggest hurdles conceptually and that will decide what it would function like.
I do definitely think Warzone 2.0 and Firefight Infinite could be awesome, so lots of potential but lets wait and see if 343i/CA ever do anything with it.
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I made a topic on this a while back. They’re just ripping off Sharks and Minnows, and plan to take other user made content when Forge comes, to add our creations to matchmaking, instead of 343 making their own content. Since a mod locked my topic, you can assume it’s true.
https://forums.halowaypoint.com/t/halo-infinite-is-adding-a-new-game-mode-with-certain-affinity/497523/4
tl;dr the new mode Tatanka is the custom game mode Sharks and Minnows, and 343 plans to add more user made maps and modes to Matchmaking, when Forge comes, similar to how Halo Reach, 4, and 5 used mostly Forge maps.
Time for the tin foil hats.
Besides, what does it matter if they added player created content to matchmaking, it would be great for the game imo
It only matters because 343 realizes they can save money on making new maps by just taking what we make. People keep complaining there aren’t enough maps, we keep saying we can make better maps, put two and two together.
I can tell you are new to Halo. Bungie/343i have been adding Forge maps/custom game modes to matchmaking for over 15 years.
Also, that would be boring if true.
Edit: Codenames typically don’t tell you exactly what something is going to be like, they are often not big indications for what something is going to ultimately be. Interesting take though.
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