Infection is arguably one of the biggest casual modes in Halo. It’s not only a fun multiplayer mode but makes up to 80% of mini games created in previous Halo’s. The mode has been delayed for 5 MONTHS and it doesn’t help that it hasn’t even been teased… At all. On top of that March’s update is delayed to April. Seriously 343? One of the most requested modes for Halo 5 has been completely ignored for way too long. Please don’t let this be like the MCC where it was delayed for a whole year!
With all the time 343i has been given if Infection doesn’t get a major overhaul I will be incredibly disappointed.
Incredibly???..
I’d rather have an action sack playlist over infection, but that’s just me…
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I’m not just talking about the playlist, but the mode in general. Infection made up most of the mini games and custom games in previous Halo’s. It’s a pretty important asset for making custom games.
I would just like to know why it’s isn’t available. It makes no sense! It’s the go to for custom games and now the fact there isn’t a file share really annoys the -Yoink- out of me but that’s a whole different ball game.
I think its pretty obvious why it isn’t available
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Overpowered shotgun much? Seriously. Smart-scope+the absurd standard range of that -Yoinking!- boomstick = NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY IT.
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> I’d rather have an action sack playlist over infection, but that’s just me…
You can have both.
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Thank you. Someone always fails to distinguish between the actual GAMETYPE and the PLAYLIST! They are two separate things. Forge/Custom Games needs a basic conversion-slayer style Infection before any Matchmaking implementation takes place. The main reason for this is that Matchmaking Infection is always terrible, and Forgers adjust the Gametype ourselves to be drastically superior and better balanced; this is not only to fit our maps, but in hopes that 343 pulls another H4 and actually used our ‘better’ Infection Gametypes.
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> Overpowered shotgun much? Seriously. Smart-scope+the absurd standard range of that -Yoinking!- boomstick = NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY IT.
Infection is wayyyyyyyyyy more than 1-hit shotguns vs Flood. That is probably the least liked version of Infection, always finding its way into Matchmaking as the Infection Playlist option that causes people to regard the Gametype as inferior and disliked. Forgers always create better recieved variants like Last Stand, Plague, Salvation, and Hivemind.
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> Overpowered shotgun much? Seriously. Smart-scope+the absurd standard range of that -Yoinking!- boomstick = NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY IT.
Wrong, I want to play it. The sword also has insane lunge in this game, so if anything, they balance out. Also, thrusters are still a thing.
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> Infection is wayyyyyyyyyy more than 1-hit shotguns vs Flood. That is probably the least liked version of Infection, always finding its way into Matchmaking as the Infection Playlist option that causes people to regard the Gametype as inferior and disliked. Forgers always create better recieved variants like Last Stand, Plague, Salvation, and Hivemind.
Again, you guys are making inferences about who likes certain parts of infection the most. There’s a reason why standard Infection gets picked over Hivemind.
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> > Infection is wayyyyyyyyyy more than 1-hit shotguns vs Flood. That is probably the least liked version of Infection, always finding its way into Matchmaking as the Infection Playlist option that causes people to regard the Gametype as inferior and disliked. Forgers always create better recieved variants like Last Stand, Plague, Salvation, and Hivemind.
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> Again, you guys are making inferences about who likes certain parts of infection the most. There’s a reason why standard Infection gets picked over Hivemind.
Huh? In my experience, Hivemind got picked much more often then the standard Infection. I personally hated the standard infection. I can see why 343 made it, trying to address all the complaints of Reach, but I thought Living Dead in Reach was pretty solid. I honestly don’t even care if Infection gets into MM, because 343 will probably make it like Halo 4, but I just want it to be an option for custom games.
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> > Infection is wayyyyyyyyyy more than 1-hit shotguns vs Flood. That is probably the least liked version of Infection, always finding its way into Matchmaking as the Infection Playlist option that causes people to regard the Gametype as inferior and disliked. Forgers always create better recieved variants like Last Stand, Plague, Salvation, and Hivemind.
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> Again, you guys are making inferences about who likes certain parts of infection the most. There’s a reason why standard Infection gets picked over Hivemind.
No inferences here. I was a part of the Customs testing teams for Last Stand and Hivemind before they made it into the hands of 343i to even be considered for Matchmaking, and the primary reason for their inclusion is that people stopped entering the Playlist because of the horrid Gametype that was ‘Flood’ among other things. This is referring to the original implementation of these Gametypes in H4, and not MCC. Infection in MCC was played almost exclusively in Custom Games, and Matchmaking populations for Infection are/were a poor representation for what type of Infection people played regularly. If you EVER saw a regular selection of default Infection over alternate variants, it was in H4 long after everyone stopped playing, or in MCC which doesn’t correctly represent what type of Infection people were playing regularly.
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> Huh? In my experience, Hivemind got picked much more often then the standard Infection. I personally hated the standard infection. I can see why 343 made it, trying to address all the complaints of Reach, but I thought Living Dead in Reach was pretty solid. I honestly don’t even care if Infection gets into MM, because 343 will probably make it like Halo 4, but I just want it to be an option for custom games.
Same. Reach nailed Infection IMO, and I honestly hope 343 models Infection (at least in multiplayer) after Halo Reach. But man, I’m gonna love playing Infection on customs once it’s out.
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> Same. Reach nailed Infection IMO, and I honestly hope 343 models Infection (at least in multiplayer) after Halo Reach. But man, I’m gonna love playing Infection on customs once it’s out.
This I’d be happy living with as a default, until we have time to perfect our custom variants and submit them to the Cartographers. Reach Infection was just too well done!
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> No inferences here. I was a part of the Customs testing teams for Last Stand and Hivemind before they made it into the hands of 343i to even be considered for Matchmaking, and the primary reason for their inclusion is that people stopped entering the Playlist because of the horrid Gametype that was ‘Flood’ among other things. This is referring to the original implementation of these Gametypes in H4, and not MCC. Infection in MCC was played almost exclusively in Custom Games, and Matchmaking populations for Infection are/were a poor representation for what type of Infection people played regularly. If you EVER saw a regular selection of default Infection over alternate variants, it was in H4 long after everyone stopped playing, or in MCC which doesn’t correctly represent what type of Infection people were playing regularly.
Ah, ok. It’s just from my experience, that’s all.
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> I’d rather have an action sack playlist over infection, but that’s just me…
A playlist over a permanent gametype?
Ok then.
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Have both. Action Sack is a mix of fun game types, and Infection can create even more fun gamemodes.
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This. I don’t understand why people take sides on what they want, when they can just get the whole package
Infection was the -Yoink-, agreed that we still can’t vote for the gametype we want to play but all the game modes are fun regardless.
Hopefully it gets released at a point, most likely the ‘Memories of Reach’ update, as it was reach that really started it off.
But nonetheless, it will be here eventually