Bring back the popular game mode Invasion with some Tweaks. The game mode Rush from battlefield is a good example of what could be improved on with Invasion.
Playable Elites are already confirmed to not be in Halo Infinite. Invasion without Elites is kind of counterintuitive to what the mode is about.
Bringing back a entire species for 1 gamemode isn’t really worth it. There’s a lot of design and sandbox things that go alongside that.
yes and make a 12v12 variant like btb invasion
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> Playable Elites are already confirmed to not be in Halo Infinite. Invasion without Elites is kind of counterintuitive to what the mode is about.
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> Bringing back a entire species for 1 gamemode isn’t really worth it. There’s a lot of design and sandbox things that go alongside that.
I remember them citing something about the way their models affect the gameplay too. Hitboxes being different than the Spartans or somehting? It kinda sounded “Build the game around Competitive, and Social Customs are an after-thought” to me. Competitive’s fine and all, but every feature or option left out in the name of MLG themed balance is a swath of possibilities denied to Social games and Customs 
They could tweak the models and stuff so it’d be more in line with the Spartans but then you’d get complaints about the designs being different. They didn’t rule it out as “Never gonna be in Infinite” though, just not something they’ll be doing for launch or the early season updates - down the road maaaybe, but ‘no real plans for it’.
That said, they’re also going to be having modding tools for the MCC and Infinite. Want your Elites sooner? Mod it. Want to play as a Skirmisher instead? There’ll be a mod for it. Driveable Scarabs and Vultures? Mods have you covered. No need to wait for something that may or may not ever happen when officially supplied modding tools give you all that and more. Though “Only on PC” may be a factor…
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> Playable Elites are already confirmed to not be in Halo Infinite. Invasion without Elites is kind of counterintuitive to what the mode is about.
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> Bringing back a entire species for 1 gamemode isn’t really worth it. There’s a lot of design and sandbox things that go alongside that.
The functionality of the gametype doesnt have to depend upon Elites assuming you’d want a Spartan only version.
I like Invasion and how its not just a run of the mill slayer gametype. (Unless you’re on defense anyway).
Round type, spawn areas, weapon locations, map layout. Custom invasion is a subset of custom groups that is perfectly alive on Reach MCC, if scarce.
There’s a niche, why not try and appeal to it? Dont even care if Elites are gone from Infinite but making an invasion map actually took effort, its not the same as making someones basic slayer gametype.
It would be a huge loss if nothing that Invasion innovated on ever returned.
Invasion was Reach’s magnum opus. I would like a similar gametype at least, with Spartans vs Spartans. But I’d prefer if we got playable elites.
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> Playable Elites are already confirmed to not be in Halo Infinite. Invasion without Elites is kind of counterintuitive to what the mode is about.
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> Bringing back a entire species for 1 gamemode isn’t really worth it. There’s a lot of design and sandbox things that go alongside that.
To your second point, Bungie put elites in Reach pretty much entirely for Invasion, and, in my opinion, it was worth it. Reach was the only game with playable elites in which elites had a different hitbox than spartans, as well as a different health system. I hope they add elites a la Reach down the line as well as Invasion, since it deserves to make a return after a decade of dormancy.
Choosing to play as an Elite is a choice, just include a warning next to the elite making it clear that you have a disadvantage when playing as an Elite
I never liked this game mode, so if it doesn’t come back, I won’t mind.
I certainly hope that if playable elites are added down the line, invasion would come back with them.
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> It kinda sounded “Build the game around Competitive, and Social Customs are an after-thought” to me.
Nah, more a build the game around the majority of the population kind of thing.
Elite fans are a small, albeit vocal and passionate, group.
Not saying they don’t deserve a thought. Just an after-one, later down the line. It’s a lot of work to do the graphics, animation, and sounds for the characters. A lot of work, and then there’s sandbox balancing! And how do you fit them into the financial microtransaction model?
One day I’m sure.
it was one of my favorite game modes
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> Invasion was Reach’s magnum opus. I would like a similar gametype at least, with Spartans vs Spartans. But I’d prefer if we got playable elites.
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> > Playable Elites are already confirmed to not be in Halo Infinite. Invasion without Elites is kind of counterintuitive to what the mode is about.
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> > Bringing back a entire species for 1 gamemode isn’t really worth it. There’s a lot of design and sandbox things that go alongside that.
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> To your second point, Bungie put elites in Reach pretty much entirely for Invasion, and, in my opinion, it was worth it. Reach was the only game with playable elites in which elites had a different hitbox than spartans, as well as a different health system. I hope they add elites a la Reach down the line as well as Invasion, since it deserves to make a return after a decade of dormancy.
I’d like to see that. It was fun being able to play as elites for Invasion mode.
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> Bring back the popular game mode Invasion with some Tweaks. The game mode Rush from battlefield is a good example of what could be improved on with Invasion.
Rush is a fantastic gametype.
I always felt like Invasion didn’t quite hit the right note. Definitely need bigger teams broken up into squads. Don’t need Elites for that.
I hope invasion returns as it’s my favorite game mode. I hope it takes the reach approach and leans into the differences and make their own hitboxes instead of trying to make them the same. I know it won’t be in at launch, but I’m hopeful it’ll come down the line.
I don’t know anything about rush so I’ll have to look into that.
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> I hope invasion returns as it’s my favorite game mode. I hope it takes the reach approach and leans into the differences and make their own hitboxes instead of trying to make them the same. I know it won’t be in at launch, but I’m hopeful it’ll come down the line.
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> I don’t know anything about rush so I’ll have to look into that.
Same here. Invasion was always one of my favorite gameplays in both the XBox 360 and MCC games. and I agree that, if it isn’t introduced at launch, it should be added in with one of the future updates…if they do any updates for Infinite.