Hello:
I’d love to see Halo Infinite bring back the ability to play as an Elite in the multiplayer, like you could in 2 and 3. They were kind of downplayed in Reach, and 4 didn’t have it at all (I didn’t play 5, but I don’t think you can; correct me if I’m wrong).
Also, I’d like to see them be a little smaller and sleeker like they were in 2 and 3; they looked really huge and monstrous in Reach.
It has been confirmed no playable elites in infinite. They said they want to focus on spartan vs Spartan
It would be a lot of work to do the assets, animations, and sounds… for what is a passionate, but small, part of the user base.
I think the Arbiter will eventually come to the Campaign… and the work there should be transferrable across to multiplayer. I think that’s when we will see Elites return to custom games.
they said this is not their priority, but they want to maintain the game for 10 years, so for sure they will be there one day or another
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> It would be a lot of work to do the assets, animations, and sounds… for what is a passionate, but small, part of the user base.
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> I think the Arbiter will eventually come to the Campaign… and the work there should be transferrable across to multiplayer. I think that’s when we will see Elites return to custom games.
Always possible like I said they have already confirmed they won’t be playable and in the campaign they said they are very focused on the master chief so I doubt we will play as the arbiter hopefully we see him but not sure. Would love to see them in halo infinite somehow but really doubt they will be playable
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> > It would be a lot of work to do the assets, animations, and sounds… for what is a passionate, but small, part of the user base.
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> > I think the Arbiter will eventually come to the Campaign… and the work there should be transferrable across to multiplayer. I think that’s when we will see Elites return to custom games.
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> Always possible like I said they have already confirmed they won’t be playable and in the campaign they said they are very focused on the master chief so I doubt we will play as the arbiter hopefully we see him but not sure. Would love to see them in halo infinite somehow but really doubt they will be playable
Infinite is a ten year service. There will be lots of Campaign DLC over that time. And plenty of opportunity to delve into side characters, including the Arbiter.
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> > > It would be a lot of work to do the assets, animations, and sounds… for what is a passionate, but small, part of the user base.
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> > > I think the Arbiter will eventually come to the Campaign… and the work there should be transferrable across to multiplayer. I think that’s when we will see Elites return to custom games.
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> > Always possible like I said they have already confirmed they won’t be playable and in the campaign they said they are very focused on the master chief so I doubt we will play as the arbiter hopefully we see him but not sure. Would love to see them in halo infinite somehow but really doubt they will be playable
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> Infinite is a ten year service. There will be lots of Campaign DLC over that time. And plenty of opportunity to delve into side characters, including the Arbiter.
Of course! And would love to see it! Just for me I don’t wanna get that expectation in my head and be let down but we will just see with time and hope we can get arbiter dlc I would absolutely love that I am a long time fan of the arbiter!
The only way i see Elites coming back is if enough people are willin to buy the dlc for em
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> The only way i see Elites coming back is if enough people are willin to buy the dlc for em
Maybe they could have Elite shaped armour with appropriate coatings… so you can have Spartan’s running around in half-yoinked cosplay.
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> It has been confirmed no playable elites in infinite. They said they want to focus on spartan vs Spartan
They been doing S vs S, I want something like invasion back like reach had
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> It would be a lot of work to do the assets, animations, and sounds… for what is a passionate, but small, part of the user base.
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> I think the Arbiter will eventually come to the Campaign… and the work there should be transferrable across to multiplayer. I think that’s when we will see Elites return to custom games.
Come now. Just how small do you think the Elite section of the player-base is? Why, I should think the fact that so many of these playable Elites posts keep popping up and all from different people, I might add, should serve as some indication that it isn’t as small as we think it might be, especially if this forum only represents a small part of the entire player base.
I think most of the third person animations and whatnot should already be present since Elites are in the campaign, and if the developers wanted the AI to be as fun and engaging as possible, they would also have given them the capability and animations for more unusual actions, which would naturally make implementing them as playable characters easier.
Now, I’m not saying it’s not a lot of work or it isn’t difficult, but rather that a fair amount of the work has already been done. Most of what remains would be a first person model and animations, as well some other third person animations that may not have a use in campaign, and maybe some other technical/miscellaneous things that I wouldn’t know anything about.
It’s probably still a lot, but not as much as it might be if Elites weren’t featured whatsoever. I suppose the question is, assuming Arbiter isn’t in the game already, whether an Arbiter/Elite campaign would be when the rest of the work is done, or earlier, and how long it might be until then.
Hey OP, there are no plans at the moment to add other playable races to Infinite but you’re welcome to add your thoughts to existing discussion thread 
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/6e35355aecdf4fd0acdaee3cc4156fd4/topics/sangheili-elites-in-new-trilogy-matchmaking/ff89aca2-5e7e-489b-98ae-c58513f99227/posts