With Custom Games being arguably one of the biggest features in Halo, which is only due to forge will this be damaging to Halo in long run.
In Halo 5 they delayed forge and then infection. I believe this hurt the social part of Halo 5 significantly.
If Halo doesn’t have the ability to create great custom games or a battle royal. I truly think it will hurt the game as a whole.
For the longest time I didn’t think Halo needed a BR and I don’t think it will need one for awhile. Custom Games create fun stupid and even scary many games. Forge has gotten so advanced it’s you creating your own game within a game. Personally now that other games have tried this still haven’t reached the same level as Halo yet.
I do think a battle royal should come to the game and if not that’s even more potential customers lost. Pros with a BR it might help with retaining players and bring new ones.
I think it’ll hurt the custom game community for a time since a lot of those who would frequent customs in Halo 5 & MCC have probably moved on to playing Infinite right now
I really hope when Forge launches a custom games browser will launch alongside it, that’s probably wishful thinking though.
I was pretty bummed when I first learned that the game would not release with forge mode, and again when it recently was delayed. Some of my best memories of Halo with friends, and really some of my favorite moments in any video games ever were in custom games. Spending time to make a map and seeing some of the amazingly creative maps the community made in combination with manipulating the game mode settings into something entirely new is a big part of what set Halo apart from other shooters for me. Being able to make a theoretically endless amount of different maps and game modes will absolutely promote player longevity, so I hope the delay doesn’t hurt it too bad
I’m so glad I get to wait 9 months for a feature that even Halo 5 only delayed for 2 months (although their Forge dedicated maps were 4 months after that). Forge, map design, and gametype creation are my favorite things to do in Halo, and I’ve been thinking of going back to Reach because I can do more things in that game than I can in H:I.
H:I’s gameplay is good, but it’s not so good that it can launch with 4 playlists, broken customs, no browser, and no forge and keep me around for 9 straight months.
It stinks that 343 prioritizes competitive multiplayer over having a fun game. They never fully listen. Like I’m gold 5 right now most players will not be onyx. So once you get as ranked as your ever going to be you will not play ranked and probably stick with social. Eventually that will get boring to cause it’s the same games over and over. Your now also lacking a goal. Like my current goal is to get to platinum. But if I get stuck in platinum and can’t progress at all I’m going to play social. But now I have no goal and am playing just for fun. It’s going to get boring. We need a forge flight or something like I would have been fine with halo 5 forge with some improvements. Like I’m happy it’s supposed to be twice as good. However what good is it if I have to wait almost a year for it. The biggest thing it’s been delayed twice what’s stopping it being delayed again. I think we need to see at least a preview not a leak an actual preview. I also think we should be able to beta test it. Like just have disclaimer that it’s not complete. Like why did they flight multiplayer but not forge or custom games. I can tell you the only reason Iv been this die hard if a fan since halo 3 was forge mode. I loved halo 1 but I got bored eventually. Halo 3 and reach forge made me a die hard fan like seeing the forge reveal for reach made me so excited for the halo. Halo infinite we have leaks and a beta multiplayer. It’s mind blowing that there is no preview for forge and no flight. Fix this 343.