So in the past before the delay we know that it was pretty much going to be a no because of the pandemic and other things getting in the way. We are now just a couple months away from the new Xbox release and halo infinite being delayed until 2021. Because of this delay, do you find that it was more likely to have a flight testing? I find it very plausible that this will happen. 343 industries has already confirmed that they are going to try their best to have a insider build released for the public and that was before the delay, now that a delay is currently in session, I believe an announcement will happen soon! Then there’s a chance that I could be wrong LOL. What do you think?
I can’t imagine a reason not to have a flighting program now that the game has been delayed. We have the time, and the game play reveal suggests 343 is close to ready to releasing a flighting program. The question for me is… will the flighting program focus on MP only? Or will we have some campaign game play to experiment with as well? It would be cool to get a little campaign teaser to play with before the game is released. If anything, it would be a nice consolation for all of us who were excited to play the game in 2020. Give us a small taste of the campaign since we can’t play the full game until 2021.
As much as I hope they start flighting, I think we’re still pretty far away. MCC is still 2 major titles away from completion regarding the PC port, Infinite’s Steam page is just a barebones placeholder listing English as the only localization and doesn’t show its 3rd-party account requirements (Xbox Live) at all, just compare it with MCC’s Steam page. More importantly, they didn’t even give us a meaningful time frame, “delayed till 2021” is a very vague announcement. Considering how heavily both 343i and Xbox advertised Infinite as the launch title for next-gen Xbox, I suspect this delay was not just due to software polishment (as was the case for Cyberpunk’s delays, which announced solid new dates each time) but made for some pretty significant overhauls after the flood of feedback from the community’s gameplay reveal response. If this is the case, then the flights aren’t happening soon.
As for the content of flights, I don’t think we’ll get actual campaign levels. But being (at least semi-) open-world, maybe we’ll get to try out brand new multiplayer modes leveraging this design?