… but I don’t think that it’s a bad game. On the contrary, Halo Infinite is a great game. I love the core of this game. It’s honestly my favourite gameplay under Halo 3 and ODST. However, objectively, Halo Infinite has failed in it’s main function, to bring Halo back to it’s former glory. Halo Infinite has had a massive drop in population. Halo Infinite tried so hard to follow trends with it’s monetization and a live service attitude and tried to upscale the game so much that all we have is a dry mess. Hell, it’s worse than what Halo 5 was regarding content. Of course, what the game looks and sounds like is great. The essence of Halo in these two things and it’s Campaign exsude the Halo that I remember. But it’s all so dry. Halo is back from the dregs of what felt like a piss-take of Titanfall with the Halo logo smeared on it. However, Halo Infinite, although unmistakingly being HALO, is on such a poor futting.
To survive and allow this game to drag itself into a good position, 343 must focus their all into the Multiplayer. They should, for now, ignore everything else. Ignore Theatre, Forge, Customs, Campaign and so on. This game needs new maps, new weapons, new modes, a good progression outside the BP that you actually need to grind for, an improved ranking system from what we currently have, and a small fracture event with one set of armour. They should just use assets from Halo 5 if they have to. This game needs new content fast to stay alive. MP is the most important part of this game and they should put their all into improving that finishing that. Then they need to go onto Forge and Customs (these two go hand in hand so I think that they should be done in a one-er.). Halo Infinite is a great foundation for an amazing game, yet that’s all that it is so far. People want to live in a house, not sleep in tents on that house’s foundations.
I don’t care for a BR mode personally, but I acknowledge that it’d be really simple to botch together as I described to drag more people into the game. Also, please don’t just ignore the entirety of what else I said to say “MmMmMmRrRr, Br Is ReAlLy BaD gRrRrRr”
I would argue that adding a BR mode wouldn’t detract from the game… ie it could fill the warzone type void in this game. However due to the fact that there seems to be an incapacity to bring just the basic features to this game, I am forced to agree with you that they certainly shouldn’t add a BR mode until they are able to at least give the current game the spit and polish it deserved to have when it released.
The netcode can’t even handle 8 players in a game without having crazy desync problems. Do you really think it will be able to handle a battle royale mode?
A) Good point
B) Imma just remove my comment on a Battle Royale as people clearly just focus on that rather than what I said in general.
C) “༼ づ ಠ_ಠ ༽づ”, I havn’t seen this emote before but I like it
I think adding coop however is also a decent thing to consider in terms of adding longevity to the campaign experience.
But I don’t disagree with the general sentiment. But at the moment I think everyone is really just interested to know what the roadmap of this game looks like. I for one am waiting for more clarification than the general waffle they are offering at the moment about offering a live service game and monitoring the feedback bla bla.
I think that the lack of just general features like adding server selection etc really has made me lose faith in the game in the short term. I doubt that I will boot this game again this year.
I mean when the game came out they made a big fuss about adding team slayer. I mean if it takes a month just to release a team slayer playlist then I wouldn’t hold my breath for any real substance to be added to this game.
yeah, I see what you mean with this. I, for one, don’t understand why 343 is having so much trouble in editing this game. I don’t get it, they made an new engine and they didn’t take it into consideration to make it more compatible to change???
It all seems like very very poor coding to me.
yeah, that’d also make sence. I mean, loads of high up staff left as well and now all they have are new people trying to figure out the code of their predecessor’s code. I mean, all of these problems are most likely just cause by poor staffing and possibly confusing code
It doesn’t matter what they do at this point. 343 majorly botched Infinite.
Let’s get real here. Look at the bugs the game has, and it’s been almost 6 months that they have been struggling just with that. Now look at how much they changed things that was completely unnecessary like collusion, etc… On top of it failed big time thinking they could turn Halo into a live service game that literally has barely any content and they are struggling just to add content.
On top of all that somehow thought a broken BP/shop was a great idea to base the entire game around, with a dab of Zelda to build off their campaign.
Game play means absolutely nothing when everything else in the game needs major work. 343 did what they wanted and as a result of it, we have a game that is more than obvious that 343 doesn’t know what they are doing let alone can handle.
Just no. Focusing on just 1 single thing is stupid. Bad enough that they lied about the progression system but to focus on multiplayer only would just be insulting.
The game should have not have been released yet and should have been delayed again. I don’t see why we should have a bare minimum Halo just because some people are too impatience for a finished game. All this reminds me is why I hate games that focus on BR and ‘live service’.
If the entire game is focused on 1 thing like BR then I may as well just uninstall the game.
Campaign has always been the core of Halo, without the campaign, this game could be anything… the campaign grounds it in the Halo universe. I think the problem is precisely that they didn’t release a very complete or interesting campaign, and that now they need to focus on updating that open world and adding more content to get us back into it.
if the goal was to make a good, complete halo game, than yes it failed.
if the goal was to sell a lot of MTs (what i think is the case) then i don’t think it failed, just by judging people using pay walled skins all the time. i think they made a lot of money.
the big problem is, the game being designed around MP and selling MTs and not around being fun. the campaign is just a side product of this as well. the game feels like it was designed by market researchers and not by game designers.
so in the long run maybe even the money goal won’t be met.
COD would disagree with you, especially depending on BR’s balancing and implementation within the game client. Not only does BR detract from resources that could potentially go towards further developing Arena, but if BR isn’t a separate client or carefully implemented in the Infinite client, then changes and balance in BR could alter or break the Multiplayer experience. Modern Warfare 2019 multiplayer suffered a lot from this especially as other COD games were integrated (though Halo shouldn’t have that problem.)
Yes they failing in every way to make a complete proper Halo game.
As for the MT side I’d say in the short term maybe but in the long term no because the population is going down so fast that I just don’t see why anyone would waste insane amounts of money on a possibly dead game since there’d be no way to brag about if there player base is suffering.
Basically 343i being greedy kind of backfired on them since this is supposed to be a 10 year plan and the population numbers are what I would expect from a very old game and in Halo Infinite’s prime is barely holding 2.5-5k in Steam Charts and is constantly dropping in activate Xbox player numbers too so I don’t know what 343i are thinking anymore since they clearly have damaged the Halo IP.
It also failed as a live service game. Dropping players is the worst thing though.
If 343 cant fix the netcode then its really bad for the future.
Sure the game has a nice ground but thats it. If it wasnt Halos name behind it no one would care and thats the truth.
And like that you’ve proved yourself a clown. Forge and Custom games SHOULD be prioritized, for if 343 is able ot actually get customs fully functional as well as Forge it may just well revitalize Infinite. Forge and Custom games are the replayability factors of Halo, NOT matchmaking despite what some may think. Forge and Custom games are a symbiotic relaitonship that offer endless amounts of FREE CONTENT.