First off, congratulations on your launch!
Im sure many people will agree, this game looks amazing! Sadly thats where it ends.
There are some pretty glaring issues with Infinite right now and now your back from dropping Halo to launch before rushing out the door it would be fantastic if we can get some idea on whats being done to polish the turd so to speak.
Lets start with the obvious.
Big Team Battle. Its broken. It has been for a month or so. Holidays aside, there is no excuse why this wasn’t at least removed from the playlist. Instead you chose to let it kick people from games all willy nilly and then eventually ban them for trying to play a -Yoink!- listed game mode. Who ever thought to implement this ban, kudos to you… never has such hatred for a playerbase been displayed until now.
Knowing BTB is fooked you left challenges in that you had to pay real money to exchange so they could be completed on one of the gametypes that loads. What the actual Fluff.
The netcode is the playlist that allow you to play and wont ban you for something that is entirely the developers fault, is shocking. How do you develop a game WITH ITS SOLE INTENTION OF BEING AN ONLINE SHOOTER and then balls up the netcode so bad. Honestly, I’m shocked you haven’t leaned into this mistake with all your girth and released a $20 voice pack that says this like “Round a corner” or “through the floor”, when your servers has defecated itself and the deysnc is off the charts.
The balancing is rough to put it politely, you have tried to shoe horn in so many useless alien weapons that are totally forgettable, that one that fires red plasma in an arc for example… Its useless, no one likes it, you can go ahead and just remove that thing and no one would even notice.
The pistol is wildly OP. Honestly, i cant work out why the UNSC even bothered developing weapons after that cause they all suck in comparison… especially the wish version of the DMR. Like i can imagine soldiers on the front lines being issued a commando and knowing deep down they must have done something to deserve it like drowning kittens or something.
Arena shooters should be balanced, with a sprinkling of power weapons thrown in to people to contest. Instead we get a bulldog vs a Battle Rifle on launch pad… was it bring a bag of crack to work day when weapon placements were decided?
Behemoth. A map so bad, it should be used as an example in bad map design for first year students. This map doesn’t have one redeeming quality, not a single one. I cant believe you paid someone to come up with that, i could of snapped a photo of a chocolate log floating around some used bog roll and it would have been better received than that map. I bet who ever designed that map puts milk in their tea before the hot water.
Fire him, he wont be surprised. In fact, he is surprised he is still receiving a pay cheque as is.
The store, unsurprisingly actually works… letting it be super clear where 343 priorities lie. $20 for an insult? Sure im dumb as fluff, that seems like a good deal, but ive already spent my dorras on my favourite flavoured crayons.
But yeah the graphics are amazing. Its clear to see what took 5 years to make and another 10 planned to fix the mess it is.
Well done on a (for a 343 game anyway) Successful Launch!
