Honestly there’s really no point in lamenting over this game anymore, it’s completely unrecoverable at this point. After doing some research, it seems Infinite is PEAKING at 6k concurrent players on Steam, while averaging around 2-4k.
Compound that with the fact that we’ve only gotten 2 new maps since launch (only one of which is in normal rotation), still haven’t gotten co-op campaign, won’t get Forge till well into 2023, and it’s clear that Infinite is a complete and utter failure.
If you read the aforementioned and still don’t see the writing on the wall, look at how many higher ups have straight up left the company. They know the ship is going down. It’s really unfortunate because Infinite’s core gameplay is great, but 343 are just woefully incompetent and/or dgaf.
I guess it’s time to switch back to MCC. A sad day indeed.
Yeah pretty much. Radio silence from the dev team, missed deadlines, straight up lies and gas lighting, the game doesn’t function sometimes yet the store has worked even before day 1.
And nobody talks about or plays Infinite anymore lol
Sadly ive stopped playing H:I and went back to MCC since there is more to do. Ive been hearing alot of rumors that make me hopeful for this game but they wont be implemented till maybe after Christmas 2022 so im just playing other games till then
Clearly, you don’t remember H5’s release where it was hemorrhaging players until its Massive multiplayer update 6 months after release. Followed by yet another decline until they ramped up social play with party playlists like grifball, snipers, infection, fiesta, and the tiered warzone modes with heroic and mythic. Live service games can come back along as the studio goes all in. Just look at destiny, Bungie’s extremely volatile IP, and its live service.
Now I am not saying nor debating the fact that the game feels dead. Lack of communication or updates from the studio, paired with the abnormal amount of pairing with the same players over and over again. Which I speculate has more to do with the game SBMM parameters than population. However, taking one chunk of data as absolution is nieve as we don’t have any numbers from the Xbox console base nor the Xbox PC app which both have the game for free and are the more likely platforms players would use. Now though we will never know unless 343i tells us. We can look at some rough numbers in the API. If we look at the total number of ranked players for season 2 it’s 185K now maybe not congruent we can speculate that the 13K onyx players have played substantially this season to gain the rank proving that your numbers ar inaccurate by a substantial amount.
True the amount of content is lacking you won’t hear me argue against that I for one can’t stand the fact. Nothing has yet to be missed on the road map and Idk where you are getting this forge statement of late 2023 as it’s projected for September and no other evidence at least to my knowledge has been given to the differ on top of that if you look at the playlists map rotations its clear both maps are well int rotation on lots of playlists.
If I can’t get east coast ranked matches outside prime time, the game’s not doing great.
And… I can’t get east coast ranked matches (diamond/onyx) on weekday afternoons within 5 minutes. There sure as heck are not 13k onyx players in the active halo playerbase right now, I’ll tell you that.
Still fun in the evenings though, even if most folks have moved on.
H5 was never in this bad of shape until way later in its life. It always had people sticking around for Warzone, Firefight, etc (all of which were out and functioning at this time in the lifecycle).
Those are worldwide stats and NA has 4 server zones so again It’s my theory that the matchmaking parameters are more to blame than the population total. Again parameters include things like Server location, Individual ping, MMR, CSR, Population, etc. Not to mention just because 13K is there doesn’t mean you have access to all 13K due to ping and server location and your MMR. An onyx 1350 with an MMR of 1400 more than likely will never match with an onyx with an MMR of 800. My point is you cant definitely say this game is dead because of X. There are way too many unknowns.
Halo Infinite might have a low player population but it’s still got a pulse. It’s a weak, laughing stock of a pulse, but it’s there I guess. This game needs a few hits from a defibrillator ASAP.
343 brought on them selves by making it free to play and with all the micro transactions and all the stupid cosmetics that don’t belong and releasing the game not 100% complete and with all the bugs and glitches. What the game needs is a complete relaunch
The game needs to be 100% complete on relaunch
No Free to Play except through game pass only
NO micro transactions NO battle Pass bring back the halo reach style unlockable system
4, NO bugs or glitches
A ranking system where everyone starts out on bronze and has to work their way up with seasonal resets and multiple ranked game modes like slayer,swatt and free for all ect
Add all the missing traditional weapons and some new weapons
Add a diverse collection of maps both old and new
No stupid cosmetics that don’t belong and don’t go with the art style and are out of place
1 armor core
Playable elites
11.dual wielding
The option to turn off and on cross play
A good anti cheat like I said multiple times b4 I’m pretty sure Microsoft a trillion dollar software company can make a good anti cheat software probably the best anti cheat software of all time
The traditional red team vs. blue team multi player and if they are gonna keep the armor coatings just make it where armor coatings can only be used with certain teams like the red armor coatings can only be used with the red team and the blue armor coatings can only be used with the blue team etc.
The traditional color customization system
The traditional emblem customization system
No battle royal mode
No into video b4 every match
All black traditional. Under suits on all spartans
The halo reach customization system
Go check out some of my forms I posted on here like the the perfect halo game
They’re leaks of tons of planned content, maps, game types, 8 weapons, forge canvasses, all this sounded awesome until you realize how long the plan to release all of it is 4 years.
I work 5 twelve hour shifts in a row and my two off days I spent playing God of War 2018 on my PC.
There’s my excuse.
I at least made sure to get the Locus set.
They must improve and listen to their community. I continue to enjoy the Multi and even the Campaign, but this one fell short for me. Very short and that they put bosses and very good unpublished things.
For example Cinema os Crashed. Is very dissapointment.
so im just playing other games till then