A while ago I would have said “Sure, as a free spin off centered around ODSTs” but after having played a few of these games I’m leaning more toward a hard no. They’re just boring and the complete opposite of what makes Halo fun.
I definitely do not want battle royale in Halo Infinite. If I want to play Battle Royale I’ll play one of the many games out there. I would say the majority of people that play Halo play it for either the story or because they like the arena style multiplayer of play aka everyone starts off even, no loadouts, find weapons on maps etc oh and for forge. Too much of the game would have to cater to battle royale just like Halo 5 did with Warzone and as far as I’m concerned, that was a terrible idea.
As I’ve said before, if Microsoft/343i want to make a Halo Battle Royale game, fine… just make a separate game completely. This way they can put all their time and resources into it, like all these stupid weapons skins, emotes and dances and crap and not have to worry about so many other things. Maybe even make it free to play like all the others.
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> > I don’t think that’s a good idea, if someone can make it in custom games and have it stay in custom games I wouldn’t care, but I don’t want it to be a featured playlist.
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> If it happened naturally, that would be a different story. Halo 3’s Infection came from Halo 2’s Zombies, which was a community created gametype. Grifball was literally made for a Red vs Blue video to advertise a new map pack, and it has now been included in every Halo game since. If there were enough community-created Battle Royale maps being played in Custom Games, 343i might want to included it in a matchmaking playlist of its own, but that depends entirely on the players. There’s no point shoehorning it in if the community doesn’t prove it popular to begin with.
Grifball and infection both have enough changes in them to say they are original to the Halo series. They don’t copy anything else already in games enough to call them a blatant rip-off. However battle-royal is a already existing mode in many games that’s been copied dozens of different ways. So if halo did put it in there game they would be just another trend follower. Halo used to create trends, putting a royal in the game would also devide the community even more. So even if a large part of the community wanted it and made it in customs games, adding it too its own playlist would not be a good idea.
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> I would like a halo battle royale plz.
Go back to COD
Battle royale in Halo? This idea sucks.
I dont know why this idea is being so poorly recieved .
and alot of comments are like “no” without explaining or providing reason.
Look, I know we dont want to hop on the bandwagon and we want to keep halo unique.
when call of duty first said it was going to do battle royale… “this is battle royale, the call of duty way”
… I was like oh yes, massive maps and battles with modes like domination, but also with vehicles… actually thats kinda like battle feild … and then they literally did a pubg style battle royale and I was turned off.
Since battle royale implies 1 life hunger game style mode… often small team against all… or free for all… I guess Im going to avoid using the term.
Large scale multiplayer is definetly something im going to push for. Halo has the sandbox for it… Vehicles, and scenery…
16 vs 16 or 32 vs 32 invasion sounds pretty good if you ask me.
it so funny how much hate that BR gets, especially for Halo. yet when you look at the most played games today most of the top games all have BR or are dedicated BR. if done correctly the halo would win the BR competition. so if all you haters out the say it shouldn’t happen then why is BR one of the most popular game types out there right now, and has been since PUBG hit the market a couple years ago
Everyone is talking about how stupid a BR would be but in reality, you could make a BR style mode in forge/custom games already
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> it so funny how much hate that BR gets, especially for Halo. yet when you look at the most played games today most of the top games all have BR or are dedicated BR. if done correctly the halo would win the BR competition. so if all you haters out the say it shouldn’t happen then why is BR one of the most popular game types out there right now, and has been since PUBG hit the market a couple years ago
Anything done correctly, would win the competition.
Now, the question is, what does a “correctly made Halo BR” require? And what does that mean for the rest of the game?
Warzone in Halo 5 most likely cost the game Developer made BTB maps, and Forge got released way later than the game release date.
Weapon balancing, health balancing, does BRs even feature regenerating health? Would that mean health packs back for standard gameplay?
Would equipment be back? Or would we pick up weapons only? And drive vechiles? What kind of map(s) would it be? Would there be more than one massive?
Pricing, Fortnite is free to play, and so is Apex, probably quite a few others as well. Now, if Infinite features BR, who would give up their current favourite free game, to go buy an atleast 60 bucks game, for a single mode in that game? Stand alone Halo BR? Be my guest. Tacked on multiplayer mode for Infinite, too much at stake.
Not to mention the public image of, yet again, latching onto trends.
How about i343 make a Halo which would replace the current BR trend?
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> > it so funny how much hate that BR gets, especially for Halo. yet when you look at the most played games today most of the top games all have BR or are dedicated BR. if done correctly the halo would win the BR competition. so if all you haters out the say it shouldn’t happen then why is BR one of the most popular game types out there right now, and has been since PUBG hit the market a couple years ago
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> Anything done correctly, would win the competition.
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> Now, the question is, what does a “correctly made Halo BR” require? And what does that mean for the rest of the game?
> Warzone in Halo 5 most likely cost the game Developer made BTB maps, and Forge got released way later than the game release date.
> Weapon balancing, health balancing, does BRs even feature regenerating health? Would that mean health packs back for standard gameplay?
> Would equipment be back? Or would we pick up weapons only? And drive vechiles? What kind of map(s) would it be? Would there be more than one massive?
> Pricing, Fortnite is free to play, and so is Apex, probably quite a few others as well. Now, if Infinite features BR, who would give up their current favourite free game, to go buy an atleast 60 bucks game, for a single mode in that game? Stand alone Halo BR? Be my guest. Tacked on multiplayer mode for Infinite, too much at stake.
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> Not to mention the public image of, yet again, latching onto trends.
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> How about i343 make a Halo which would replace the current BR trend?
I couldn’t agree more with this, especially the bold part, well said!
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> > it so funny how much hate that BR gets, especially for Halo. yet when you look at the most played games today most of the top games all have BR or are dedicated BR. if done correctly the halo would win the BR competition. so if all you haters out the say it shouldn’t happen then why is BR one of the most popular game types out there right now, and has been since PUBG hit the market a couple years ago
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> Anything done correctly, would win the competition.
>
> Now, the question is, what does a “correctly made Halo BR” require? And what does that mean for the rest of the game?
> Warzone in Halo 5 most likely cost the game Developer made BTB maps, and Forge got released way later than the game release date.
> Weapon balancing, health balancing, does BRs even feature regenerating health? Would that mean health packs back for standard gameplay?
> Would equipment be back? Or would we pick up weapons only? And drive vechiles? What kind of map(s) would it be? Would there be more than one massive?
> Pricing, Fortnite is free to play, and so is Apex, probably quite a few others as well. Now, if Infinite features BR, who would give up their current favourite free game, to go buy an atleast 60 bucks game, for a single mode in that game? Stand alone Halo BR? Be my guest. Tacked on multiplayer mode for Infinite, too much at stake.
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> Not to mention the public image of, yet again, latching onto trends.
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> How about i343 make a Halo which would replace the current BR trend?
Yes , alot of what you say is correct, but like someone else has mentioned, we can practically make battle royale in forge mode already. What I actually am looking for is for 343 to provide the tools to allow us to do the balancing, the mechanics, the specifics in forge… but that functionality is extremely limited thanks to the player limit cap in custom games. Expanding it to 16 vs 16 or 32 vs 32 or 64 vs 64 capacity… and adding a custom game search would most certainly scratch the itch that many call battle royale… they already have a 12 vs 12 in warzone… no?
Those player sizes dont have to exist in default game modes.
343 doesnt have to make a game mode dedicated for those numbers…
and the community can save 343 the money by solving how to work battle royale in halo and make it work well… and then later on 343 can just adopt the idea further down the road if its a successful idea.
I’m really indifferent to a BR game type, but dropping as a squad of ODSTs seems like a really badass thing to me.
I think the Halo franchise has incredible potential to make a great BR with its own charm. The franchise already has many things in place mechanically and lore wise that would allow it to mesh seamlessly with the BR sub-genre. Whether its through Spartans (diving down like they did in the beginning H5 cinematic) or ODST from drop pods, it’d be an experience that still feels distinctly Halo.
Now, if we take 343 at their word then Infinite will at least not be getting a BR at launch which I think is the smart thing to do. However, I can easily see one of two things happening afterwords. Either they’ll make all the tools available for people to make their own convincing BR and people will probably make it popular enough to where they implement it more fully as an official ‘gametype’. Or, down the road they create a free-to-play standalone Halo BR with a lot of the same mechanics of Infinite. Similar to what CoD-(MW) did with Warzone.
Personally, I’d be fine with either of these routes as I think a Halo BR would actually be a lot of fun and be different enough from the competition to carve out a niche for itself.
I think its important to note that 343/Microsoft is experimenting with a ‘season pass’ for MCC so I think thats more of an experiment for future monetary schemes. Such as for a Halo BR.
Could be amazing, but not enough people seem to want to play it. It will definitely die quickly.
Battle royale is a very popular game mode and halo has a lot of stuff that can be in a massive battle royale
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> I dont know why this idea is being so poorly recieved .
> and alot of comments are like “no” without explaining or providing reason.
>
> Look, I know we dont want to hop on the bandwagon and we want to keep halo unique.
> when call of duty first said it was going to do battle royale… “this is battle royale, the call of duty way”
> … I was like oh yes, massive maps and battles with modes like domination, but also with vehicles… actually thats kinda like battle feild … and then they literally did a pubg style battle royale and I was turned off.
>
> Since battle royale implies 1 life hunger game style mode… often small team against all… or free for all… I guess Im going to avoid using the term.
>
> Large scale multiplayer is definetly something im going to push for. Halo has the sandbox for it… Vehicles, and scenery…
> 16 vs 16 or 32 vs 32 invasion sounds pretty good if you ask me.
Well, for one, BR games usually have most of their focus, if not all of it on the BR segment. Which means if Infinite gets BR, that means that at least 50-60% of resources will need to be committed to BR. Meaning the campaign will probably be shoddy, the overall matchmaking experience will suffer, all so that we can have a (in MY opinion) boring game mode where we all drop into a map, get immediately picked off and have to requeue again, or run around looking for 4 people on a map large enough the Pillar of Autumn could probably park on it with the In Amber Clad, and the Savannah side by side.
BR also doesn’t really fit with the style that Halo runs. Halo has almost always been an arena shooter, not a drop in weapon scavenger survival game. Quite frankly, BR isn’t really interesting imo, never has been, not when Minecraft did it and most certainly not when Fortnite did it. And there are so many other BR games out there, why do we need to toss Halo into the ring? It’s already crowded enough in there with Apex, Fortnite, CoD, etc.
Certainly those other games have possibly a healthy flow of players constantly playing, but I’m almost fairly certain that around here that won’t be the case. The thing is, a lot of people don’t seem to care for the idea. This means that it’s probably pretty likely that not a lot of people will play it if it comes out. If 343 is as smart as I want to believe they are, then they’re not going to waste time and resources on a game type or mode or whatever that might not get a lot of attention. In fact, they’ve recently been cutting down the playlists that don’t have a certain number of players on it regularly.
Also, there are plenty of people on here that have explained time and time again why they don’t want a Halo with BR in it. While a lot of people do just express their disdain without explanation, most of those who did explain at one point have simply turned to just saying no because we’ve had a few people make topics like this one.
Maybe if it had unique twists or aspects to it that none of the other BR games have. If Halo Infinite has BR in it, it better be a unique take on the genre, and it needs to retain what makes Halo fun. Maybe it could have even starts, but players just find weapons across the maps, who knows. If it’s not a unique experience, then you may as well just let the forge community handle it instead.
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> > Although I don't think it "needs" it, I would LOVE to see Halo Battle Royale. I do think the sniper would need a nerf in some way for this mode considering how easy it is to use a sniper in Halo compared to some other battle royale counter-parts. Now that I think about it, a lot of the weapons would probably have to be tweeked for this mode considering how many 1 shot kill weapons there are in Halo.
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> > Hopefully if it's not released with Infinite, we will get it some day.
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> I agree. I don't think Halo needs Battle Royale, but done right it could be an amazing add on or stand alone game.
No just no battle royal is ruining most games as after a while it gets plagued with try hards and overly competitive players causing the normal players like myself to get annoyed, if halo did one I would stop playing.
edit: I mention to quote just a deadly flamingo but I quoted eviltedi as well.
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> > > Although I don't think it "needs" it, I would LOVE to see Halo Battle Royale. I do think the sniper would need a nerf in some way for this mode considering how easy it is to use a sniper in Halo compared to some other battle royale counter-parts. Now that I think about it, a lot of the weapons would probably have to be tweeked for this mode considering how many 1 shot kill weapons there are in Halo.
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> > > Hopefully if it's not released with Infinite, we will get it some day.
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> > I agree. I don't think Halo needs Battle Royale, but done right it could be an amazing add on or stand alone game.
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> No just no battle royal is ruining most games as after a while it gets plagued with try hards and overly competitive players causing the normal players like myself to get annoyed, if halo did one I would stop playing.
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> edit: I mention to quote just a deadly flamingo but I quoted eviltedi as well.
What games are getting ruined because of Battle Royale ? Also, just about every competitive game gets plagued with try hards, it’s not something you can avoid. Are you going to stop playing all games because of try hards ?
Battle Royale isn’t going to happen in Halo Infinite. Please remember that!