You basically used your own logic to hurt your argument.
I seriously would rather see it die in a worst case scenario.
You name any BR game, I’ve played it, I have solo, duo, and squad wins, and I had 0 enjoyment every time. Battle Royale isn’t fun.
The original origin is actually ARMA 2 Battle Royale, and it is a trend. Just because it does well in some games doesn’t make it not a trend. It’s as much of a trend as when Wave based modes exploded, or MOBAs etc.
But here’s my opinion on why I don’t think they’ll work in Halo and yes I’ve played various BRs.
The game would be dominated by BRs and Snipers, not much reason to pick up any other weapons besides rockets and skewer if they allow vehicles. It’s the same reason the campaign doesn’t work with he weapon lockers. Pick a BR and you’re ready to go.
The vehicles are currently like paper.
There’s no upgrade system like scopes, flash hider or even stronger body armour like in other BRs.
Maybe if they added the Halo 5 alternatives to guns it could work on that level but still, it’d be dominated by the 2 guns mentioned above.
Unlike other games, there’s one gun per catagory in essence. One sniper, one AR, one shotgun etc.
Grappleshot would be king, although that’d be kinda fun like using it in campaign.
These are just a quick few off top of my head. I mean yeah, they could easily do it., Just make attrition bigger, but it’d just be way too shallow of a mode.
Really, just wait until Forge comes out and someone will make the mode, they did in 5.
Let me ask you this, would Halo work as a Rogue-like? It’s a similar thing but solo, if yes then it could work, if no, then no it can’t.
You’re pretty much wrong at every single point of your argument, but at this time I’m too lazy/tired to give you a full response. Just know that having Battle Rifles dominate the game doesn’t ruin battle royale, just like it doesn’t ruin BTB. The goal is always to finds yourself a better weapon. It’s literally a catchphrase of the series. Also, the vehicles being made of paper is probably a leftover article from their experiments with battle royales. In fact, it’s even more of a reason to assume a battle royale mode is on the way. And you’re just completely wrong about the ARMA thing. The ARMA mod was inspired by Minecraft Hunger Games.
That’s really just not true at all
The BR is a common weapon. Yeah they could make it rare but pretty much distance weapons win, and there aren’t that many in Halo. That and at least in other games you have a fighting chance with most weapons, in Halo, not really as a fair few are more utility weapons than killing machines.
And it was from Arma 2, as Minecraft Hunger games is slightly different and based on the Hunger Games books, whereas Battle Royale is based on the movie and was made by the same guy who made PUBG which blew up and helped make Fortnite which popularised the gamemode. What came out first doesn’t define what was the original inspiration.
And what experiments are your talking about?
Looks, if you’re not willing to explain how I’m wrong on each point that’s fine, but don’t just straight up have a blanket statement saying I’m wrong. I’m more than happy to have a conversation.
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OR more likely it could make things worse by wasting dev time and resources.
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Mate, a BR wouldn’t do anything about that. A LOT of people tried the game. Recently Microsoft said some bs about 20 million unique players. They just can’t retain the players, because the game is LACKING. When people complain, most people say “I like the game-play BUT…”.
The game is marred with a plethora of issues. Desync, terrible progression-system, a trash challenge system, a trash customization system, an extremely greedy store-front just to name a few.
My point is, even if they added a BR, they’d still have the same problem. Just adding a BR doesn’t fix ANY of the core issues, that is currently causing people to stop playing.
Perhaps they’d get more people trying it out, but they too would be dropping Halo: Infinite like the trash-potato it is. Just like A LOT of people has so far.
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They’re struggling to add playlists that have been in every halo before because of “UI limitations”. If they’re struggling to add old features, how are they going to implement a BR mode? Yea maybe in a few years this could be a thing. Right now, I just want forge and ranked slayer if that’s not too much to ask.
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i like to see more a newer version off the halo 5 warzone with some chance’s here and there but still has the 12 vs 12 option then see a battle royale mode
A Battle Royale with this game’s netcode isn’t going to save anything.
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Not seeing how adding Halo content hurts my argument. The argument is saving Infinite…how the hell does adding modes…hurt my argument.
My man, you don’t know Halo. “Boomer” argument? How old are you? 12? I don’t care if it’s been popular, it has no place in Halo. You also proved my point that it’s been a mainstream trend…so great job. This franchise has already tried emulating other series instead of innovating. Look what happened.
I could sit here and critique Battle Royales but I’m not going to when your reply is " yOuRe Ah bOoMeR" lol boy please. This game has positive reception IN THE FLIGHTS with no battle royale in sight. All they had to do was nail the landing and they didn’t. No one is craving that nonsense in Halo. You want that? To play Fortnite with those doofy dances or Apex.
2042 manages 120 players in a lobby with Jets, helis, tanks, robo dogs and etc at all times. 343 is struggling to manage a 24 player btb lobby with a brute chopper or gungoose occasionally spawning at times.
What makes you think they can manage a 100 player BR when they are struggling with 24 player BTB. That is 1/4th of 100 players in a BR they are struggling with to function properly.
Attrition is not a br lite 
not 100% even close, have you played Gears of war? Because if you did you would know for this gamemode they got it from Gears TDM and I’m sure someone will correct me that a different game had this mode before gears which is fine please correct because I only know this mode from Gears of War 3.
Thats is incorrect these so called boomers you claim all know for a fact if Halo really and desperately needs a battle royale to stay relevant then it shouldn’t have one at all.
Its like what RDJ said to Tom in Homecoming “If you are nothing without the suit than you shouldn’t have it.”
I think the issue is more that 343 would be dedicating more resources to building a game type that we do t want, instead of fixing their broken mess of a game like they should havedone before they released it.
me seeing someone say bring BR to halo always gets this question from me “how will you do it”. cause I dont see anyone playing as a strip down spartan on Zeta halo running around. plus with the meta of the game, they’ll just run around with an AR and call it a day. thing you could say well why not an ODST which makes it even worse cause then you’ll have to revamp everything to be more human, cause I dont think a melee from a ODST will be the same with spartans. I could also go into lore too, cause if they place it in Zeta halo, only a tiny pelican is all that you have. the bootcamp area that the Tutorial is in would be better suited since from the looks of it its off-halo, but now you need a new map. could go the route of halo4 where if i recall correctly, everything you did in PvP was in Wargames, but again, lorewise it would clash (I know people dont care about that bit, but there are some lore hungry players here)
if you could genuinely break down a BR, with gun spawning and mechanics and start loadouts and map and all that jazz, THEN i would agree. but just saying “BrInG Br, Br MaKe GuD GaMeS” you’re really not putting anything new on the table
And the desperation that follows rather than having an ounce of constructive criticism is fueling this idea that the game needs stuff like a BR to “save it”.
- Bug Fixes
- Anti-Cheat
- Region Select
- Maps, modes, content
- Crossplatform segregation options
- Storefront rationalization
In that order, the game will grow.
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And my point is that is an unreasonable fear. All these fixes aren’t one guy going down a list. It’s groups of teams doing different things at different times. Everyone just keeps saying that this would prevent other problems with the game from getting fixed, but I haven’t seen anyone give a good reason for why that makes sense. Do y’all actually think it’s one team going down a list and fixing everything? These are all being worked on simultaneously, and so would the BR. And if everyone thinks MS doesn’t have the ability to hire more employees or even bring in developers from other studios (Y’all ever spent $70B?), you’re just living in a fantasy world. And that’s besides the fact that they have very clearly experimented with a battle royale already, which means a large legwork of all the “hurdles” y’all keep bringing up have probably already been mapped out. They probably then backed out to appease what they thought was the majority of the player base, and left a mostly incomplete, but accounted for project.
i think we both going to disagree on some points what to be done first.
- bug fixes.
- chance the crossplay settings from force to option.
- region select
- maps,modes,content
- anti-cheat.
- storefront rationalization.
i going also to explane why i make anti cheat on point 5 and not point 2 since anti cheat software are useless and more pointless in F2P game’s since there always find something to bypass it and make then useless again.
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Whichever way you spin in it’s still important that these changes are implemented before we jump the shark with a BR.
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