I was playing Infinite with some friends last night and one of them asked where firefight was and another one didn’t know what it was at all. I explained to him that it was basically Halo’s version of zombies from COD, because that’s what he’s familiar with, and it got me thinking. COD releases zombies alongside its full game releases, not with their f2p modes. Do you think we’ll see the same thing with Infinite?
They’ve made a lot of comments about your multiplayer Spartan being part of the universe and having their own stories, so it really wouldn’t surprise me if they made firefight (or a similar mode) only available to those who got the campaign. I could definitely see them taking another shot at something like Spartan Ops and trying to tie some storytelling elements in with whatever the PvE mode ends up being.
At the end of the day, it could be another incentive to get people to go out and buy the campaign and, on top of that, want to spend more on microtransactions so their Spartan looks exactly how they want in this new mode and maybe even cutscenes if they go a Spartan Ops route.