The campaign better have expansions

[TheAIone0ne]

@Rampage116

That’s nice. I shouldn’t have to read a novel to understand what’s going on in this game.

Isnt the entire Halo Lore based on Novels? Not a lot of story is explained during games unless you pay attention all the time to dialogue, cutscenes and environmental story-telling. Halo 1 launches with no explanation at all, you’re some badass green dude fighting scary blue dudes. As the game goes on you learn a little bit more, by the end you have a slight idea of how the universe works. Then you read books like Contact Harvest and Fall of Reach and get a near perfect idea of how it works. The more books you read, the better you can enjoy the games. Your lack of devotion ruins the game for you.

[MBT808]

Better than halo 5 where you had to watch a series, read numerous comics, listen to a podcast, read at least 8 full novels, play spartan ops from halo 4, and play several other games in the series to understand the characters and a majority of the plot elements.

[UniSectorian]

SPOILER

If anything they explained, was just how Cortana lost the fight, Halo ring was destroyed, and stuff.

It didn’t explain what happened to all the characters of Halo 5 or even Halo Wars 2. Like was this during or after or before Halo wars 2?

[UrbaneRocket495]

How she lost the fight doesn’t even make sense. How’d she get from being in the super internet to being tied to a ring. What happened to all the other ai in the domain?

Then again the created were set up to be dar too powerful. I don’t think they’d be able to resolve them properly.

[Knightinggale96]

@SweetTRIX

Given that they have functionally released the campaign as a standalone title I would say that if the next handful of campaign expansions aren’t free they’d be making a huge mistake. Strictly from a marketing perspective, they’ve kind of committed themselves to providing free content until they drop a major title update, whatever form that takes.

After seeing how they monetized the f2p aspect of Halo Infinite I highly doubt campaign expansions will be free. Maybe they’ll give everyone that’s a Gamepass Ultimate subscriber free access to them, but I seriously doubt that they’ll be flat out free for everyone in general.

[MBT808]

Don’t forget forge monetization is probably coming too. I’m expecting it at this point to have some sort of forge object bundle to sell.

[SweetTRIX]

@UrbaneRocket495

It pretty much handles all the explaining. Anything not explained simply hasn’t been told yet

I’d have to disagree completely there. If you consider how 5 ended, and that the main enemy of Infinite is a pull from the "Wars’ series and other expanded U stories, what Infinite does explain yaddah-yaddah’s over a bunch of details.

I’ve yet to listen to all the audio logs, and hopefully there is explanation there, but I doubt those short clips are gonna fill in all the gaps. It doesn’t render the game unplayable by any stretch, but this has been a consistent shortfall by 343i where the campaign direction has been concerned.