I’ve had some fun playing the Halo Infinite flight and I’m very happy with the direction the game is taking with the weapons sandbox, visual style and overall gameplay (except armor coatings but that horse is already dead).
Only playing against bots in 4v4 slayer feels like a very safe flight to run and I’m not sure what exactly they’re trying to test. If they were just testing the bots then surely they could have done 1 day of bots only before testing PVP. I don’t feel like they actually want to test progression because we don’t earn XP for kills and medals. The UI has that many glaring bugs that they would easily find in internal testing. And if they wanted us to test balance or server performance surely they would have us playing other players and different gamemodes.
That leaves hardware compatibility as the only thing I could think of that they’re targeting with this flight. Regardless, it feels like a missed opportunity to collect more data and feedback on more than just bot slayer. It’s a far cry from the Halo 5 Beta which was 11 months before release, had PVP, less obvious UI bugs and introduced breakout.