My guess is they’re just replacing all the challenges similar to things like “earn X score in Quick Play”, “Play X Quick Play games”, and “Win X Quick Play games”.
So stuff like cindershot kills technically can’t be completed in EVERY playlist because of Tactical Slayer, but it still should allow us all to mostly only play in the lists we enjoy 
The trick is to imagine that the lobby is chill.
Sweat is 90% above the shoulders.
Make your own fun.
Updates to ranked aren’t happening tomorrow. They’ll happen on thursday the 10th
Unless:
Forge is completely borked
Custom games continue to go unfixed
BTB somehow breaks again
The game itself begins to crash on startup
The match XP doesn’t work as intended
All of these things are more likely to happen than the update launching with minimal issues.
Didnt 343 labeled the early release on mp as beta back last year??? … mp stayed and has been the same ever since…
The entire game MUST AT ALL TIMES maintain a connection with a Microsoft server, be it XboxLive or the Azure PlayFab, maybe even both,
If at any moment your internet connection is to be interrupted and loses connectivity even for just a moment your gaming session in Halo Infinite will end with the game quiting immediately with no progress saved.
Welcome to the Future of Gaming, is it not Glorious?
Except for the fact that games tend to frequently save as you go.
And any Forger worth their salt will be saving progress frequently. Especially if they know their internet is prone to drop outs.
And “just a moment”. I’m sure the connection protocols are a little better than that.
Plus the new “versioning” system of saves looks to be very robust.
And honestly - I’ve been Forging on/off for over a decade. Particularly smashing hours in Halo 5. I can’t remember ever losing a huge chunk of progress from a disconnection.
Yes, it was a poor attempt to mitigate backlash for the substandard product that was put out.
Yea I may have gotten a little bit overboard/dramatic on the necessity of having an “A++++” internet connection,
but it still remains that the game will not even boot without a Microsoft server check-in and then remain connected to a server to continue playing.
Old school offline LAN Halo is and will remain a distanced memory.
im all set for disappointment today.
bring it on 343.
Who knows. Ut 343 has broken something in game with each update launch was BTB, season 2 was the the headhunter achievement, and with a Forge Beta coming this update could possibly break something else.
We know that last time they tried fixed Ng it it took till January or mid February to fix.
Fingers crossed it goes smooth and starts the beggining of smooth faster updates and more content and features
we all secretly hope that but gotta be realistic.
aw damn. I have off, i was looking forward to it. lol…well thats ok i guess
I am optimistic. It will bring a lot of new features. If 343 will have more people and resources we’ll get splitscreen
anyone know when it goes live?
Depends on your timezone. I know it’s 12:00 CST
In 5hrs. For everyone.
https://twitter.com/Halo/status/1589664105069219841?s=20&t=PxFQ6Waw5bdEgTuWuTrSqQ
Time zone map.
It’s an hour earlier than I thought because the clocks went back - I forgot that shift happened in the spring.
Thanks, not sure why they can’t post that on the forum or as a waypoint post. twitter sucks.
Aren’t we supposed to get “the pit” from halo 3 out of forge mode in rotation for playlists?