What do you think made the population drop?

Lack of things to do.
Am I the only one who has no challenges to do?
I believe I should have some challenges as I haven’t finished the Fiesta challenges yes (as far as I can tell).
I’m a little confused about having no challenges at level 80.
It would be great if we got a few credits for completing weekly challenges or specific challenges. Or if we could unlock skins after x amount of kills with x weapon

BTB being broken. I can’t search for games. if you youtube ‘big team battle broken’ you will see someone going over a fix that doesn’t work. in the video it appears they don’t know it’s isolated to the playlist. i’m sure that will kill a population for a game. some people only play bigt team, some people only play FFA, etc. With BTB broke that’s a huge chunk of the population missing. some of us can’t be bothered trying another playlist

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The multiplayer maps are subpar and not enough of them… Not enough multiplayer game modes. The campaign was pretty lack luster as well. Not saying Infinite is a bad game but just doesn’t shine every well out the box. Oh and probably the worse progression system ever and the stuff in the battle pass is really just meh stuff.

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Right, seriously I can’t earn credits in the game, even if they capped it at 2000 credits a month is still grind for that.

Than let us. Uy stuff individually from the bundle…

Granted I’m never buying a coating as they are not unviersal.

But damn the progression sucks, not having any secondary progression with cosmetic unlocks I mean it’s a fun game for like maybe 1-4 rounds tops after that, off tondo other stuff or play other games.

Halo Infinite is not a play all weekend type of game for me it alike check in get my daily Gamepass reward points check out

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Very meh stuff.

Hell even if they gave me credits to earn in game I still wouldn’t buy an armor coating, since they are locked to the cores

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Current peak is about 48k in the last 24 hours with about 31k having played in the last 30 minutes and that’s just Steam which makes up only I think it was stated about 35%+ of overall players with Xbox being about 55% and the rest being Microsoft store. (MintBlitz did some guesstimating)

The reason for the steep drop from about 255k to what our numbers are now is not really a secret. When a game first drops the hype it built up draws all kinds of crowds to try it out and then they kind of disperse back to what they play constantly. Events of course have some spike in numbers (Tenrai brought back about an extra 10k). But it’s not really something to worry about, most games face this issue, Reach faced it, Halo 3 likely faced it.

Also, Americans possibly make up most of the population, so during off hours you’re going to see super low counts. Whether this is because of a lack of interest in other countries or some places blocking it from being distributed there I can’t say.

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No but id assume even less people are playing on xbox or similar. There is a reason they haven’t had a player count/population in the game since halo 3

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  1. Backwards design in gameplay instead of building on Halo 5’s traversal mechanics
  2. Equipment being picks ups on the map
  3. Warzone not being brought forward with all the knowledge learned from prior mistakes = solid casual mode to balance out the “sweatfest” that is Arena.
  4. Big Team Battle not functioning or having enough content when it does.
  5. INVASION not ever returning
  6. Ranked and Quick Play having different Loadouts and weapon settings…quick play is practice…it should match what the player is judged on in ranked.
  7. Ranked starts being Battle Riffle only and not even a pistol isn’t the way to go IMO. Give us the sidekick.
  8. Lack of playlists equals lack of variety…cry’s of “sweatfest” are due to no casual modes
  9. Lack of Voting or multi select ala Titanfall 2
  10. Lack of customization and PEACE MEALING armor out…go full armor for the store and allow us to custom paint for FREE after purchasing FULL ARMOR SETS.
  11. Lack of co op, Unacceptable…game should have just been pushed back
  12. Lack of forge, unacceptable …If the game had more maps and modes this could be given time BUT to launch bare bones and not have forge is a huge mistake

10 YEAR GAME IS LOOKING LIKE SEA OF THIEVES AT LAUNCH RIGHT NOW AHAHAHA
CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT LETS GO MICROSOFT
THIS IS A HUGE ISSUE FOR THIS COMPANY AND GAMEPASS…YOU CAN’T DRIP FEED EVERY GAME…THIS WAY THE TITLE TO GO HUGE ON!!

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Well first off alot of people didn’t play through the story mode yet maybe 1/5 of the player base will.
1/7 might playthrough on Heroic or higher so I expect alot of players will slowly pace through it over the next year. The story mode bosses are an outstanding edition to the campaign. I’ve yet to unlock all there is to offer. Ultimately the PvP side appears to be the main draw by offering a chance to compete an socialize.

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It is nothing but a soulless money farm. It’s not Halo. The soul of Halo was it’s deep story, rich multiplayer and diverse customization.

This in my opinion is the worst campaign to date because they just acted like the events of 5 wasn’t that bad and was a minor inconvenience, the open world is a padding system so deep campaign missions can be thrown onto the back seat.

Multiplayer is just littered with issues currently. Getting shot round corners. Bullets impacting and not doing damage, grenades are either nukes or party poppers at the same range, rampant hacker issues, a lot of weapons are really bad in comparison to past titles, lack of maps and diversity within those maps, the reduced minimap size (might as well not have it).

And my biggest problem the customization. Everything they said, everything they recorded and posted about how diverse the customization would be. Instead we got the most restricted system to date. So much so that we can’t even pick what colours we are wearing. We can’t mix and match. Fan favourite armour sets locked behind £15/$20/etc. They lied. They stripped us of what made a player feel unique. Our spartans aren’t our spartans anymore.

Then throw on the lack of basic progression system that gives me no reason to log on anymore. Even the events are lack luster.

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Not what I mean, but yeah, I noticed they made it so if you ever had a Shader, it’s permanently in your collections. What I meant was how once you earn or buy a Shader, you can apply it to any weapon, any vehicle, your AI (Ghost), or any individual part of your armor pieces, across all Cores (Warlock, Hunter, Titan), so 343 needs to do the same with Infinite Coatings. Once you own a Coating, it should work everywhere on everything.

We have too many AR Coatings, so you would be able to use those on ALL weapons. We only have a white Wasp Coating, but you’d be able to use that on ALL vehicles. That includes putting your Rockstar Coating on all vehicles, all weapons, and then even your Spartans.

343 should not be selling us the same color 20+ times for every individual weapon, vehicle, and armor core.

@GusTank04 We expect a drop from its peak, around a 30% drop. Not a 80% drop.

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No real progression, no performance based XP reward no incentive to play.

The lack of content and what little content there is being locked behind an outrageously priced store completely alienated me from this game and literally made me angry.

Im not paying the same price for 1 armor core as what i could instead buy an entire other game for.

Absolute distusting greed. Screw this game honestly.

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natural drop off (happens to every game post launch) + lack of content + one of the core modes (BTB) doesnt work, free rewards are trash.

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Also hardly any maps and what small amount of maps there are aint really fun. They get stale so fast. Challenges as a main form of progression is terrible its just not fun. This game isnt fun to keep coming back to.

Play something else like splitgate and you get gifted colors, armor pieces, weapon skins literally thrown at you for free and yet id have to pay damn near $100 to get the same from infinite. And that was just one day of playing.

The games a complete and utter rip off!!!

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Destiny 2 dropped by 50%, Halo by 80%. So 30% dropped because of the poor state, not that big of a deal. They’ll come back for S2

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Bro 343 posted something and straight up said updates are coming Mid Febuary… Lol damn we gots to wait a whole -Yoink!- other month for an actual update.

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@GusTank04 What im trying to say is 80% drop after 2 months is bad, Maybe we can get 50% back S2 but then another drop will happen after that. Population isnt in a good state, there is no denying it. Numbers don’t lie. All of my friends who loved Halo stopped playing Infinite. I slowed down myself when I maxed battlepass and got bored of the 1 ranked playlist with 6 maps.

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There is nothing to do in this game, pretty much zero unlocks and challenges. Battlepass had garbage unlocks and too few. No progression, been playing a ton of other gamepass games.

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Lack of content, and the storefront being a fomo microtransaction hell hole, and no options at all, or meaningful progression for F2P players whatsoever.

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Right now the top thing I can think of for myself why I haven’t played MP as much is, I wish they had crossplay as an option for the entire game. Something like Crossplay, Console Only, and PC Only. I’m more casual, not a pro, and I rarely if ever last up to a full minute in the current setup, getting one-shotted across the map. Plus it feels like I don’t have shields and feels like ammo are blanks. lol

I just want to jump on, chill and enjoy playing with console players only.