The people who make posts consistently about the elements of Halo Infinite which need serious improvement aren’t doing do because they hate this game. Infinite has more posts about improving it then any other 343 game because make no mistake.
Halo Infinite is with ALL its clear problems is the best Halo game since Halo 3 and we need positivity to balance everything out! Here is my list in order of what I love about Halo Infinite and how what’s already great can get even better:
The Grappleshot and Repulsor (add equipment variants)
BEST equipment EVER in a Halo game!!! I hardly miss the Jetpack. We need more awesome equipment like this in Halo and lots more variants which is a separate topic all in itself! Grappleshot is such an excellent addition to Halo that feels so natural, we need playlists where everyone spawns with the ability!
The gameplay (more content)
Honestly if I judged Infinite solely on its gameplay without everything else:
The graphics
Best looking Halo game ever made! Gorgeous despite the Slipspace engines clear problems.
Weapon sandbox
Best weapons since Halo CE, everything but the Ravager (needs a huge buff) feels viable at last! Assault Rifle is finally a real weapon! The Mangler is my favorite Halo weapon of all time since the CE pistol and honestly, I love it slightly more than the BR which is also in its best iteration yet! Commando with a slight buff is 100X better than the DMR ever was. We need more weapons and buffs, what is there is fantastic.
Campaign (Co op and more content)
Besides no mission replayability and co op it’s phenomenal! Amazing bosses and open world gameplay.
Infinite has more potential than any Halo game before it! But 343 has to fix these problems first:
Severe content lack & Desync
Terrible customization options. Terrible custom games in general. No custom games browser
No forge or co op. Forge could be monetized (BIG mistake!)
No cross core customization
No match composer
Severe lack of playlists. No doubles, no multi team, no BR starts with AR/Sidekick secondary outside ranked. Only 1 ranked playlist?! No warzone. No snipers. No Action Sack or Griffball. No Attrition. No Assault. Until season 2 for King Of The Hill is insane! No firefight. No battle royale (debatable).
Slipspace Engine is exceptionally poor for a live service game at quick updates!
No progression system and backwards MMR where social affected ranked gameplay
No casual game modes
Only 2 maps for season 2? Really?! Infinite NEEDS 100 more maps at the minimum! Forge or otherwise.
Sidekick bloom
Ravager is total trash
Challenges are awful
Armor Coatings are lacking in content and customization in every way.
Not enough weapons, equipment, and variants of each!
You’ve got a lot of good points, but I take your opinion with little worth because of how hard you’re jerking CE. It was the most amazing game of it’s time. IT’S time. If you time traveled to 1900 and gave someone to compare CE to Infinite, they would choose Infinite 10 times out of 10.
Also, everyone already knows the potential Infinite has or they wouldn’t be here complaining. This has been well established for a while. Everyone who’s given up has nothing more to say.
I like Infinite, but loving it without a ton of changes is going to be harder. I disagree that the best thing is the graphics, the gameplay mechanics are super solid.
I want 343 to change, stop hiring temporary employees. Better yet by FAR, a new studio to develop the next games if 343 doesn’t save Halo Infinite and the Master Chief Collection within this year or the next… The denial is honestly starting to crack a lot. Microsoft seems content to believe that the Master Chief Collection without mod support and customs for every game is fine. They are fine with servers going offline for weeks. They are fine with terrible launch after abysmal launch. Bungie would NEVER release a single Halo in such pitiful states.
Two maps…two yoinking maps after six months is a punch to the nads attached to a chainsaw without Forge. Halo 3 in the MCC is overwhelmingly played over any other Halo, but they gutted ranked. Halos population is so low across all games compared to its heyday and the stupidest thing is if 343 wanted to be lazy heres an idea. Make every Halo exactly like 1-3, just focus on new weapons and maps and it would sell. Change for the sake of change only works when you STOP FIXING WHAT PEOPLE LOVED IN THE FIRST PLACE…
I’ve stuck with Halo because Halo CE and above all Halo 3 were THE games that felt worthy of wasting so much time yet always feeling fulfilling like no other video game in my life, it was the pinnacle and in many ways still is my prime gaming experience. Every release after Halo 3 has been such a letdown in comparison. Halo Infinites gameplay is the closest I have felt to feeling that magic again BY FAR. Had Infinite launched with Forge , co-op and better customization it would be the game of the decade.
I wrote this to try to hold onto basically empty promises of delivering a worthy successor to the REAL game of the decade (Halo 3) six years later and the ship is tumbling down a ravine if by the end of this year we get the same level of drip fed content. A new studio or someone who ISNT Microsoft needs to save this once legendary franchise from its final grave because its coming up fast.