What's ruining Halo Infinite for me and many of my friends

Games Halo Infinite
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Lack of content
Two maps every 6 months isn’t exactly live service. Some guns need a buff, maybe expand the sandbox in the future, add a ranking system, add forge and file share so that social aspects can be improved. Other people gave plenty of info on this.

Skill based matchmaking
Just because i am decent at the game it doesn’t mean i want to sweat every single time i play the game. Sbmm should be on only for competitive modes. Gaming is not my job , its a hobby and a privilege meant to be enjoyed. When you spend time improving at a game you should feel that improvement and be allowed to beat new players or low skill players. If sbmm is enabled all the time then what’s the point of being good at the game if you ll face yourself every damn game.

Controller vs Kbm
Without a doubt aim assist is too strong on the br in all halos in mcc and in infinite (MCC’s aim assist is a literal legal aimbot btw). The problem comes up when playing br duels against a controller. Given the nature of the 3round burst of the br and the fact that there is no headshot damage unless shields are off makes the one advantage that mnk has useless (precision). That is halo and its ok , however br duels should not be this unfair for mnk players. Br 4shot should be equally hard for both sides. Even pros have admitted to this and im working on a video on the subject and i have gathered responses from pros, one of them being luciid. When controller players can so easily tell that its unfair there is a big problem with the input method balance and needs to be addressed asap before the mnk population dies totally.
Solutions:
The best course of action is to :
-decrease aim assist on the br only and leave everything else unchanged for all other guns.
-Or buff bullet magnetism on mnk when using a br to make it possible for it to compete against controller in a fair duel.

No server selection
Playing competitive matches in 160ms+ ping is not a fun or a fair experience. You fixed geofiltering 343 but you dont allow people to manually select acceptable servers to play on. Why being forced to play on us servers when im in europe? If i cant find games at an acceptable ping then i dont want to play at all. Let me have this choice or i just quit the game and ruin it for others and get banned in the process. Shooting someone and taking decades for the game to register the kill is so annoying and i dont think anybody likes that.

PC performance is bad
Random game crashes cause me to get banned because of your incompetence to fix your game. Don’t punish me for your non optimization of the game. Also the game doesn’t perform well when you compare how it looks to other games that get better performance.

Annoying challenges
Getting kills with pulse carbine or plasma pistol is not exactly a good challenge. Why do i need to play like a complete noob to complete my challenges and ruin the game for my team in the process? Also some challenges still have rng as far as the game modes go. Whether or not i get to play oddball ctf and strongholds is not up to me. Same with fusion coil kills. You need a map that has those so you can stand a chance to complete the challenge. Challenges need to make you excited in doing them and not annoy you to the point that you just wont care about them to save your sanity. I complained about the killjoy ones and people called me bad lmao how funny is that? At least they removed those so i hope they continue to improve the challenges.

UI is bad
Sometimes challenges take 30 mins to show up when you start up the game and the overall feeling of it is clunky when compared to other games. This is not a big issue but worth mentioning. Like wouldn’t it be nice if you could check your challenge progression midgame? Or proceed with other challenges mid game when you finish one of them and the list gets updated?

No PVE at all
Halo has a strong Pve community who enjoys campaign and its nice to have something like firefight when you just want to chill and shoot stuff since the gameplay is so good in my opinion. This needs to be added in the future because what makes halo halo is the amount of content it offers which has created so many subcommunities within the game.

Hope these things get noticed and change will come for the better. I truly think this game with time ,can become the best halo experience overall and reach it’s true potential because the art style and gameplay for me are close to perfection…

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I don’t know anything about the controller/mkb debate but pretty well agree with everything else. PVE is loads of fun and there’s 0 of that in MP.

Especially the weird UI loading times?? sometimes i’ll sit here ten minutes just to be able to check challenges or change my armor loadout? why? it doesn’t make any sense. plus it’s weirdly sterile, from a design standpoint, and the way you have to change the emblem and THEN go back a menu to change the colorway is ??? why shouldn’t it open a submenu with the color options??? (this is not to say i approve of their emblem system at all, i’m EXTREMELY lucky i got my flaming rock horns as a default)

two weeks to season 2… hoping they’ve got a lot of improvements up their sleeves bc otherwise this is gonna be another long haul

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This.

Mnk is the input that needs to be worked on the most as it’s simply a trash experience.

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I agree and when you have a deep understanding of the game you realize that the problem is with the br only. Br feels too consistent on controller for mnk to stand a chance. All other guns are fine as they are though. 343 needs to understand that this is the issue between mnk and controller. It has been a massive problem in mcc and now it still is in infinite. If they understand that and give a chance for mnk to compete in br duels then we’re golden.

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I thought it was pretty much everything. See, aiming controls on MnK are just as important to get right.

You not only need to tune controls but make sure that you’re getting 1:1 pixel perfect accuracy.

To me, I’ve been knowing something was off. CS:S plays better. It’s not just the BR, but the sidekick as well.

Halo has pretty much failed in that regard.

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I was referring to the balance between controller and mnk. The problem between them is just the br. Now as far as controls go thats whole different subject that needs to be worked on. I agree that mnk feels better on other fps titles like cs-go and overwatch.

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Yeah. I’d agree on that. The BR even though having ok aim assist by controller standards, it’s kinda hard to work with on MnK.

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Input based matchmaking should just be an overall thing. It’s unfair for KBM players to play against controller and it’s unfair for controller players to play against KBM.

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I mean controller has a massive advantage in competitive because you spawn with the br which is the gun that causes problems between the two inputs. Funnily enough if you remove br from the game the mnk vs controller issue gets fixed but nobody wants that. Br is iconic in halo.

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Both inputs have advantages and disadvantages. It’s just better to separate the two all together.

But to your point about the BR it’s also an issue on controller too in regards to PC vs Xbox. Red reticle is a massive advantage and in competitive play it just gives Xbox players the upper hand.

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I dont want to come off as arrogant but in imo mnk has no advantage in halo infinite except from grenade placement which lets be real if you are a good shot on mnk you have low sensitivity and controller players that are skilled can throw great nades as well. The advantage of mnk is precision and given that there is no headshot damage unless shields are off mnk’s potential isnt utilized fully and sniping on mnk feels really really bad. People found out that there is a negative aim assist on mnk sniper to make you miss shots when no scoping. It also has bloom. Taking that into account any advantage mnk has in halo is minor when compared to spawning with a gun that performs much much better on controller every single game and its the gun used 90% of the time in duels. Now about the red reticle i agree 100% with you. Lmao not having red reticle on pc to combat the cheaters when there is no way to report cheating in game and no decent anticheat like eac to get rid of them makes me laugh. Not having red reticle is indeed not fair.

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Its got advantage in terms of latency and movement. But struggles in precision.

There is negative aim assist in general with the sniper. It’s impossible to use. Especially with bloom which has no place in Halo.

Overall there is a lot wrong with aiming on both inputs that needs to be fixed. But input selection on all playlist would help the experience.

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If they wont buff the bullet magnetism on mnk br or nerf the aim assist on controller br then perhaps not having the option for crossplay in competitive at all is the best next course of action. Now as far as latency advantage on mnk you make me lough coz i play on 160ms ping every game since there is no server selection so i never get to notice such advantages on mnk or controller.

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I was referring to input latency not game latency.

Check out this video if you haven’t see it already. It shows how horrible aim assist and aiming is over all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opJaZgpQzrU

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They need to fix the aiming on PC its fine on Xbox.
I think one solution is to separate PC players. But 343 is not very keen on adding playlists.
Like it is now it PC players have a handicap vs Xbox players.
We need diffrent playlists for Xbox and PC.

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Oh goody, another kbm slog. The most grievous issue is lack of motivation. Also known as progression. It doesnt have any and thats the main reason most of us left. Why keep playing when you arent rewarded for anything you do and your contribution means nothing.

Its amazing how many dont seem to realize that. Everything else(as bad as it all is) is secondary. They launched a horribly structured game thats basically built around microtransactions and it bled players like mad shortly after launch once we all realized it was scummy and pointless to keep playing it. It was big for a month because its Halo. Defend it all you want but its a dud. Id say they should be ashamed but I doubt that word is in their vocabulary. Vanguard has better multiplayer and its the worst CoD in years. What a waste.

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Can’t do this unless you nerf other guns in order to keep the BR viable, considering the trash state of the Infinite sandbox this is unlikely.

Unless 343 has done massive work under the hood for the engine to recognize control input and apply bonus magnetism this won’t be happening, it would be better to ask for the BR to be tuned to be more skillful overall by removing it’s recoil and making it projectile based.

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There was a rumour on YouTube that we would get some kind of Spartan Ops esque mini story mission on the new multiplayer maps. Which would tie in to our multiplayer Spartans story.

If so that would be adding PVE content especially if it also has a multiplayer element so a team can fight these missions.

Remember though:

  • We should have had 2 seasons by now.

  • We should have had Co-op and likely forge or at least close to Forge by now

There has been talk that this big rumoured mode is possibly coming out for season 3 or 4. Given how many leaks we’ve been seeing we could get a flashy announcement for it at E3.

Obviously there is Forge but without Customs browser it won’t make too much of a difference. Also the graphical quality would need to be get up to passable because they were a bit off on Halo 5.

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Isn’t E3 cancelled this year?

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I’ve actually had this problem on console to. The game would crash and I would receive a ban penalty. But it happen’s more often to me on the MCC. Anyone else?