Halo Infinite is right now is just bored Spartans playing games endlessly against each other training for missions against Banished that will never happen! The whole point of the Spartan program was to fight humanities enemies. Spartans need to be deployed into actual combat missions against Banished that’s the whole point of their existence and why the Spartan program continues.
We need an actual Career mode for people to be able to take their multiplayer Spartan and go on combat deployments in PvE activities against Banished both in space in orbit around on Zeta Halo in various environments. We should be tested against the most challenging Banished forces and really interesting missions. There should be different PvE events like Invasion, Defense (Horde) and dynamically created objectives in mission areas in the open-world. When starting Career mode there should be a big battle net map that shows different missions available. These missions should be on-demand, daily and weekly with some events throw in depending on the season. Seasons should really tie the narratives into Career mode with PvE mission events. Destiny 2 does this really well and if Halo Infinite had this kind of PvE experience it would probably become the mode with the highest casual gamer engagement after the Campaign. It would definitely help bring player numbers back and help mix up the multiplayer experience a bit.
Mission replay coming to the Campaign is a step in the right direction but currently there’s no real deployability in Halo Infinite right now. If I want PvE games I have to go back to H5 and hope to find a game when the servers are actually working or go to MCC where there’s always a lot of PvE matchmaking available. This just doesn’t make any sense now that Halo Infinite is out and PvE players haven’t migrated to Halo Infinites PvE at this point in the game’s lifecycle. The reason that Halo is fun to play isn’t the esports PvP but in PvE fighting crazy alien enemies that provide really interesting challenges. If I wanted a pure PvP game I would go to CoD or Fortnite or the endless amounts of PvP games out there.
This last bit is directed at 343i, Halo Infinite is the best Halo gameplay I’ve seen in years since CE, bravo! Enemy AI is finally at a point where PvE in the Halo Infinite sandbox would be amazing and that’s why the Campaign missions are so fun. You have a good core gameplay here but the lack of PvE modes and a Career for our Spartan is limiting our replayability and engagement with this product.
Please be more transparent with the player base about any planned PvE modes and some ideas you may be exploring so we have some hope that there’s more to Halo Infinite than just arena PvP.