Will you wait for Co-Op or will you play the campaign alone? Explain your decision!
- Iāll wait and play the campaign co-operatively.
- I will not wait and play the campaign alone.
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As long as they make co-op Iām happy. If it takes a bit, it takes a bit. This is a new style of game; I donāt mind that its taking them some time.
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Even if co-op was there at launch, Iād still do it alone 1st anyway
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Even if there was co-op at launch I would vanish from the face of earth until Iād completed it solo.
But I still care for it as a feature, and think it should be there
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I am extremely disappointed that it wonāt have co-op(At launch). Iāve played every halo at launch with co-op. And the only reason iām going to play solo is because I donāt want to have to dodge spoilers for 3-4 months after the game comes out.
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Same. Halo Infinite might be the best co-op in the series yet from what we saw yesterday. I would rather that experience be fluid and not buggy so I am glad they are taking the time to get it right.
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Back in the Halo CE and then Halo 2 days, I didnāt have my own Xbox. The only way I could play the games was co-op at a friendās house on his Xbox. Since then I have had my own consoles/PC and copies of the games and usually play through solo first time.
My concern is more what the lack of co-op means for the game, the series and the games industry in general. It is a matter of principle.
I understand that the game has had troubled development, between Covid and changing development leads, among other things; but the lack of features like co-op is indicative of the state the game as a whole might be in. If they canāt even get the game out the door in a state where it supports features expected as standard in 2001, despite allowing an extra year of development, what does that say about the rest of the game?
And as has been discussed in other threads, there is very much a modern trend of games releasing unfinished, buggy and missing core or promised features, only to patch them months later down the line (or never once they have taken your money in the case of more unscrupulous developers). It is a scenario where the most loyal fans pay the most for the worst version of the product, while anyone else waiting even a few months after release gets a far superior product at a lower cost.
For that reason I have decided to simply wait and see. Perhaps the game as it stands now will release in a stable state, and co-op just needed a little more time. I can always buy it a few weeks after release if I feel confident in that decision. But as it stands now I cannot buy it and tacitly support the practice of kicking unfinished games out the door at full price only to patch into the stable, fully realised promised game months later.
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I agree with the heart of the post however I feel like things are being overlooked.
Halo Infinite will be the most expansive Halo yet which means farther tethering and the challenges with come with that. Games these days are on a completely different level in terms of complexity especially resource allocation so comparing it to previous Halo games only goes so far. This game will run on last gen, and current gen (next gen) consoles. A Halo game has never been designed for two consoles within the same development cycle. The fact that this can run on the Xbox One seems like a miracle within itself when considering the very limited CPU it has.
You state that the lack of co-op indicates a likelihood of the game being buggy. We have had literally no indication for this to be true especially after the previews with the campaign yesterday and the already played technical previews. It truly seems like late development issues with co-op which most likely has to do with synchronization and tethering. Instead of releasing it buggy they most likely had to make a difficult decision to delay it. If it was a more significant issue then it would take more than 3 months post launch.
The game is a live service game so technically it will be unfinished for about 10 years. It isnāt kicking it out necessarily āunfinishedā if an online mode needs more polishing. Unfinished to me means that parts of the campaign literally are missing like Halo 2 because they didnāt have to finish the actual story content. Two out of four Halo games by Bungie were literally unfinished and with CE (and early beginnings of 2) you couldnāt download extra content/fixes.
I agree however that it should of been ready. They understand that and Staten has already spoke on how difficult it was. They are aware of this failure however at least they are being transparent unlike the past.
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I am aware that the landscape has changed in terms of technology and scope of the project. 2001 is not 2021. But what is the point of all this new hardware, software and development philosophies if we cannot achieve what we could decades ago?
I hate the ālive serviceā model. It really seems like an attempt to BS away a lot of the criticisms with marketing speak.
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Technically I shouldnāt be āwaitingā for something that was advertised to be in the game initially
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I have never played a Halo campaign alone, and this will not change for Infinite. A lot of the fun for me in campaign is messing around with my fellow Master Chiefs. I just hope I can avoid spoilers until co-op is released next year.
Play alone by myself to get immersed into the the world. Later I will try some coop shenanigans only in missions Iāve already finished. Since the coop launches 3 months later, Iāll probably have finished the campaign by then. 
I wonāt be waiting due to the fact we donāt have a time frame for Co-op to be added. Also I want to find out what happens myself and not come across a YouTube or post that gives the whole story. I am already upset at Game Informer for giving us the whole first mission and the details that come with it.
@B84_W56_H88 Can you pleae give me the link that gives us the time frame for co-op being added. Cause last I knew they didnāt have a time frame. Than again I have missed a lot news due to my insane work load at work. Thank you in advance.
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Nah, solo first always. Donāt need someone ruining the experience (friend or not) by talking over cutscenes/chatter or pushing ahead and forcing me to teleport. Especially if itās open world.
I canāt put links in my post but you can search for Halo Infinite Coop after launch or postponed etc. Then youāll find several sites that cite the August 2021 dev update.
Coop season 2 (3 months) and forge season 3 (6 months). The dates are not set in stone however.
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Thank you. Much appreciated, thank you for replying and giving me the info I asked for. With work taking up so much time Iāve had little to keep up on the Halo Infinite news, as well as having little time to search for it blindly or going through all post and blogs.
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It honestly depends on the achievements If there is an achievement for completing the game solo on legendary then I am starting the game right away.
I really wanted to Play this Coop when it comes Out.
Ob the Other Hand, I waited 6 years For this Gameā¦ so i dont think i can wait any longer plus Iām afraid of getting Spoiled
Playing Halo campaigns with my brother is fun and all, but Iām not dodging spoilers and denying myself a potentially great experience for a quarter of 2022 just because co-op wasnāt there at launch.
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