Winter Update, the good and the bad

Games Halo Infinite
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I want to say what 343I did good/great this time around and what is still lacking.

I start with the bad, Big Team Social should not be removed. It gave players a good time from all the sweat.
Like 343I, get your perspective right about Halo now.
IT HAS NOT BEEN A HIGHLY COMPETETIVE GAME.
It has and is a competetive game, BUT that is not the core of what Halo is about.

Halo is about having a great time from the real world, escaping to a fantastic sci-fi universe, boosting our self esteem by playing a savage killing machine that Chief is.
It is by chatting with other players in pre and postgame lobbies. Expressing our identity by great customization. Having variety in what the game offer, like great PvE modes, great PvP modes both social and ranked.
Campaign with a beautiful and mysterious story.
Having a progression system with ranks outside of the battlepass or other stuff
Forge to create fun and new content.
AND the most important thing Halo has now, it’s the community that are still rooting for 343I to make Halo great.

So, with that statement I will make a list of what Infinite still needs and what I’m not satisfied with:

• Remove of Social BTB.
• Loading screen not updated to winter update image.
• Lack of crosscore coatings, custom games browser, infection, PvE modes, MP story content, split screen campaign and post & pre-game lobbies.
• Rest of the Reach armor not included in the battlepass.

Now the positive:
• Great to have campaign co-op.
• Stellar Forge.
• More Reach armor.
• Elimination, one of my favorites from H5.
• New maps and gamemode is ok I guess.
• Weapon tweaks is much appreciated, plasma weapons is much better now.
• Putting free item in the shop, having OK shop prices now and having dailies back is appreciated.
• Recycled bundles from S1 is good.
• I feel that 343I communication to the community has gotten better, but I really think it can be much better.
• It feels like the babysteps they are taking are in the right direction, and I can’t wait for Infinite to get more improvements.

Summary:
Good job 343I with Forge, amazing actually.
It’s stellar.
Keep the good work coming!

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The problem now is the low population of the game. So it’s okay to remove modes to keep a few in order to focus players on those.
Nevertheless i’m agree with you to Big Team battle, they should leave this mode in matchmaking.
In matchmaking should be these modes:
Big Team Battle
Team Slayer
Objectives (Flag, Oddball, Strongholds […])
Ranked Arena
Duo Arena

If online users will increase then they will be able to add other modes.

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As a regular 343i critic, I really love this too and i hope they keep people regularly updated along with having timely responses to community issues like @snickerdoodle has done recently.

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Broken game is still broken.

Desync and hit registration are just as bad as ever.

Adding more content to a broken game doesn’t change the fact that the game is still broken. People won’t come back until the game is fixed no matter how many different modes and maps get added.

Whether or not the load screen has the Winter Update image is a silly thing to complain about when the functional aspects of the game are such a mess. However, that is exactly the type of thing that 343 will “fix” while they continue to do nothing about bigger issues. And people will congratulate them for it.

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My de-sync and hit registration has improved.

It’s still has a way to go, but try switching your network to local preferred.

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Oh I did switch to Local and then I started seeing 100 ping games instead of 60 and the desync got worse.

Broken game is still broken.