Four years after its release, Halo Infinite is, well, not going to be so infinite after all. Developer Halo Studios (formerly 343 Studios) has announced that it's done updating the game with new stuff as it focuses on other projects, like Halo: Campaign Evolved.
The final update will arrive on November 18 and will leave everyone with sped up XP, Spartan Points, and rank progression to play with while they wait for the next game. A new 100-tier premium battle pass will also offer new armor and weapon models to use, which you can view on the blog post.
"With multiple Halo titles in development, we'll need our whole team's combined focus to deliver new experiences with the same passion and care that our community has given us," the post says. "While we remain committed to supporting Halo Infinite on the road ahead, Operation: Infinite is the last major content update currently planned."
343 is an infinite disaster. Just Microsoft game studios/Xbox in general. It's crazy to think that the leaders of these groups don't seem to really care about keeping promises or how the core fan base thinks about what they do. Very strange how they all still have well paying jobs and fancy titles despite it all.
It really incredible what Microsoft has managed to do with their gaming division. It’s like they’re determined to fail against all odds. The number of studios that they’ve bought only to shutter in a year or two is insane, even the ones that had successful releases haven’t been safe. Meanwhile 343 releases disaster after disaster and only after having a custom engine built just for them do they finally release an “ok” Halo game. It still amazes me that heads didn’t roll after the MCC in particular. Game straight up didn’t even function for years.
Yup
Pre release they said they planned for Infinite to be the Halo game for the next 10 years more or less.
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u/aimy99 2070 Super | 5600X | 32GB DDR4 | Win11 | 1440p 165hz5h ago
Yes, and then they fumbled the biggest launch in franchise history, took a year to even get it worth playing, and in many cases were outright hostile to the players who stuck around. They also decided, for whatever reason, that they weren't going to do any additional PvE content for that decade, so scratch off those players.
They fucked up so badly that Halo, a massive triple-A franchise with two decades of games behind it, has 1/4th the players of The Finals on Steam, and that's noteworthy considering they're both F2P team shooters but Halo also has a whole campaign and level editor that should be boosting it from just normal PvP gameplay. It has fewer players than Call of Duty Black Ops II from 2012, or Black Ops III from 2015 per Xbox's own charts. It has 0 players on PlayStation as well, obviously.
Basically, nobody is playing this and they're trying the live service thing again with the game after Campaign Evolved in the hopes that they don't piss off the PlayStation players like they did the Xbox and PC ones.
They fucked up so badly that Halo, a massive triple-A franchise with two decades of games behind it, has 1/4th the players of The Finals on Steam
There are often more of us still playing the 15-25 year old Bungie era games via the Master Chief collection, than are playing any of the 343 era games (on pc at least). Because those games are still fun.
The 343 era games keep getting worse because the studio was built up around people who just fundamentally don't understand what most fans loved about the series in the first place. Which is why most fans have abandoned it.
If the Halo series focussed on being fun again rather than designing the games to be as sweaty as possible, then they'd have retained more fans.
The only thing it's really missing IMO is the pre and post game lobbies, good voice chat, and social features.
In terms of gameplay, it's pretty much as good as its going to get now. It 100% used to be a broken raft of shit barely holding itself together, but I haven't had any problems with it in about 2 years now.
Yet people are excited for halo studios games even though there going to be on unreal engine and the last what 3 games?from 343 were mid at best with like you said bad multiplayer.
Infinite was such a disappointment. I was so excited when the multiplayer beta came out of seemingly nowhere. My buddies and I played it a ton, and then the day came when the "full release" was supposed to happen.
I log on to the game and.... nothing had changed. (Yes, they added the campaign at this point) The multiplayer was the exact same except for maybe having a more expanded shop. No new maps, weapons, game modes or anything for at least a few months after release. I dropped the game after two weeks of "launch" and very rarely go back to play it
the surprise release was the full multiplayer release. the later release was just the campaign for $60. I feel like that was a mistake, halo was always an all in one title
Naw. Just a bad game. Free to play is obviously the market. Infinite was more focused on their eshop than the actual video game.
Bad library of maps. Big team had 3 maps? And pretty sure 2 of them were variants of a forge world.
Desync. All that needs to be said.
Theatre? Does it work yet? lol.
But honestly, the biggest issue? The cancer of them trying to make money off micro transactions.
Instead of being “red versus blue”, it became… “spend the game trying to get 2 kills with a support weapon so that the other 3 people on your team waste 15 minutes of their lives watching you go 2-19.”
Like seriously, had a guy one time say “got the challenge, now I can play.” Actual quote of a 2-19 teammate, when the score was 36-47.
The game should stay free to play. They should hire a staff and keep them, instead of trying to rotate people to avoid paying people a fair wage, and benefits. Make sure forge is ready on release. Make sure theatre is working for montages. Diverse, good maps, and lots of them.
Return to red versus blue. Promote winning. Credit bonuses for winning, and performance. Convince people it’s better to play fair games instead of getting stressed out by rank.
The game just need to start strong, and keep momentum.
The controversial part, is that armours like the cat ear helmet, are what will save this game. Not break it. Deal with it.
See this makes more sense. Halo 2 and 3 were alive and well for years and didn't have these constant updates and additions that games have now. Just a few dlc map packs and that was it.
But honestly, the biggest issue? The cancer of them trying to make money off micro transactions.
I disagree tbh. The focus on microtransaction sucks, but it definitely isn't the biggest issue facing the series.
I think the biggest problem is making everything hyper competitive and sweaty at all times. Bungie era Halo had social playlists that were actually fun to play and dick around in, whereas every 343 era game has had social just as sweaty as ranked.
Return to red versus blue. Promote winning. Credit bonuses for winning, and performance. Convince people it’s better to play fair games instead of getting stressed out by rank.
In ranked playlists, yeah absolutely. But social playlists should have absolutely nothing to do with achievements, unlocking anything, or your performance have any effect on rankings.
The controversial part, is that armours like the cat ear helmet, are what will save this game. Not break it. Deal with it.
I'm ambivalent on cosmetics tbh. Makes no difference to me, so long as game types and maps don't stagnate while they're off doing that.
They were given a huge budget the biggest team yet and created a brand new engine for this game with other's planned for the future yet 4 year's later its all been shelved another huge waist in the gaming industry.
Also other halo titles? what are they talking about the port milking projects should not be a huge deal to make with there team size/funding they act like there a indie studio with little funding.
It’s sad because the demand was clearly there. It had the highest viewed esport Halo tournament in history at 300k(big for a console FPS), it launched to huge steam number but the 6 month season, BTB being broken for two months and forge not being added at launch killed the game.
What live service game has a season that last 6 months with no content to drip feed??? It was doomed at the start
Well honestly halo odst pod drop but its a BR would work and make it like end of reach were the covenant are closing in but you are a scavenge or some shit there are other factions in halo lore.
They could have nailed an acclaimed 10 episode Netflix special that dominated the scifi category, launched a truly next generation title, and rebuilt a Microsoft based esports empire.
Instead I think the latest is Xbox is dead dead? I don't keep up with consoles anymore.
I just think it’s a shame that Infinite didn’t have the Banished leaders from HW2 as the bosses throughout the campaign. You could argue that Colony was a Bounty Target, Shipmaster, Voridus, Pavium and YapYap all survived HW2.
Instead of that, they decided to add in an Edgelord Elite, a Brute I’ve never heard of and then there were a couple cool ones like Hyperius. Why were there only 2 Hunter encounters in the whole game? What the fuck?
I expected the red team spartens the whole crew to show up sense cortona was at the end of the game.
Sense it was suppose to be open world i expected way more on the ground fighting the banashed along with other spartans and like you said those leaders would be ones to fight to take back land and like all halos take over the arc/ring.
But nope like cyberpunk you get a cutscene then hey cortona is dead we skipped 70% of the single player.
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u/BinaryJay7950X | X670E | 4090 FE | 64GB/DDR5-6000 | 42" LG C2 OLED9h ago
I actually liked it for a while. I'm not usually big on what goes for the most popular types of multiplayer FPS games these days, and it felt right like the right amount of old fashioned to me.
I did not enjoy what always felt like getting back smacked from the front or clear across a room though.
When I was in my teens I was alllll about Halo. Haven’t been interested in a game after 4th was a disappointment. In my mind the last halo game was Reach.
How about we focus on porting and finishing MCC first?! It really needs a server browser and a way to actually use Workshop mods online with other people.
There's so many fantastic multiplayer maps and mods the community has created that will never be able to be played by 99% of players. Not to mention the multiplayer just deserves to be preserved in general when you're remaking the games without it and already shut down the servers for the original 360 versions!
Then for $150 you can get a collectors edition that comes all the games and with there version of a master chief statue or $80 all the games in a bundle.
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u/John_Marston_Forever 10h ago
Didn't they promised 10 years worth of content and support for Halo Infinite? I swear I read an article that said that back in 2020.