Even the trailers feel like they gave up, this is a very poor hype trailer for a new season.
Ironically, this trailer seems to be very well received by fans, if you read chatter on the Halo subreddit.
Even the trailers feel like they gave up, this is a very poor hype trailer for a new season.
Halo Infinite peaked on Steam yesterday with more players then at the start of Season 4. Which is certainly unusual for live service game and it bodes really well for today's launch of Season 5.
Also. 343 announced changes to whole event system with "live event" being longer and you can either earn Operation pass during event or later buy it for 500 Coins.
One event will include playlist with Forge remake of 7 Halo maps
Also, during the season they will release KOTH Firefight which will support 9 maps total (with 3 of them being Forge maps) and they will also release new equipment.
This has been changed a while agoIm tempted to try again, but the problem with the online for me was that the xp system didnt make any sense. In how you have to do quests to get xp for the battle pass. So either you completed a quest and got some xp, or you didnt complete a quest and got zero xp. And no reward for your performance - points for headshots, headshots at long distance, kills while jumping out of a vehicle, double and triple kills, all kinds of skill based things you can do. So you could perform really well, but get no xp. And spend all of the time in the game only focussed on a couple of objectives. I got tired of that massive vertical drop in enjoyment after matches that I stopped playing. Its like 343 dont get how mutliplayer works, on a fundamental level. With PUBG you get xp rewards for every little thing you, as well as most other online games Ive played, like PvP in WoW. You always got some points for your performance, even if you lose. So you can sit and grind out some xp in small amounts even though youre not completing objectives. In Halo Infinite, you get nothing if you dont complete any of the available quests. Arena is different, I know, and I played some of that. But thats what they need to do to make me stay in the game. Some kind of acknowledgment for what you did in the match.
I was hoping someone would say this. Really? I will give it a shot, then.This has been changed a while ago
The weapons/vehicles feels more balanced and there’s a hell of a lot more playlists. The new maps are also great! On that end it’s a pretty sweet package.The hype around Halo Infinite is real! Pierre Hintze turned MCC around and the same seems to be happening for Infinite. Some substantial updates have been made and it seems to be generating some positive buzz in the Xbox community. I've been playing MCC for the last six months or so, but I'll definitely give Infinite a another go.
Keep scrolling, there is ranked arena.Does this game really only have ONE ranked playslist: slayer? Because that's all I'm seeing.
Insane if that's true.
Oh i see it. Thanks.Keep scrolling, there is ranked arena.
18K players on Steam is the highest number since start of Season 2 in 2021. I think that this number will rise even more during weekend and there is still mid-season Firefight update.
Not bad at all.
God it's sad that people are celebrating Halo having 10k players... I hope some day a skilled team can bring it back from the ashes. It was such a bad decision to keep 343 on Halo after so many blunders.Yeah a month later the game has decreased again. Why do people proclaim a game is saved when a new season starts and player counts temporarily increase.
a good chunk of that was from management blundering, the gameplay for halo infinite is well-defined. But the game launched with little to no content and just about everything behind very predatory paywallsGod it's sad that people are celebrating Halo having 10k players... I hope some day a skilled team can bring it back from the ashes. It was such a bad decision to keep 343 on Halo after so many blunders.
Despite what you say the dev teams had a huge hand in ruining the franchise. They made the decisions of what playlists to have, to change it's core gameplay, to take away all of the community features Halo was known for. I bet Halo MP would be more popular today if it ended with Reach being the last release.a good chunk of that was from management blundering, the gameplay for halo infinite is well-defined. But the game launched with little to no content and just about everything behind very predatory paywalls
Like rn, halo infinite feels like a completely different game from launch in terms of content and modes and i would say the new team (the same peeps who turned MCC around) have been showing how capable they are at fixing tye issues people had.
Except for one thing: MTX’s, like the whole classic mk5 being a $20 skin (but again, how much is that 343’s fault vs ms’s?)
Wishful thinking.Yeah a month later the game has decreased again. Why do people proclaim a game is saved when a new season starts and player counts temporarily increase.
Wishful thinking.
I really love Halo, i actually like Halo Infinite, the gameplay is solid and such fun when it works.
Playing on the PC is so broken tho, trying to load into a MP game take way too long and the connection issues with servers is so inconsistant it drives players away.
Really dont understand why the devs are happy to leave the game it this state.
How is that any different from Fortnite or CoD? Oh, because it's MS and Halo. I see.like the whole classic mk5 being a $20 skin
Um yes, exactly. Because this shit used to be free in prior halo games. Fortnite and cod have already built their games around mtx bullshit years ago, but for halo its new and at times very shameful (like the time they charged $5 for the basic color red for the shinobi core)How is that any different from Fortnite or CoD? Oh, because it's MS and Halo. I see.
Well I'm not celebrating just stating reality.God it's sad that people are celebrating Halo having 10k players... I hope some day a skilled team can bring it back from the ashes. It was such a bad decision to keep 343 on Halo after so many blunders.
I don't play halo but from following reports since it launched it feels like another Battlefront 2, battlefield V and 2042. Launches barebones as fuck before a long and slow drip feed of content gets it to a healthy place after a few years.Wishful thinking.
I really love Halo, i actually like Halo Infinite, the gameplay is solid and such fun when it works.
Playing on the PC is so broken tho, trying to load into a MP game take way too long and the connection issues with servers is so inconsistant it drives players away.
Really dont understand why the devs are happy to leave the game it this state.
Eh, the options probably are that they charge for this stuff or they stop support.Um yes, exactly. Because this shit used to be free in prior halo games. Fortnite and cod have already built their games around mtx bullshit years ago, but for halo its new and at times very shameful (like the time they charged $5 for the basic color red for the shinobi core)
I honestly though this was a dead/move on project, because nobody talk or even complain about it lol
Halo wasn’t Free to Play back then. It is now.Um yes, exactly. Because this shit used to be free in prior halo games. Fortnite and cod have already built their games around mtx bullshit years ago, but for halo its new and at times very shameful (like the time they charged $5 for the basic color red for the shinobi core)
Yup, turning halo into a gaas was their first big mistakeHalo wasn’t Free to Play back then. It is now.
Yup, turning halo into a gaas was their first big mistake
Because this also devalued the overall package, in no way shape or form was infinite’s campaign worth full price by itself, especially back when it launched with no co-op or level select
Could Apex or Fortnite survive with a $60 price? Fuck no. Look at Battlefied. The ONLY reason people pay $70 for CoD is because of the campaign. MP shooters after 2019 do not survive with a $60 barrier of entry. I'm sorry that the genre has moved on from that and if you don't like it maybe it's not for you anymore and you should find something else to play and complain about.