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Halo Infinite launches holiday 2020, adds Xbox Project Scarlett version

Codes 208

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I believe that line is meant to be a reference to the original reveal of halo (laused in halo 3 via the prophet of truth)

“your destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument.”

the destruction of humanity ordained by atriox and set forth by his banished
 

Codes 208

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That reminds me, there was another batch of toys revealed recently, looks like the plasma repeater may be coming back to replace the storm rifle
 

Wimbledon

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Atriox isn't dead, it's one of his soldiers in the audio. They consider themselves instruments of his will. He doesn't need to be dead for that to happen. The Covenent was the instrument of the Hierarch's will for centuries before they all got recked. You also don't need to be dead to have a legacy. Your legacy is something you build throughout your life, and Atriox built the banished from the ground up.


I wonder if this brute is like a lieutenant of atriox and is another leader within the banished, he hasn't heard back from Atriox and maybe they think he's dead or MIA. Cause that's what I'm getting from the speech, that there is a possibility that he's gone but we are carrying his will and legacy forward.

I'm wondering if 343i will make a Halo wars 3 to finish the spirit of fire vs Atriox/banish storyline within those games. Maybe Masterchief never directly faces Atriox but he does face other prominent leaders within his group.
 
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Dacon

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Am I the only one who gets annoyed with all these "teases". I find it highly irritated when people just keep dropping snippets and hints of stuff instead of just waiting to show off something substantial.

The new Batman game is even more guilty of this.
 
I just hope they keep Warzone but have more maps for it at launch and that they are more varied/open. Had so much fun playing it. It was what brought me back to Halo multiplayer.
 

Grinchy

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Shouldn't the title say that they added a Xbox One version? Since this is supposedly "built from the ground up for Series X?"
 

Nikana

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Shouldn't the title say that they added a Xbox One version? Since this is supposedly "built from the ground up for Series X?"

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JimiNutz

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If MP isn't available at launch then they should make the MP free to ensure that there is a healthy community and to earn some goodwill.

Maybe have just basic Team Slayer and Lone Wolf FFA available at launch and then add modes/features over time.

It's not ideal at all and I would definitely be disappointed but it's hard to complain too much if it's free. At the same time I really don't think 343 can afford to fuck up so badly that they don't have MP ready at launch. They have fucked up too many times in the past.
 

SleepDoctor

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I will add on top of it that the multiplayer will launch as a separate game later.


Huge deal breaker for me. I honestly couldn't gaf about the campaign after what they did with 5, although I hope its good. But mp has always been where its at for Halo.

Free mp isn't very exciting considering the amount of microtransactions 5 had and it wasn't free.
 

the_master

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Hard Choice.
I would chose MC and Cortana for a team, probably together with the arbiter.

But if I really wanted to destroy the flood then we'd need Guilty Spark to activate the ring, so then I'd chose 343 Guilty Spark, Tartarus the fanatic and the Grunt, as they would be the ones who want to activate the ring
 

VertigoOA

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Huge deal breaker for me. I honestly couldn't gaf about the campaign after what they did with 5, although I hope its good. But mp has always been where its at for Halo.

Free mp isn't very exciting considering the amount of microtransactions 5 had and it wasn't free.

It would just be beyond stupid to launch Halo without MP. I know there’s a huge contingent of players that don’t like gaming online but they are also the smallest and most insignificant portion of the fan base. PVP is more than 50% of the game. Halo campaigns are about 8 hours long at best .... the pvp is what keeps players.

No PvP at launch would be an epic disaster in every possible way and skipping launch will be a sure way to see playerbase crater into irrelevancy like Halo 5.
 
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SleepDoctor

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It would just be beyond stupid to launch Halo without MP. I know there’s a huge contingent of players that don’t like gaming online but they are also the smallest and most insignificant portion of the fan base. PVP is more than 50% of the game. Halo campaigns are about 8 hours long at best .... the pvp is what keeps players.

No PvP at launch would be an epic disaster in every possible way and skipping launch will be a sure way to see playerbase crater into irrelevancy like Halo 5.


Yes it makes no sense to me. Especially with about 5 years worth of dev time. I just want it to be solid.

Before this I was thinking we might get a surprise announcement of a beta after the xsx event but now im not so sure.
 

the_master

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It would just be beyond stupid to launch Halo without MP. I know there’s a huge contingent of players that don’t like gaming online but they are also the smallest and most insignificant portion of the fan base. PVP is more than 50% of the game. Halo campaigns are about 8 hours long at best .... the pvp is what keeps players.

No PvP at launch would be an epic disaster in every possible way and skipping launch will be a sure way to see playerbase crater into irrelevancy like Halo 5.
I agree it would be quite a shock, and maybe a disaster, but the campaign is not 8h if you like it. I replayed the campaign on Halo 1, 2 and 3 several times with several difficulty levels and I have liked it more every time. So for me, the campaign, especially with coop, which is also multiplayer, can give dozens (plural) of hours, even hundreds if it is good (Not like in Halo 4 and 5) That was because the gameplay was so good it was fun to replay, so this is my main hope for Hali Infinite, to have great gameplay in the campaign and great replayability values (replayable modes even, like desony Strikes and raids)
 

VN1X

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Man, imagine if they had a battle royale populated with AI that battle it out amongst themselves and against players as well; complete with vehicles and big fuck off starships that lay down bombardments every now and then. They could have a huge sprawling and diverse map and make it more "warzone" than CoD Warzone!

Do it 343i.
 
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Bernkastel

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Man, imagine if they had a battle royale populated with AI that battle it out amongst themselves and against players as well; complete with vehicles and big fuck off starships that lay down bombardments every now and then. They could have a huge sprawling and diverse map and make it more "warzone" than CoD Warzone!

Do it 343i.
They wont do battle royale. They have said it multiple times.
 

JimiNutz

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Man, imagine if they had a battle royale populated with AI that battle it out amongst themselves and against players as well; complete with vehicles and big fuck off starships that lay down bombardments every now and then. They could have a huge sprawling and diverse map and make it more "warzone" than CoD Warzone!

Do it 343i.

I like this idea.
Doesn't have to be a traditional battle royale at all but their own spin on it.

Having AI on the map would make it feel like more of an epic warzone and would mitigate one of my biggest criticisms of the genre, the amount of downtime that matches can have where you are just running around collecting resources without much action.
 

VN1X

Banned
They wont do battle royale. They have said it multiple times.
Well there goes that dream out the window.

I mean this is coming from someone who isn't even THAT crazy about battle royale modes but I can't ignore the appeal by these games as of late. It could work really well in a Halo setting imo.
 

Codes 208

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They wont do battle royale. They have said it multiple times.
Ive learned to take just about everything 343i says with a grain of salt.

they frequently 180 themselves whether its sidelining an “important” character/villain or straight up lie “Locke is not the main character of halo 5” (and despite that claim we still play as him for 3/4 of the game)
 
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Casanova

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They wont do battle royale. They have said it multiple times.

That's not an indefinite thing. They've stated that launch content will not be discussed and that battle royale is simply a possible "mode" within Halo (probably possible with forge as we speak). It's also been quite a while, and chances are that they've seen the newfound success of the once dying franchise, COD, do exceptionally well when they release Warzone the battle royale. What I'm saying is, that it's obviously not completely off the table - that would be negligent. It's very myopic to assume that game "modes" are set-in-stone at this point, and 343 has been known to double-back on a few things in the past as well.

Personally, I would love to see a Halo battle royale. It honestly just sounds like a lot of fun to me (the fun of big social modes), but with an added competitive/survival element.
 
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