Call of Duty Streamers Don't Understand Halo 

I've been told I messed up and the "Dr Lupo" I was referring to is actually Zlaner. Just thought I'd point that out. I didn't see that guys name in the lobby they were in lol

My favorite quote is one by one of the developers. “The only BR we are interested in is the Battle Rifle”.

ok man comparing making formulaic content out of fear of branching out to Gwyn repeatedly linking the fire hit a little too close to home. Maybe it's time I embrace the dark.

Watchng this in 2024 is so conflicting 😭 . Everybodys statements aged so poorly and well all at the same time

I dont get why everyones saying it needs a br? I mean, there already is one, its one of the best guns in the game. It's a classic, I mean that 3 shot burst, that heavy damage, those easy headshot kills, the combination of precision, stopping power, speed, versatility, I mean it's just gorgeous.

You never miss my friend

"This game needs a BR to survive" translation: "This game needs a BR for me to make money streaming it".

DrDisrespect said something about the effect of streaming on the gaming space, I think it absolutely fucking ruined so much in gaming.

This is one of the most well put together and rationally explained videos on this subject. This guy really knows how to take an unbiased position and lay down the facts while not attacking those he doesn’t 100% agree with. Mad respect, had to subscribe

“The last fucking thing i want halo infinite to do is go out of its way to cater to an audience that are not its core fans” I couldn’t have said it better myself act man.

Asking a BR-centric streamer their opinion on a game that doesn’t have a BR mode is like asking a lion its opinion on a gazelle sanctuary. PROBABLY not the most objective take you’re gonna get.

The hindsight here is hilarious. I could not fathom how awful a 343 managed Battle Royale would be given Infinite's current status as a tombstone carried by ants

I feel like co-op campaign would be waaaaay better than a battle royale.

That intro has me in tears, legendary

The Halo community when they heard Dr. Disrespects opinion “There can be no greater heresy!”

"This game is not going away in 3 weeks" oh what a sad turn of events

I appreciate streaming but I feel streaming has destroyed game integrity and most gamers get left out cause developers wanna cater to the few. GREAT VIDEO

Lmao my guy put the pewdiepie bridge clip 💀

“It’s not Halo Infinite that won’t survive without a battle royale... it’s you”. Perfectly encapsulates your entire point 🥂

ironic looking back at this considering the state of halo infinite

Cool video. Never mind the fact that they were 50% right. The game is now pretty much dead, although it's not because of the lack of a BR. It's because of a lack of content. Could have been a great successor to the arena shooter we all love, but it turned into nothing.

“Without a BR mode, Halo Infinite will die in three weeks” *looks at success of 20 year long running franchise* Are you sure about that?

*Patrollong the Mojave almost makes you wish Halo Infinite to just have a good campaign over everything else*

Really sucks that 343 dropped the ball and gave streamers another reason to push the br thing.

To be honest, I'm tired of BR games.

I've never understood the obsession with battle royale. If I wanted to feel like my space was constantly being encroached on I could just move to my mother in law's house.

This didn’t age well

Man this didn’t age well, I don’t mean his points but halo really didn’t last long. Purely because of the lack of content

To quote 343: the only BR we care about is the battle rifle

"Im so proud of this community" 😢

I LOVE the constant balance you show ripping into the streamers while giving respect at the same time. God bless you act Man. You brilliant, beautiful man.

I know this comment is super late, but... Having played Halo since it's release in 2001, I can genuinely say that I would love a Halo BR. Do I think it needs it, no... But I think it would be fun, assuming it's made the right way. While I still enjoy playing Fortnite, and I had a good time with both Apex and Warzone, I think those games are too far away from what a Halo BR *needs* to be. Honestly I believe that a Halo BR just needs to be more Halo but just on a larger scale. No having to pick up shields, no additional armor, no different attachments for weapons or awkward interfaces. Just drop us onto Zeta Halo with Banished and UNSC weapons scattered around the map, like it would be in multiplayer, and let us find them, pick them up, and fucking shoot each other. They can even take a page out of Blackout's book and utilize past and current maps in the landscape. Can you imagine playing Halo with 99 other people? 25 squads of 4 just duking it out on the biggest, most open, most beautiful Halo map we've ever seen? The fact of the matter is that all the stuff for a BR in Halo is already there. Infinite introduced a bunch of different equipment, and you can even bring back some of the older ones from past games, especially for maneuverability (looking at you Jetpack and Grav Lift). Imagine coming up on someone from behind just for them to bubble shield you... Imagine grapple hooking onto a tree or building and lobbing a Plasma onto an enemy player from 50 yards away! And then, oh this is great! And then, sharing it with people through some sort of file... share... wait. Facebook. Anyway, the map could be designed for the different movement options in mind, and you could have intense battles that last on multiple layers of engagement. Infinite also introduced variations on different weapons. Hell, you could even acquire them the same way you did in the campaign: hunting down a high value target. Implement a sort of PVPVE. Side note: I can't believe those weapons aren't currently available for use in the actual multiplayer. The overall point here is that a Halo BR doesn't have to be fancy, or even *new*... It just needs to be Halo. And the reason I hope it never exists is because the developers will never understand that..

If they want Battle Royale so badly, build one in forge mode.

you really couldn't resist slappin the bridge clip in there, could ya?

This didn't Age well... as Actman said right now Battlefield 2042 has more players than halo infinite. that says alot when a broken game has more players than halo infinite.

Just checked... Currently 800 viewers on Twitch. That is really, really bad for a Franchise so well known. The player base is equally in the toilet.

“Metal Gear Survive absolutely needs a Battle Royale” is the funniest headline I’ve ever read.

Thebattle royale market is so beyond oversaturated at this point, its actually refreshing for me to see that one of my favorite franchises is not getting sucked into that black hole.

Looking back on this a year later... It didn't pan out too well for infinite, and this is coming from somebody who enjoys the game. From a spectating pov, the game probably would've brought more people to it if it had a Battle Royale. Just based on the fact that more people would've streamed it.. so I guess there's truth to that.. But the main reason this game dropped off so hard isn't because of BR, it's because of bad community management, lack of updates, and misleading their consumers..

Here after BR was announced for Infinite.

Dear god this video was awesome, the last part gave me chills

"The game will die without a BR" Are coded words for "I won't be able to make money off this game without a BR"

The dead rising music gets me nostalgic every time. Gonna start it up today!

One thing I would love in a br. A whole halo ring. And the server got to choose 1 segment to fight in. 1 vote per person. If you pressed something you got a close up of the segment. And you got to look at all the drop locations in that segment. And you got to drop in from a pelican.

Streamers: “don’t you want a BR mode in Halo?” Me: “Yeah! I would love a Battle Rifle only mode!”

I’d kill to play some Halo with this man once Infinite comes out

Omg I loved that quote “we’ve been waiting for a new halo for six years it’s not going away in three weeks”

damn this shit aged like milk, sincerely someone who doesnt even play shooters

“God I hate COD so much I wish I had something new to play” “Why is this new game not exactly like COD”

Fun fact for dr disrespect, halo isn’t a game made by 3 people with no ways of advertising

Well this did not aged well…

I mean the doc wasn’t really wrong The game is kinda dying

“This game needs a battleroyale in order to survive” Alternatively: “I need this game to have a BR so my channel will survive”

"Halo Infinite needs a BR" It already has a BR! The Battle Rifle!

i wonder how many people are now saying halo infinite has less players then bf2042 because no br

Boy this aged well. XD

I keep getting confused whenever people talk about BRs in Halo Infinite, and I'm like "Yeah, if theres no Battle Rifle in Halo Infinite i imagine people will be upset"

"Without BR this game dies in 3 weeks" 343 : Understood... *Battle Rifle only mode*

>calls for outside the box thinking >proceeds to suggest the most generic and overused game mode to a veteran franchise

Bro, if we one day get a halo br and you get to be an odst dropping into New Mombasa that would be amazing

It is May 2022 and halo infinite MP is dying. Maybe they were right. Maybe a BR would have helped keep it alive longer than a few months

“We’ve waited on Halo Infinite for 6 years. It’s not going away in 3 weeks.” - The Act Man

"In order to stay relevant for 3 weeks, this game needs a br" No dude, I think YOU need a br to stay relevant.

Your best video yet, see a lot of wisdom shining through from the martial arts :)

This video didn't age well

Well said: “They want a battle royale for the wrong reason.”

"Halo needs a br to survive" Translation: *My pre-mature audience only watches br streams so I need halo to have a br to make sure I eat tonight*

Loved the intro

This is looking a little rough a year later. I know there's other reasons for it's death, but still.

*Me playing Skyrim* : “Just look at these vistas…needs a battle royal”.

"Comparison is the thief of joy" So true

This did not age well...

if only they weren't right

That outro was so good, great video man

Halo doesn't need BR to survive, the only BR it needs is the Battle Rifle and we have it.

This aged well. 😅😂

Who would've thought that the game really would be dying right now

Finally some good internet drama.

This is so sad.. A time where everyone was so optimistic about infinite..

The man who acts, you never fail to impress! Great stuff man!

People always say: "Halo infinite needs a Battle Royale!" They do realize that they can make their own battle royale in custom games. Right?

“What these streamers are really saying is that they can’t sell their viewers on a game if it doesn’t have a different version of the same shit they’ve been exclusively playing for the past 3-5 years.” Nailed it.

This video didn’t age well

I mean they weren’t completely wrong were they…

What was said. "in order for this game to succeed, it needs a BR!" Translation. "In order for me to milk this game to my viewers and make Money, it needs a BR!" No, Doc. No it doesn't.

“When the is game launches viewership isn’t gonna be good” If i were a dev I’d sure hope so, I’d rather people be PLAYING the game

And in the last 6 months The Act Man has put up a whopping TWO halo videos. I’m sure it’s not a matter of interest 🤔🤔

this didnt age well. LMFao halo has a battle royal comming out now

"Halo Infinite won't last 3 weeks without a BR!" Meanwhile: Players still playing MCC

Honestly streaming culture kills gaming for me sometimes.

Now halo getting a BR😔

Yup Doc was completely right

I don't get why people try and measure a game's success based on it's views on Twitch. It's absolutely ridiculous, Twitch viewers are a very small minority of the whole gaming community.

battle royales are annoying, i don't want like 10% gunfight and 90% waiting/walking around.

This didn’t age quite so well

I know I’m a little late here. But I think it’s worth pointing out Dr. Disrespect claiming “I’m not hating on Halo. I grew up on Halo” is a bit of a lie considering he was born in 1982 and Halo CE (ya know, the first one) released in 2001.. so *he was almost 20 years old when the first halo released* But yeah.. he “grew up on Halo”

"It's not about the battle royale, it's about sending a message." - someone based IDK

He was 3 months and a week off, halo is, well, not dead, but it's fallen behind in player counts. Although a br would have done nothing for the game

Halo infinite was a fun 3-4 weeks I played on release.

Halo to me has always been about Chief. His journey, his life, his story. It's always been the campaign.