Halo Infinite Is TESTING My Patience!! 

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When you realize the '10 year plan' wasn't referring to the wealth of content, but instead how long the content would take

Literally everyone: “Dude, this game needs more content, and NOW!” 343: “We hear you loud and clear! Here’s a cool new Spartan armor in the shop!”

Halo Infinite's Live Service currently is the definition of "Don't make a girl a promise...if you know you can't keep it."

Elden ring has been such a breath of fresh air because a game came out and was just COMPLETE. No live service no pay to win just a fun game to play day 1.

I haven’t booted up Infinite once this year. Even though the core gameplay is great and well polished, the content is so lacking with the only significant additions being lazy store items. I just got bored of it, which happens with most live services.

I just miss Halo 3's way of doing it where Bungie would literally pick out their favorite gamemodes and maps for everyone to be able to download and try out by queuing for a match on those gamemodes and maps, which was always active because everyone had access to it. If 343 just added Forge and did this, they would give the opportunity to have the players make their own fun. On top of that, it could open the gate for more creativity that 343 might not have the time for. And even more so, it would allow 343 to make special cosmetic items for players who get featured on that list of gamemodes and maps.

Your analogy towards the end was spot on. It makes me sad to remember what halo once was, like Halo 3 was that shining city on a hill for the entire industry to aspire to be. Now the soul is just gone.

When you hear “live service” don’t think of it as “live service”, think of it as a “game on life support”. When it doesn’t get the support it needs it dies. When you don’t hook it up to machines pumping out fun updates and CONTENT it dies.

"Every halo launch for the pat 8 years has felt like a waiting game" Call of duty nervously sweating in the corner

I miss when games actually launched with full content and didn't rely on "live service" to make players stay.

I will never understand why they didn’t just use the reach system. They already had a model that worked perfectly in almost every aspect and would satisfy 99% of the player base with gameplay that actually feels meaningful. Being able to vote what map to play on made such a massive difference on how long I’d play. And the ranking system kept me coming back every single day. Obviously they didn’t do this for money which seems to be by default with AAA companies now. They did not play their cards for the long run at all and instead jumped on a shitty bandwagon and expected everyone to whip out their wallets and drop stacks on shit that already should have been free to earn in the game. (And god damn it worked for a little while) I’m hoping this is a no man’s sky situation and it makes a massive comeback. But as of now I’m gonna put the game on the shelf until it gets itself together.

“We’re planning our plans but we have to delay our plans to plan the plans” best sentence I have ever heard😂🤣

Situations like this are why I don't stick to one game, I usually bounce around with whatever I feel like. For anyone looking for some dope ass games, I recommend deep rock galactic, dead cells, starcraft 2, risk of rain 2, team fortress 2, fallout 4, dusk and ultrakill

Come on act man over time content release model is easily the best way to do it. Remember how well it worked for half life 2's episodes? It's only been 15 years since episode 2.

That honestly was the perfect analogy to show what halo is

The analogy at the end legit gave me chills. I don't plan on coming back to Infinite but have still been enjoying MCC

I boot it up from time to time just to fly around and hope I find some new undiscovered place. But alas, I never do. I really really want new campaign content. I’ll just keep waiting because I love Halo.

I love how the biggest selling point for haloinfinite is "hey we didn't screw up the core gameplay."

I’m late to the party, but the statue analogy was perfect! And having other voices on helps contribute different people’s ways of viewing the issues you pointed out with the game as it is now. Great video as always 🥸

The moving forward section was so awesome. Spot on. When this game finally does release everything that should be there, it is going to be awesome to play.

That transition for the sponsor was damn smooth

10 years of Halo Infinite = 10 years of development

14:42 All of this, this is something that will FOR SURE bring me back to the game. having the Banshee buffed would be a blessing among other things

4:14 “a massive push for season 2” yea a whole fucking 2 maps and 3 game modes!!!!! HAHAHHAHAHA

Actman: “sir, permission to leave the station” 343: “for what purpose?” Actman: “To give the Halo fans back their game.”

Yes... Halo needs a content injection... Not store bundles, ACTUAL CONTENT

As a long time Halo fan I was really excited to dive into Infinite. Once I experienced the campaign and put some good hours into multiplayer, while I enjoyed the multiplayer nothing grabbed me to keep me there and as a fan that just isn’t a good sign for the game - in 3/5 years the game will probably be in a good spot

These videos are amazing! You always hit the nail on the head and present it beautifully, videos like these have become a hidden gem in these troubled times. I hope the developers are watching and seeing your videos and the interaction it’s getting. You are doing a public service and doing a great job at it. I appreciate you fighting for the halo experience and becoming a voice for the community. Thank you Act Man.

You know, many people forgot about this, but I think MW2019 had one of the best Life Services ever during Year 1, which is sad, because the yearly rythm prevented it from keeping that momentum.

All the amazing halo content creators are saving this game for me

How do we save Halo? we don't. We let 343 learn their lesson and stop supporting this dumpster fire, we knew they couldn't make halo and we trusted them anyways. Number company bad.

You put Gauntlet Dark Legacy ost as part of your video BGM? Nice, underrated classic hoping for a remaster someday. Oh yeah infinite.... it was fun but variety is needed

I keep saying this, 343i's biggest issue is management. They have the resources to have been able to do some of these simple features like stat tracking, etc. But management dropped the ball and hasnt properly allocated and managed things. They've needed a shakeup for a long time. The core team is talented and capable

All these failed live services will have done a lot of damage to the market, consumers are going to be apprehensive about any future project branded a “live service”. Hope the publishers are happy!

That was a great analogy. Brought a tear to my eyes. I can't wait for it to be like that again.

23:20 really is a great metaphor for what’s missing w Infinite. Well done good sir

I just want co-op story multi-player to be out already, cause the boys and I refuse to play the story until it comes out. Cause we want to experience it together.

I am SO proud of you Actman. I follow you since your humble begginings, and was behind you when Halo 5 was the main topic. Ever since Halo infinite came out, I was feeling like you were suppressing your thoughts and trying to be on 343's good side. I am happy to see this side of you again, and I enjoy that you share your opinion with no fear. I'm glad that you're you, brother. Stay the way you are.

I have not played Halo at all in months. Infinite has finalized it for me that Halo is well and dead. It doesn't matter what they add post-launch because it's all stuff that should have been in the game from the beginning. Co-op is being delayed which I knew it would be and forge will likely follow suit. Both will very likely be broken. It took 343 FOUR WEEKS to fix ONE game mode. I have no faith in them. Halo is just a cash cow for two greedy companies. They count on younger new fans to the franchise who never played Halo much before to keep the game alive and keep buying their overpriced microtransactions with their parents' credit cards. I know what Halo was before and what it is now and it is night and day. Bungie's games weren't perfect but they are MUCH better than Halo now. Halo 3 from 2007 a game from almost FIFTEEN years ago has more content than a game from 2021. That is beyond insane. I'm sticking with other better games and I don't see myself going back to Halo anytime soon except for mods like Halo Reach: Evolved, Cursed Halo, and SPV3. The fact modders can make stuff more fun and with more content than the actual game devs speak volumes. Congrats MS and 343. You killed Halo a franchise I have loved for sixteen years now since 2006. Congrats.

I thought the statue analogy was spot on. A really insightful way to explain the dynamic between all these different features and what fans can bring to the table if you let them. Well said.

Halo3 wasn't a live service but lasted more than 10 years. Do we really need live services or do they make us think we do?

I think my biggest frustration with Halo Infinite is that 343 had the perfect opportunity to break away from the anti-consumer, lackluster industry norms when it comes to "live service" games -- creating a genuine evolution of Halo's unique identity, its rich history of content and customization, as a consumer-friendly platform with its players in mind. ... And instead, they've completely and utterly botched it.

The devs are intentionally backing away from the game it's all the typical signs of nothing is going to improve we have seen so many other times. I can't say if investors, Microsoft, or 343 has decided this. But I can definitely tell you things are changing anytime soon. They got their money and moved on. My advice, buy games not hype, hope, or ideas, only buy games or this is all aaa will continue to ever be.

I think custom games and a server browser would go a long way. Like 343 could look at the custom modes people make and if they are popular enough put them in the matchmaking maybe in like a customs highlight playlist. The same goes for forge some of my favorite maps were forge maps in reach that got added to matchmaking. Giving the community the tools to make content while they take their time and polish whatever maps and modes they are working on would be a good start to building the community to where it used to be 10 years ago.

There’s no excuse for this ; Microsoft can afford to hire excellent developers and testers. Laziness + greed .

As an OG Halo fan it's strange to have Infinite shelved so quickly, I played the campaign twice but it doesn't seem like a living world - there's no reason to go back to it and I can't pick and choose missions to replay. On the multiplayer side my preference has always been a BTB w/ Vehicles or firefight, but I haven't even tried to play it since it was fixed. I'm playing through MCC with my kids now that they're old enough, game by game. I'm hoping by the time we get to Infinite (in about a year) it'll be more matured as a product; something I can put my time into.

One of the best, if not the best videos released by a youtuber/gamer for the year of 2022. I love the way you brought up your points and concerns. Unlike other youtubers who complain like little crybabies, you bring up your concerns in a professional manner. Well done my good sir!

I wish i could tag 343 in every single video you produce about halo. The community is the life line to any video game franchise.

I’ve played 200 hours of Halo Infinite, but by hour 80 I had already experienced everything there was to experience in the multiplayer, everything that could happen, already did

The server browser is a good point. Both Rust and Counter strike have them and are consistently in the most played games on steam list/charts. The origins of live service can be seen in older mmo's. The difference is they started out with substantially more content as a base and then built on top of it. Live services try to mimic the early access model without saying that they are early access.

I agree on all of this it is missing everything that makes halo halo like it needs more fun game modes

I love that you had some gauntlet dark legacy music in the background

I’m fine with competitive game modes, but what made me fall in love with the games was the social game modes and forge. I want to play Fat Kid, I want to play sniper run and team snipers. I want to play grif ball or role play a McDonald’s drive thru in Foundry, or a Michael Meyers hide and seek game mode. I want to be able to goof around, but the current game doesn’t cater to non-sweaty casuals right now.

If this was a new IP I'd be forgiving but it's Halo, features that we had in 2007 and worked flawlessly are either missing or broken in 2022. I understand game development is incredibly complex but it's just feels wrong that this is the case.

You gotta love how supportive and healthy the Halo community is

The halo reach progression system I always enjoyed. That's be dope to get back along side the battle pass levels

Out of any Halo content creator, the Act man never misses. He don’t bullshit, and calls it how it is. Much respect my guy, here is to hoping the game gets better soon. 🤝

The statue analogy is great. It perfectly captured why Infinite has felt so empty compared to how great I remember older Halo games being. The visuals and gameplay are there but the community and creativity was really what kept Halo alive and made it stand head and shoulders above any other shooter.

Me personally I'm a forge and custom games player and btb is my main matchmaking mode. I haven't been happy about how halo infinite is being utilized and I hope it gets better.

I loved the statue analogy, it was exciting and made me wish I could have been a part of such an awesome scene.

Halo Infinite taught me one very important lesson: Never ever get hyped for anything. Just assume everything will be garbage. 343 has killed me enthusiasm for this entire franchise. I don't even feel like playing the MCC anymore. Never thought there'd come a day where I wouldn't have Halo installed on my Xbox anymore. Fuck me, gaming is depressing right now. There's something seriously wrong when almost everything I'm playing on my brand new Xbox Series X is old, backwards compatible games.

I feel like 343 has their priorities backwards. It seems they want to drop everything they have in their pockets in one fell swoop with the next season, but doing this only stagnates progress, because the large majority of the player base doesn't want to wait so long for promised additions like forge and co-op campaign. Adding maybe a new weapon or a new mode every now and then gets players interested without the developers having to exhaust so many resources. Personally, I just want new maps, even ones the community makes. It did wonders for Halo 5.

That final analogy is excellent: 343 is putting all the weight on their own shoulders... if they could empower the community more, the load would be much lighter and Halo would almost run itself.

I really liked your analogy at the end. It's so true, that's why Halo 3 was the most popular Halo game, because it created and satisfied so many different groups of players.

12:14 can't agree more that they missed their opportunity to explode. People who don't even play Halo on my discord were talking about it, the hype was there and they dropped the ball.

23:19 Act man that analogy was perfect and gave me chills, the music, the way you put it. Everything about it is what makes halo, halo. Thank you for voicing what most can’t ❤️

I have been with actman since he had like 300k subs, I'm happy to see him now have over 1mil

Your point starting at 20:00 is exactly what Bungie has done with their interpretation of “live-service” after Bungie split with Activision, they started putting more time into smaller expansions and support for the game in the short term, while laying out the plans for the years to come. It has paid off with a fantastic new expansion release as big as individual games, and a seasonal structure that provides a framework to build a buffer to keep smaller batches of content coming while the next big expansion is in progress.

Actman has had my respect for many years now because (as in his analogy) he’s been helping to keep the statue held up high where it belongs, and in general I feel like he has such a positive yet appropriately critical view of the 343 Halo’s. But yeah big respect to my guy for being a great voice for the community

I’m already happy this video exists. We need the community (and you are a flagship of the Halo community) to speak up against this. The more backlash and the bigger the boycott, the more they will be forced to actually service fans!

I could play Infinite Grifball all day. Imagine the Drop Weapon mechanic ad how the sword and hammer interact in the game. Think about a map with a ceiling, and the floor is random platforms with bottomless pit below. You all have grappleshots and its called "Grapple Grif" and you swing around swinging hammers like mad men.

That was a perfect analogy. Act man you're a str8 OG. Bless you for your work.

This game needs social features big time! Pre Game Lobby, service records, veto system, military progression system, ect.

Honestly the lack of community input was the death of this game for me. I’m a BTB guy so when I launched big team for the first time and saw that there were 3 modes and 3 maps that felt like a slap in the face but having a community tab where I can go watch some funny plays or see a stupid picture of a Spartan with a plasma nade on his nuts would’ve been fun to look at. even better have a community gamemodes. Imagine being able to play Jenga, or duck hunt with randoms online. The lack of forge wasn’t the nail in the coffin for me but it definitely would’ve made me stick around a lot longer.

I just wanted to say your analogy was touching. It works, and it's really sad to me that the game isn't, because I want to love it and give it more time but you said it best, they're testing our patience. I hope they can come back. Thanks for another great video, Act Man!

The one time I rebooted infinite multiplayer ever since that first week was because I wanted to play big team battle. At the time, big team battle was completely broken and then disabled for fixing. Uninstalled again. It’s really unfortunate how infinite still turned out after all the delays. Live service games are *much* more effort than suits would think and it sucks how much work had to be shoved out unpolished to have a platform for the service ready, only to now have to spend all this time fixing it. Like having to redo the entire wire frame of a car before adding in the engine.

I’m not getting back on until infection is added

I absolutely love the statue analogy. Describes perfectly what is Halo to the Halo Community and how Infinite is unable to let many parts of it hold the statue up high.

I've jumped back into Halo as of last week and while I'm enjoying playing it's pretty sad to not unlock anything as I progress. I've mostly been unlocking things that are locked behind a battlepass pay wall. It's really disappointing they offer next to no cosmetics for free. They really need to improve that side of things

I just wish that 343i gets some creativity in there future maps. I can just imagine a BTB map where in the middle of the match a frigate gets shot down and you see a piece of the frigate fall down into the middle of the map and add new verticality and landscape. Or a map on a snowy part of the ring where chunks of it are constantly flying off and at one point a huge chunk in the middle sinks below creating a chasm in the map.

It really feels like halo has gone backwards. Yes infinite has a strong core gameplay but my fondest memories was the player made modes and maps from halo 3 and I don't think I can get back to that ever. Partly because of time but mostly because people don't even have the tools to create with

One of my big issues with 343 right now is they seem somewhat deceptive. We were told that the campaign would have many weapons not yet seen in multiplayer, and then when the campaign came out it the only NEW weapon was the scrap cannon everything else was variants it really sucked being hyped to find something hoping for some old classic weapons and only having one new one after being told many should exist. They ride of technical terms sometimes and it's misleading as hell

Coop and theatre are what kept me playing. The Vidmaster Challenges, and later Firefight were brilliant. I loved making montages and fail compilations. I kinda dicked around in Forge now and again. But damn my brother was a Forge artist! His custom games kept me and all buddies playing until fuckin' 4am every single friday and safurday. And I got off work at 330pm. Our weekends were Halo. I've beaten a good chunk of Infinite's campaign, and played a dozen matches online. But... Elden Ring has had more of a draw on me since it released.

I'm patiently waiting for The Act Man to do a season 2 review because I know he's the only content halo infinite had since the beginning. I personally don't even wanna touch this season

A basic combat record that games in 2008 had is what drove me away. I wanted to see my kills with each gun and all my fun stats, medals, etc. Just felt like I was doing all this work and grind for no reason other than to get good

Man that analogy at 22:00 was amazing. This is exactly what I love about halo and is the thing that I have tried to explain to my friend who hates halo for no other reason than it isn't COD. Thanks Act Man.

Makes you really appreciate the work that went into halo 3

I think your community/statue analogy is really good... and that started on day 1 with Combat Evolved and Bungie's inspired take on match customization for pvp. Although the game couldn't be played online like the arena shooters that preceded it on SegaNet, such as Unreal Tournament and Quake, the lag-free experience playing Combat Evolved on Xbox split-screen or lan, in tandem with the absurd amount of control players had on 'how' they would play against each other, was the exact reason gamers stopped and said, "What is that over there?" so... nicely done. As for 343 and Halo Infinite, there's no doubt in my mind they've carried Bungie's torch in exemplary fashion across both Halo 4 and Guardian's which, after it picked up a head of steam, has arguably one of the deepest, most expansive multiplayer components ever released on a console. I've stopped playing Infinite's multiplayer, in fact I think it's an unmitigated train-wreck at this point, but I'm willing to concede that Covid has absolutely destroyed nearly every triple A game release over the past year and a half. This isn't the game 343 wanted to put out there. I sincerely think that should be a point of consideration when roasting the game for what it 'isn't'.

the statue analogy was actually perfect, 343 has never understood that about halo. it’s not just about good gameplay or story, it’s the whole package

Been a halo fan since 2004. Fell in love with the story, read all the books. Loved all the bungie games. Didn’t care for 4 or 5 on launch, only recently discovered newfound love for them. Infinite… introduced some new, bold and fun features. That’s all the good I can say unfortunately. The keystone for a halo title in my eyes is the campaign, the story and it’s just not there for infinite. The potential was there but it just feels so damn incomplete and unimportant. I don’t think I’ve picked the game up since last year and I really really wanted to love it.

literally by far the most accurate analogy for the situation 10/10

Last time I played Halo Infinite was February 9th and that was just so I could log in on Steam to collect whatever achievements I unlocked on Xbox. Since then, I've replayed both Portal games, Saints Row 3 and 4, and the Half-Life. That's not including games that my girlfriend and myself play couch co-op together like Nidhogg, various Call of Duty zombies modes, and Halo MCC. Since the launch of Infinite's multiplayer, the only thing enticing me to come back is time limited stuff only because it probably won't be unlockable again any time soon.

I agree with Late Night Gaming at the end: I would prioritize Forge and custom games overhaul and custom games servers.

I haven't played Infinite outside of the story, it's a super fun game, the issue to me seems to be management, and not the developers themselves, they don't get paid to do what they want, they get paid to do what they're told, and if management is telling them to make more spartan armor for the shop, then they'll make that instead of something they'd want to make, like more real content or something.

The biggest thing that I was looking forward to was armor customization, but that was a dream scrapped at launch. I had high hopes for the game, but I have no desire to play it anymore -- not with other games out there to hold my attention with updates and a meaningful sense of progression

Ngl the stagnation is literally why as someone who has been die hard halo player since playing halo ce on my uncles og Xbox kinda decided to take a break n switch to sea of thieves ( a game I stopped playing due to lack of content) simply because they actually add regular updates and new content n I habe not regretted it

When a truly great and finished game like Elden Ring comes along it really puts into perspective how lacking AAA shooters, including Halo Infinite have been recently.

The Fact that Jorges shoulder pad has STILL not got its textures rendered speaks volumes of how slow and ridiculous these updates are!!! Hell they even said that they won't even fix the mis alignment of the Cyber Showdown mowhawk and visor till Season 2! But look guys the store is working fine, go buy your cat ears....

Season 2 is here. Nothing changed