Halo: Infinite Multiplayer | You were THIS close to greatness 

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I've been screaming it everywhere: take armor cores and armor coatings and throw that shit away. Railroading me into certain armor styles and specific color layouts is the most unHalo thing I've ever experienced, let me mix my armor pieces and let me choose my specific colors.

What 343 meant when they said millions of options: “Your options are only as limited as your bank account”

The slight zooms when hammering home a point is really subtle and feels good. Great job editing.

You know that feeling when you know somethings wrong but you just can’t pinpoint exactly what it is? You hit every nail on the head and I’m glad I can see what I was feeling, fantastic video as always

It's crazy to think that its so hard for developers to simply copy/paste Reach's best parts. Nobody has ever said a bad word about Reach's progression/customization.

*See's "Get 5 assists" challenge* *Sighs* *Runs to commando*

"You don't have to pay any real money to unlock everything" You lied to us 343

The part that hurts the most about armor cores having their own separate cosmetics is that the bots in custom games have mixed cosmetics from different armor cores thus proving it's possible but just not allowed xd

It's so accurate; when gameplay is this good, it makes the flaws surrounding it all the more glaring. Here's hoping we get a progression system fix soon that doesn't make it feel like we're army-crawling through broken glass and shattered dreams

Just found out that I'm a CHAD for doing what I love, driving into people with some stragglers on my back shooting them while I do so.

One of my randomly generated day one challenges when the multiplayer first came out was to splatter with a vehicle 5 enemies using the repulsor, life was pain until the challenges got swapped.

Bricky you vocalize something I think a lot of halo fans are feeling. Thanks for listing fixes instead of just complaining like a lot of other people are doing. This was great and I hope they listen.

speaking of challenges, my friend had to destroy an enemy warthog. Not help destroy it, last hit it. Doesn't sound hard on paper, but then you have to get the powerweapons. The rocket doesn't one shot warthogs. Enemies jump out of dying vehicles. this ended when he got a re-roll to get rid of the challenge

Rip R Lee Ermy, had him and the snoop dogg announcer packs. I’d love a Sgt Johnson AI

I've never played a single minute of any Halo, but here I am listening to this beatiful bearded god talking for 25 minutes about a multiplayer and his CBT. Awesome content Bricky! :D

I’m going to be honest, I always expect a bad game launch, and this one was amazing at its core. It’s got a ways to go, and thankfully it’s going in the right direction ❤️

"Cmon guys, 343 will get it right this time they finally learned..." Do you know the definition of insanity?

Always happy to see a level-headed critique that is so punchy and easy to get behind without dogpiling 343 and throwing them under the bus. The progression for Reach was fantastic but the core MP experience had glaring issues with a quarter to half of the weapons nearly ever being used with armor abilities and loadouts drastically affecting the meta and flow of Halo's core gameplay. I'm gonna say it, 343 made a better Reach MP successor. Customization and progression has a long way to go and providing level-headed constructive feedback is the best way to make the pinnacle of Halo MP experiences and Bricky is a shining example to follow!

The problem is that these companies aren’t trying to make the best game they can. They are trying to make a game that is juuuust good enough that you will play it in spite of all the greedy bullsht ruining it.

If they bring back map voting, I hope the do it like how mario kart 8 does it. Where it's not the majority vote that votes for it like most. It's more like raffle where the game would randomly pick player votes, so that even the map with the least amount of votes still has a chance. It's a lower chance, but still a chance

Another thing about "personal status" is that there are no stats in Infinite unless it's competitive No KD, no Win\Lose Nothing

I never played much Halo before (maybe like 3 hours total) and I thought it was alright. After watching gameplay recently and now this video, I now understand why this game is loved so much. Now that I can play it with a mouse and keyboard, may just pick it up. As for what you said about the cosmetics, couldn't agree more. There aren't many games that do battlepass/progression system well. I imagine those in charge of planning out the system err on the side of caution and don't want to give too much away.

I remember reading that World at War's headshot sfx was created by the combination of a hammer hitting metal, and a watermelon being smashed

Would love it if the challenges were just like, Kill enemies with energy weapons, Kill enemies with precision weapons, vehicle kills, complete map objectives just simple stuff like that would be way easier, more fun and would just progress as you play the game

Another thing I find amazing, but it's always been good in Halo for the most part, is the SOUNDTRACK! It's amazing!

I love this new multiplayer. The best since Halo 3, in my opinion.

"You don't feel horribly awful if you get killed by these special weapons" Speak for yourself, this game tilts me like none other haha. Still love the game, just I've never been good at Halo MP.

One of THE most important parts of this video, to me, was bricky stating that "you don't mind as much when you get killed and your car does a ton of spins" The beauty of halo is that you don't really get mad if someone kills you with some nigh on inpossible grenade toss, physics shenanigans etc. It's a joy for pro's and casuals alike. Because whether you're good or bad at the game, it's enjoyable for everyone.

A cosmetic system where you unlock stuff with points from gameplay, and then have a shop without fomo where more absurd cosmetics are would be great and alot of people would use it.

I’m not a huge halo fan but I adored Reach when it was popular. On sound, one thing I noticed personally was the sound of the assault rifle. It was always my favorite gun in just asthetic and simplicity but in reach I felt it’s sound was lacking. It wasn’t bad by any means but I felt like it’s look didn’t match it’s sound. Infinite definitely did the sound of the assault rifle justice IMO. Great video as always my friend!

Playing Halo is kind of like doing move combos in a fighting game except it's an first person shooter

Invasion in Reach was good with the loadouts (for the most part) because it gradually unlocked loadouts depending how far along the match goes. I hope it makes a return in some form but that will be a while

Totally agree on reach having the best system. Was so cool. Ranking system was sick. Buying nothing and saving up for Inclement Weather had the biggest dick energy.

Would pay for a bricky ai

This was a dope critique. Talking about what was good as well as bad. Being detailed about the specifics that made it good and bad. Then being even more specific about the changes that would make the game feel better. Chefs kiss, take my like and comment.

At least the campaign is pretty awesome, can't wait to see what modders do with it.

Bricky : “You could even get someone from the community, who knows” totally not alluding to himself

Stg I’ve never been so sick of playing oddball before. The randomized mode playlists are literally sucking the joy out of good halo multiplayer modes!

Some nice points. I liked what titanfall 2 did for progression and and levels they Could do something similar but for armor instead of guns

I would rather a game have to fix its cosmetic/progression system than have to fix its gameplay loop. 343 has been very open about listening to feedback and have talked about introducing a personal progression system. Thank you for this Bricky, Halo Infinite has become my new favorite Halo game and I hope to see you make a new video a couple years from now about Infinite and where it’s at.

I really miss being able to play as an Elite in Halo. Spartans are fun but wort wort wort is supreme.

When I was 4 my brother let me try out playing halo I can’t tell you what game but I loved it. I then proceeded to spend 5 years trying to convince my parents to let me play it. Then on my ninth birthday I bought my own 360 and got halo reach the first real game I ever played. Fast forward and now I am here playing this game hating the battle pass but loving the game. Bricky much love to you thanks for covering my favorite franchise. (Btw video 0/10 not enough mangler 😘)

My general sentiment with Infinite is basically the same here. Gameplay is solid, great, I have a lot of fun in Infinite even when I'm getting curbstomped in a match. But... man that monetization and customization bogs it down a bit more than I would like. This season has downright funneled EVERYONE into using MkVB Cores because ALL the customization stuff has been for that, and the MkVII (the poster armor for MP) has been on the back foot because, HEY GUESS WHAT, you want that fancy helmet (that they gave everyone for free in MCC?) Better get to LEVEL FREAKING 96 on the battle pass! I can be fair and say that 343 is actually listening to at least ease up pass progression but MAYBE don't slap the flagship cosmetic for you MP so deep into the reward track. EDIT: Ah right, forgot to mention the ESports team skins that are 5 bucks a pop.

1:04 I know it's a simple thing, but as an editor that zoom/pan aligned with the clap was SO clean. GG editor.

Your glee for the ultrasmurfs is now lore as it is spoken by loremaster luetin. All hail lord bricky

You’re stuff is gold my man. Keep it up, you’re destined for greatness.

" YOU do it!YOU did the HARD PART! YOU! DID IT!" *and fuked up the easy part* Omg, FINALLY some one saying what I'm thinking, and how I'm feelin'.

Uh, when you spoke about how Halo gameplay involves slow killing that levels down the game it reminded me a lot of tf2, even if the two games are wildly differents. Would be nice to know your opinion on that gem.

Really interesting how you talk about "Time to Kill" as being more skill-based. I agree, and I guess I realize that I don't much like the middle-of-the-road games like BF and CoD, but the extremes like Halo and Siege. Having a long time to kill requires skill and tenacity, while fast time to kill requires teamwork and forethought. Siege is very much the perpetually thinking game where you have to have a plan and make a snap decision based on where the enemy is. Both are really nice to have...and I guess both hold my attention more than the middle-of-the-road mechanics.

Honestly the lack of content hurts it more than the abysmal “progression”. Only 10 maps and like 5 game modes?

Funny thing part of the dev team protested against this progressions system but at least there responding to the feedback

What i find really funny (and kinda hopeful for) is that halo infinite has a scoreboard where you earn score by doing good, earning medals and not betraying. And if infinite just gave xp based on your score. Especially since you could just remove the 0 on the end of the score and give that amount of XP

Remember firefight?

"I will take this antidote but fuck you?" feels pretty meta lmao

Sadly they didn’t fix the easy shit

With the way Bricky describes Halo, Halo PvP is the Smash Bros Ultimate of First Person Shooters.

The first joke of the video is so clever here is why. The first enemy is using the scout set that noble 3 in uses in halo reach, noble 3 is bald, i hope it was intentional.

Reach had a good progression system, but i still feel like 3 was better. In reach you just know who had no life. In halo 3 you saw who actually accomplished hard things in multiplayer, like seeing people with the katana and finding out how they got it, reach had none of that.

The "Go away" and "Shoo" killed me 😂

Okay, I know this is gonna sound fucking weird. But my final exam is to pick one really good presenter and explain why they're so good at presenting their topics, and I chose Bricky lol Wish me luck lmao

The challenges are definitely the biggest problem to me so far. My fix is if it wants a certain matchtype to be played then that one has increased chance of getting selected on your next match until that challenge is won. You need no more than 3 kills with weapons, and only 1 for the rarer ones (some guns that aren't even power weapons are still really rare), 1 kill with vehicles. There won't be challenges specific to certain vehicles (since they are so rare) or maps. None for "play 3 games" or whatever, since you are doing that anyways and while its a freebie, its a grindy one that takes up space for 3 games when other challenges could only last 1 game. Also the Chalenge Swaps should just be challenge clears, they are currently worthless since they just change the challenge randomly as far as I know (I'm not wasting them), and you get so many of them but they don't honestly help you get through the weekly challenges easier so they are currently worthless battle bass fodder. These changes should help (especially if you can tell for certain that it counted that kill for the challenge during the match) so that people will be less incentivized to quit games to grind challenges, or sabotage performance to grind them, and you can feel more capable to just play the game as you like instead of trying to balance doing as many challenges at once and searching for a specific gun all game instead of focusing on the game itself. Like challenges are neat, but they get in the way too much, I felt the same way in DOOM 2016/Eternal, where I was too focused on having to remember and perform all the weapon challenges to get the gun upgraded that I couldn't even enjoy the game until AFTER I finished those challenges, and this game is a never ending version of that with no reward at the end because no way am I gonna grind out ALL of those challenges in time. Making it easier is just better for everyone, OR make them way harder and WAY fewer (but not harder like "get 100 kills with this weapon" which is just braindead and annoying) like "get *1* head shot" or "grapple a grenade" with so few of them that having to grind these hard ones will still not waste your time as much. Currently the challenges are so difficult to actually get for unintended reasons. I had "get one kill with the mangler", which is honestly a really good one since it doesn't require grinding and a lot of maps tend to have that gun. Yet I played a game and got a 3 kill streak with the mangler among other kills throughout the match since it happens to be my favorite gun so far, so I'm decent with it. At the end of the match it said I didn't get the challenge, because apparently none of those kills counted, despite none of them being assists or grenade kills from what I remember, so either I have TERRIBLE luck, or the game is really bad about what it counts towards the kill. Likely because the game is so physics based, perhaps it thought some other thing was the cause of death, like they bumbed a wall when dying and it counted as a splatter internally or something to that affect. So it should be more lenient on what is counted towards the cause of death for these challenges. It could also be lag or desync, I had "get 10 kills with a vehicle" (sorta nebulous if this counts turrets, obviously it means splatters, but the way its phrased should account for other vehicle-based kills like jacking and killing as a passenger, personally) and getting splatters is REALLY hard for me for some reason. I don't know if its just harder in this game or what because I hit several people and they just bounced off me and sometimes didn't even lose armor. One time I rammed fullspeed into someone and hit them and I bounced off of them and then exploded from their rocket launcher. Likely they shot me first on their screen so I never had the chance to hit them, but from my view I was unharmed and hit them fully (their armor even sparked a bit) and bounced back a full 2 seconds before exploding so desync definitely had a hand here. And the terrain is bumby, so one time I drove full speed at a guy and hit a bump on my right side which lifted the Hog onto its left side and the wheels were just high enough to miss the guy's head, I didn't even flip I actually landed back on that wheel but I still missed the kill. In fact the challenge made a fun "oopsie" like that would normally be into a genuinely bad time. So basically, its already hard enough getting kills that count toward the challenge in the first place, so why make them so grindy on top of that? I went through 5 big team battles and got about 5 splatters (and that's just counting the levels that had vehicles in them) which is only half the challenge, getting 1 splatter is much better since its so rare and I don't have to sabotage my team by grinding out for multiple games. Anyways, sorry for the rant, but the fact that I've lost challenges despite clearly getting the kill or having it stolen from a teammate, as well as the grind pairing with pure luck in even getting the chance to do the grind, have all made the challenges worthless to me and I might seriously never try to play this game in any other way than casually. You know, I just play it because I want to and ignore everything else. Which is the opposite of what they clearly want, which is for you to get addicted enough to grind out everything and stick with the game for years. Even CoD Mobile I played for about 2 years grinding out every challenge and getting every free skin (and even some premium ones when my brother-in-law bought the battle pass (which you can then earn credits to buy the next one through, so that's why I needed to grind so that I could stay "free-to-play"), but I feel no incentive with this game currently. I still might play about 3-5 games every other day though, since its so fun, but I'm not considering playing daily yet that's for sure.

To be honest, I'm happy with the multiplayer. Yeah, I can't get a bunch of cosmetics without buying something. At the end of the day, though? That's all they are - cosmetics. Nothing to change skill, nothing to change gameplay.

my biggest issue is that i can't select a specific playlist and that they don't have fucking swat or infection

Bricky your cool I got into warhammer because of Adeptus Ridiculous and I am totally listening to your game reviews, thanks for the quality content!

I like that you address both halo 4 and 5 in ways that both show that you don't hate them bc they aren't bad but are showing their exact downfall

The AIs are so incredibly fun, I can't believe we haven't had them in a Halo game before. I especially love that each AI has it's own personality, like they have weapon/play style preferences and have different voice lines depending on how you play. Gives a lot to making you feel like an actual spartan

The progression system also promotes more of players completing their challenges rather than wining and playing the game mode. Almost every game I played that I lost it was because 1/2 or 3/4 of the players on my team wouldn't care about winning and only do challenges which is sad because it makes my not want to play if I'm stuck on a 1v4 or 2v4 everytime

Me: I shall never simp. Agent Carolina Announcer: They have captured A, TAKE IT BACK Me: _YES MA'AM, IMMEDIATLY_

I'm extremely guilty of leaving matches. Got the map with the S7 Sniper 3 times back to back. Got a challenage for sniper kills. Took me over an Hour to get that map again. And it had the skewer... 30 minutes of leaving and re-queuing later and i finally got the S7 and the kills. But this was literally just for ONE challenage. Let alone other gamemode related ones.

I tend to use the needler for single oponents, and granades for groups.

When this game came out, I played it for the first week and it was really fun. I also wanted to do the first weekly, so I tried achieving the missions. But god, I never suffered that much in my life. A friend of mine got all his weeklies done about 2 or 3 days before the end of the week. I played for several hours more than he did, during the 2nd last day I played for probably 10 hours and the next and final day, I played for about the same time. I couldn't get this one last mission done, which was doing 3 kills during airborne and I only needed one more, but I just couldn't get it, and I tried 10 fucking hours! Finally, I decided to use the newly gained mission reroll to swap it out, got a new one, literally the first kill in the first game after rerolling I got an airborne kill. Also, the new mission I think required me to play a specific mode which I just wouldn't get. After SIX HOURS, I finally got the mode I needed. And of course, right before the end of the game, the servers crashed, all my mission progress was gone. I think it is self-explainatory that my that time I was furious. I think during the last 4 hours I got the mission HALF done and I still would have to do the final mission that unlocks, once all other weeklies are done. Thus, this was the point where I quit. And I think I have played for like one more hour after that and then, never since. I really liked the gameplay, but this was borderline traumatising. Maybe, once all of this is changed for the better, and at this point I mean EVERYTHING that is problematic, I might play again, but otherwise this game just is ruined for me. I litterally never had so much bad luck in my entire life.

11:21 heh, the "recording has started" notification is spazzing out

Halo Infinite is like a cake. It sucks that there's no icing, but I'm fine with waiting for it, cause I have a feeling that they're gonna cover that shit in sprinkles too.

The sponsor intros always get me

That is the single best advertisement, for a keeps sponsorhip Ive seen

Small correction, positioning and reducing incoming damage (movement I think is a good blanket term that combines both of these aspects) are both equally as key to being good at apex.

You always get all sides of the story and come out with pros and cons while still being fair but harsh and that is the content I come here for and love

Bricky's sponsorship segue's are always a fun time.

Crazy to see how things were back then, I played since the closed beta and it really got me hyped up for Infinite and then it launched and was quite a disappointment. Now looking back at this and looking at what we've got now it's a good improvement but we've still got a way to go if you ask me. The next thing I'd like to see and I know a lot of others would like to see this too: armor being able to be used between cores - canon cores mind you but it's better than what we have and have had

Bricky.. I have watched your channel since you made League videos. I really love the direction you went with your channel more recently..

This man nailed it right on the head! I can straight ngaf in each game and do my challenges and screw the actual outcome of the match. Unintended Narcissism to the extreme with this battle pass. And don't get me started with absence of body collision now... just why?

343 has announced they’re adding slayer, ffa, and swat on Tuesday so there’s still hope

Since Halo is an arena shooter for the most part, it's more about routing and movement, like sure you can kill people with the assault rifle but you want that good shit, if only so others can't have it. Knowing where a good weapon spawns is also much easier to learn than like being able to hit constant headshots with the CS AK or something so it's more beginner friendly, together with the higher ttk. It's like easy to learn hard to master kinda deal like you don't need much to feel like you are contributing and not just eating dirt meanwhile in CS or RB6 someone who spend the last month learning spreadpatterns and clicking heads will dominate you if you don't keep up with that.

Can we pitch the idea to have Bricky show up to all these board meetings and just lay out the pros and cons for them in 1 sitting?

Bricky, you glorious bastard, you mentioning the fact the battle passes don't go away has just sold me on downloading this... damnit XD My biggest issue is I'm a complitionist in search of a new target, and halo has always been that go back to franchise in some form or another.

CBT by the way screams peak game design. Thats some Masters Degree shit that i memorized

As someone that’s been top 1% in multiple games, done a lot of scrims and gm play. I absolutely agree a higher ttk increases the skill ceiling by a lot, having to hit multiple shots then confirm with a headshot is much harder than just siege “bam one shot you out” in terms of gun play

I have only had a single bug in halo, and I don't even really know how it happens, but occasionally I'd be knocked out of a vehicle while using the gun and for some reason the weapon I'd be holding (The assault rifle most times since it's my favorite gun) would just not fire anymore, no matter how often I spam left click. If I had a nickel for each time this happened, I'd have 2 nickels! Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice.

You stated your points in a clear and understandable way and said everything that I myself had a hard time putting into words. Thank you bricky.

If 343 would just do away with the challenge swap system, make all weekly challenges available instead of this weird 3 or 4 slot system and replace all challenge swaps in the battle pass with armor pieces it would be immediately 10x better. and I've seen bots wearing armor not available to even preview in the armor hall so don't tell me they don't have enough armor to do that.

I've already stopped playing but I will definitely come back if they add back all the features from halo 2, 3, reach

Reminds me of that Peaky Blinder scene..."So ****ing close..."

My biggest gripes are players who don’t really do the objective. They just go for kills and my team will just end up losing

I think the badges should be worth XP based on difficulty. It doesn’t have to be a lot just something to make them valuable. I also agree that there should be some sort of skill progression system. The real issue with progression is that outside of spending money there’s basically nothing.

I still love this game to pieces, the campaign is so fun, and the gameplay itself carries it for me

So, how do you feel about the announcement that they're creating 4 playlists for Slayer, Fiesta, FFA, and SWAT on the 14th? I know it isn't the best solution to some of your playlist and progression issues, but it feels like a step in the right direction

First time playing Halo outside of some Halo 3 with friends as a kid. But I’m loving it overall. I think the TTK is SLIGHTLY too high - I know halo is higher in general and I’m totally okay with that but it feels a little excessive. But overall gunplay, movement, the maps & vehicles, and just the overall feel of the game is great. Totally happy with my switch over from the Battlefield and Call of Duty world.

I’d be interested in seeing another look at Infinite down the line and if 343 were able to improve the progression, maps etc.