Has Halo Infinite Recovered?! 

Hello acting male you are looking very alpha today

Great video man keep up the good work

The fact that Phil Spencer took down the multiplayer servers for Bungie's _Halo 3_ are a crime against humanity. The best game ever made can no longer be played.

Can you give me a tldr?

No split screen no play I got tricked twice

Fuckin based pilot.

real

One of the last full online videogames

Is it fun I haven’t played it. Should I? Is it too late to get into it?

I love seeing the servers with 5k people online again, on console! Still feels so damn smooth and chaotic.

Halo has never had a campaign DLC. So I don't know what your expecting And Microsoft fired the campaign team So we won't get another campaign DLC until earliest 2027

​@@joerowland2625I mean.. Halo Wars 2, but

@@joerowland2625 I don't mean full on DLC but like hell I wish they could at least bring back some of the classic weapons like the DMR or the Pump Action Shotgun or you know Ol' Reliable The Magnum

@@joerowland2625I think that they could and if they did they should spice up the gameplay a bit 😂 I’ve been dying for a crossover between halo wars style gameplay and main series gameplay.

@@scorpion40k The game has those 3 weapons already

Thanks, really wanted to download the game, but thought i didn't have the space. Tysm

@@clairedelune6119 a couple of years ago i said. fuck that im not uninstalling games to install new ones. i bought a cheap 3TB harddrive to put the whole steam library on...i only have 175GBs left XD. so i might need to get an even bigger one. but this has been enough for like 6-7 years by now. but yeah litterally 300kr($30) for 3TB. sure harddrives can be slow to load games initially but when the game is running its fine. that said if you have a laptop this might not be an option unless you get an external drive that you plug in to play wich should be fine aswell :)

thank you:)

What the hell, what did they add that's worth 40gb?

​@@madcat789right! Why did they leave 50gb of random space wtf? Lol

You enjoying it bro?

Absolutely, the modes are fun, Forge maps are dope as hell an my God, there was an entirely free cosmetics pass, it's like they did an entire 180° turn! The battlepass even gives you somewhat decent stuff for free now! Definitely recommend going back :)@@wesleywatson2009

Same really loving it btb and squad battles go hard (neeeds more maps tho)

Mee to

​@@wesleywatson2009I haven't played since launch, I started playing again a few days ago & it is a lot of fun, feels like old halo

I mean it already has more players than mcc.

Exactly I already buried halo in my mind it was a sad funeral and I'm unwilling to dig up it's corpse

@@deathshot2101okay you’re comparing it to a game that’s nearly a decade old lmao

​@@angelsilva7207 but those games are considered masterpiece and infinite is garbage in bungie stans eyes....soooo why it doesn't have more players than infinte?

@@deathshot2101 because. It’s a decade old.

I hope they still get to make a new game, give them 3 years, I think unlimited time just let them piss around too much, the best halos were made with time constraints

@@Valhura77you wanna know why? You wanna know why???? Made because it made them make a full finished game in proper time instead of churning out the GARBAGE they had at launch. 343 is a fucking failure and it’s too little too late. Launch a complete game not 2 fucking years later. Still no custom emblems or colors, elites, it took them 2 YEARS TO MAKE A LEVELING SYSTEM. 343 killed halo. Give this shit up and maybe they’ll realize they DO need to wake the fuck up and get their shit together and make a real halo game

I 100% agree with you

The guns and vehicles are cut content, may release in the future but they already have priorities

Kinda harkens back to how MCC did the catalog system with spartan points, it would be great to incorporate that here

@@crimsonmaddog4486 I agree

yeah that's a cope, but, remember, sometimes dreams wished on copium come true

Same with battlefield

Bro I miss good old Battlefield.@@bigmanrobert3610

I do believe Infinite is on its way with a comeback. Season 4 being so good made me super excited for season 5 now, cant wait. But hey, I realise its hopium, but I sure as hell can hope

@@Dunil009 fingies crossed mate

it does get better. But it'll still take a long way. But it's getting there :)

I mean i played halos since season 2 not anymore, 3 weeks ago i didn't know what to play and started it again, played 3 days non stop and was complete locked in that played ranked on my own and got diamond, i mean if they bring back warzone warfight from 5 against KI or warfight 12 vs 12, which i played like hell ( with the point system for better gear))in some way next season which is perfect to introduce new vehicle or sparten vs elite/ new weapons i

Reading this with no punctuation almost gave me a stroke

Yes Halo with more Halo more Halo than Halo coul ever been being Halo.

but but but where is the FOMO if you can earn previous bp stuff? :( we need FOMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

​@@PivotHeldi fear missing out of fear of missing out 😭

There's a (really scummy but effective) reason for that: *_FOMO_* A lot of people wouldn't buy a battle pass if they didn't fear missing content forever. You see it all the time with seasonal releases, even in the real world.

Something every battle pass game should have tbh

@@TheActManto be fair, Fortnite does battle passes right in the sense that if you buy it once, and unlock everything, you’ll have enough vbucks to buy the next one and still have some vbucks left. It’s pretty good

I loved both horde and beast mode gow 3 really wish they had kept beast mode

@@SpankUrTank both were definitely brilliant, GoW3 was peak in the franchise. Beast mode was just sooooo unique and interesting at the time and I would still enjoy it if implemented properly... Properly being the keyword.

There BETTER be playable elites lmao

Judgement's Overrun mode was even better.

Gears of war 3 was the peak of competitive and casual gaming for me

Dawg you don’t gotta buy anything lol the game is just fun now

Or dust II… with AI

Too bad it’s all for nothing with how dead the CGB is

That's what people said about Cyberpunk's mod tools and it still has one of the worst modding scenes around with very basic mods that boil down to obvious fixes, all of which are now redundant, nude patches, and advertisement changes. So there are a ton of mods but they all do the same 3 things lmao. Well, and the flying car mod I guess, which is still buggy af.

Yeah, may even see Machinima's get a small resurgence.

Nothing at all will happen. People said, everyone will come back with forge... Yet nothing happened. I myself thought I would start forging again, because I love spending days and weeks forging maps noone ever played. But forge beeing buggy and much stuff is missing as well as a missing community which builds stuff and shares it, makes it hard for single creators with less time to create anything. They included a lot of stuff which would make it easy in theory, but buggy search function and not working custom games f this game in the b.

The popular limited ones they do try and bring back more permanently like Squad Battle. Unfortunately they can't just keep every playlist, it would lead to too many of them not having enough players in many of them

@@alexlyster3459 that's a really lame concept for "why you can't keep around the fun limited events?" *isn't it important for people to be playing a game nowadays? *So Why not provide a selection of the most popular, positive player feedback game modes? It's unrealistic that you'll have a high player count for all game modes? The best part of OG Halo games was that people could have freedom over creating all types of unique game modes, settings, etc. So why would any Halo game not lean into that with full commitment?

I think it’s a good thing stuff like ninja modes are time limited. It can bring people back to the game and because of how repetitive the game modes play, it would get stale pretty fast being part of the permanent playlists

@@Silver4Hire so just to clarify? A game mode you like, you are okay with it going away? So it doesn't get stale & has a high play count when it is available? *Previous Halo games allowed all the game modes & custom settings always. That never affected how popular those OG games were?

@@benmcreynolds8581 I'm just being realistic. Halo Infinite has like 3k players on average on Stream, and including Xbox, it would still be below 10k. Halo 3, even after its initial explosion, had around 200k players. There could be a workaround, and that is by implementing a system similar to MCC's, by allowing you to choose multiple playlists to queue for instead of just one playlist, but I still don't think it would work as good as being limited-time. Also, you can always play them in custom games either with friends or through CGB, so it's not like the game mode is unplayable.

but its too late and i dont see it ever recovering almost a dead game and 95% player base gone

"a huge level of growth for the game" You mean adding back basic Halo features?

@@Snoike atleast they are there when the could just not be there and have the game be as bad as it was on launch, should it have been at launch, yes, is it better to just have them then to not, also yes

​@@mrfiendermrmrmrmrmmrmrexcept the game is still missing basic halo features and is still missing modes. Not to mention the campaign can't be fixed. So yeah it still sucks and yall are inhaling copium

@@paperclip6377 wow its almost like a studio who changed management like 90 times since the game got announced is having a hard time. also id rather be happy about my hobby, you dont see the progress you only see the failure and i honestly think that pessimistic mindset ruins communities snd games as a whole, the game isnt perfect but its far better then launch, now instead of feeling like a beta it feels like a bungie game with modern game business practices, which i mean isnt good but atleast is a good game unlike halo 5 and i think this game beats out halo 4

Truth, it's sad that games do this these days. They don't realise just how badly it damages the love for the franchise when they release a contentless cash grab

Devs don't seem to realise how important it is that you ship a game as good as it can be on release. First impressions are everything. Countless games that released mid and are now good but no one gives them a chance because the hype train has gone

​@@oxsilaIt's really not the devs. It's execs that want things pushed out the door to appease investors and meet quarterly profits. There is also a culture of overcautiousness in general in office jobs, speaking from experience. A mix of overestimating lead times for CYA and levels of approval, unwillingness to force everyone into a room to review something in a timely manner. It's at the grunt level for sure, but it's leadership's job to say "too bad, get it done." Then there's the culture of short term contracting which is a loose loose for everyone. Lots of dumb shit in large organizations.

This is why developers need to stop releasing games unfinished. Me personally, I'm all about first impressions. If I play a game at launch and I don't enjoy it or it's lacking in content, I'm probably not going to play the game long and not come back to it. But the gamers today have been conditioned to buy games unfinished and wait for it to be completed down the road.

343 had their chance a long time ago. Way too late. Just like with star wars. They lost long time fans. Don't really care about the multiplayer improvement . Halo is basically irrelevant in the shooter space now thanks to them. The mates would rather sweat on fort, cod, CS, over halo now. It's literally more fun to play the same BR map for years than it was to play the same 5 ranked maps for months in infinite. No one I know wants to "find out" if it's better now.

I feel like just the classic vehicles is enough but we need the return of the unique vehicles from the previous titles and maybe some more unique UNSC vehicles im interested in the variants in the warthogs and more team based vehicles. or maybe some banished team based vehicles.

It is also missing campaign contact

for me it really is the weapons. feel like the vehicles are decent, would like more, but really the veriety in halo 5 in weapons spoiled me. would love to see that 1 shot kill shotgun come out.

For me in terms of multiplayer, the netcode/desync is still the number one issue. They can add as many maps and modes as they want, but if the gameplay is regularly ruined by bad netcode that frustrates the hell out of you, then the game will never be consistently enjoyable. Also it's insane to me that 343 are getting praised so much for adding fan-made maps - it's maps they didn't even make and are just taking from the community. I mean sure, it's better than no new maps at all, but I don't think 343 deserve all the praise for it. They're basically using the community to make up for their incompetence and lack of output.

@@brup123 how many pictures of children do you have on ur pc

I have fond memories of BTB on Waterworks. That and Terminal.

Idk man, I think the gap is close

@@TheActMan True. I was just fishing for likes tbh, so I didn't really mean it. Thanks for the reply!

My record is 5K likes, so I'm trying to beat that haha

@@TheActMan*looks at the still half finished campaign that was the only guaranteed funding from the game* Hmm has 0 expansions after 2 years, barely has co-op, no split screen and missing 40% of what halo 3 had at launch day. Totally closing the gap 😂

​@@WellisntthisobviousThey're re-adding most of Halo 3's maps for an event next month though

I gave it a 2nd 3rd 4th 5th... chance just give up on those incompetent losers

Still playing?

I should've been the one

But this is practically a different company

​@@wut-se8hzLmao don't complain when they run your wallet through...

@@squaeman_2644 as of season 5 you can get as much cosmetics for free as you could in reach lol, my wallet is perfectly fine. At least I’m not spending 40 dollars for a singular skin like overwatch or apex, I can just spend 10 dollars.

The people who released this game no longer work at the company.

Yeah that's so true. Like...it was disappointing at launch but it FELT right

Ok hear out though the multiplayer in 5 slapped at the end of it's life

Neither are good games. Halo infinite is and always will be a trash fire. It doesn't have good bones because it has no bones at all.

@@Repetoire boo hoo cry more

Facts, like what’s this season crap? Seasons were cool back in 2018 but it’s just gettin old now like bring back progression systems or do something different, I never liked them to behind wit and to this day I don’t play any game that has it tbh too much of a grind and I’d rather have fun and level up my stuff and not have to worry bout gettin to level 100 every couple months like as if I have time for that crap

Imagine defending broken products. How low are your standards?

@@pierreo33 it is not that deep lil bro

@@pierreo33 You've never watched Shark Tank and it shows

​@@SirPerfectful We're talking about unfinished and abandoned video games here, ya dingus

@@pierreo33 When was Halo Infinite abandoned? It's finished now - more than I can say for some games - and its population is increasing. Your original comment still makes no sense, ya dingus.

Yeah I got bored of the game within its first month and haven’t gone back till recently, had a blast doing Husky Raids

Agree. The game is in a better state and in October 17 we'll get even more content: AI in forge, cross helmet customization, flood themed armor and much more.

especially when people keep spouting off the riduculous "contractor" excuse. Every studio uses this industry wide practice because you don't need a massive permanent dev team post launch.

You're running with what Asmon said a little too far. We know why Halo Infinite was in a shit state at launch; people left the company in droves, including multiple creative heads. Joe Staten was brought in to see it across the finish line, but then he left the project and most of the faces of that company got fired or left shortly after. It would be like if Kojima left a game half way through production; the game would be nothing like how it was meant to be.

@@lastdayer101 no, you’re assuming effect when it’s likely it’s the cause.

@@lastdayer101 I believe the issue was mainly that their Engine was made mainly by contractors who were comming in and out. So by the release the devs that stayed had no fucking clue how their game worked.

yes yes blame the devs for the poor project management

They still have playlists? Instead of bringing able to CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANNA PLAY? Yeah no thank

I heard they might have a robot core

I doubt it hahaha the pain won't stop. Please help

I'm going to overdose on copium

Oh you poor fool.

Actman: payday 3 has the best progression

Hali infinite is becoming a good game, it's content is definatly improving... but GOD DAMNED is its optimization getting worse. I have played at launch and it was so much less crash prone. Don't get me wrong this version is much much better than launch but it crashes so often...

It still isn't halo and never will be. It's campaign and lore is trashed beyond repair and you still can't change your God damn colors. Games from 20 years ago let you do that. I mean really the lore is so screwed. The forerunners were entirely retconned. How can you even like halo infinite anyway? Do you like no customization? Or no playable elites? Or no assassinations? Or no new vehicles? Or weak as hell weapons like the ravager and the pulse carbine and the disruptor or the shotgun? Do you like weak power weapons like the cindershot or the hydra or the heatwave? Do you like vehicles that are basically useless because the map wasn't built for them? And nit just that, they break easily! Do you like randomized spawns for weapons? Because that removes map control. Do you like how they made the plasma pistol useless? Because it doesn't even disable vehicles anymore. Also who the hell put ADS and sprinting in halo? And that's just the multiplayer. Here's the campaign issues. Can we talk about how ugly the game looks? Seriously the lighting is atrocious in multiplayer but it's worse in the campaign. It looks unfinished and honesty I don't doubt it is. Anyway, you don't even kill the antagonist. You just kill his goons. There's barely any characters. And the story goes nowhere. Seriously you start on zeta halo and you end on zeta halo. And you kill some goons and that's it. That's the story of infinite. The boss fights are boring because you can easily cheese their AI and their AI is really dumb. They are just a big dumb hitbox. The map is lifeless and empty. And there's literally a single biome. Vehicles are useless because there's rocks and trees in the way. Why is the map covered in big ugly pillars? That's not even how a ring looks like under construction. Also there's this cringe scene where chief goes "we all make mistakes, it's what makes us human" and like dude, that's not chief at all. Also no flood. Now onto the fun but very deeply flawed infection. Why can the first infected go invisible? That's not fair. Seeing your opponent in a fps game is crucial. And you can't hear them until it's too late. Also why are they ridiculously fast? A slide is really really fast and it gives you little to no time to shoot them. Even if you shot them you'd still die because the net code is shit and you would both just die. Also why does it give u point of surviving instead of getting kills? This causes people to just hide away until everyone else is dead. Also you should be able to shoot through ur team because u camp in the mode, it gets crowded. there's been times where I shoot a rocket launcher and some dude gets infront of me. So it blows up and I die. As the survivors there's some camping spots like the one in chasm where it's literally impossible for the infected to get u. Especially if you have 2 people. There's also glitch spots where the infected literally can't get to because they don't have a grapple shot. The net code in the game is really really bad. It affects every match and is a huge reason not to play the game. In conclusion, you're wrong about it being a good game. You can say you have fun with it but it's objectively not a good game. Besides 343 literally hates halo and its fans and mocks them with things like the infamous rec pack video. Anyway there's all the reasons as to why you're wrong. Just go play Titanfall 2 instead. It's one of the best games ever made. Seriously though quit shilling for halo infinite. Apparently halo infinite deserves positivity because it fixed some of the issues. Let's just forget the 10 years of neglect to the halo series yeah? Or the horrendous launch. Or every issue listed above. God dude 343 shills literally have no brain. Though you know what? Halo infinite is the game you deserve. If you're seriously willing to forgive them after all that and be positive about the game then you absolutely deserve this turd of a game.

​@@paperclip6377it's a video game loser calm down

@@HeroOfJusticeYT so me explaining why he is objectively wrong is apparently being a loser? Maybe read the comment and then write your trash. And it's not just a video game. If we just forgive trash games because they add some features to improve it then that signals companies that they can release trash and be forgiven. I mean really do you even exist? Your comment is so dumb that it makes me wonder if you are even a real person. So how about you read my comment first then spew your garbage. Though seeing that you play destiny 2 it's pretty ironic that you call me a loser. You play a game that requires you to pay and grind for hours. It also explains why you have such low standards for video games.

@@HeroOfJusticeYT Dude really? You're seriously just gonna post a comment, get disproven and then never reply?

isnt £60 for the campaign? also why didnt u just get gamepass for £8 😂

Halo reach had more players then Halo 2

Still too less too late. - customs still broken - theatre still broken - forge partially broken - desync is worse then ever before - shop gets the most attention and the prices are at an all time high - weapon sandbox still contains only of BR, AR, pistol and heavy weapons - MP maps restrict to play the way 343 wants you to play. (invisible barriers everywhere which could engage skill jumps and other stuff. It was the most fun in halo 3 to outplay your enemies with jumps they didn't know existed. I personally spent hours to find and train jumps on all the maps. In infinite you have either no hitbox or there is an invisible barrier which blocks you away) - etc etc etc

​@@SilverViper1000Theatre broken? What? I just used it to watch a match not too long ago. Desync is on every game, I don't know how you guys never get it's a connection thing more than a game thing. Just don't buy from the shop, lmao, you get plenty of free stuff with events and season passes. Also, the shop is having a lot of discounts in old stuff, high discounts, just don't buy the things from the current season. Act Man already mentioned the sandbox. I don't get your map point, is the game supposed to let you get outside the map? You can still do jumps and get on high position on the maps, even skill jumps

​@SilverViper1000 you sound boring. 🥱

@@sakuradabp6400don’t defend this bad game

@@halogod0298 What're you, the opinion police? If they enjoy Halo Infinite then let them.

On Xbox halo Infinite has over 20 K players So get a brain 🧠

@@joerowland2625 On Xbox, Halo Infinite is ranked 27th on the most played list. Cope harder 🤡

Yeah. Two years later and it is finally in an appropriate state to launch in, minus the ability to choose your primary and secondary colors independently of each other.

@@alexanderrobins7497 exactly. They need to make that shit free, I don’t know why people defend the microtransactions in this game

​@@SplendidCoffee0probably because it's just colors and you're not required to buy anything?

@@dc3747 Halo 2, you could choose your own colors and emblem. In Halo 3, you could also change your armor, emblem, and color. Halo Reach did the same, but expanded it so much. Hell, even Halo 4 and 5 were like this, though their armor was trash. All for free. Why charge someone for colors and armor when the Forerunner chads over at Bungie proved to us that earning these things through gameplay was far more worth it? I don’t blame you for not being able to experience the classic Halo games at their peak, but just know that microtransactions are and will always be cancerous.

@SplendidCoffee0 I did play those halo games during their peak. And quite frankly I didn't care. I've come across 5 star Generals who wore the default mark vi armor. I've come across inheritors who wore the default mark v b armor. Why? Because they didn't care about armors. They just wanted to play the game and have fun. Not treat halo like it's some dress up simulator,which is what you and everyone else try doing. Ever stop to think, "Damn. Halo CE only had one color and no armors. No secondary or tertiary colors. But that didn't stop me from playing the game." You live like the cod players. Complaint after complaint over armor pieces when they don't affect gameplay,just like skins don't affect gameplay either Edit: by those games,I specifically refer to 3 and reach

It doesn't play at all like CoD@@JimmmmmmmmmmmY

What about the desync, what about the desync

It's so fucking good man! Glad you're enjoying it

​@@TheActManIt's so not good Act Boy! Also, when's the Diablo 1 video coming out?!

@@TheActMan i feel sorry for you these comments gave me a couple mental illnesses

​@@ryangoslngfrwelcome to RU-vid, you new here

@@levicarpenter5509 you joined 12 months ago, you turn 13 then?

Yeah I find it infuriating to know Halo 3 (2007) had better social features than a game released in 2021 with a much bigger budget. I don’t even think their engine can allow the addition of all those features (like proximity voice chat). Going F2P was just no the move. Should have stayed with the classic style game package

​@@Soliye.The Slipspace engine can do it considering it's just a fork of Blam engine used for Halo 3 It's just that there's so much tech debt accumulated over the years since Reach that it all finally came crashing down during Infinite's development and they had to dedicate the first YEAR of the game's lifespan to cleaning up shop It's why only now they've seemed to be finally able to hit that live-service mark

@@malif1279 I'm not really sure what you mean by technical debt. They had the money, they had the feedback from 3 poorly launched/received titles (H5, MCC & H4). They knew what people wanted and what to add into the game; the community is so loud it's deafening... Yet they probably reiterated the Infinite project over and over until they realized they were running out of time and decided to merge everything they had. Which gave whatever we got. They clearly put a lot of time & effort into how they'd monetize their game PRIOR to launching, and they polished it out afterward too. I don't care how much crap they add to the game now, its based on a money printer design. It's like adding sugar on shit until it tastes good. They definitely had the mean to make it work. Halo 3 isn't unachievable in 2020s. You just need actually competent lads at the head, who can properly lead pre-prod & production. Have a definitive goal and don't lose its sight till it's done. HOPEFULLY they can do that now that seats have moved, but I'd start working on the next actual title.

Geez, talk about a sour person... Nothing can ever be good enough, huh?

​@@Xyler94What the hell do you mean? Just because he has normal standards he has to be a sour person?

@@Xyler94343 doing the bare minimum isn’t praiseworthy. Especially considering it has taken almost 2 years after launch to get to this point.

​@@Xyler94what are you, paid by the publishers!? Lmao they RELEASED and SOLD a bullshit incomplete half baked shit pie of a game and you want fans to be grateful. Im convinced youre damage control for shitty publishers

Bastila once told me that everyone deserves a chance at redemption

@TheActMan how many times does 343 get a chance at redemption though? I know it's new leadership but come on

@@TheActMan not after everything wrong they did. 343 is an incompetent development studio, and they don't deserve the support. And supporting them will only add to a dangerous cycle of companies releasing unfinished games just because they know the backlash will become irrelevant and the community will eventually forgive and forget once the game is decent YEARS after release. Halo infinite should've never NEEDED a chance of redemption; it already WAS the chance of redemption after the mess that was Halo 5.

​@@teamtrpt8216but everyone liked halo 5's pvp. Even the act man liked it. The story was ass obviously but the multiplayer was solid. And all that you speak of was towards the old leadership. If a president of some company implements a policy you hate and you shit talk the president, will you also shit talk the new person in charge years later because of the same reason even if he had nothing to do with it?