We NEED To Talk About Halo Infinite 'Season 6' SPIRIT OF FIRE and the Future of Halo... 

MK.IV is FIRE, Illusion is pretty sick, but man... This update has a few hits and a LOT of misses

343 really said we going ALL WALLETS with this one

343 heard all the HW fans saying "LOCAL UNITS" over the Mk-IV and responded with "ALL WALLETS!"

man with the way 343i has been focusing on the shop you'd think they don't know that *there's a fucking cost of living crisis going on right now*

"Gimmicky live-service game that has its aesthetics watered down by microtransactions", is actually a perfectly apt description of Halo Infinite's multiplayer itself. 👍

Anyone remember how Reach allowed you to BUILD your own Spartan that was used for both the Campaign and Multiplayer and everything was earned through gameplay... man has things changed for the worst

Another issue with the store (which you didn't seem to mention) is that they've gone back to the system of having NO way to earn Credits in game so - once players spend the last of their credits from the last full Battle Pass - it's straight back to their wallets for store content. Whether it's Microsoft's or 343's idea, WTF?!

Absolutely agree with you on being sick of multiplayer. I just want campaign content too. They always leave shit half finished. We never got a conclusion to Halo Wars 2, Awakening the Nightmare, and now Halo Infinite. Regularly released campaign dlc would have me coming back.

This wasn’t a game update but a shop update with a new map.

*I just want more campaign.*

"We're pausing updates to achieve seasonality" *A few seasons later* "Actually nevermind guys new game time"

Imagine if you got the forklift on the map in a game and splatter someone with it and you get the medal "forklift certified"

I love how the mere mention of Halo season 2 the Flood theme starts playing 😂

They traded long seasons for mass microtransactions. Two steps forward, falls back down the whole flight of steps.

They really just split the battle pass to sell it in the shop, decided to withhold all gameplay elements, and thought they could market that shit as a content update.

Season 6 content is IN THE SHOP

Something I always loved about halo reach was the ruggedness and worn down feel to the armor. Each and every piece of armor had its own personality of sorts and I always loved that you could literally mix and match everything about your spartan and it would still look amazing and bad ass and that leads me to my biggest pet peeve about halo infinite. The armor and coatings are too clean. It looks as if someone just polished your armor and put a fresh coat of paint on it and not to mention the non colored attachments. For pouches I understand because it’s fabric but 90% of the mk vii chest pieces that look good are just grey and the helmet attachments are even worse than all have a bright neon orange accent somewhere in it. It makes characters look scuffed when you combine the grey chest pieces, neon orange helmet attachments and the way too clean armor coatings. Not too mention for some reason, I don’t k ow why but I feel like you can’t mix and match like you could in reach. When you have the shiny glossy coatings, grey chest pieces and orange helmet attachments and then put a giant brick of a shoulder on your right and a small sleek shoulder on your left for example, it just looks scuffed and bad. The shiny mess of the armor in infinite makes the game much less enjoyable knowing you can’t just do any combination and look good. It doesn’t help when you see people using chimera with Emile’s helmet and Jorge’s shoulder pads with a glossy neon red coating, just makes the game feel more like fortnite. I dont know if that’s just me or you guys feel the same.

Its sad that we get an update called Spirit of Fire, and it isnt campaign DLC where the Spirit if Fire turns up at Zeta halo

This update perfectly describes Halo Infinite as a whole; A few hits and a tremendous amount of misses

No doubt in my mind that big parts of the Isidor, Ulrich, Zacharias, Wilhelm and Ypsilon shop bundles were meant for a 50 or 100 tier battle pass, that got scrapped.

I have been wanting to play as a white Halo Wars Spartan with a green visor for a decade at this point. Super stoked I can finally play as a Halo Wars Spartan in Infinite, it's a freaking wet dream - but we still don't even have a Cadet White coating lol. Had to spend my credits on the Void Ultra coating instead of the Reckoning battlepass.

how did so many FPS game makers forget how that simple little "level up" drove player engagement? I still get a little joy from the original MW2 level up guitar riff. Halo has always had similar systems to level up and unlock armor. As it is they tried to chase the BP trend to drive engagement and increase profits. It may have worked in the short term but the damage that infinite has done to the player experiance (and player expectations) for the next title is absolutely depressing. If the store had a "sale" page that rotated items in and out for 15-50% off (daily or weekly) and then the entire content library of individual items was available at all times at "normal" price. that would be an improvement. And if they gave you some ammount of currency every level up so that you could unlock that "perfect" armor combination for you. if those 2 things existed i would still be playing halo infinite. But as it is I am not expecting to ever come back. I have no want to "play" a game that only sees me as a cash flow number.

Are multiple "projects" really the right move? One of the biggest limiting factors and downfalls of infinite was poor resource allocation (temporary contractors, technical debt etc). Surely picking one big project with a dedicated, full-time team and consistent vision would be the right move?

I never thought id miss the req packs but at least you could get all the armor without spending money, granted it was a long grind that i gave up on but its still better

Armor cores should've been the ability to play as different species or characters (Marines, ODST, Spartans, Brutes, Elites etc) for specific gamemodes Thats what I assumed they were when I heard about Armor Cores at launch

Can’t believe that they cut seasons, and then dropped a season’s worth of armor in the shop for thrice the price.

I am now confident we will never get a basic white coating before they outright drop support for infinite. So much for "More color options" thanks to the coasting system...

Maybe CU29 is a tease that the next halo game comes out in 2029, bc it kinda sounds like see you in 2029

“I won’t be turning on the camera today cuz I have a medical issue of sorts” I’m just imagining that he developed Sangheili mandibles and has to find a way to get his human mouth back

All due credit to Theo Stylianides, the concept designer behind not just a huge chunk of the Mark VII and Rakshasa armors, but ALSO Omega Team, AND Silver Team's armor. One of the best armor designers 343 has ever worked with 👏

I know this isn’t something needed but since we have all of these different armor customizations, I think it would be cool to add a “Randomize” button for each core that would give you a random custom Spartan. It can honestly be overwhelming at times lol

everytime i see original halo 1-3 music/menu screens, my heart aches with cherished memories of my childhood... so... beautiful

Friendly reminder, Halo 4's Champions bundle had 4 full sets of completely interchangeable armor (25 pieces total) including Mark V and ODST, weapon skins and player stances for less than $10

They took the battle pass for what would have been season 6 to sell us its contents in the store for a ridiculous mark up. I really thought the management shakeup fixed the culture at the studio. How wrong I was lol. Shame after 2023 was so good.

Love the videos bro, I hope you get well soon, I'll be praying for ya. As for me, I'm just waiting for a new game, and watching lore content. I am getting my friends into the mcc and taking them through the campaigns

Something I haven't heard mentioned about the name 'CU29' is that it sounds a lot like 'TU1' (Title Update 1) from stuff like Reach, which makes it feel a lot more like a version number, or something we talk about in the past tense. It could just be because ditching the season model means that new features (but mostly customisation items) still need an update name for when they were added, that isn't just the operation. So instead of "Added in Season 2," "Added in CU29", and 30, 31, so on. Support will probably be wrapping up for Infinite in a year or so, and it'll be easier to refer to different parts in the sunsetting of its live service with update numbers like CU29, instead of Season 6, 7 & 8 when they're not really seasons at all.

They did so well with season 4 and 5 what happened man :(

I’m just happy that CU29 doesn’t mean see you in 2029. Also, just finished Contact Harvest. And I totally see why it’s rated to high. Simply goated. Time for Cole Protocol

I feel the same as you that a big part of the fun in multiplayer was trying to unlock the armor that was difficult and rare to get

Really missed opportunity not having a cut scene with the spirit of fire riding its way to zeta halo. It would have been a great bridge to future halo projects. It would be great to have Jerome and chief in the same game.

I have a feeling “projects” are not limited to games. I think they’re referring to 1 game and multiple books or comics.

Mannnnn, this was severely over hyped... The Halo insta account made this seem like it was going to be a glorious come back, and then they give us this. Feels like a huge slap in the face.

Good ol 343. Have a chance to release something at least good for us as this is basically it for infinite, and what do they do? They do what 343 does best, fuck it up, put most of it in that shitty ass store, and have us having to pay not play to earn to get it. Im so done with 343 and Microsoft. For the love of god, make halo independent and no longer an exclusive and have some studio that will actually handle it properly.

In addition to being a weird name for an update, Cu-29 is also the atomic symbol and number for copper. Probably a coincidence but just thought I'd point that out.

What's frustrating about this is that this is clearly a 50 tier Battle Pass that they broke out into store items and the Operation is bare bones as hell with almost entirely filler items, and now no way to accumulate credits. And on top of this since you cant use Double XP if all of your battle passes are completed so this slows the grind to Hero rank too. This was a very swift blow that killed all of the momentum they had going after the last two seasons and just makes me continue to not trust 343.

The 2 new armor kits look horrendous. I still cannot believe we are on our 3rd Halo game by 343 and still haven’t seen playable elites. Crazy

it really makes me wish they had some kind of custom armour kit saving for each core as there are many options that i want to use but having to remember and switch around pieces can be troublesome/annoying.

You're completely right with the blue tint importance. It's that halo vibe

This feels like the overwatch 1 update to overwatch 2...

It's ironic how the first update of the smaller team updates is Halo Wars themed. Halo Wars 2 updates faced a similar fate in the lead up to Infinite.

WTF IS THAT CLIP WITH THE GAUSS SNIPER SHOOTING A TANK? Where is that from? A mod?

The best thing to come out of a new Halo game in the modern times would be a COMPLETE RETCON of all the books and games and other media that has come out under 343i and remake Halo 4 with a new story as well as going back to the classic linear level design that is still very open like a lot of the Halo 1 levels and move away from open world sort of stuff.

This was my big worry when they decided to abandon seasons or battle passes. I think it would have been better if the free passes were bumped up to 25 or 30 tiers and you fill those extra tiers with one of the store bundles. There’s just too much filler in the current passes and it makes a 20 tier pass feel like a 5 tier pass.

The Spirit of Fire name for the update with the Zeta Halo welcome screen make me think that at some point the Spirit of Fire was going to show up at Zeta Halo... and we only got this store update

I still think back to before launch and I tried to figure out how the armour system was going to work, and I came to the conclusion that there were different undersuits, core chest, shin/leg armour, and forearms/arms. How they didn’t do that still shocks me. That and the UI for crosscore not having sections per core or any signifier of which core the armour piece was originally for is a little frustrating.

Glad I’m not the only one that loves Chiron as much as to notice its small details

*Unfortunately they missed the shoulder piece that Red Team wear on their left shoulder for whatever reason. Hopefully they’ll add it into the next update.*

We need halo wars 3 or ODST 2 type of game

Don’t mind the cores as base armor, but I need cores for Halo CE, Halo 3, Reach, halo 4, Halo Wars, etc. and I need most armor pieces to be swapable

You do know Kai and Riz's helmets were originally Mark IV concept art for Infinite, right?

I dream one day we might get an ODST game with fully customizable ODST armor.

I believe cores would have worked better as armor slots. Where you can save either a whole set or a unique look of your own creation

Microsoft already recently claimed “HALO: ENDLESS” so i’d say ya that’s a pretty good sign.

I am so happy we got the old Assault Rifle back. I never understood why the UNSC would use the one from Reach in Infinite because the AR from Reach is an older and out of date version. I get ots a high quality model but that's no excuse to just forget about lore implications.

Remember when we got actual weapons in halo 5 like the H2 BR and Beam rifle, the CE Pistol, tac mag, brute plasma rifle

People are starting to get hype about a new game but this is still 343 we're talking about. Yes, they've done some good recently, but can we really trust them to release the new game properly?

Two things. First, I hope, instead of buying cosmetics, they give us small DLC that either add new levels, features, weapons, vehicles or characters. Each DLC could add only some of those or a bit of all of those or whatever and if it’s appropriately priced I think it would allow them to make money while providing satisfying content. The other thing I want them to do is add fire teams. So basically when you’re playing the campaign you have three options. Your first option is to play single player with no fire team, so you’re completely alone aside from any marines or other characters that you stumble across along the way. The other option is you can have up to three other players with you or if they want to increase it up to seven other places with you. The third option is you have fire teams enabled so when you play the game, you can have three other NPC Spartans fighting alongside you. These Spartans would be fully voiced unique characters with their own AI, and they don’t die but instead are wounded and either need healed within a certain time frame or they get left behind and catch up later during a cutscene. If you combine both of those features, it would be amazing because then we can have DLC that add new team members with their own personalities and AI as well as their own unique weapons. Another thing is by adding DLC. We don’t have to pay for cosmetics so we instead are paying for a broader experience, which is a lot cooler. For those of you who are wondering about this fire team featured that I mentioned here’s how I think it should go. I think the next game should be open world. With that said, I don’t think every part of it should be open world rather I think all of the missions should be accessed by entering different buildings in the open world with the missions fitting a more traditional halo game style. As for the fire team mechanics, I think, instead of having FOBs just everywhere, I think for the next game we should just have a main base that located on the outskirts of the map, which is where we would end up after completing the first mission. In the main base, you would have access to different unlocks that you gain after completing missions or earning achievements in multiplayer. I think you should be able to access your fire team settings from a computer in the main base. The main base should also have computers so you can choose loadouts or vehicles to help you traverse the map. Lastly, I think the main base should have different unique characters with different dialogue that allow you to take up miscellaneous missions that can be repeated and after you complete different miscellaneous missions from PC. You unlock the ability to play as that NPC in multiplayer or to recruit them to your fire team. It would also be cool that after you complete their missions, you also unlock their unique weapons. I think this would be really cool.

Looks good. Problem still is the multiplayer's FTP model, if it was just buy in, they wouldn't need the excessive cash shop.

Halo 3 was peak armor unlock for me, but I've always dreamed of having a game where Reach's and 3's were combined. However, with the recent Halo titles, that just doesn't seem like it will ever happen.

Once I finish the current Pass, I'm probably going to dedicate myself fully to Forge and try to make the Covenant/Banished ship map I've thought about making since Reach got added to MCC at the end of 2019 (or at the latest, when the Forge update came) but never got around to due to a lack of time or skill...

Crazy thing about content update 29 is that I got items with place holder thumbnails error texture instead of the actual cosmetic

personally, I like the Human engineered Invisibility / Overshield powerups over the classic covenant pickups, it feels more like future tech than the "adapted" type of thing where we make use of their tech on the spot.

I've (maybe) said it before, and I'll say it again, credits should be earnable, at least in campaign. Also, the armor coatings should have been like armor textures with customizable colors on the coating, such as a yellow, blue, or green version of scorpion punch.

I logged into the game excited to play in months, saw that the rifle skin cost money and all the good cosmetics are in the store, gauged my time vs reward then logged out almost immediately

Seriously, the only thing I'd like to know from Infinite is who or what are the Endless. And I really hope they don't just forget about it in the next game

man i could only wish for a world where the campaign gets continued to bring in red team and the spirit of fire instead of just shop update and paying like 100$ for mk lV and spartan team omega

its depressing i dont even play halo infinite that much but wanted to check mk 4 out, checked the battle pass and was like 'thats it?????' checked the store and knew there would be riots in the streets lmao

the prices got even steeper lol but gotta agree the menu screens looking fire🔥🔥

That Mark IV looks pretty sexy ngl! I’ve always loved the gigantic stature of Mark IV, with the massive chest plate. Great to have it in an FPS and true Mark V in a modern game. Also LOVE the return of the MA5. Was hoping they would do something like that with the “model” chooser. I agree they should be their own entirely tho. And the Harvest sniper rifle was a neat touch. Maybe there’s a chance we’ll finally see an MA5K one day. Wow camo hallway idea is actually pretty cool. I love the OG power ups. I appreciate the High Charity style assets. All that said, I never play Infinite because I just don’t really care that much for it overall because of the bad customization system and other elements. Seems like it’s improving but I don’t want to pay for stuff that should already be there.

343: "If you dont have unlockable armor, store bought is fine" 😭💀

I'll be honest with you. Every once in a while I get the itch to play some halo, relive the fun glory days. So I boot up infinite, play about two to three matches, my enjoyment of which mostly depends on the maps I end up with, and then I go to look at my spartan. When I open up the armor hall, and the first thing I see is thirteen different armor cores, I'm already reminded of that annoying feeling I got when the game came out. Then I look at the store, the lack of armor I've gotten from the passes I've done, and how little I can actually customize my character. Then I see something ridiculous like mark 5 for 20$, I laugh, and close the game. Repeat that cycle about every other month

Them making you pay $5 for the MA5 in a supposedly free operation is so scummy. That and the shop legit turned me off from buying anything in this game

CU29 is probably "See You 2029" which will be their next title la7nch, which is funny because the world as we know it wont exist by then and neither will it.

Also thought we don't have cross-core-everything right now. Halo infinite has gone from the halo with the worst customisation to the Halo with the best customisation in the franchise. EDIT: And like you say. It's all because of a feature that should have been there already.

I'd like to see something similar to the "gag" Halo 4 Spartan Ops but more like Halo Wars 2 missions from a FPS perspective. Each mission has a distinct feel and purpose that pushes the narrative and is meant to be played either single player or co-op where you play as your Spartan. Going on missions around the Ring to fight the covenant, on offensive, defensive, salvage, search and rescue missions. Ranging from smaller covert missions with just you and a small team, minor skirmish with some ally marines and limited vehicles all the way to full blown open warfare with tanks, pelicans, scarabs, etc. Something similar to (most) of Halo Reach, where you're just a soldier fighting to keep humanity alive for one more day.

MUST HAVE: Playable elites. All customization features like REACH. would be completely fine if there was a credit system like reach and IF YOU WANT, you can pay money to buy credits. This way all the people who want to grind the game like normal won't pay anything and there will be no FOMO, and those who want to progress faster and further can buy credits as a MTX for 343 and Microsoft. WE NEED TO HAVE A CAMPAIGN THAT DOES NOT HAVE IMPORTANT SHIT LIKE CORTANA DYING OFF SCREEN. We also need a strong open-world campaign with linear levels as well. Need to bring back OG weapons. The new equipment + halo 3 and reach equipment would make the sandbox just INSANE. Need to have marines in campaign drive vehicles again. Need to bring back all the fan favorite characters from the campaign as well. I really enjoy infinite firefight but can't handle the KOTH aspect of it. My all time favorite firefight has to be Halo 5. It was just insane. I played almost exclusively the mythic firefight. For now these are MUST HAVES on release of the next game. Definitely a lot that I missed so forgive me.

If there’s one thing I think the update is missing, it’s a coatings to give us Red Teams color scheme (especially the man, the myth, the legend, Jerome 092)

Now I'm running into a glitch where whenever I have my rusalka flood kit on my Mark V (B) applied and I try to change the color palette of my emblem on my armor chest it unequips my rusalka kit automatically reverting it back to normal Mark V (B)

You know, I could've sworn that a year or so ago they decided to go with "Drop Pods" for updates in between seasons. What happened to that? "Drop Pod 29" is just as easy and so much better

"Mark V on Mark IV is an alliterate time line" or Master Chief get picked up by the Spirit of Fire and his current armor save for the helmet is in a damaged enough state he's issued a Mark IV armor from a Spartan that's still missing in action.

We need to stop calling them microtransactions at this point. Micro would be like, oh 1 or $2 bucks. That's nothing. Now they are costing $20 a set. That's not micro. That's a big chunk of a grocery bill or the price of a game that could get you more enjoyment.

I remember ranting to my buds over breakfast about how 343 should add armor like omega team. I'm soooo psyched about it.

Good on you for whipping this video up so fast! All the takes are spot on and we can only hope that things will eventually get better.

It would be nice if all core would have their own sound and visual effect for the shield recharge and damage taken, to represent each era of were the armor come from

I would have bought the Stanchion for like 5-10 dollars. 20 is way too much for a gun skin that you aren’t even guaranteed to use in any game mode besides team snipers Edit: by comparison, the ma5 evolved is literally the perfect price

Agree on the overall feeling of the update. However, i'm still having a blast playing. You won't catch me playing alone on a daily basis, but I'm still enjoying the gameplay and playing ranked with my friends. I'll keep playing this game until the updates stop tbh

Copper on the periodic table is CU29 (Cu is from the Latin Name and 29 is number of protons it has). It's a chemistry reference. Why named it that is still anyone's guess.

23:51 Ayy bro I felt the same way, the content recently has been really great and I honestly find myself getting giddy whenever there’s a new upload in my notification feed 😅. I’m really damn happy for you bro, keep it up 👊

100% agree with your opinion on monetization, I feel the same

The Stanchion would be a cool weapon for Halo multiplayer. It could be like a longer range version of the railgun, but with the charge time of the whiplash and ability to pierce through multiple targets like the Arclight from H5. Make it a 1 or 2 shot weapon, with a low ammo reserve. Targeting weak points on vehicles will do more damage than any other handheld weapons, but hitting non-weak points will only do slightly more damage than the sniper. Maybe even make it so hitting a weak point where the driver sits would injure or kill the player. This would make it a high skill but high reward weapon