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Halo Infinite Will Feature Four-Player Splitscreen And Reach Inspired Customization System

More pieces of the game revealed.

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During a livestream, 343 Studios announced more details for Halo Infinite, the upcoming sixth mainline entry in Microsoft's first-party series. Based on what was announced, it seems like Halo Infinite is still a long way off.

343 Studios is working on a new engine for Halo Infinite, which could push the game's release date to after 2019. We can expect four-player splitscreen in Halo Infinite as 343 is testing the feature in the new engine right now. During the stream, 343 Studios also announced the armor customization in Infinite will be inspired by the system seen in Reach. Also, players who reach level 152 in Halo 5: Guardians will receive a special reward in Infinite. The studio did not announce what that reward might be.

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The stream did reveal a few details for Halo 5 as well. 343 Studios announced the team did not have much left to add to the game in terms of armor and emblem customization. Although it was not explicitly expressed, it was implied that post-launch development on Halo 5 is winding down as more of the team refocuses on Infinite's development. For more of the announcements during the stream, check out Reddit user murwo's post.

343 Studios has teased that Halo Infinite features the coolest design that Master Chief has ever had. The developer hasn't revealed many details about the game other than that. It hasn't even been decided whether Halo Infinite will strive for a Teen rating like Halo 5 or return to the franchise's Mature rating like in the past.

Halo Infinite is currently in development for Xbox One and PC, but it has no definitive release date.

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I hope the Covenant go back to looking like in the Bungie days and not the stupid looking Covenant redesigned that we got with 343 (like the Elites looking really weird with giant feet armor and the grunts having weird proportions)

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Another reason in the long list to avoid playsation

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@nerveagentuk: As somebody who plays on both PC and Playstation, when it comes to this game I still will be avoiding Xbox like the plague.

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@nerveagentuk: Will be great playing this on pc.

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WOW Look at all these awesome features that were in the series 8 years ago and then removed for no reason!

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@aceslay12 ohhh bore off:

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@nerveagentuk: 2 REQ Points have been added to your Waypoint account, shill.

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Splitscreen, hell yeah! Maybe me and some friends will have some fun with the Halo franchise again then.

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When I saw a commercial for the Hungering Deep expansion for Sea of Thieves there were fully voiced NPC's and it was humorous and charming. THATS WHAT WE WANTED IN THE GAME MS!!!!

Halo Infinite will be great.

Next year isn't the big year. 2020 and forward will be it for Xbox. Studios are now working on games.

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Split screen and Reach customization? Now you're talkin.

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"We can expect four-player splitscreen in Halo Infinite" *only on xbox 1*

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Times has sure changed. I remember just three years ago Big Phil was in full damage control telling us Halo 5 lacked split screen due to technical reasons and marketing trends. None of that was true of course, resulting in another PR fiasco for Microsoft.

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@moonco: Times sure have changed and the future has the industry talking about Xbox https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-12-17-people-of-the-year-phil-spencer

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@moonco: That will depend on what the split screen is available on. (OG Xbox One, or not) Also I am guessing the new engine is helping in this process.

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Gotta wonder how much Halo 5 not being split screen affected Xbox One. I remember it as being a pretty big deal.

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I know it wont happen, but would absolutely love a change-up in visuals to make them more realistic/gritty ala Gears of War.

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@thenephariouson: How does anyone make visuals of Alien life forms that are fantasy look "realistic"?

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@cainetao11: Not cartoony?

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@blibdoolpoolp: I don't agree they are cartoony. What does a realistic Sangheli look like?

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This makes me happy, I loved playing them with my wife. 5 was a real disappointment in both story and lack of split-screen. But if they keep on making new games with split screen I'll keep buying them.

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Learned the hard way

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Ok...a step in the right direction..just...you know...don't screw up everything else...

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Keeps sounding great. Hopefully a system link feature will also be in place.

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If there's any entry to be inspired by, it's definitely Halo: Reach. Still my favorite Halo game next to CE. CE and Reach stand as two of my top 25 favorite games of all time.

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I've never understood why Halo games are M in the first place. They seem pretty T to me.

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@redhedjack: there sure is a lot of killing

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@superklyph: There's just as much in Uncharted. Paired with noticeably more language. T.

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@redhedjack: fair

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@redhedjack: hard to have a "realistic" war game with a Teen rating.

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@millionsedge: Halo's never felt grounded in realism to me.

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@redhedjack: Halo 5 is T rated. They removed the blood effects, there's no Flood to dismember, and there's no "language" (past games included words like damn and ass here and there)

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@redhedjack: I agree. There is some cussing in the campaign and some red blood in multiplayer. I guess they also object to the possible ways you can die, e.g. getting run over by tanks, ghosts, impalement by glowing swords, or getting pushed off ledges. I think sustained violence has a thing to do with it as well. One of the biggest challenges of rating this series is that some of the species of The Flood explode upon death. But, to be honest, I think it should get a T rating.

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