Halo Infinite Won't Add Cortana AI For Multiplayer Or Playable Elites Anytime Soon

@chaosemerald: It was a balance issue originally, which is why in Reach they made a specific mode for Elites vs Spartans but you couldn’t play as an Elite model in normal gamemodes.

Due to the original elite model being more hunched, it caused them to have relatively large heads which made headshots easier to land on Elites and also caused their heads to stick out from behind certain types of cover. It also made it quite hard to land a headshot on an Elite when shooting at them from behind which gave them an advantage in game types where you might normally be in a situation where you would be chasing opponents rather than facing them head to head such as chasing the flag carrier in CTF. Essentially almost nobody really played as an Elite in competitive modes due to how easy it was to land a headshot in a direct firefight.

Essentially it was a balance nightmare for competitive gamemodes, hence the change with Reach where they specifically balanced the Elites and Spartans differently and forced them into separate teams. Elites were larger, faster, had weaker shields that regenerated faster and had more health and regenerated health but spawned with weaker weapons, whilst Spartans were smaller and harder to hit, had higher shields but longer regeneration and needed to collect health packs to restore health and they immediately spawned with precision weapons.

@mogan: Honestly. I wouldn't be surprised if down the road we get an "unfortunately we will have to drop coop as well as splitscreen to have our team focus on bla bla bla..." news around summer.

at this point all i just want forge to have a way to add AI marines and Banished. we have seen modders do it with Halo 3 im sure they can do it for inifinite.