Halo Infinite Season 3 launches today...

No, you just claimed your victory an hour before the season even launched in North America lol

@hardwenzen: I think Jim Ryan did it. PS developers are playing Halo instead of making games for 2023.

Communities that love their game, will usually log in hours in advance to get "ready" for the patch. Seems to me like nobody gave a crap.

How much did those 10k bots cost ya? Must be a fortune. You're so rich, bro. No wonder you bought the Edge controller on day one.

@vl4d_l3nin: he's a clown lol 🤡, it's what you can expect from him though.

I'm not much of a MP junkie as I used to be. I really wish 343 would do SP content DLC and that's all I really want.

Honestly I loved Halo, but the minute Bungie stopped making it it died. What we are seeing is a reanimated corpse being controlled by a necromancer that resembles Phil.

They abandoned split screen coop because they needed resources (confirmed btw) for their Offline Service, and you think they have a budget for the most expensive part of a video game? They're supporting this game on Welfare checks at this point.

Community Playlist with forge maps/games modes is a nice addition. This is what I wanted to see, a matchmaking mode for forge content. Forge is arguably one of the best things about the game. I like the mechanics but the forge has so much good player made stuff. So Kudos for finally putting a matchmaking mode for it.

Infection in forge games is clean.

All 5 people who still play this will be very happy. It was cool for 2 weeks. Dead game.

Cows back to talking about Halo now Ragnarok is long forgotten.

Ragnarok came by, won everything, ppl beat it, and like every singleplayer game, it's over. Infinite on the other hand has been delivering drama for a year n a half, and that pleases me greatly tbh.

There's no bigger target than the one and only King of the VG world as can be witnessed by just how much flak Halo gets.

When you're constantly over the target like the Chief...

You get all the flak. It's really quite the Achievement!! ;o

Good stuff, it's good to be the king, keep it comin!! lol :P

They could add the multiplayer content into singleplayer really easily. That cool new semi auto rifle, the ray tracing features...

I don't get why they keep this content multiplayer exclusive, when I'd see myself replaying the singleplayer portion much sooner than ever jumping in online.

@R4gn4r0k:

I strongly doubt that 343i will ever release anything for single player content. They've gutted split-screen and have shown zero interest in sp since then. At this point, we'll be lucky if we even get Firefight this year.

Shout outs to @hardwenzen for carrying my thread to heights I couldn't have imagined :)

The gameplay is indeed pretty good.

Game has had a LOT of drama. Delays, graphics, promised content not coming for a long time or outright cancelled (splitscreen), new content not coming for a long time, glitches with matchmaking especially for custom games, the cosmetic store, the battle pass and especially the xp system tied to it.

Summed up I would mostly call that mismanagement. Somehow the campaign and multiplayer are both pretty good at the end of the day.

Like I said soon forgotten

It was that good you get more pleasure talking shit about a game you haven't even played.

Sad really.

What game isn't completely forgotten on the X? Your HI FI RUsh was forgotten under 24h after release🤣People have finished Ragnarok, and there is no dlc that is being made for the game, so why exactly would they be talking about it again? You aren't thinking straight, ps5less gamer.

No thank you. Seems like most people say no thanks.

Hunt: Showdown has more than double the players of Halo: Infinite. And Hunt is niche.

@TheEroica:

Halo is actually one of the most unique fps games out there with tons of lore that would make Call of Duty jealous. Plus, the entire idea of controlling super soldiers in power armor is pretty badass. "Green guy with a machine gun" is a gross over-simplification.

How many players a month on Hunt? a million?

No idea, but highly doubt it. And what I was talking about was only on Steam. Hunt had ~11k active players while Infinite had ~5k when I checked. Most people might be playing Infinite on MS's platform.. If Infinite had 600k players last month, should be much more than Hunt.

Simply pathetic.

I apologize. Halo Infinite pulled a BF2042 and the game is good now. Really enjoying it and I was just playing Alex, BF, COD, over the past few days. This is the best for me personally. Just feels right.

@sargentd said:

603,000 monthly players? Not too shabby.

Nice!

I will never understand the appeal of multiplayer shooters. I get that they are a lot of fun for a week or two, but you eventually have seen and done everything there is to see and do.

lul. This is pathetic as gets for a live service game. Soon it'll be an Offline Serice game.

I really enjoyed hopping back into Halo: Infinite mp with this recent update. Liked the new maps and the cloak grenade thingy was pretty neat. Finished the challenges for storyline pass so will hop back into it again in a few days when the new one starts.

Each game plays out differently because your opponents are different. Each opponent comes in with their own strategy for winning the game. Sure you've played a Capture the Flag game a few times but sometimes the other players are easy to beat or make you work for it. That competitiveness is what makes multiplayer games fun for those people.

@PurpleMan5000: that’s when I switch to a PS or Nintendo exclusive I haven’t played yet

Most people probably download on Windows Store directly and Steam is lucky to get the Halo Bump this time.

@hardwenzen: keep hating, the numbers are already sky rocketing, and most players are on Xbox, not pc.

Proof? Last time i checked, the game wasn't even in the top 25 most played on xbl, so if you think that people will choose to download of the garbo windows store over steam, that's some high quality copium.

That depends. If the game offers a lot of content like BF4 did, there is more than 1 week worth of content there. Secondly, if you enjoy the gameplay loop, you really don't need to unlock anything new, just using what you have is already fun. And lastly, improving/gitttin gud is also a sense of progress, but zoomers haven't heard of this one, so its very alien in their daily life.

Infinite has the lowest numbers of any aaa live service titles lol.
This is how a successful live service title looks like😆😆😆

Not read through the thread, but I'll bet my house on it being just hardwenzen DC'ing.

@hardwenzen: there's a million players on Xbox, possibly more.

Prove it. Go on.

Mega oofers

@hardwenzen: link to Xbox numbers. 👍

My goodness. Will The Chief ever be dethroned as the King of causing massive...

????

"Insert it's good to be the king gif here" lol :P

Hi Phil.

@hardwenzen: go see the chart that seargentd linked above. This is proof and ir was before season 3. Halo is growing exponentially. Ooff rekkd

You're still in denial🤣The game is going back to 2k players🤣Nobody will log in into a live service with one new map per year and waste their time buying armor colors for $8 a pop. Its a failure, and people have noticed.

@hardwenzen: who even plays halo on steam?? Most play on Xbox, or through gamepass, or the windows store. This is reality, stay butt hurt. BTW, this is how live service works, armor for $8 is what funds the development of the game, welcome to the real world.