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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.
Titanfall 2 coming back to life has given me what none of these modern multiplayer shooters can give me, a complete and fun game with good progression and no battle pass bs
@@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?
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
@@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.
@@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 :)
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
Something I REALLY loved and was underrated was Gears Of War 3's beast mode, can you imagine fighting waves of different marines, spartans etc as banished forces in a multiplayer setting? Playing from the cheap grunt with a plasma pistol to maybe a brute chieftain or hunter? A mode like this I think would really put Infinite on the map!
@@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.
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
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
Even though the game has made some missteps, I am so glad they implemented the ability to earn things from previous battle passes. You'd think that would be more common, but no.
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.
@@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 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
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.
It's nice they tried to bring it back, but personally i feel like the heart and soul of Halo is gone in this game regardless. The way the power weapons spawn randomly in Slayer/Team Slayer games doesn't encourage players to learn the maps, it encourages brainless running in circles waiting for the guns to drop and hoping you're by the spot that drops the one you want. The King of The Hill Firefight is interesting, but at the end of the day, I gotta say I'm concerned they took out mainstay Halo weapons like the Plasma Rifle and the Covenant Carbine. It's hard for old players to want to come back to a game after they've already changed the game so much. I think this is a game for the younger kids to play. Old School players like myself will stick to Classic Halo.
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.
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.
A pleasant surprise to see the Act Man make a video about Halo Infinite, and actually speak highly of the game. Looking back at where the game was to where the game is now shows a huge level of growth for the game. In fact, the tenrai III event was just about everything I wanted out of these fractured events: special maps that make you want to throw on the tenrai armor core and jump into some games. I'm actually looking forward to what the other fracture event maps look like
@@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
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.
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.
From quitting after finishing the first battlepass and a few events here and there to recently coming back and jumping straight into the Husky Raid game mode.... holy shit it feels like a different game almost. I had so much fun and actually feeling like I'm playing a legit Halo game
Definitely seems like a game that should of launched like this. Probably alot ppl wont even see these changes who tried it at launch and didnt enjoy. Seems good
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 want them to keep adding player forge maps to playlists because the creations are amazing. And we get to see what their forge can do after all that time waiting for it. Free maps!
I think a good way to make the leveling system literally perfect is maybe give us like a armor token/weapon token that lets you permanently unlock a piece of premium armor for _ amount of tokens also theres like 10 guns and 5 vehicles in the files just unused for some reason
Kinda crazy how both Cyberpunk 2077 and Halo Infinite have seen massive updates back-to-back. I'm glad that these games haven't been abandoned and the teams behind them are working to make them better.
I have always felt like the difference between halo infinite and 5 is that 5 had a lot of content but bad bones but infinite had no content but great bones. Happy to hear that the new content really helps the game shine. Moment to moment halo infinite has always felt good to play but there wasn’t much to play
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
I really like how you re-evaluated your position on a previous games release, then vs now. I think that is very important in the gaming community, or even in general life. Things are fluid, they change, and expectations made from previous leadership or developers should be given some leeway in terms of future progress.
@@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.
@@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 😂
Hopped on this morning and haven’t had good halo fun like this since playing forge world on reach in middle school. Had a few crashes on customs but granted we had about 8 phantoms stacked on each other spawning grunts like nobody’s business. Good stuff this is what we hoped for on launch. Playing blood gulch again took me way back to evolves and it was priceless.
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.
@@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.
Been a lifelong Halo fan but the launch of Infinite burned me completely. I don’t know if I’ll ever regain the faith and trust in this franchise again when there are other options out there that haven’t f-d me over as a long time fan.
Split screen Co op is never coming back, or playing as an elite, halo will never launch finished again, you have to pay money to change the color of your spartan. You buy each color individually
In agreement with so much here and glad you gave the game another chance. Forge didn’t launch with the game but since it came in and 343 pulled maps into the playlist things have felt sooooo fun all the time. Great vid, writing, editing as always
I’m stoked to see the game is in a much better state to play. I’m still apprehensive to play unless I see some major fixes to monetization and customization, but with enough convincing I could see myself trying the game again.
Do not return, give nothing to then anymore. And if you returned, maje their server much unplayable as possible because this is the price those released game in unfinished state and promise to fix it in future deserved.
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
Companies NEED to realize how important ranks can be, and ones that DO NOT DISSAPEAR after 4 months, its so satisfyingly to log back in after months to see your hard work, the ranking system is basically one of the sole reasons why I'm coming back, plus everything else you mentioned of course. Finally!!
I'm back you convinced me. The biggest loss from its release was the lack of level progression. I missed it from my young reach days. Edit: Yes, please bring Elites I miss Spartan vs Elite modes!
As someone who recently got back into infinite, im so glad they got rid of the bizarre challenges, I remember being stuck on a really stupid challenge one week (killing 5 spartans with a sniper snapshot while in the passenger seat of a warthog going through a grav lift) like who the hell thought that would be a good idea lol
It doesn't matter if it improved or not. It should've been like this a launch, and 343 still broke promises to the halo community. Halo Infinite doesn't deserve a redemption arc.
@@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?
The improvements really seem to confirm that the former leadership of 343 was really holding this game (and by extension the whole series) back. Glad they're finally gone!
Halos focus should always be on the social aspects.. reach did this so well, progression was so barebones that you weren’t playing to beat a challenge, you were playing because your friends were
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.
Funny how a lot of old games had features that kept people playing Battlefield 2, halo 2, mech assault 2, the list could go on. Those games are seen as old and archaic by modern developers who don’t know where they went wrong. It’s simple games are best played with friends so a social play list or other social features and communities are essential to how much the game is enjoyed very simple math.
I love how you can be a bigger man and give something another shot, looking at it objectively. As you said the people who made those promises that they broke are no longer there, so why punish the people who are working on it now. It shows that you don't adhere to the pack mentality that you can't change your mind on something and if you do, you never truly believed in the cause in the first place. That takes a lot of courage in todays landscape where one wrong move online and say something that the majority doesn't like, your ass is grass.
I'm still amazed they don't have multi team in the game. That's been a staple of Halo games since the beginning. Could you imagine Oddball or King of the Hill modes with 6 teams of 4, 8 teams of 3 or 12 teams of 2. The chaos and mayhem that would ensue would be great entertainment.
Mate, I gave up and uninstalled Infinite back in January 2022. I didn’t think I’d ever play it again after how bitterly disappointed it left me, but after watching your video, that genuinely had me laughing at points, I feel an overwhelming sense of nostalgia, joy, and maybe even an urge to pop back in and check it out. If you make people feel the same way as I do, you might’ve succeeded in drawing a decent amount of players back. Genuinely great video, keep up the good work dude, look forward to seeing you on twitch.
Infinite really has improved, especially in terms of stability and playability. It could really use a classics playlist: race, old rules KotH, old rules infection, 1 & 2 bomb assault, Grifball, juggernaut, etc. It'd also be awesome to get the classic shotgun & Halo 1 pistol back.
Even if Infinite fully recovered, there’s nothing sadder than thinking about how Bungie once pumped out one masterpiece after the next compared to their peers at 343.
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.
@@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
With Infinite lately, I'm having the most fun in a video game I have had in many years. It's a breath of fresh air for me, this is how it should have been from the start! If it was like this from the start everyone would be playing it just like how Halo 2+3 used to be.
Bro the moment you showed us sword swinging, grapple hooking, sticky nade throwing Ninjas...my Mind was Blown! Just got done playing 2 rounds and it totally holds up, super addictive! 💀 If they had this at launch, i would probably never have stopped playing 😅
I started playing again because of this video, but none of my friends or family wanted to, so I stopped really quick. I did enjoy it, though. I do like that they added more maps, old iconic maps, military ranks, the improved challenges/xp, more game modes/playlists, the battle pass saves, fixes to customs and forge, and more. I think infinite is pretty decent right now. It is much better than before. The problem is that no one wants to play. And it's very hard to make new friends in-game because the game lobby doesn't exist. Also, there's still no rank rewards and career stats in-game, which removes a sense of achievement and progress that should come with halo. Those made me lose interest really quickly, despite my appreciation for all the changes.
I mean the gameplay is solid, like actually really good and feels great. Server's have a rare hiccup for me sometimes is the extent of the issues I've had. My only gripe still is to have the option to choose gamemodes/maps rather then have a random playlist.
Microtransactions are in every single video game known to man today. You must not play any games. Unless, of course, your particular set of games tends to be single-player story-based third person action adventures? Networking issues are a competitive issue and thus "shouldn't be an issue" if indeed Halo was not a competitive game.
My main issue is that most of these changes are things we should just expect in a complete game. I'm glad they're there, but it doesn't really change much for me.
@@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
So nice to see the game gaining some ground. I was there 2 years ago and the content was awful, left the game for a while but just recently came back in the last month or 2 (because its halo) and it has improved significantly. Glad to see it, nobody wants to see halo die ❤
When I reinstalled and saw the updated playlist I literally threw my hands up like "THIS"! "WHY WAS THIS NOT IN AT LAUNCH"? It made me very happy along with the custom game browser I think its a great recovery so far!
Infinite has got so much better since launch man, I'm just glad Infinite hasn't been abandoned, they're still trying to make it a better game.. Imagine infinite a few years from now.
As someone who has loved this series the first time I booted up Halo CE on my OG Xbox, I'm glad to see these changes have been and are continuing to being made. Me and my friends have been debating on jumping back in when we heard some of these updates going through, I think it may be time for the prodical son to return home.. 😎👾
As a Halo fan, I'm really glad 343 actually seems to be listening to the people playing their game. That's more effort than many developers would put in nowadays (looking at you, Activision). Halo was one of the first FPS games I started with, and I still think it's a great series to this day and hope it continues to be.
I'm not glad for anything related to this trash game which stunted the potential playercount. 343 can go to hell, especially for the remainder of this garbage game's lifespan.
Dude really? This is the same cycle that you 343 shills have been going through. "343 FINALLY LISTENS TO THE FANS? HALO IS SAVED!" no its not and here's a list of a lot of flaws in infinite. it still uses the broken lore of 343. The forerunners being aliens is... it doesn't even make sense because forerunner tech can only be accessed by humans DNA. So they couldn't use their own tech? Also the countless lines by 343 guilty spark and the gravemind prove humans are forerunner. Changing the forerunners was a decision with no thought and it resulted in plot holes like the ones mentioned and it also makes much more sense that humans are forerunners. That's literally the reason the human covenant war started. But in 343 lore why did it start? Guess we'll never know. Also with how the flood and the ark are biblical references like dude it is all so perfect. And 343 ruined it. Well, I guess not "ruin" because it isn't even canon so it's nothing to worry about. Furthermore, you know the whole reason that goofy promethian human war happened in 343 lore right? Because humans were destroying forerunner colonies because they were floodified and when they thought about explaining why they were destroying them to the "forerunners" they instead said "nah lmao" 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. Oh and please break the cycle of "343 LISTENED TO THE FANS?!?!?" Halo is over.
I actually did hear this rumor while back that they are making a firefight for Halo infinite. I'm definitely crossing my fingers hoping that me and my friends can fight infinite amounts of the banished. Most of all I think that haloinfinite has definitely set up the stage for Halo 7 8 and 9, crossing my fingers that they don't screw this up now that they got new leadership, I actually am hoping that Microsoft considers letting 343 doing remasters of the Halo games such as Combat Evolved and Halo 3 proper Remasters. Also who wouldn't love a new Trilogy of Halo games based around the ODSTs? just saying.
ActMan, after watching this i decided to go back and give the game another shot and I want to say thankyou... you have reignited my nostalgia and childhood love for halo
My brother and I grew up playing Halo 3 on Xbox 360. So, we have been playing Halo Infinite since launch. I have close to 500 hours on it, so we have seen the progression. We have been having so much fun playing, and it takes us back to Halo 3 days. Especially on Squad Battle, where Rats Nest is in rotation and we just destroy people with warhogs. I got the Grim Reaper medal with him as the driver. It's so much fun. He comes over with his Series S, and I'm on my PC and just have a blast. Halo Infinite is doing much batter, and we are ahooy to see!
Season 5 has honestly been a god-sent in regards to Halo Infinite content. There are so many things added that fans have wanted for YEARS. It's still absolutely not perfect, but this new team and upper-management is doing more in 5 months then the previous did over their ENTIRE development run. I haven't enjoyed myself this much since Halo 3 and Reach. Also, I keep on coming back to Husky Raid lmao, that gamemode is fucking chaos.
DLC for the campaign would be cool. I feel that multiplayer has gotten a lot better especially SWAT (sorry Tactical Slayer) the maps at launch were to open and spawn killing was crazy. Playing on the new maps it seems like it's back into full swing.
This looks like the Halo I wanted at launch (multiplayer wise). I'd still would have preferred for infinite to have been a complete all in one game with Reach style unlocks, but I'd rather this than see the series die. I'm going to reinstall and get on tonight. Thanks Act Man!
Honestly, this video convinced me to give Infinite another shot. I’ve been playing Halo since my original Halo green see through Xbox. I’m so happy 343 is in a much better spot :) thanks for the update, Action Man.
Trust, once lost, is infinitely harder to regain. Glad to see the game isn't lacking in base features like it was on release but honestly, it just isn't enough and for a lot of people might never BE enough
I've been playing Halo Infinite regularly on and off since launch, but more regular than not. I think the game is actually in a decent place, and what it needs more than anything is a population boom. So hopefully this video brings a few new players, thanks Act Man!
The game still needs to fail to punnish 343 and force them to just do it properly first time the grapple hook ruins the game theres still no vehicles the graphics are dogshit the game is just terrible
No this Halo game needs to continue failing so they don't make a crappy free to play Halo experience again. Right now the steam count for MCC is higher than infinite. A 10 year old re release of games older than 10 years.
@@12LOGIC12 You're being emotional and bitter. I just want a good Halo game. I'm more interested in having fun playing Halo than I am seeking... vengeance? Seems a little over the top.
@@dustinking6258exactly and besides most of the people at 343 have been replaced he wouldn't be getting revenge on the people who made halo bad he would be getting revenge on the people trying to fix halo
@@dustinking6258You're just being naive and part of why Halo sucks cause you keep supporting a lifeless corpse and a shitty company... What do you buy Fifa every year from EA?
Give it a try man, I'm honestly having a blast (though the guy above me is right about the sweats, though it like any other shooter). But either way hope you enjoy the game 👍
@Trigger200284 Sweaties is just the nature of online gaming now, not just a Halo Infinite thing. People are just better and more experience at games than they uses to be back in the Halo 3 days
Tbh, Act Man should've come back a bit sooner. Glad he came back! I get why people rely on content creators to give them advice. It's impossible to give hundreds of hours to EVERY game that comes out. It's just unfortunate that the overrall rep for this game hasn't changed since S1, S2 because of content creators boycotting back then. People just assume the game still sucks.
Been playing regularly since launch. Could be the Halo nostalgia but this game just hits for me like nothing else out there. Glad to see others might come back and give it a chance. Just wish the net code got get a bit more polish.
I’m glad u gave infinite another shot, I stuck with it and it’s only gotten better the only thing I want is for them to stop forcing colour coating schemes and patterns and let you make ur own
Mad respect for changing your mind! We may not agree on some things but I respect anyone who’s able to change their mind based on new experiences. I agree with you for sure.
Actually kind of surprised to hear this. Seems like a fair take: lots of improvement, not everything is fixed, and the population hasn’t recovered. Personally, competitive games bring out the worst in me, and I just want to matchmake for cooperative game modes. Come to think of it, I kinda wish that was in the MCC as well.
I remember booting up Halo Infinite about a month or two ago just to see how it was it doing. I ended up playing for a week straight because all the improvements just made me wanna come back and play more.
This may sound hella stupid but I rather not give these companies a second chance. I despise the fact that so many video game companies these days think they can realse a broken game then proceed to fix it.
@@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.
I really want to see this game succeed. Theres a good foundation for a great game here, it just needs to be realised. If they keep improving the game, hopefully the playerbase will return as well.
Hey Actman, I was just with my friends the other day talking about missing Halo, and now this Video comes out. I think its a sign to go back and give Halo Infinite another chance. Thanks again for the awesome video!
You hit the nail on the head. I want to play the game again and had not felt that way since Reach. Although still not all the way there, the improvements venture closer to an incredible game.
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.
I dont know, I hope the next halo comes with all these features baked in so we can have a complete experience after launch not 3 years later. Still waiting for a proper campaign story (maybe DLC).
Speaking as someone who has been on and off with Halo Infinite since it's launch, I can say the experience at launch versus the current experience the game offers is just no comparison, the dev team has been hard at work trying to turn Infinite into the game that they wanted to make it from the beginning. The only features I could say that need to be a REQUIREMENT going forward are tearing down the barriers in customization to allow for more freedom of expression instead of being forced to choose between different armor cores with armor pieces exclusive to each core having to buy basic-ass colors (some of the really cool looking colors like gold with green glowing lights or black and red with holographic accents are fine to charge for, just not the BASIC colors), Firefight (please I'm begging you 343), Assassinations and PLAYABLE ELITES WITH ACTUALLY GOOD CUSTOMIZATION FOR THEM PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. That concludes my TED Talk. Edit: Firefight is here. It fucking sucks.
While its good that infinite is improving, i told myself I wouldn't return to it until splitscreen makes a comeback, that feature is what got me into halo with friends before I got into the lore, hoping for its return. Plenty of other games to get into in the meantime, but Halo wish you the best on your improvements and hope to eventually get the features we were promised.
Literally the only franchise that for whatever reason is not allowed to not have splitscreen for some reason. Like 0.1% of people who are bitching about it are even going to use it if it does come out. What a dumb reason to not play a game. The people working on the game now are not the ones who promised splitscreen so you aren't protesting against anything other than not wanting to give the new leadership a chance.
You just had to be there child. You'll just never know how great it was. We're free to not play for whatever reason we want. Cry more about it like a weirdo.
The way you talk about the new devs too as if he should know them on a personal level or something. Like bro they're strangers to him. You're talking like new devs should matter to him or something. Grow up dude. He said what he wanted out of the game and it's not there. Big deal if he doesn't want to play lol. Believe it or not some people only played Halo to play the campaign with a specific person. Over the course of a decade a lot of people built a tradition around playing the halo campaigns together when it was normal to do it in person. And they carried that all the way to 5. Going by average life expectancy that's 15% of a lifetime carrying on this tradition. That's not some insignificant thing dude. You're an actual child who obviously never experienced this.
the core problem is that devs hate splitscreen. Not because its fun or anything like that. But because nothing kills game performance like splitscreen. Its why forza will not have it either
I think- and this is only my opinion based on my experience -Halo Infinite has improved in the sense that there’s a lot more content and feels a lot more polished complete than it did at launch. I wouldn’t necessarily say that it has recovered, but instead that it’s recovering. We still have a ways to go before Halo Infinite comes close to the likes of Halo 3, Reach and (arguably) even 4.
I agree 100% aside from the Halo 4 part. Halo 4 was objectively the worst Halo pvp. It tried so hard to emulate CoD and brought none of the fun or charm of the previous titles.
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After taking a break from Halo Infinite and boycotting it, I decided to try it out after over a year to see if the game has recovered and gotten the content, updates and love it needs. It will be especially interesting to see how the new leadership has handled the game...
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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
Titanfall 2 coming back to life has given me what none of these modern multiplayer shooters can give me, a complete and fun game with good progression and no battle pass bs
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.
I've heard the game has improved a lot but I don't think it'll be easy to get people to care about it enough to come back.
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.
While I'm glad that the multiplayer is getting a ton of content, I wish the campaign had some content as well
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
A quick note about the Infinite 70gb download. If you uncheck the Campaign in Steam's DLC tab, it goes to 30gb.
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
Still needs some work but the new leadership has definitely shown a large improvement in content and updates
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
Something I REALLY loved and was underrated was Gears Of War 3's beast mode, can you imagine fighting waves of different marines, spartans etc as banished forces in a multiplayer setting? Playing from the cheap grunt with a plasma pistol to maybe a brute chieftain or hunter?
A mode like this I think would really put Infinite on the map!
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
Unreal how the more Halo Halo gets the better it does
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.
Holy shit bro did u not re read the sentence before posting this comment. This might one of the worst punctuation crimes ever
I thought I was done forever but this is the first time a TH-cam video has made me go back - and not regret it. You truly are a magician, Act Man
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
Even though the game has made some missteps, I am so glad they implemented the ability to earn things from previous battle passes. You'd think that would be more common, but no.
but but but where is the FOMO if you can earn previous bp stuff? :( we need FOMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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
Look at how badly it's hurt player retention and you'll see why they're the only ones who do it.
I want the Halo franchise to make a comeback so badly
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
I'm happy to see FUN in halo again. I wish certain things weren't "Limited" a good popular thing should stick around not be "limited"
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.
It's nice they tried to bring it back, but personally i feel like the heart and soul of Halo is gone in this game regardless.
The way the power weapons spawn randomly in Slayer/Team Slayer games doesn't encourage players to learn the maps, it encourages brainless running in circles waiting for the guns to drop and hoping you're by the spot that drops the one you want.
The King of The Hill Firefight is interesting, but at the end of the day, I gotta say I'm concerned they took out mainstay Halo weapons like the Plasma Rifle and the Covenant Carbine. It's hard for old players to want to come back to a game after they've already changed the game so much.
I think this is a game for the younger kids to play. Old School players like myself will stick to Classic Halo.
I 100% agree with you
Forge AI is going to be a game-changer. Imagine being able to create your own firefight mode or campaign mission.
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.
A pleasant surprise to see the Act Man make a video about Halo Infinite, and actually speak highly of the game. Looking back at where the game was to where the game is now shows a huge level of growth for the game. In fact, the tenrai III event was just about everything I wanted out of these fractured events: special maps that make you want to throw on the tenrai armor core and jump into some games. I'm actually looking forward to what the other fracture event maps look like
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
I think for me all that’s missing is more vehicles, weapons and really ambitious modes.
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
From quitting after finishing the first battlepass and a few events here and there to recently coming back and jumping straight into the Husky Raid game mode.... holy shit it feels like a different game almost. I had so much fun and actually feeling like I'm playing a legit Halo game
Definitely seems like a game that should of launched like this. Probably alot ppl wont even see these changes who tried it at launch and didnt enjoy. Seems good
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 want them to keep adding player forge maps to playlists because the creations are amazing. And we get to see what their forge can do after all that time waiting for it. Free maps!
I'm so happy Act mentioned Waterworks coming back. That was one of my favorite Halo 2 maps. That and the size made Warthog runs fun af.
I have fond memories of BTB on Waterworks. That and Terminal.
I think a good way to make the leveling system literally perfect is maybe give us like a armor token/weapon token that lets you permanently unlock a piece of premium armor for _ amount of tokens also theres like 10 guns and 5 vehicles in the files just unused for some reason
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
Kinda crazy how both Cyberpunk 2077 and Halo Infinite have seen massive updates back-to-back. I'm glad that these games haven't been abandoned and the teams behind them are working to make them better.
I have always felt like the difference between halo infinite and 5 is that 5 had a lot of content but bad bones but infinite had no content but great bones. Happy to hear that the new content really helps the game shine. Moment to moment halo infinite has always felt good to play but there wasn’t much to play
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
as a long time halo fan this fills my dark soul with light
I should've been the one
Season 5 looks incredible. Honestly I've played more Infinite the last month then I have at launch. It's really good right now.
I really like how you re-evaluated your position on a previous games release, then vs now. I think that is very important in the gaming community, or even in general life. Things are fluid, they change, and expectations made from previous leadership or developers should be given some leeway in terms of future progress.
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.
At this point, the Act Man has released more Halo Infinite content than 343.
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
343 has done nothing but run Halo into the ground for 11 years and people keep giving them a chance. Damn. We will be stuck in Modern Gaming forever.
Hopped on this morning and haven’t had good halo fun like this since playing forge world on reach in middle school. Had a few crashes on customs but granted we had about 8 phantoms stacked on each other spawning grunts like nobody’s business. Good stuff this is what we hoped for on launch. Playing blood gulch again took me way back to evolves and it was priceless.
Feels good to see a genuine and well deserved positive video about Halo Infinite in it's current state, especially from you.
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?
Been a lifelong Halo fan but the launch of Infinite burned me completely. I don’t know if I’ll ever regain the faith and trust in this franchise again when there are other options out there that haven’t f-d me over as a long time fan.
Split screen Co op is never coming back, or playing as an elite, halo will never launch finished again, you have to pay money to change the color of your spartan. You buy each color individually
In agreement with so much here and glad you gave the game another chance. Forge didn’t launch with the game but since it came in and 343 pulled maps into the playlist things have felt sooooo fun all the time. Great vid, writing, editing as always
I’m stoked to see the game is in a much better state to play. I’m still apprehensive to play unless I see some major fixes to monetization and customization, but with enough convincing I could see myself trying the game again.
Dawg you don’t gotta buy anything lol the game is just fun now
Do not return, give nothing to then anymore. And if you returned, maje their server much unplayable as possible because this is the price those released game in unfinished state and promise to fix it in future deserved.
It actually feels pretty good to see that Halo infinite has genuenly done things good. It's nice to see some positivity when games do things right.
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.
Companies NEED to realize how important ranks can be, and ones that DO NOT DISSAPEAR after 4 months, its so satisfyingly to log back in after months to see your hard work, the ranking system is basically one of the sole reasons why I'm coming back, plus everything else you mentioned of course. Finally!!
I'm back you convinced me. The biggest loss from its release was the lack of level progression. I missed it from my young reach days. Edit: Yes, please bring Elites I miss Spartan vs Elite modes!
As someone who recently got back into infinite, im so glad they got rid of the bizarre challenges, I remember being stuck on a really stupid challenge one week (killing 5 spartans with a sniper snapshot while in the passenger seat of a warthog going through a grav lift) like who the hell thought that would be a good idea lol
It doesn't matter if it improved or not. It should've been like this a launch, and 343 still broke promises to the halo community. Halo Infinite doesn't deserve a redemption arc.
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?
The improvements really seem to confirm that the former leadership of 343 was really holding this game (and by extension the whole series) back. Glad they're finally gone!
Nice to see the act man revisiting halo infinite again. I do think it has improved a lot so yeah, it’s nice to see you try it out again
Meanwhile at Bungie: 100 people have been laid off, Michael Salvatori has been fired, and they're delaying the final shape till June....
Halos focus should always be on the social aspects.. reach did this so well, progression was so barebones that you weren’t playing to beat a challenge, you were playing because your friends were
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.
Funny how a lot of old games had features that kept people playing Battlefield 2, halo 2, mech assault 2, the list could go on. Those games are seen as old and archaic by modern developers who don’t know where they went wrong. It’s simple games are best played with friends so a social play list or other social features and communities are essential to how much the game is enjoyed very simple math.
I love how you can be a bigger man and give something another shot, looking at it objectively. As you said the people who made those promises that they broke are no longer there, so why punish the people who are working on it now. It shows that you don't adhere to the pack mentality that you can't change your mind on something and if you do, you never truly believed in the cause in the first place. That takes a lot of courage in todays landscape where one wrong move online and say something that the majority doesn't like, your ass is grass.
Act man: Im done with halo infinite
Also act man: Whats up everybody lets talk about halo infinite
Nine days later halo infinite season 5 was just announced and omg if it lives up to the trailer hype it will be the best update
I'm still amazed they don't have multi team in the game. That's been a staple of Halo games since the beginning. Could you imagine Oddball or King of the Hill modes with 6 teams of 4, 8 teams of 3 or 12 teams of 2. The chaos and mayhem that would ensue would be great entertainment.
Mate, I gave up and uninstalled Infinite back in January 2022. I didn’t think I’d ever play it again after how bitterly disappointed it left me, but after watching your video, that genuinely had me laughing at points, I feel an overwhelming sense of nostalgia, joy, and maybe even an urge to pop back in and check it out.
If you make people feel the same way as I do, you might’ve succeeded in drawing a decent amount of players back.
Genuinely great video, keep up the good work dude, look forward to seeing you on twitch.
Hopefully the new team will finally bring split screen campaign
I doubt it hahaha the pain won't stop. Please help
I'm going to overdose on copium
Oh you poor fool.
Infinite really has improved, especially in terms of stability and playability. It could really use a classics playlist: race, old rules KotH, old rules infection, 1 & 2 bomb assault, Grifball, juggernaut, etc. It'd also be awesome to get the classic shotgun & Halo 1 pistol back.
They still have playlists? Instead of bringing able to CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANNA PLAY? Yeah no thank
Even if Infinite fully recovered, there’s nothing sadder than thinking about how Bungie once pumped out one masterpiece after the next compared to their peers at 343.
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
With Infinite lately, I'm having the most fun in a video game I have had in many years. It's a breath of fresh air for me, this is how it should have been from the start! If it was like this from the start everyone would be playing it just like how Halo 2+3 used to be.
Halo reach had more players then Halo 2
Bro the moment you showed us sword swinging, grapple hooking, sticky nade throwing Ninjas...my Mind was Blown!
Just got done playing 2 rounds and it totally holds up, super addictive! 💀
If they had this at launch, i would probably never have stopped playing 😅
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
@@BaiterTTVwelcome to TH-cam, you new here
@@levicarpenter5509 you joined 12 months ago, you turn 13 then?
I started playing again because of this video, but none of my friends or family wanted to, so I stopped really quick. I did enjoy it, though.
I do like that they added more maps, old iconic maps, military ranks, the improved challenges/xp, more game modes/playlists, the battle pass saves, fixes to customs and forge, and more. I think infinite is pretty decent right now. It is much better than before.
The problem is that no one wants to play. And it's very hard to make new friends in-game because the game lobby doesn't exist. Also, there's still no rank rewards and career stats in-game, which removes a sense of achievement and progress that should come with halo. Those made me lose interest really quickly, despite my appreciation for all the changes.
If you consider "recover" from 500 people to 1k people playing the game ....yes amazing recovery !
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 🤡
They didn't care about us then, so we shouldn't care about them now. I'll be back for the next game.
I mean the gameplay is solid, like actually really good and feels great.
Server's have a rare hiccup for me sometimes is the extent of the issues I've had. My only gripe still is to have the option to choose gamemodes/maps rather then have a random playlist.
It doesn't play at all like CoD@@JimmmmmmmmmmmY
What about the desync, what about the desync
Honestly if microtransactions and networking issues were gone I'd come back 100%
The second one is being worked on, the first isn't going anywhere, did you forget this game is F2P? They need the micro store
@@chronodis no one asked for F2P
@@steelbarber the people who don't have the money to spend 60$ on every game did
@@chronodis those same people spend $144 on shop. this model is killing gaming
Microtransactions are in every single video game known to man today. You must not play any games. Unless, of course, your particular set of games tends to be single-player story-based third person action adventures?
Networking issues are a competitive issue and thus "shouldn't be an issue" if indeed Halo was not a competitive game.
My main issue is that most of these changes are things we should just expect in a complete game. I'm glad they're there, but it doesn't really change much for me.
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
So nice to see the game gaining some ground. I was there 2 years ago and the content was awful, left the game for a while but just recently came back in the last month or 2 (because its halo) and it has improved significantly. Glad to see it, nobody wants to see halo die ❤
When I reinstalled and saw the updated playlist I literally threw my hands up like "THIS"! "WHY WAS THIS NOT IN AT LAUNCH"? It made me very happy along with the custom game browser I think its a great recovery so far!
I find hilarious how nobody uses the pulse carbine even though it’s been secretly buffed to absolutely melt players.
I’d say it’s still stuck at the hospital but no longer on life support
Infinite has got so much better since launch man, I'm just glad Infinite hasn't been abandoned, they're still trying to make it a better game.. Imagine infinite a few years from now.
As someone who has loved this series the first time I booted up Halo CE on my OG Xbox, I'm glad to see these changes have been and are continuing to being made. Me and my friends have been debating on jumping back in when we heard some of these updates going through, I think it may be time for the prodical son to return home.. 😎👾
See you on the battlefield soldier
heres the thing, I paid 60 for the game, I still felt robbed by the lack of content I received.
isnt £60 for the campaign? also why didnt u just get gamepass for £8 😂
Nice, good to hear the multiplayer has improved a lot. If they do end up releasing a co-op/PvE mode (like Firefight), I might give it another go.
I’ve been waiting for firefight since launch. Multiplayer pvp has never really been my thing. Just wanna coop with da boys.
@@theroninryuuExactly, same.
It hasn't changed
@@theroninryuu same thing, it'll be waiting in my Steam wishlist until firefight is in there
As a Halo fan, I'm really glad 343 actually seems to be listening to the people playing their game. That's more effort than many developers would put in nowadays (looking at you, Activision). Halo was one of the first FPS games I started with, and I still think it's a great series to this day and hope it continues to be.
I'm actually glad that the old leadership is gone. Maybe Halo infinite will finally get what it Needs.
The problem is they're only making changes within the scope of their shitty vision of how they want the game to be.
I'm not glad for anything related to this trash game which stunted the potential playercount. 343 can go to hell, especially for the remainder of this garbage game's lifespan.
Dude really? This is the same cycle that you 343 shills have been going through. "343 FINALLY LISTENS TO THE FANS? HALO IS SAVED!" no its not and here's a list of a lot of flaws in infinite. it still uses the broken lore of 343. The forerunners being aliens is... it doesn't even make sense because forerunner tech can only be accessed by humans DNA. So they couldn't use their own tech? Also the countless lines by 343 guilty spark and the gravemind prove humans are forerunner. Changing the forerunners was a decision with no thought and it resulted in plot holes like the ones mentioned and it also makes much more sense that humans are forerunners. That's literally the reason the human covenant war started. But in 343 lore why did it start? Guess we'll never know. Also with how the flood and the ark are biblical references like dude it is all so perfect. And 343 ruined it. Well, I guess not "ruin" because it isn't even canon so it's nothing to worry about.
Furthermore, you know the whole reason that goofy promethian human war happened in 343 lore right? Because humans were destroying forerunner colonies because they were floodified and when they thought about explaining why they were destroying them to the "forerunners" they instead said "nah lmao"
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. Oh and please break the cycle of "343 LISTENED TO THE FANS?!?!?" Halo is over.
I actually did hear this rumor while back that they are making a firefight for Halo infinite. I'm definitely crossing my fingers hoping that me and my friends can fight infinite amounts of the banished. Most of all I think that haloinfinite has definitely set up the stage for Halo 7 8 and 9, crossing my fingers that they don't screw this up now that they got new leadership, I actually am hoping that Microsoft considers letting 343 doing remasters of the Halo games such as Combat Evolved and Halo 3 proper Remasters. Also who wouldn't love a new Trilogy of Halo games based around the ODSTs? just saying.
ActMan, after watching this i decided to go back and give the game another shot and I want to say thankyou... you have reignited my nostalgia and childhood love for halo
My brother and I grew up playing Halo 3 on Xbox 360. So, we have been playing Halo Infinite since launch. I have close to 500 hours on it, so we have seen the progression. We have been having so much fun playing, and it takes us back to Halo 3 days. Especially on Squad Battle, where Rats Nest is in rotation and we just destroy people with warhogs. I got the Grim Reaper medal with him as the driver. It's so much fun. He comes over with his Series S, and I'm on my PC and just have a blast. Halo Infinite is doing much batter, and we are ahooy to see!
The only content this man liked was made by fans and not devs 10/10
Forge was made by devs. The fact that the game provide an editor so good that fans can made Maps like that, It's a pro for the game.
@@ricln5464Yes.
@@ricln5464 The editor is good but still has a TON of issues. A lot of my maps broke early on
@@ricln5464 Yeah, but that doesn't mean the content made within it is something the devs made.
@@ricln5464it’s a pro that 343’s map designers are so shit they give the players the tools to make em instead for free?
Act man sacrificed his SSD storage for us so that we don't have to play the 343 shitty game, the gamer community thanks your sacrifice.😂😂😂😂
Just get a life and touch some grass
Halo Infinite is good
@@joerowland2625 Cope bro. The game is mid as hell
Honestly idc anymore 343 killed my love for halo.
Cry more nerd
Season 5 has honestly been a god-sent in regards to Halo Infinite content. There are so many things added that fans have wanted for YEARS. It's still absolutely not perfect, but this new team and upper-management is doing more in 5 months then the previous did over their ENTIRE development run.
I haven't enjoyed myself this much since Halo 3 and Reach. Also, I keep on coming back to Husky Raid lmao, that gamemode is fucking chaos.
DLC for the campaign would be cool. I feel that multiplayer has gotten a lot better especially SWAT (sorry Tactical Slayer) the maps at launch were to open and spawn killing was crazy. Playing on the new maps it seems like it's back into full swing.
saaaaaame
This looks like the Halo I wanted at launch (multiplayer wise). I'd still would have preferred for infinite to have been a complete all in one game with Reach style unlocks, but I'd rather this than see the series die. I'm going to reinstall and get on tonight. Thanks Act Man!
Honestly, this video convinced me to give Infinite another shot. I’ve been playing Halo since my original Halo green see through Xbox. I’m so happy 343 is in a much better spot :) thanks for the update, Action Man.
While it has improved and I am slightly interested, I refuse to play since I still cannot choose my primary/secondary colors.
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@@alexanderrobins7497 You've clearly never touched a woman.
Trust, once lost, is infinitely harder to regain. Glad to see the game isn't lacking in base features like it was on release but honestly, it just isn't enough and for a lot of people might never BE enough
I've been playing Halo Infinite regularly on and off since launch, but more regular than not. I think the game is actually in a decent place, and what it needs more than anything is a population boom. So hopefully this video brings a few new players, thanks Act Man!
The game still needs to fail to punnish 343 and force them to just do it properly first time the grapple hook ruins the game theres still no vehicles the graphics are dogshit the game is just terrible
No this Halo game needs to continue failing so they don't make a crappy free to play Halo experience again. Right now the steam count for MCC is higher than infinite. A 10 year old re release of games older than 10 years.
@@12LOGIC12 You're being emotional and bitter. I just want a good Halo game. I'm more interested in having fun playing Halo than I am seeking... vengeance? Seems a little over the top.
@@dustinking6258exactly and besides most of the people at 343 have been replaced he wouldn't be getting revenge on the people who made halo bad he would be getting revenge on the people trying to fix halo
@@dustinking6258You're just being naive and part of why Halo sucks cause you keep supporting a lifeless corpse and a shitty company... What do you buy Fifa every year from EA?
I personally like it a lot better now just because it has so much better content due to the community
I'm taking your advice ActMan and dipping my toes into Halo Infinite! It's been way too long since I've been this excited to retry Halo Infinite.
waste of time, too many sweaties that never left, you are at a huge disadvantage. No one cares, they took too long.
Give it a try man, I'm honestly having a blast (though the guy above me is right about the sweats, though it like any other shooter). But either way hope you enjoy the game 👍
Try that featured playlist it's honestly some of the most fun I've had in Infinit÷ and I didn't even play it with friends
@Trigger200284 Sweaties is just the nature of online gaming now, not just a Halo Infinite thing. People are just better and more experience at games than they uses to be back in the Halo 3 days
Tbh, Act Man should've come back a bit sooner. Glad he came back!
I get why people rely on content creators to give them advice. It's impossible to give hundreds of hours to EVERY game that comes out. It's just unfortunate that the overrall rep for this game hasn't changed since S1, S2 because of content creators boycotting back then. People just assume the game still sucks.
Halo can't just keep releasing this subpar games at launch. Its happened so many time in a row. Make people wait, get it right!
Been playing regularly since launch. Could be the Halo nostalgia but this game just hits for me like nothing else out there. Glad to see others might come back and give it a chance. Just wish the net code got get a bit more polish.
I just miss the old halo man...
I’m glad u gave infinite another shot, I stuck with it and it’s only gotten better the only thing I want is for them to stop forcing colour coating schemes and patterns and let you make ur own
Exactly!!!! Especially since you have to buy or grind to get anything beyond a solid basic color
Mad respect for changing your mind! We may not agree on some things but I respect anyone who’s able to change their mind based on new experiences. I agree with you for sure.
Reach had one of the best leveling system ever loved everything about it from getting money to spend - the random jackpot after the game
Reach’s level up system was CoD, no true skill system, no ranked etc. all social. Xp was meaningless
Actually kind of surprised to hear this. Seems like a fair take: lots of improvement, not everything is fixed, and the population hasn’t recovered. Personally, competitive games bring out the worst in me, and I just want to matchmake for cooperative game modes. Come to think of it, I kinda wish that was in the MCC as well.
I remember booting up Halo Infinite about a month or two ago just to see how it was it doing.
I ended up playing for a week straight because all the improvements just made me wanna come back and play more.
Bro. I'm the exact same! I couldn't believe how much they had changed!
@@tomhuddleston1850 so much! Feels so good
This may sound hella stupid but I rather not give these companies a second chance. I despise the fact that so many video game companies these days think they can realse a broken game then proceed to fix it.
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.
The management change has been long overdue and it really shows
I really want to see this game succeed. Theres a good foundation for a great game here, it just needs to be realised. If they keep improving the game, hopefully the playerbase will return as well.
Hey Actman, I was just with my friends the other day talking about missing Halo, and now this Video comes out. I think its a sign to go back and give Halo Infinite another chance. Thanks again for the awesome video!
You hit the nail on the head. I want to play the game again and had not felt that way since Reach. Although still not all the way there, the improvements venture closer to an incredible game.
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.
I dont know, I hope the next halo comes with all these features baked in so we can have a complete experience after launch not 3 years later.
Still waiting for a proper campaign story (maybe DLC).
It’s definitely better now. Not perfect by any means but I’ve been enjoying it a lot more
Speaking as someone who has been on and off with Halo Infinite since it's launch, I can say the experience at launch versus the current experience the game offers is just no comparison, the dev team has been hard at work trying to turn Infinite into the game that they wanted to make it from the beginning. The only features I could say that need to be a REQUIREMENT going forward are tearing down the barriers in customization to allow for more freedom of expression instead of being forced to choose between different armor cores with armor pieces exclusive to each core having to buy basic-ass colors (some of the really cool looking colors like gold with green glowing lights or black and red with holographic accents are fine to charge for, just not the BASIC colors), Firefight (please I'm begging you 343), Assassinations and PLAYABLE ELITES WITH ACTUALLY GOOD CUSTOMIZATION FOR THEM PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. That concludes my TED Talk.
Edit: Firefight is here. It fucking sucks.
They could have put special colors like neon red or metallic black into the store and should give us free customization with every normal Halo color
I never thought I'd see the day where 343 was doing a better job than Bungie preserving the legacy of HALO.
While its good that infinite is improving, i told myself I wouldn't return to it until splitscreen makes a comeback, that feature is what got me into halo with friends before I got into the lore, hoping for its return. Plenty of other games to get into in the meantime, but Halo wish you the best on your improvements and hope to eventually get the features we were promised.
Literally the only franchise that for whatever reason is not allowed to not have splitscreen for some reason. Like 0.1% of people who are bitching about it are even going to use it if it does come out. What a dumb reason to not play a game. The people working on the game now are not the ones who promised splitscreen so you aren't protesting against anything other than not wanting to give the new leadership a chance.
You just had to be there child. You'll just never know how great it was. We're free to not play for whatever reason we want. Cry more about it like a weirdo.
We should not give this studio another chance until bankruptcy!
The way you talk about the new devs too as if he should know them on a personal level or something. Like bro they're strangers to him. You're talking like new devs should matter to him or something. Grow up dude. He said what he wanted out of the game and it's not there. Big deal if he doesn't want to play lol. Believe it or not some people only played Halo to play the campaign with a specific person. Over the course of a decade a lot of people built a tradition around playing the halo campaigns together when it was normal to do it in person. And they carried that all the way to 5. Going by average life expectancy that's 15% of a lifetime carrying on this tradition. That's not some insignificant thing dude. You're an actual child who obviously never experienced this.
the core problem is that devs hate splitscreen. Not because its fun or anything like that. But because nothing kills game performance like splitscreen. Its why forza will not have it either
I think- and this is only my opinion based on my experience -Halo Infinite has improved in the sense that there’s a lot more content and feels a lot more polished complete than it did at launch. I wouldn’t necessarily say that it has recovered, but instead that it’s recovering. We still have a ways to go before Halo Infinite comes close to the likes of Halo 3, Reach and (arguably) even 4.
solid take man
I agree 100% aside from the Halo 4 part.
Halo 4 was objectively the worst Halo pvp. It tried so hard to emulate CoD and brought none of the fun or charm of the previous titles.
Actman has sold his soul, first starfield, then payday and now HALO??!??!
I feel dirty just watching this.
I can’t tell if your serious or not