Like yeah forgers are carrying the game, but because its not official content I really dont count it as new shit. The game has little to no new official content at all so is it actually improving the game or just making it more pathetic? Infinite at this point probably has more community content in matchmaking than every other Halo combined with official stuff in the minority. That is not okay or acceptable. Incorporating community content is great, but not at the scale they're doing it. I knew the second they revealed how robust Forge is that they were gonna exploit the community so 343 can focus on monetization.
I've only seen one enemy ghost so far on headlong, but just one, not sure if it was intended or simply a hijacked player vehicle, i need to try out the other forge maps to see if they finally done it where the phantom drops off ghosts, choppers and wraiths like reach.
@@nicholasshealy9040 cool, that's awesome, that was what was missing, do they deploy from phantoms like in the campaign? just curious, but I'll probably play more myself
Honestly the irony of 343 industries being named after a character that deceives and betrays you in the original halo trilogy never fails to crack me up
The entire point of 343 as a monitor is to protect the halos, 343 only betrays chief because he threatened the safety of the installation 343 was meant to look after. So viewing 343i as a company who shares a character that's known as a betrayer just overlooks the entire point of the character and why 343i was called 343i in the first place. It's like why the new studio behind gears of war is called the coalition.
@@ROFLgator1 That's because bungie knew what they were doing, 343 doesn't have a clue. They are throwing stuff at walls and seeing what sticks and they have been doing that for more than a decade.
Lol new? They have Halo CE, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach to pull weapons from. Instead of trying to balance the AR from being a bad medium range weapon or good CQB they could just add the SMG.
I'm like 90% the marketing team is all that's left actually working on Halo Infinite. Everything else sounds like it's just left over ready made content, forgers, and third party contractors. It's really sad tbh.
Naaa. 343 gave us infinite and forge in the first. Yall will never give 343 actual credit. Bungie wasn't even letting people display there maps. Yet 343 still gets complained. The forgers didn't carry the game. Forge carried that game. It took years making this (that BEST) forge. No credit tho. 343 cares about us and its community wayyy more than.
@@redd1765 Yeah buddy, nothing screams "We care about Halo!" like making it a point to hire people who outright hate Halo. We can give them props for releasing a good Forge mode months after release, but that doesnt make them worth keeping around. A decade and the only game they released people didnt hate was a spin off in Halo Wars 2.
Firefight refresh is great but we need new modes for firefight. I want to save and escort captured marines to safety. I want infinite waves of enemies. I want to recover a forerunner artifact under heavy fire and escape to a pelican with my fireteam. There is so much potential.
Love the new progression in Firefight. I think that should be the future of the mode. Would be great if they could incorporate some more Warzone elements into it. Moving into a section of the map where there's a Scarab to take down or an Elephant to protect would be awesome.
There’s no way Halo Infinite can hold the community over till the next Halo game I don’t know how 343 thinks this current state of Halo is okay Halo should not be below top ten most played games on Xbox It was 33rd last time I checked Pathetic
Whats funny about the BTB SBMM adjustment is nothing has changed for me. Still getting a ton of kills as a solo searcher. In the past when the game put me against a 12 stack I'd just block a few of those GT's so they would never show up in my searches anymore (it did work, I literally would never see those stacked teams again). So if the stacked teams are now only going against other stacks great, they get what they deserve. I don't recall the last time I was put against a stack though, I think I blocked like the most notorious 8 teams and fixed a lot of BTB being annoying. On the flipside, the smaller playlists like the new Objective one is really rough though, its just lopsided teams and high ping. Quick play used to be a lot more playable for me and now its just a pain playing.
@@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu I saw on a reddit post many months ago when you block a player it doesn't 100% guarantee you won't match with them again but it definitely will play a role in trying to make sure they aren't in your lobbies if other choices of players are available. So I tried it ... then matches, days, and weeks went by and never saw those GTs again so I assume it heavily helped thankfully. A lot of the BTB full stacks I ran into I found a reddit post on r/halo about. These were teams who went out of their way to hold the objective and spawn kill a bunch of randoms and openly admitted to making the game as MISERABLE for the opposition. They deserve every block and getting matches against other 12 stacks from now on where they can't even get a killing spree because all their opponents are tryhard Hero ranks too lol
@MintBlitz we had the perfect PvE already set up, Bot Bootcamp. 343 removed it 4 times, claiming it was due to players mining XP. It was changed so that could no longer happen, THEN they took it away permanently. It worked great for avoiding cheaters and Sweatfests so why not bring it back ?
Some pretty cool forge maps, good job to the forgers, and this is complicated but I am attempting to remake halo 5 Warzone in infinite forge, with its limitation, but we have AI now so it is possible, to some extent.
One thing I hate about infinite is all the maps are scaled to spartans not humans it just makes them feel small when there not you can definitely see this with the new reach maps definitely look good but don't feel the same unfortunately.
As someone who hit the grind for Achilles back in halo 5, I'm so saddened to say this but I will no longer be playing halo infinite at all. I was considering re-downloading it to give it one last chance out of a hundred chances I've given it. I was waiting for this update specifically to analyze it because I heard rumors of the Achilles armor and haunted were available. But after seeing this absolute dumpster fire...I can't bring myself to download it now or probably ever again. I can't even have hope for the future. The Banished (343/ microsoft) have succeeded in killing this franchise for me.
I can confirm, huge halo fan here but I play helldivers 2 all the time instead of halo, helldivers not only allows you to buy passes with in game points but it just incorporates a purpose for going through those droves of enemies to find those points and keeps me coming back for now. I would love to see halo come back though fingers crossed
I just couldn't get over the UI annoyance of having to open a menu and then execute a quicktime event to use strategems. If that had been more like the armor ability / equipment UI system in halo, I think I really would have liked helldivers.
@@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu this is true, the game mechanic of opening the stratagem menu feels like a tactic to make the game harder when you’re getting descended upon by a horde and can’t hit the arrow keys quick enough, not to mention helldivers rag doll issues right now are frustrating
@@meganandbradley8695 may not be perfect, but they are an example of doing live service right, what I mean is helldivers 2 have added vehicles: 2 mechs, with more wheeled vehicles to come, and countless weapons, and not only cosmetics like halo infinite is stuck with for now.
Playable elites when? Diverse biomes for the singleplayer campaign when? Being able to explore/play on the entire halo ring in the singleplayer when? Splitscreen coop when? I don't care about cosmetics, that's more of a woman's thing, 343 is hiding [Like bugs under stones] from the responsibility of releasing a complete game.
Stop supporting the Free To Play model, lets get back to one time purchases. You think its not possible but if enough people stop playing, the whales who cause this problem with be in empty lobbies.
People won't stop playing though. Game companies will continue to bait people with a free game, drip feed content, add in daily sign in bonuses until people get hooked and feel like they may as well buy store bundles as they've committed so much time to playing it.
Then there's CoD; pay $70 for the game, then you don't get any real content unless you buy a $20 battlepass, and your gameplay gets throttled unless you buy $40 packs consistently.
@@Blue-Gold_Crusader i know COD isn't F2P and is a paid game so it's a little different, but the new 2 weapons per season added in the battle pass every season of call of duty have always been free, (standard weapons with no stupid skins) but you have to spend time playing to unlock, season 4 had the classic call of duty shotgun the Spaz 12, and a sledgehammer, where season 5 just recently had a small SMG using the P90 magazine system, and an WW2 style modernized STG44 assault rifle, i believe they have had quite a few weapons added overall by now, and lots of maps.
@@Spendingryan I was more referring to the fact that you're algorithmically stunted if you aren't buying packs and/or the battlepass; but yeah. Oh yeah, and let's not forget that the previous season's stuff gets nerfed to oblivion when the next one rolls around. Honestly, I feel the whole industry needs a reset.
Man 343 is so suspicious. How do they have all these employees, PLUS an entire community helping their game, and it's just the driest updates we'll ever see. I love Halo, but we need so much more than explosive stack and plasma EMP, and it feels like we are still so far from scratching that true Halo itch.. I honestly just don't play it that much anymore, and even now because their updates keep destroying the playability. Still getting stuck in btb loading after 4 fucking months and they just won't fix it or address it. 343 just honestly fucking sucks as developers and they're only exploiting the playerbase for their optimism
love to get firefight refresh thats themed to each game, having firefight maps based on campaign levels. examples being: ce- the instillation 04 firefight map from reach/ part of the silent cartographer island/ alpha base from the book or fireteam raven/ the end of 34 gs level h2- starting platform cluster from regret/ cairo station hanger/ high charity section/ new Mombasa sections h3- rats nest hanger/ the storm scarab area or the aa gun area/ one of the shield towers from the covenant/ a section of the level cortana/ outside halos control room odst- the firefight maps not in matchmaking 4- the space section of the dawn/ dawn's crash site halo 5- the station in witch the chiefs first mission is, maybe the hanger at end/ somewhere on shanghelios, mediria and genesis (off top of head can't remember a ot of places suitable for firefight, maybe add some of the warzone maps maybe) infinite- the silent auditorium/ maybe a banished outpost/ (probably a few other places firefight maps might work as well) just some idea, maybe even see if past halo multiplayer maps could work (like the one in matchmaking that was a btb map)
I am thoroughly enjoying firefight again, including the Banished knowing how to use vehicles. Gameplay feels so cinematic again. I don’t like the new playlist changes entirely, but it’s been oddly easier to get into Rock n’ Repulsors now, which I do like. I’ve given BTB Snipers a go, and it’s more fun than regular sized team snipers. More chances to play with players that actually mark or communicate. The new operation itself is trash. They really wanna make a power move? Make all the paywalled cosmetics *ALL* purchase able with the earn-able Spartan Points. For christs sake, almost nothing they do is in-house apparently. Talk about a money laundering game company.
where are the assassinations? playable elites? fucking primary and secondary color palettes? at least give us local split screen co-op. i wish the MCC wasnt overrun with hackers :/
I totally thought you were spot on in whichever video you mentioned you thought they'd put another armor in the exchange for 75k or whatever...I thought that was very fair. Apparently 343 disagrees. Cheers to you btw, you inspired me to get back into the game, and even video editing in general. Kudos to you man 🤘
Hoping you'd cover the new Firefight map easter eggs at some point, since there aren't any concrete guides that I've been able to find. So far I've only run into the Ardent Prayer secret weapon. I've seen teammates somehow access: - Target locater and sandwich on Gyrefight - Friendly jackal snipers on Refuge - Phantom killing custom weapon on Courtyard
Halo reach firefight is the perfect way to do KOTH firefight. Make the levels long and or big, i hate when its just "move to this corner, now this corner". I like OG firefight, but if we are stuck with KOTH, then the reach maps are the way to go
Btb was crazy for a while, 12v12 enemy team had like 7 people playing like pros and our team motly casual players being hunted. The worst part is a lot of players quit. I had a fiesta match were we lost 100-34 and my teamates were leaving and the New ones also leave as soon as they realized what was happening, the match ended 11v5
I was a part of the Big Team Battle problem and i didn't even know it was a problem! We all just thought it was fun to have a full squad and coordinate. It was insanely satisfying to do. But if it killed the playlist then i apologize. Just trying to have fun after a long day of work. 👍
How so? It’d be like holding an AR from the buffer tube above your head. Or were you thinking he had it by the grip and his wrist was twisted all to hell? Lol
My friend’s and I play every Wednesday. We hate the fact that as soon as the fifth player joins, we get stuck with squad battle or BTB. I wish there was more experiences in the game for larger groups.
Especially when you're in that awkward number of players range where you don't have enough to fill out a customs lobby to the point that it'd be really fun, but you went over 4 players so now you have very few options... Yeah, I feel that.
Exactly the same problem here. 5v5 and 6v6 seems like an easy way to shake things up a bit, plenty of the larger maps like behemoth would still work with an extra couple of players
Courtyard also has a very OP gun. A shotgun with volatile skewer ammo. Combine that with the kinetic ammo dispenser, and you basically can take out every banished dropship that appears. Accidentally wiped out most of my team doing that to one that came close to our area.
There is also a known bug they didn’t fix yet. When you load in a game with someone in the lobby with an OG Xbox One the intro will keep playing until that person loads in
Why is 343 always so close to "good" but they have to mess with everything just enough to make everyone hate them? Is the AR going to be reverted back?
Call of Duty MW2S DMZ mode would work perfectly for Halo Infinite as a PVP PVE battle royal. You enter the game "current objective survive." Contracts to kill HVT, like in the Halo Infinite campaign, hunt squads, intel extraction, perhaps lore for the next Halo game or lore about Cortana, destroy supplies, destroying AA guns, which will give you reinforcements such as a tank or wraith i just love the idea of a halo dmz
Really liked the community firefight maps on this playlist, the only thing left for firefight in infinite to bring it to parity at least with halo reach is generator defence, and enemy vehicles: scout and armor, you know like ghosts choppers and wraiths, just like in halo reach/odst.
I don’t know why Microsoft is so focused on pursuing new studios instead of focusing on their IP. 343 was the worst thing that happened to Halo and they have proven that time and time again.
Are we ever getting that UI update that we were told about years ago now? I mean it would be par for the course for 343 to promise something and not deliver but a status update on that would be nice. Unless they did mention it and I missed it
343 don't you ever dare to fire pixelflare Also props to the forgers for firefight, love the maps. Courtyard is maybe a bit 'weird', but I think it's just me. It feels like if it's smaller than i remember. I think it's due to the high movement. Also is there a way to get the warthog in the map? Would be cool.
I played last night and the firefight was super fun. Clutch resurrecting everyone to have them celebration teabag for the win is max fun. Need better social features for this, proximity mic etc.
I’m not a social person but halo is where I can be social. Playing with a full team in BTB is the most fun you can have in Halo. Period. Yes those stacks will be better cause they work together and, so what if a little farming comes out of it. People are just trying to have fun. I get that fun doesn’t need be at the expense of someone else playing casual and getting destroyed but that’s BTB. If causal players don’t want to play against a Big Teams then don’t play BTB or block a person on the team and you won’t have to play that team anymore. Changing the MMR to a more strict lobby because “a few has ruined it” has killed halo for anyone that enjoyed playing together with friends. I don’t mind if it’s more strict and the games are more competitive now but, at certain times of the day and night, we can’t find a game with a full stack but unless another full stack or close to it is on. I think it’s wrong to punish people who just want to have fun playing with their friends. Work on content 343. Stop changing and tweaking everything. We don’t need more rules, nerfs, and buffs. Finish the game and call it good.
only thing missing is the dropships flying into the covenant corvette hangar like in halo reach, myself i have only personally played headlong twice so far, but headlong isn't on reach, its on earth, but it looks stunning for a forge map to be honest!
Someone commented on another video that there's an easter egg special sentinel beam that fires something else on that map behind some sort of unlock. Anybody solved that yet?
I didn't think 343 could do anything to Infinite to get me to play any more of it but I was wrong. Definitely going to be playing some old school reach firefight this weekend
So the solution is make everyone sweaty? This makes no sense. Not that I have a problem with actual SBMM, but Infinite doesn't have SBMM. It has a match rigger.
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem people who are casually good aren't trying hard enough to get matched with tryhards. Keeping the sbmm strict ensures that.
Im confused on what they changed wit the skill based match making? Will it take longer to find a match because it will try to find you a game closer to your skill level? if so i think thats a good thing.
The exchange is a joke, players like me who stay loyal to infinite are presented with a list of things already owned, look at all the locked crap they could put in at a high sp range, give us something to grind towards!
I feel like something that halo is missing, which might not be important to others is unlocking armor through accolades, accommodations, achievements, ranking, etc
Classic firefight (i.e no hill) would be welcome back, add in lots more enemies per wave with randomised spawn points too please. Also for king of the hill, they should make it first team to 5 points wins, not best of 5.
I still play this game almost daily. Its come a LONG way since launch when quick play didnt work, and Btb only loaded some times. While i do agree that 343 doesnt do a great job, i have so much fun playing. All the people crying about coatings and god damn cat ears are irrelevant. The core gameplay is so good
This still hurts because Halo Infinite Multiplayer has so much potential. Microsoft/Xbox should've went all in on the Multiplayer once it picked up speed and expanded 343 to have a team for campaign only games and potentially a team for spin off games or remakes. Make Halo Infinite the "forever" multiplayer and give the campaign games & spin offs/remakes time to cook. It feels awful that Microsoft and 343 just give up when Halo Infinite didn't immediately take off. Infinite is still one of the most fun modern multiplayer games I've played. It just didn't have a content stride and once it did Xbox stopped marketing the game (Infection not getting a trailer at the Xbox Game Showcase said it all) and Microsoft just kept cutting funding (right when the story cutscenes were ramping up too). How Microsoft treats Xbox's flagship IP is straight up insulting. I don't even hate 343 like I've seen some people online act, but it is pretty crazy how Halo is solely the responsibility of this singular studio Microsoft created post Bungie which isn't even that big. Then on top of that we keep hearing about how Microsoft only wants to hire contractors and not actually increase full time dev staff and how they cut funding so often from 343. I don't want every Xbox studio to become a Halo studio like Activision did for COD, but something like purchasing Certain Affinity and Crystal Dynamics as support studios for projects would go a long way. Or even just permanently expanding 343 (or like just not hiring contractors for everything).
Shoutout to Halo Forgers for carrying this games content, legends.
Hey mint ur a really cool guy. Happy days🥰
Im happy they are getting the respect they need
343 owes them financial compensation. They’ve literally carried this game. What have 343 provided? More overpriced armor sets.
Like yeah forgers are carrying the game, but because its not official content I really dont count it as new shit. The game has little to no new official content at all so is it actually improving the game or just making it more pathetic? Infinite at this point probably has more community content in matchmaking than every other Halo combined with official stuff in the minority. That is not okay or acceptable. Incorporating community content is great, but not at the scale they're doing it. I knew the second they revealed how robust Forge is that they were gonna exploit the community so 343 can focus on monetization.
Bro , I have no idea how games exist when you have winey babies crying about everything
For those of you who wished for the Banished using vehicles in Firefight, careful what you fucking wish for because they know how to use them.
The amount of time I’ve jumped towards a wraith and immediately gotten obliterated by the mortar is embarrassing
I've only seen one enemy ghost so far on headlong, but just one, not sure if it was intended or simply a hijacked player vehicle, i need to try out the other forge maps to see if they finally done it where the phantom drops off ghosts, choppers and wraiths like reach.
Lmao still glad they added them. Should have a more vehicle warfare heavy firefight
@@SpendingryanOn the Tempest map, I’ve seen the enemy pilot one Ghost during one wave and a Wraith in another. Those Wraith pilots aren’t pushovers.
@@nicholasshealy9040 cool, that's awesome, that was what was missing, do they deploy from phantoms like in the campaign? just curious, but I'll probably play more myself
Honestly the irony of 343 industries being named after a character that deceives and betrays you in the original halo trilogy never fails to crack me up
The entire point of 343 as a monitor is to protect the halos, 343 only betrays chief because he threatened the safety of the installation 343 was meant to look after. So viewing 343i as a company who shares a character that's known as a betrayer just overlooks the entire point of the character and why 343i was called 343i in the first place. It's like why the new studio behind gears of war is called the coalition.
@DPH_Psychosis? Dawg I didn't say it cause I care about 343i, I said it cause I'm tired of people misunderstanding the writing of characters.
@DPH_Psychosis it's funny reading his thing because I probably understand halo more than him
And also yes, it is literally just a simple joke
Fire343
If they are hiring 3rd party contractors to make new armor and Forge maps, then why not hire someone to make new weapons and vehicles!?!
I litterally thought the same thing, maybe this is why they added that Smg to the files recently, maybe the contractors are* already doing that?
Why are we depending on 3rd party contractors now? Gaming has gone to 💩. Back then Bungie would cook a game by themselves & knock it out of the park!
@@ROFLgator1 That's because bungie knew what they were doing, 343 doesn't have a clue. They are throwing stuff at walls and seeing what sticks and they have been doing that for more than a decade.
Lol new? They have Halo CE, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach to pull weapons from. Instead of trying to balance the AR from being a bad medium range weapon or good CQB they could just add the SMG.
😂wow just an smg tho. Why can’t they add some of the older weapons? Or brand new human weapons
when mint said “its the 500th time we remembered Reach” I felt that 💀💀💀💀
You know what? Fuck reach! Forgive and forget!
Well nobody remembers what 343 did so they have to milk everything that Bungie did back then
Can’t remember a place i went to in halo 4 or 5 ngl
@@shabibmahabI remember a glassed planet in the process of being reclaimed, and Sanghellios, homeworld of the Elites.
Covert single flag is the only thing that will get me to play this game again. Nobody plays it anymore and they're not going to add halo 3 stuff
More effort is put into the reveal trailers than the update themselves.
Marketing will market
I'm like 90% the marketing team is all that's left actually working on Halo Infinite. Everything else sounds like it's just left over ready made content, forgers, and third party contractors. It's really sad tbh.
When 343 goes like
It's Reaching time
And they Reach all over the place
* not complaining but, it's true, Infinite has been like 70% Reach nostalgia.
"70% Reach nostalgia" yeah if it was in a wax museum the Reach nostalgia has looked so goofy
@billylion3073 yeah they did somthing werid to those helmets man
@@Cameron39829 right! nothing quite looks right ..its so bloody strange
Not surprised the forgers came through once again
We love this franchise more than 343 and Microsoft
Naaa. 343 gave us infinite and forge in the first. Yall will never give 343 actual credit. Bungie wasn't even letting people display there maps. Yet 343 still gets complained. The forgers didn't carry the game. Forge carried that game. It took years making this (that BEST) forge. No credit tho. 343 cares about us and its community wayyy more than.
@redd1765 brother the goddamn forge came very late did you just forget how many we waited for these bastards to add it AFTER OFFICIAL RELEASE?
@@redd1765 everybody gives 343 props for forge. One of the best things they’ve improved upon over the years.
@@redd1765343 totally gets praised for the good things it does. They simply get blamed for a lot of things that are Microsoft's fault.
@@redd1765 Yeah buddy, nothing screams "We care about Halo!" like making it a point to hire people who outright hate Halo. We can give them props for releasing a good Forge mode months after release, but that doesnt make them worth keeping around. A decade and the only game they released people didnt hate was a spin off in Halo Wars 2.
Jorge: “Tell ‘em to make it count”
Blitz: “the 500th time we’ve remembered Reach”
We did Jorge, we sure did 😂
Firefight refresh is great but we need new modes for firefight. I want to save and escort captured marines to safety. I want infinite waves of enemies. I want to recover a forerunner artifact under heavy fire and escape to a pelican with my fireteam. There is so much potential.
This!!! Exactly my thoughts!!!!
I Judy want 8 to 12 spartan fire fight
Love the new progression in Firefight. I think that should be the future of the mode. Would be great if they could incorporate some more Warzone elements into it. Moving into a section of the map where there's a Scarab to take down or an Elephant to protect would be awesome.
There’s no way Halo Infinite can hold the community over till the next Halo game
I don’t know how 343 thinks this current state of Halo is okay
Halo should not be below top ten most played games on Xbox
It was 33rd last time I checked
Pathetic
If only MCC kept getting love
It’s so sad.
"Its called champion because the champion bundle in the store." XD
I’m gonna go cry now thanks
@@wmv8996 I mean these updates are called "CU" which we all know stands for cosmetic update.
Just a shame we can’t get firefight without flags.
yeah halo forgers are great
I love that one of the only acknowledgments of sbmm was a "hey guys we made it worse"
I uninstalled. Never before have I seen a game perform worse after every single God damn update
How unfortunate for you, I'll continue to have fun.
Same, it’s just nuts that one update breaks another part of the game
@@jasperfox6821 good for fucking you
@@rykkerjones786 it is. I had a 25 minute load screen instead of 15 this time!
@@jasperfox6821you must have missed the glory days.
Its getting pretty hard to forget reach with all the remembering we are doing
Whats funny about the BTB SBMM adjustment is nothing has changed for me. Still getting a ton of kills as a solo searcher. In the past when the game put me against a 12 stack I'd just block a few of those GT's so they would never show up in my searches anymore (it did work, I literally would never see those stacked teams again). So if the stacked teams are now only going against other stacks great, they get what they deserve. I don't recall the last time I was put against a stack though, I think I blocked like the most notorious 8 teams and fixed a lot of BTB being annoying.
On the flipside, the smaller playlists like the new Objective one is really rough though, its just lopsided teams and high ping. Quick play used to be a lot more playable for me and now its just a pain playing.
Wish I'd thought of that block GT to block the whole stack approach earlier. I was running into the same farming stacks a lot in BTB for a while.
@@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu I saw on a reddit post many months ago when you block a player it doesn't 100% guarantee you won't match with them again but it definitely will play a role in trying to make sure they aren't in your lobbies if other choices of players are available. So I tried it ... then matches, days, and weeks went by and never saw those GTs again so I assume it heavily helped thankfully.
A lot of the BTB full stacks I ran into I found a reddit post on r/halo about. These were teams who went out of their way to hold the objective and spawn kill a bunch of randoms and openly admitted to making the game as MISERABLE for the opposition. They deserve every block and getting matches against other 12 stacks from now on where they can't even get a killing spree because all their opponents are tryhard Hero ranks too lol
That is a very good idea. I wish I had thought of it
3v43 Industries should be their new nickname.
Man space marine 2 is sooo good feels like H3 a bit and is feature complete
Just give this game to the fans. 343 isnt needed. The community has been carrying this franchise for over a decade now
With how badly this game was managed, I've only been playing Firefight... and that's it.
@MintBlitz we had the perfect PvE already set up, Bot Bootcamp. 343 removed it 4 times, claiming it was due to players mining XP. It was changed so that could no longer happen, THEN they took it away permanently. It worked great for avoiding cheaters and Sweatfests so why not bring it back ?
If a halo fan was taken from 2007 to today, they’d cry lmao
Some pretty cool forge maps, good job to the forgers, and this is complicated but I am attempting to remake halo 5 Warzone in infinite forge, with its limitation, but we have AI now so it is possible, to some extent.
Haven't played Halo Infinite in over a year and I'm doing fine.
I been playing MCC. Only game where I can feel satisfied to unlock everything without paying.
One thing I hate about infinite is all the maps are scaled to spartans not humans it just makes them feel small when there not you can definitely see this with the new reach maps definitely look good but don't feel the same unfortunately.
As someone who hit the grind for Achilles back in halo 5, I'm so saddened to say this but I will no longer be playing halo infinite at all. I was considering re-downloading it to give it one last chance out of a hundred chances I've given it. I was waiting for this update specifically to analyze it because I heard rumors of the Achilles armor and haunted were available. But after seeing this absolute dumpster fire...I can't bring myself to download it now or probably ever again. I can't even have hope for the future. The Banished (343/ microsoft) have succeeded in killing this franchise for me.
Reach was so good that they're milking it like cringe youtubers using Mr Beast drama
Except the Mr Beast drama is actually pretty serious, y'know, with the guy hiring and being friends with pedos.
I can confirm, huge halo fan here but I play helldivers 2 all the time instead of halo, helldivers not only allows you to buy passes with in game points but it just incorporates a purpose for going through those droves of enemies to find those points and keeps me coming back for now. I would love to see halo come back though fingers crossed
I just couldn't get over the UI annoyance of having to open a menu and then execute a quicktime event to use strategems. If that had been more like the armor ability / equipment UI system in halo, I think I really would have liked helldivers.
@@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu this is true, the game mechanic of opening the stratagem menu feels like a tactic to make the game harder when you’re getting descended upon by a horde and can’t hit the arrow keys quick enough, not to mention helldivers rag doll issues right now are frustrating
@@meganandbradley8695 may not be perfect, but they are an example of doing live service right, what I mean is helldivers 2 have added vehicles: 2 mechs, with more wheeled vehicles to come, and countless weapons, and not only cosmetics like halo infinite is stuck with for now.
Playable elites when?
Diverse biomes for the singleplayer campaign when?
Being able to explore/play on the entire halo ring in the singleplayer when?
Splitscreen coop when?
I don't care about cosmetics, that's more of a woman's thing,
343 is hiding [Like bugs under stones] from the responsibility of releasing a complete game.
Reach is like the 9/11 of Halo, we'll never forget because they never shut up about it
I'm shocked America hasn't made that damn date a holiday at this point. That seems like something they'd do.
Stop supporting the Free To Play model, lets get back to one time purchases. You think its not possible but if enough people stop playing, the whales who cause this problem with be in empty lobbies.
Th gaming landscape has changed. AAA Games have much larger budgets now. Plus, we've seen that F2P games can work without being predatory.
People won't stop playing though. Game companies will continue to bait people with a free game, drip feed content, add in daily sign in bonuses until people get hooked and feel like they may as well buy store bundles as they've committed so much time to playing it.
Then there's CoD; pay $70 for the game, then you don't get any real content unless you buy a $20 battlepass, and your gameplay gets throttled unless you buy $40 packs consistently.
@@Blue-Gold_Crusader i know COD isn't F2P and is a paid game so it's a little different, but the new 2 weapons per season added in the battle pass every season of call of duty have always been free, (standard weapons with no stupid skins) but you have to spend time playing to unlock, season 4 had the classic call of duty shotgun the Spaz 12, and a sledgehammer, where season 5 just recently had a small SMG using the P90 magazine system, and an WW2 style modernized STG44 assault rifle, i believe they have had quite a few weapons added overall by now, and lots of maps.
@@Spendingryan I was more referring to the fact that you're algorithmically stunted if you aren't buying packs and/or the battlepass; but yeah. Oh yeah, and let's not forget that the previous season's stuff gets nerfed to oblivion when the next one rolls around. Honestly, I feel the whole industry needs a reset.
Honestly I like the btb change I quit playing btb because I would get matched up against a team of hero ranks while my team are all low ranks
4:48 bold of you to assume that the cows are, in fact, coming home 😲
So happy to help bring you guys powerhouse in to matchmaking
Havnt logged into halo infinite in years they need to give us campaign dlc or a new game it’s been like 4 years now with nothing
Man 343 is so suspicious. How do they have all these employees, PLUS an entire community helping their game, and it's just the driest updates we'll ever see.
I love Halo, but we need so much more than explosive stack and plasma EMP, and it feels like we are still so far from scratching that true Halo itch..
I honestly just don't play it that much anymore, and even now because their updates keep destroying the playability. Still getting stuck in btb loading after 4 fucking months and they just won't fix it or address it. 343 just honestly fucking sucks as developers and they're only exploiting the playerbase for their optimism
Really great to shout out the artist for each operation. 343 does do incredible stuff and it's great to have it commended
Hope they make flood firefight at some point and make it so you can change the look of drop ships to different halo themed ones like halo 3 dropships
I salute 🫡 you guys for being so loyal to this game
love to get firefight refresh thats themed to each game, having firefight maps based on campaign levels. examples being:
ce- the instillation 04 firefight map from reach/ part of the silent cartographer island/ alpha base from the book or fireteam raven/ the end of 34 gs level
h2- starting platform cluster from regret/ cairo station hanger/ high charity section/ new Mombasa sections
h3- rats nest hanger/ the storm scarab area or the aa gun area/ one of the shield towers from the covenant/ a section of the level cortana/ outside halos control room
odst- the firefight maps not in matchmaking
4- the space section of the dawn/ dawn's crash site
halo 5- the station in witch the chiefs first mission is, maybe the hanger at end/ somewhere on shanghelios, mediria and genesis (off top of head can't remember a ot of places suitable for firefight, maybe add some of the warzone maps maybe)
infinite- the silent auditorium/ maybe a banished outpost/ (probably a few other places firefight maps might work as well)
just some idea, maybe even see if past halo multiplayer maps could work (like the one in matchmaking that was a btb map)
I am thoroughly enjoying firefight again, including the Banished knowing how to use vehicles. Gameplay feels so cinematic again.
I don’t like the new playlist changes entirely, but it’s been oddly easier to get into Rock n’ Repulsors now, which I do like.
I’ve given BTB Snipers a go, and it’s more fun than regular sized team snipers. More chances to play with players that actually mark or communicate.
The new operation itself is trash. They really wanna make a power move? Make all the paywalled cosmetics *ALL* purchase able with the earn-able Spartan Points. For christs sake, almost nothing they do is in-house apparently. Talk about a money laundering game company.
where are the assassinations? playable elites? fucking primary and secondary color palettes? at least give us local split screen co-op. i wish the MCC wasnt overrun with hackers :/
There's so many awesome hidden things that I'm still finding in the new firefight maps, like the custom "Scorpion gun" and the airstrike powerup
Remembering the ODST...a playlist would be awesome
I totally thought you were spot on in whichever video you mentioned you thought they'd put another armor in the exchange for 75k or whatever...I thought that was very fair. Apparently 343 disagrees.
Cheers to you btw, you inspired me to get back into the game, and even video editing in general. Kudos to you man 🤘
Hoping you'd cover the new Firefight map easter eggs at some point, since there aren't any concrete guides that I've been able to find. So far I've only run into the Ardent Prayer secret weapon.
I've seen teammates somehow access:
- Target locater and sandwich on Gyrefight
- Friendly jackal snipers on Refuge
- Phantom killing custom weapon on Courtyard
Halo reach firefight is the perfect way to do KOTH firefight. Make the levels long and or big, i hate when its just "move to this corner, now this corner". I like OG firefight, but if we are stuck with KOTH, then the reach maps are the way to go
Btb was crazy for a while, 12v12 enemy team had like 7 people playing like pros and our team motly casual players being hunted. The worst part is a lot of players quit. I had a fiesta match were we lost 100-34 and my teamates were leaving and the New ones also leave as soon as they realized what was happening, the match ended 11v5
I was a part of the Big Team Battle problem and i didn't even know it was a problem! We all just thought it was fun to have a full squad and coordinate. It was insanely satisfying to do. But if it killed the playlist then i apologize. Just trying to have fun after a long day of work. 👍
Gotten to the point where I belive Mintblitz is the communities voice ain't notbody else doing it like u, your the best
Another month, another 150 bucks of stuff added to the shop
Firefight peaked with ODST and its never been close.
Thank you for shouting out Pixelflare's work. He is so talented. Love his work
Whoever designed that cover image of the Spartan holding the BR triumphantly in the air has clearly never held a firearm or seen a human being before
How so? It’d be like holding an AR from the buffer tube above your head. Or were you thinking he had it by the grip and his wrist was twisted all to hell? Lol
My friend’s and I play every Wednesday. We hate the fact that as soon as the fifth player joins, we get stuck with squad battle or BTB. I wish there was more experiences in the game for larger groups.
Especially when you're in that awkward number of players range where you don't have enough to fill out a customs lobby to the point that it'd be really fun, but you went over 4 players so now you have very few options... Yeah, I feel that.
Remind me what size BTB lobbies are? I ask because if it's greater than 8v8; we should get 6v6 and/or 8v8 lobbies/maps to help smooth that issue out.
Exactly the same problem here. 5v5 and 6v6 seems like an easy way to shake things up a bit, plenty of the larger maps like behemoth would still work with an extra couple of players
@@Blue-Gold_Crusader btb is 12v12. There is also squad battle which is 8v8. I'd be in favor of a 6v6 list as well.
Courtyard also has a very OP gun. A shotgun with volatile skewer ammo. Combine that with the kinetic ammo dispenser, and you basically can take out every banished dropship that appears. Accidentally wiped out most of my team doing that to one that came close to our area.
Gyrefight/Tempest also has a sandwich on the map you can grab and use with melee
There is also a known bug they didn’t fix yet. When you load in a game with someone in the lobby with an OG Xbox One the intro will keep playing until that person loads in
Why is 343 always so close to "good" but they have to mess with everything just enough to make everyone hate them? Is the AR going to be reverted back?
Firefight with base building like in Gears of War horde. It would be so cool😊
Call of Duty MW2S DMZ mode would work perfectly for Halo Infinite as a PVP PVE battle royal.
You enter the game "current objective survive."
Contracts to kill HVT, like in the Halo Infinite campaign, hunt squads, intel extraction, perhaps lore for the next Halo game or lore about Cortana, destroy supplies, destroying AA guns, which will give you reinforcements such as a tank or wraith
i just love the idea of a halo dmz
Really liked the community firefight maps on this playlist, the only thing left for firefight in infinite to bring it to parity at least with halo reach is generator defence, and enemy vehicles: scout and armor, you know like ghosts choppers and wraiths, just like in halo reach/odst.
6:47 Someone obliterating Mint? hahahaha good joke mint, but we all know thats impossible
I'd love to see some Halo 3 ODST content released like armour parts, weapons like the sub machine gun and New Mobassa inspired maps
We would like to see your playthrough in Lone Wolf posted here.
I don’t know why Microsoft is so focused on pursuing new studios instead of focusing on their IP. 343 was the worst thing that happened to Halo and they have proven that time and time again.
They gave 343 6 years and around $500 million bucks and 343 still screwed up halo at launch.
I miss game modes where it didn’t necessarily had to be slayer. But on the bright side custom matches bring that, although sometimes it seems empty
Good seeing you in that match brother! 🤝
Go! Steelix!
0:08 What map is this?
Now I remmeber why I threw it away and play 360 again
Love the new firefight maps! Thank you forgers! I want just waves of banished to fight not just KOTH though.
Are we ever getting that UI update that we were told about years ago now? I mean it would be par for the course for 343 to promise something and not deliver but a status update on that would be nice. Unless they did mention it and I missed it
343 don't you ever dare to fire pixelflare
Also props to the forgers for firefight, love the maps. Courtyard is maybe a bit 'weird', but I think it's just me. It feels like if it's smaller than i remember. I think it's due to the high movement.
Also is there a way to get the warthog in the map? Would be cool.
I wish we had FFA Super Fiesta
@@chrisrcowley I wish they had headhunter.
I've been enjoying the update I just hope they add firefight maps like this!
Would love to see Contact Harvest firefight or battle for the Ark Firefight with Elite buddies.
I played last night and the firefight was super fun.
Clutch resurrecting everyone to have them celebration teabag for the win is max fun.
Need better social features for this, proximity mic etc.
I also just drove some random around the whole match. They lived for it.
Appreciate the upload, always watch while I work
Appreciate you watching :)
I’m not a social person but halo is where I can be social. Playing with a full team in BTB is the most fun you can have in Halo. Period. Yes those stacks will be better cause they work together and, so what if a little farming comes out of it. People are just trying to have fun. I get that fun doesn’t need be at the expense of someone else playing casual and getting destroyed but that’s BTB. If causal players don’t want to play against a Big Teams then don’t play BTB or block a person on the team and you won’t have to play that team anymore. Changing the MMR to a more strict lobby because “a few has ruined it” has killed halo for anyone that enjoyed playing together with friends. I don’t mind if it’s more strict and the games are more competitive now but, at certain times of the day and night, we can’t find a game with a full stack but unless another full stack or close to it is on. I think it’s wrong to punish people who just want to have fun playing with their friends. Work on content 343. Stop changing and tweaking everything. We don’t need more rules, nerfs, and buffs. Finish the game and call it good.
Did you get to play the covenant ship FF map? It felt just like the reach level. At this point we should demand a playlist for campaign missions.
only thing missing is the dropships flying into the covenant corvette hangar like in halo reach, myself i have only personally played headlong twice so far, but headlong isn't on reach, its on earth, but it looks stunning for a forge map to be honest!
Someone commented on another video that there's an easter egg special sentinel beam that fires something else on that map behind some sort of unlock. Anybody solved that yet?
Once again, great job to the community creators on forge for the content.
I didn't think 343 could do anything to Infinite to get me to play any more of it but I was wrong. Definitely going to be playing some old school reach firefight this weekend
SBMM is a necessary evil because sweats don't know how to act in pubs
So the solution is make everyone sweaty? This makes no sense. Not that I have a problem with actual SBMM, but Infinite doesn't have SBMM. It has a match rigger.
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem no the solution is to keep the sweats all sweating together and away from the casuals/lower skilled players
@@shannonjones8877 So what about people who are casually good?
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem people who are casually good aren't trying hard enough to get matched with tryhards. Keeping the sbmm strict ensures that.
@shannonjones8877 Casually good means that you're on the level of the tryhards without trying. I thought it was self explanatory .
Rumor is they're bringing back a version of armor lock back for the next Halo - 343 better make it less OP than Reach'a version
The replusor is like a weak armor lock! I use it the same way with success
Im confused on what they changed wit the skill based match making? Will it take longer to find a match because it will try to find you a game closer to your skill level? if so i think thats a good thing.
The exchange is a joke, players like me who stay loyal to infinite are presented with a list of things already owned, look at all the locked crap they could put in at a high sp range, give us something to grind towards!
Fix the MCC ffs. Constant crashes mid game. Also, the Halo 3 banshee and wraith movement speeds for mouse and key players is BUSTED.
I feel like something that halo is missing, which might not be important to others is unlocking armor through accolades, accommodations, achievements, ranking, etc
Classic firefight (i.e no hill) would be welcome back, add in lots more enemies per wave with randomised spawn points too please.
Also for king of the hill, they should make it first team to 5 points wins, not best of 5.
I love the halo community and the fans since they made it better 👍😁👍
Halo honestly is amazing right now! I can blow a whole day easily on Halo! Haven't been able to do that for years with this game!
I would love to see Skyline and the Oni level from ODST added to firefight
I still play this game almost daily. Its come a LONG way since launch when quick play didnt work, and Btb only loaded some times. While i do agree that 343 doesnt do a great job, i have so much fun playing. All the people crying about coatings and god damn cat ears are irrelevant. The core gameplay is so good
As a big fan of Halo 5, the achilles armor being locked to the store is a kick in the gut. That armor meant a lot back in the day. Not anymore.
This still hurts because Halo Infinite Multiplayer has so much potential. Microsoft/Xbox should've went all in on the Multiplayer once it picked up speed and expanded 343 to have a team for campaign only games and potentially a team for spin off games or remakes. Make Halo Infinite the "forever" multiplayer and give the campaign games & spin offs/remakes time to cook.
It feels awful that Microsoft and 343 just give up when Halo Infinite didn't immediately take off. Infinite is still one of the most fun modern multiplayer games I've played. It just didn't have a content stride and once it did Xbox stopped marketing the game (Infection not getting a trailer at the Xbox Game Showcase said it all) and Microsoft just kept cutting funding (right when the story cutscenes were ramping up too). How Microsoft treats Xbox's flagship IP is straight up insulting. I don't even hate 343 like I've seen some people online act, but it is pretty crazy how Halo is solely the responsibility of this singular studio Microsoft created post Bungie which isn't even that big. Then on top of that we keep hearing about how Microsoft only wants to hire contractors and not actually increase full time dev staff and how they cut funding so often from 343. I don't want every Xbox studio to become a Halo studio like Activision did for COD, but something like purchasing Certain Affinity and Crystal Dynamics as support studios for projects would go a long way. Or even just permanently expanding 343 (or like just not hiring contractors for everything).
btb is supposed to be extremely varied in skill
343 doesn’t even act as a developer studio anymore but as a greedy middleman.