Updates for infinite are great and all, but I wish they would flesh out MCC the rest of the way so that I can play EVERY halo with my friends over cross platform... All we have is halo 3 and halo 3 ODST, and we would like to play more than just those 2...
So, love the video. Great Content as always. I have something to pick on though in this video. As you stated, Halo: Infinite and the other 343 era titles weapons other then the precision weapons having a headshot multiplier is one of the few things that actually makes sense. Speaking from a personal opinion but having all ballistic weapons having the multiplier is both accurate, and proper within the Halo Universe and real life weapons. I can understand that it makes the game feel more competition based and that's not really what Halo was supposed to be at it's core, but the weapons like the MA40, the Bandit fire the exact same round. It's just a piece of irl capability that I enjoy within Halo and it makes the weapons feel different, yet similar at the same. Just my personal thoughts on that topic. Love the content and continue doing the Floods work lol.
I get that Halo fans have been asking for the Ghosts of Onyx MA5K for ages but since the update is called 'Great Journey' and is basically a Halo 2 20th Anniversary, why did they not add a weapon that's actually from HALO 2 (SMG, Brute Shot, Plasma Rifle, Covenant Carbine, Fuel Rod Gun, Beam Rifle)?
From what I can find. It seems they are only adding weapons they can re-use animations from other weapons. In this case, the new weapon uses the ARs animations.
I feel like they could’ve reused animations from the stalker rifle and shock rifle for the beam rifle and carbine, pulse carbine for the plasma rifle, ravager for the enforcer plasma caster from hw2
343i would do anything to differentiate their time with Halo from Bungie's. Even if it is functionally identical to the SMG (it is) you know damn well they're gonna make sure it looks nothing like the SMG. That plus this was almost certainly a piece of content planned from ages ago that just happened to line up with this update. From the most reputable leaks it seems everything past a certain point in Halo Infinite's life cycle was just work that was already contracted to outside partners with no real new content getting green lit for the game.
I mean I'm desperate. I'm taking this bs instead of nothing at all. Also dope maps are coming into rotation. Mid ship ffs. Yeah. Hype. Kinda. But yeah. lesgoo
I think they realised that the next games are years away and they need to do at least something to keep the players fed through the very long wait. Kinda like how mcc being fixed and adding new stuff filled the void before infinite launched.
Pretty much. They wanted to do this whole live service thing and we have to suffer with their decision. “We didn’t make enough money” Isn’t a justification to not actually add new weapons. Not with a franchise this big at least. At this rate we’ll never get a halo again because they’ll spend 400 million to make it and then drop it the second it doesn’t make a billion profit in one year and move on to the next halo cash grab.
except the Halo 2 armour IS only available in the shop. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY and still all they do is add a blatantly exploitable and broken 3rd person mode... copy-paste an existing gun's animations... and throw a paid cosmetic in the store
It sucks because I loved this game at launch. I was one of the few to test the game's very first build and the grappleshot alone was enough to make it so much fun. When it released me and my friends had too much fun in BTB. It's a shame it got so underutilized, especially the campaign. As fond as my memories were of this game, I think they need to actually add something like playable elites to bring me and many others back. Or just take it behind the barn.
Same. I have fond nostalgia of playing the Halo Infinite multiplayer beta/release, when it released a surprising month or so before December. The campaign and multiplayer was refreshing. But they just didn't keep it alive. Sucks that even JOE STATEN was on the team, and left??
Every once in awhile I like to check in and see what's going on with Halo, and every single time I forget about that red outline around enemies and lose interest in playing.
I really wish they had blood and better explosion effects and dust effects and better impact decals. It really makes firefight seem alive. I just feel like I’m shooting toys in firefight but I really appreciate the addition!
agreed, this game would be so much better with strafe inertia. the erratic strafing is my biggest pain point with this game and many other modern shooters.
I agree, but I am glad they will be adding it. When playing online multiplayer, I like the better field of view. I get super anxiety when playing against real people and the 3rd person seems to slow the experience down for me
I think it'd be funny if in the 3rd person mode, your 3rd person the entire time, but when you did something that naturally pulled you into 3rd person, hop into vehicle, turret, carrying turret around, it changes to first person.
This made me laugh way harder than it had any right to. The thought of going first person when getting in a vehicle and just crashing had me dying laughing
As cool as it is, all of this seems like too little too late. I know the studio and developers got switched up and moved about a bunch, but having the first NEW weapon for a live service game come out after almost 3 years is such a let down. Theres still so little that they’ve added to the game and so much that still is missing
Big time too little too late. One gun that’s just a reskin of the assault rifle. Any of the forge weapon mods could’ve made the AR shoot faster and have a bigger magazine…
Makes so much sense why it’s a struggle to finish kills this time around, so hard to get a headshot when everybody strafes like they’re on crack. Even halo 4 & 5 had strafe inertia, they just only cared making infinite the sweatiest game possible with all the changes they made
classic halo has a player acceleration if 9.6 (halo 2&3). CE had 9.75. halo infinite has one at 12. thats the cause of jittery movement. setting acceratiin to 80% in custom games results in the classic strafe of halo 3 at 9.6. i prefer a 90% setting, 10.8 acceleration. its a great middle point. also, setting speed to 90% gives classic halo player speed (2.25 world units (10 ft) a second). at that setting, the current sprint speed bonus of 10% is just halo 3 mlg speed. which works great at classic scales.
Halo 3 and Reach armor unlocking story: I went on this great journey on this massive ring world (or alien planet)! Halo Infinite armor unlocking story: I commuted to work in heavy traffic for an hour, was bored for 8 - 12 hours thinking about Halo, drove home for 2 hours in heavy traffic, and then paid for it.
You haven't missed much really. I believe the only major thing added in that time was Firefight last year. Sure I'm having a little fun with the multiplayer but that's after not having touched the dang game in like 2 years. And of course I'm not spending a single dime for anything on this mishandled installment.
12:21 WHAT? 343 said they couldn't implement this due to engine limitations, but they could the whole time and just ignored complaints about it??? I hate this stupid company.
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The community made this up and believed in it so much to deal with coping with the lack of campaign closure. Years later the trauma is still alive and people clutch on to this self made lie to keep them going.
No, 343i or Halo Studios or whatever they want to call themselves owes _us_ an apology. Halo 5 was terrible, and still it was in a better state at its launch than Infinite was. All the cosmetics in 5 are earnable through gameplay, even if it's from a stupid loot box system that was designed to frustrate and sap money from you. That's how bad Infinite is, it makes Halo 5 look good. Except for art style, which Infinite stomps all over 5's face with the more classic Halo looks. And the expanded Forge, but what fun is it when most people are gone and not using or playing it?
@@trashjash the only bad part of H5 was the campaign; the multiplayer was very good IMO, plenty of weapons and options for casual and competitive players alike. There were also a ton of maps so it didn't get stale. I feel like I'm going insane playing Recharge every other match
@@trashjash I enjoyed Halo 5's multi-player much more than Infinite's. The floating while aiming, charge up smash, and the booster felt like a nice update to the traditional Halo mechanics without making it too much like COD.
@@bickyboo7789 The ironic thing is that's exactly what 343 was doing with Halo 5. Enhanced Mobility was all the rage during that time and Spartan Abilities were their answers for that trend. Halo 4 became more COD like. Halo 5 jumped on the Enhanced Mobility trend. Halo Infinite jumped on the live service trend. It's pretty clear that old 343 was just trying to capture the casual audience. That alone has damaged this franchise so horribly.
As a Halo fan, Halo Studios is trying to do the same thing like last time (343) I say this is because we've been through this insane cycle with them since release. New season update, new gear in store, new modes, new themed event, and a kit ( if there is one like now) that'll cost us 20 bucks. It's the same shit, but it's mask with the Halo 2 name slapped onto it to reel us in along with The Ghosts Of Onyx Rifle, $20 Classic MK 6 kit, 3rd Person Mode, and a Spartan/Elite Gear in the exchange. Theme? Probably Elite Themed. Infinite is still suffering in my opinion.
I mean, welcome to marketing. This is at least something that is catered to what we all at least somewhat want. They're at least aware of the community. Yeah no playable elites and no communication from the devs about anything but this update is at least great for people who are still playing even though I probably won't play outside of maybe trying out the new 3rd person in firefight since I haven't played the game at all since launch.
The way I look at it, Bonnie Ross’s control of this game from the start of development to when she left absolutely stained damage on Halo Infinite. Pierre is fixing what he can with Infinite while shifting more focus on the next Halo game(s). Pretty much Halo Infinite is a Patreon for Halo Studios
I think what’s the worst in my opinion is that both the Chief and Arbiter Armor is locked behind a paywall, even though it’s Halo 2’s twentieth anniversary, and the Chief Armor costs more then the damn Arbiter Armor
this is actually making it more competitive because you wont have kids sprinting around fucking up the spawns. classic sweats still know map control meta and are drooling from their mouths waiting to spawn camp a game 50 - 10
@@LowFidelityGaming I mean kind of, Halo Infinite's spawn system works nothing like the OG system. I actually hate it compared to the older games. Even 4's was better. So you might be able to use old meta, but I actually doubt it.
It’s a little unbelievable that after all this time this is one of the first actual new guns added since the launch of the game. I mean look at halo 5 how many weapons it had, it was an amazing amount but then when infinite launched they just said nah yall will be good with the bare minimum. Vehicles too! It’s just weird
It's because of Warzone in Halo 5: the sandbox itself was monetized through the REQ system. They added new guns for the sake of sales. The only monetized source in Infinite is the armor and FX, so that's all they've been working on. Was that a good idea? God no. But it's what they did.
@@9000Dogs I mean even then, the unlock system in 5 is objectively better than infinite. You still could unlock everything just through playing and you never had to really “buy” anything. Yeah it could take a bit, roughly 7-10 games depending on your skill level. But it was so SO much better than having to pay $15+ for shit in infinite. And Warzone is what BTB 2.0 should have been. We have BTB 1.5 if you could even call it that Halo 5 wasn’t perfect but when you take a step back(which is what I’ve been trying to get everyone to do) and look at the sheer amount of FREE content and updates we had then you look at infinite, you’ll see how bad the community blundered that game. The campaign was shit I get it and the req system wasn’t ideal. But I’d take being able to unlock a REQ pack every few games over FOMO and spending a shit Ton of money on a broken contentless game any day.
In my opinion, a 3rd person view in Halo just doesnt feel like it fits (except for vehicles obviously), it kinda removes itself from what made halo feel special, with you being the Spartan, 3rd person just feels like youre watching a spartan.
@@massachusettsthemercenary4963 it doesn't matter what it originally was supposed to be, its a First Person shooter on release, same with all the other games, and it should stay that way
@flexdon5188 the only place it would matter is ranked. It would be best it was implemented like Battlefront 2 so you can swap on the go. Then you could play in 3rd person to peek corners and swap to 1st person for accuracy. Or not swap at all. But it would more likely be an option in settings that would effect matchmaking.
@@sakataslays meh halos an FPS shooter at heart, third person should purely be a social setting fir custom gamemodes or unique playlists, it's a fun feature, but it's not halo
In -343- HALO STUDIOS defense the artwork on Ghosts of Onyx doesn't have an ejection port on the MA5K. Though since the rear is basically the MA40 they could've just used that.
I'm sorry, I try to be positive but I just can't with this. Like the stuff they added is neat and all but it's nowhere near enough to redeem this game. When you break it down, they added one new gun, a toggle for a third-person mode, and a playlist that disables modern Halo features. And then the rest is more battle pass and content shop stuff. It's far too little far too late plus a bunch of the same ol stuff people have been complaining about since launch. This doesn't give me any hope for the future of this game. At best, it's an alright fluke on the content release timeline of this game. I want to be hopeful for Halo's future but I really don't think any of that hope lies with Infinite.
There are 2 things i see with the addition of the MA5k. 1. It means theres a possibilty or further cut vehicles and weapons and even new ones (falcon anyone) 2. The next game likely isnt coming out next year and is more likely a 2026 release. which is something already assumed but i think this further pushes that.
343 squandered so many opportunities with this game. We lost 1/3rds of the campaign, and future campaigns were cancelled, integral features were never added, and then Joseph Staten left, depriving us of the possibility of a neeHalo story made by the OG writer. Squandered potential doesn’t even come close, and I don’t trust Halo Studios is any better.
All they had to do was put their heads down & keep making new seasons & not give up on infinite. If the next halo is half a dozen years away then priority number 1 should have been maintain infinite. Sadly after seasons stopped they lost probably half the player base. I haven’t played since & the queue times are looking terribly long. But losing half the player base of an already dwindling number of ppl. Can’t even get a game on halo unless it’s firefight. Quite sad.
I loved Halo Reach's customisations, being able to earn credits with whatever you did and use those credits to buy the armour you wanted but also had to be at the required rank too
Oh God, I remember unlocking the red flames in Halo 3. Those were the days. Actually, if I recall correctly, I unlocked it with a stake-tacular, against Luke, Who is the whole reason for the steak-tacular achievement. I actually played several matches against the Bungie devs back in the day. and won most of them.
Im very happy that they added the MA5k thank god for a new weapon finally but its very obviously a gun they added because they knew it would be an easy addition. It is really just a touched-up AR model that has a faster fire rate and more bullets in its magazine. The M7 SMG would've made more sense for the Halo 2 update but they would've had to make a totally unique model and animations. Also the leaked brute shotgun and Falcon that have been in the files for months when are they gonna get around to implementing those, most likely because they actually require more effort to implement.
Cool update ig, no where near in the slightest to bring me back to the game and pull me out of pessimism mode tho. Already gave up on grinding Infinite months and months ago even as a childhood fan. The definition of too little too late. Waiting for a new Halo game where maybe this time (for the first time since 2010) we can actually get a TRULY good Halo campaign. Im frankly done gobbling up scraps as a Halo fan. Give me something truly great or im gone and will stay gone.
This means that playable elite thing in those campaign mods could be possible. Letting players play as elites, hunters, brutes in 3rd person is now possible while having spartan team in 1st person basically making a new invasion mode
I ain’t tryna be that guy but a third person resident evil styled Halo game is not at all what we want. There a million more important games that should be made first. We need a game that’s gonna bring back Halo fans back not scare them away.
How would third person scare away halo fans? You say there's a million more halo games that should be made but you say that like they would all just be first person games?
@oreo-postraphe dude....your acting like Noone mods halo games to be 3rd person, one of halos earlier concepts was 3rd person for ce. You already have the 3rd person camera with a turret this is just fully implemented...and it's just a mode...it isn't really a deviation from formula
Man you are optimistic af. Imagine being so bad that updating a game that you reskin a weapon and call it a new gun. Halo infinite does not look good bro 😭😂
I haven't cared for Halo Infinite since they refuse to add back assassinations and won't fix the broken melee random kill bug/glitch that has existed since launch and let's not even get started on the major mishap of coop campaign and that fiasco
I remember playing a game of Desert Bus on infinite and saw a weapon with no name and only a white and black texture. The model looked banished and when i fired it, it was like a shotgun, had two shots then it reloaded like a breach action. Was on Xbox btw, aiming did a melee motion. Edit: Checked in forge, its called the "Mutilator". Map is Highway Bus Edit 2: Aiming isnt melee, after testing its a switch mode, where it switches between firing both shots at once or both individually
I wish they would flesh out MCC so that I can play EVERY halo with my friends over cross platform... All we have is halo 3 and halo 3 ODST, and we would like to play more than just those 2...
@jasperfox6821 unfortunately it's only half cross platform. I play on pc, but my friends are on xbox. I can't play anything other than halo 3 and halo 3 odst with them because it's not fully cross platform. This means we can't play halo ce, 2, reach, or 4 together...
8:20 As a gun nerd, I’m happy you pointed that out. I kinda felt alone thinking either it was bugging for me or there genuinely wasn’t an ejection port..
I would be all over a ranked playlist with no sprint/slide/clamber. They can call it “boomer slayer” or something cuz honestly that’s what me and the OGs are in the Halo community 😂. Oh well I’ll just go back to MCC.
Not gonna lie man when I saw the title I just thought it was a clickbait bit and you were going to talk about something stupid… No knocks by the way I’ve been following you for like a decade now and I know you’re a real one, I wasn’t going to begrudge a clickbait title for some minor controversy or news or whatever…. I gotta say, an actual major update to Halo Infinite is the literal last topic I expected to feature in this video lmao Thank you my man. ❤ Just a minute in, can’t wait to see what’s up!
The MA5K carbine is a good edition to the sandbox, since it can fill the role of a close-range automatic weapon. I have to disagree with you about headshot multipliers. Precision weapons dominating the sandbox isn't fun.
it doesn't feel like a social game because of the SBM. I love the balance of the weapons. I play several fps games, and I have always felt like halo infinite balanced their weapons way better
With theatre and spectator cam being something Halo refined and pioneered, it just seems totally natural and long time coming for the series. Like its been there and ready, but now it is standing tall
everyone forgets the fact that the Sandwich and Mythic Sandwich was added between the bandit and now. The biggest shake-up in video game sandbox history. i'm kidding ofc, but its still silly asf and i love them. i'm excited to forge a MA5K as a weapon combo into an MA40 with my MA5B model on it for the og Halo CE assault rifle in both looks and function 🙏🙏 (i just hope it actually works, although the MA5K may not be considered a legendary variant or even have one)
No offense but i could tell just the first glance that it was just a assault rifle you keep calling it a new weapon it’s not a new weapon at all just looks different sorta 343 just being lazy
They genuinely need to sell the IP to someone who's actually going to do something with it. The fact that they're updating a AAA game for the first time in 3 years is _scary_ levels of incompetence. We joke about games like Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League, but at least that game had *multiple* content drops for its 10s of players actually playing it.
I’m happy to see helioskrill back, but most of the reason I grew such an attachment to it in H5 was that I completed every campaign on legendary to get it. It wasn’t just cool looking, it was an award! This helioskrill still has the cool factor but is missing its charm of unlocking it
@@Kevin-ox3db their writing is worse, but they feel more like halo in a lot of different ways, specifically with the engine and netcode. Also horrible games tho
For Halo 7 to succeed it needs: -Playable Elites -Progression and Armor customization akin to Reach -Campaign with a substantial story and replay value -Slayer, Team Slayer, Swat, Infection, BTB, Invasion, and BTB Heavies all on launch -Forge -Custom Games playlist -Ranked -Consistent updates of new weapons, armor, and PvE content -Firefight -Minimal changes to movement from Halo 3/Reach. (Sprint cannot be a thing unless it’s an armor ability with downsides like slow sprint to fire speed)
An update…? With ACTUAL content??? In MY Halo Infinite???
What a world we live in 🫣
Updates for infinite are great and all, but I wish they would flesh out MCC the rest of the way so that I can play EVERY halo with my friends over cross platform... All we have is halo 3 and halo 3 ODST, and we would like to play more than just those 2...
Halo fanboys are just like abused housewives.
So, love the video. Great Content as always. I have something to pick on though in this video. As you stated, Halo: Infinite and the other 343 era titles weapons other then the precision weapons having a headshot multiplier is one of the few things that actually makes sense. Speaking from a personal opinion but having all ballistic weapons having the multiplier is both accurate, and proper within the Halo Universe and real life weapons. I can understand that it makes the game feel more competition based and that's not really what Halo was supposed to be at it's core, but the weapons like the MA40, the Bandit fire the exact same round. It's just a piece of irl capability that I enjoy within Halo and it makes the weapons feel different, yet similar at the same. Just my personal thoughts on that topic. Love the content and continue doing the Floods work lol.
Toilet chief well not tired let’s see why you up to. Why are you why whyZxc
At this point I have no hope for halo. I don’t even think I’m gonna buy the next game.
I get that Halo fans have been asking for the Ghosts of Onyx MA5K for ages but since the update is called 'Great Journey' and is basically a Halo 2 20th Anniversary, why did they not add a weapon that's actually from HALO 2 (SMG, Brute Shot, Plasma Rifle, Covenant Carbine, Fuel Rod Gun, Beam Rifle)?
From what I can find. It seems they are only adding weapons they can re-use animations from other weapons. In this case, the new weapon uses the ARs animations.
*that moment when you realize that the Plasma Rifle hasn't launched with a Halo game since Reach...*
because that would require them to have actually played halo 2
I feel like they could’ve reused animations from the stalker rifle and shock rifle for the beam rifle and carbine, pulse carbine for the plasma rifle, ravager for the enforcer plasma caster from hw2
343i would do anything to differentiate their time with Halo from Bungie's. Even if it is functionally identical to the SMG (it is) you know damn well they're gonna make sure it looks nothing like the SMG. That plus this was almost certainly a piece of content planned from ages ago that just happened to line up with this update. From the most reputable leaks it seems everything past a certain point in Halo Infinite's life cycle was just work that was already contracted to outside partners with no real new content getting green lit for the game.
First new gun in like 2 years and it’s just a slightly modified version of a gun we already have, let’s fucking go 🔥🔥🔥
and the only other weapon we got was a neutered DMR
Yoo master cheeks, drop a new kek or cringe.
I mean I'm desperate. I'm taking this bs instead of nothing at all. Also dope maps are coming into rotation.
Mid ship ffs.
Yeah. Hype.
Kinda.
But yeah.
lesgoo
Thank you for reminding me why the halo community is a toxic dump
I want my Fuel Rod Gun.
Oh - also, the Needle Rifle.
If they starve you for long enough, any meal will seem like a "big" meal...
Second Harvest.
I think they realised that the next games are years away and they need to do at least something to keep the players fed through the very long wait. Kinda like how mcc being fixed and adding new stuff filled the void before infinite launched.
waiting for something halo has been such a pain and when they do it's so mundane
Console mod support would be the most ideal way to maintain player interactions
mcc was not fixed. adding a Fortnite battle pass and skins is not fixing the game.
They should honestly feed us through MCC since it has had a lot more success than Infinite.
@@vadamsvengeance3219did you play MCC on launch? It's come a looooong way
Man, you know that the game and studio are in the shitter when the bar to clear is “well at least it wasn’t a skin in the shop.”
Pretty much. They wanted to do this whole live service thing and we have to suffer with their decision. “We didn’t make enough money”
Isn’t a justification to not actually add new weapons. Not with a franchise this big at least.
At this rate we’ll never get a halo again because they’ll spend 400 million to make it and then drop it the second it doesn’t make a billion profit in one year and move on to the next halo cash grab.
So what?
The way he kept going on about soemthing as small as 3rd person gives me no hope for the future of this franchise
except the Halo 2 armour IS only available in the shop.
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY and still all they do is add a blatantly exploitable and broken 3rd person mode... copy-paste an existing gun's animations... and throw a paid cosmetic in the store
OR A GAY PRIDE BANNER IN MCC. ME AND MOST OF MY MATES GOT BANNED FROM THE HALO MCC FORUM ON STEAM FOR POINTING THIS OUT
THANK YOU COMMUNITY MANAGERS
It sucks because I loved this game at launch. I was one of the few to test the game's very first build and the grappleshot alone was enough to make it so much fun. When it released me and my friends had too much fun in BTB. It's a shame it got so underutilized, especially the campaign. As fond as my memories were of this game, I think they need to actually add something like playable elites to bring me and many others back. Or just take it behind the barn.
Yea me too the first Infinite flight test was a lot of fun I remember the punch glitch that made you melee super fast good times
same
@@arbo-u2b Don't forget the dynamo grenade glitch where it spawned in a million wet floor signs 😂
Same. I have fond nostalgia of playing the Halo Infinite multiplayer beta/release, when it released a surprising month or so before December. The campaign and multiplayer was refreshing. But they just didn't keep it alive. Sucks that even JOE STATEN was on the team, and left??
it's dead and buried. move on
Every once in awhile I like to check in and see what's going on with Halo, and every single time I forget about that red outline around enemies and lose interest in playing.
The outlines are legitimately awful, I usually have them turned off
Literally thought about this exact thing and was like, must be me
Wow, what a minor nitpicky reason to not play. You can turn them off you know
You turned into a Minecraft channel....
@@Major_Zephyr Brother forgot about the simplest of settings fr
I really wish they had blood and better explosion effects and dust effects and better impact decals. It really makes firefight seem alive. I just feel like I’m shooting toys in firefight but I really appreciate the addition!
And assassinations man but this will never come back!
Yea the explosion for the Phantom especially looks awful, in comparison to older Halos they really dropped the ball on explosive FX
Fix in general look bad in infinite
Not having rated M Halo has been holding it back since 343i started
Sadly I don’t know if that rating will change, Microsoft and 343 both like money more than mature games
agreed, this game would be so much better with strafe inertia. the erratic strafing is my biggest pain point with this game and many other modern shooters.
Just my opinion but 3rd person was just used to sell more armor since you can actually see it in game....
I agree, but I am glad they will be adding it. When playing online multiplayer, I like the better field of view. I get super anxiety when playing against real people and the 3rd person seems to slow the experience down for me
@KORUPTable That, and to appeal more to the Fortnight kids lol
Everything in the game is to sell more armor, that's how they make money lmao.
it was part of the cancelled battle Royale mode
eh there's no back customization though
also not that new feeling imo since I use dismounted emplaced weapons a lot
3:08 "Killed Mint Blitz"
Never thought I'd see those words on screen!
I think it'd be funny if in the 3rd person mode, your 3rd person the entire time, but when you did something that naturally pulled you into 3rd person, hop into vehicle, turret, carrying turret around, it changes to first person.
This made me laugh way harder than it had any right to. The thought of going first person when getting in a vehicle and just crashing had me dying laughing
As cool as it is, all of this seems like too little too late. I know the studio and developers got switched up and moved about a bunch, but having the first NEW weapon for a live service game come out after almost 3 years is such a let down. Theres still so little that they’ve added to the game and so much that still is missing
Big time too little too late.
One gun that’s just a reskin of the assault rifle. Any of the forge weapon mods could’ve made the AR shoot faster and have a bigger magazine…
dead* service game
the game is dead. move on
@@ThornEternal hey don't sell them short they managed to add a broken 3rd person aswell
Glad you pointed out the strafing Halo infinite strafing always felt way too fast.
Makes so much sense why it’s a struggle to finish kills this time around, so hard to get a headshot when everybody strafes like they’re on crack. Even halo 4 & 5 had strafe inertia, they just only cared making infinite the sweatiest game possible with all the changes they made
classic halo has a player acceleration if 9.6 (halo 2&3). CE had 9.75.
halo infinite has one at 12. thats the cause of jittery movement.
setting acceratiin to 80% in custom games results in the classic strafe of halo 3 at 9.6.
i prefer a 90% setting, 10.8 acceleration.
its a great middle point.
also, setting speed to 90% gives classic halo player speed (2.25 world units (10 ft) a second).
at that setting, the current sprint speed bonus of 10% is just halo 3 mlg speed. which works great at classic scales.
Halo 3 and Reach armor unlocking story: I went on this great journey on this massive ring world (or alien planet)!
Halo Infinite armor unlocking story: I commuted to work in heavy traffic for an hour, was bored for 8 - 12 hours thinking about Halo, drove home for 2 hours in heavy traffic, and then paid for it.
Let's forget about all the free armor for a moment just for this grandpa joke to work
I swear I haven’t heard anything about this game in well over a year
For good fucking reason 😭😭😭
Finally seems like they’re giving a fuck with UE integration
Yeah, after they added forge with AI it fell radio silent
You haven't missed much really. I believe the only major thing added in that time was Firefight last year. Sure I'm having a little fun with the multiplayer but that's after not having touched the dang game in like 2 years. And of course I'm not spending a single dime for anything on this mishandled installment.
@@gjtruefirefight brought me back but I get a weeks worth of challenges done in a day or two and then I’m back to not playing it
12:21 WHAT? 343 said they couldn't implement this due to engine limitations, but they could the whole time and just ignored complaints about it??? I hate this stupid company.
I’ve been asking this question when the game came out
Lmao truuuu
@@HiddenXperialuv you brotha keep up the great work
Hey,
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The reason 3rd person works so well is because it was technically already in the game, but it was just for a few weapons like mounted guns and such.
Mint Blitz NEEDS to address this! 0:48
he got killed by a lore kid, he fell off
😂
The fact that it was edited to highlight that he got him cracked me up😂
Mint Blitz would never post a game where he was losing, lol. He's not humble enough for that.
@@HiddenXperiaand he had a sniper too. That's embarrassing...
Remember when we were supposed to get campaign updates and thats the reason it took 6 years to build the engine? Pepperidge farm remembers.
No I don't remember that cause it was never supposed to get campaign updates.
That was cancelled years ago. It’s time to move on.
The community made this up and believed in it so much to deal with coping with the lack of campaign closure. Years later the trauma is still alive and people clutch on to this self made lie to keep them going.
People still up with this missinformation lol, shut up already
No because that was never confirmed
Took infinite 3 year to add a new weapon. We owe Halo 5 an apology.
No, 343i or Halo Studios or whatever they want to call themselves owes _us_ an apology. Halo 5 was terrible, and still it was in a better state at its launch than Infinite was. All the cosmetics in 5 are earnable through gameplay, even if it's from a stupid loot box system that was designed to frustrate and sap money from you. That's how bad Infinite is, it makes Halo 5 look good. Except for art style, which Infinite stomps all over 5's face with the more classic Halo looks. And the expanded Forge, but what fun is it when most people are gone and not using or playing it?
@@trashjash the only bad part of H5 was the campaign; the multiplayer was very good IMO, plenty of weapons and options for casual and competitive players alike. There were also a ton of maps so it didn't get stale. I feel like I'm going insane playing Recharge every other match
@@ConfidentMelon I would like to see Warzone come back in a future title someday.
@@trashjash I enjoyed Halo 5's multi-player much more than Infinite's. The floating while aiming, charge up smash, and the booster felt like a nice update to the traditional Halo mechanics without making it too much like COD.
@@bickyboo7789
The ironic thing is that's exactly what 343 was doing with Halo 5. Enhanced Mobility was all the rage during that time and Spartan Abilities were their answers for that trend.
Halo 4 became more COD like.
Halo 5 jumped on the Enhanced Mobility trend.
Halo Infinite jumped on the live service trend.
It's pretty clear that old 343 was just trying to capture the casual audience. That alone has damaged this franchise so horribly.
“Never been in a halo game before” it’s litterally just an smg/ce ar
As a Halo fan, Halo Studios is trying to do the same thing like last time (343) I say this is because we've been through this insane cycle with them since release. New season update, new gear in store, new modes, new themed event, and a kit ( if there is one like now) that'll cost us 20 bucks. It's the same shit, but it's mask with the Halo 2 name slapped onto it to reel us in along with The Ghosts Of Onyx Rifle, $20 Classic MK 6 kit, 3rd Person Mode, and a Spartan/Elite Gear in the exchange. Theme? Probably Elite Themed. Infinite is still suffering in my opinion.
I mean, welcome to marketing. This is at least something that is catered to what we all at least somewhat want. They're at least aware of the community. Yeah no playable elites and no communication from the devs about anything but this update is at least great for people who are still playing even though I probably won't play outside of maybe trying out the new 3rd person in firefight since I haven't played the game at all since launch.
343 could add all the cosmetics in the world and it would still never make me want to play again because its all paid in the shop
This 👆
You can’t tell the shopkeepers that tho lmao(folks who defend and still buy from it)
Lies
The way I look at it, Bonnie Ross’s control of this game from the start of development to when she left absolutely stained damage on Halo Infinite. Pierre is fixing what he can with Infinite while shifting more focus on the next Halo game(s). Pretty much Halo Infinite is a Patreon for Halo Studios
Lmao yea keep lying to yourself kiddo. Halo will be trash as long as you fools don’t boycott Microsoft’s mess.
I think what’s the worst in my opinion is that both the Chief and Arbiter Armor is locked behind a paywall, even though it’s Halo 2’s twentieth anniversary, and the Chief Armor costs more then the damn Arbiter Armor
It almost feels like games are starting to go back and actually make things fun again instead of only competitive
this is actually making it more competitive because you wont have kids sprinting around fucking up the spawns. classic sweats still know map control meta and are drooling from their mouths waiting to spawn camp a game 50 - 10
@LowFidelityGaming the only thing we can hope for is they get early onset arthritis and get them out of the player pool lmao
@@LowFidelityGaming I mean kind of, Halo Infinite's spawn system works nothing like the OG system. I actually hate it compared to the older games. Even 4's was better.
So you might be able to use old meta, but I actually doubt it.
@@LowFidelityGaming this. and with the 3rd person exploit they can now just hide behind walls and shoot from 100% hard cover. incredible.
I think we should have the next game have all armors be earnable but behind a grind, or you can buy. Not ideal, but it works a lot better.
It’s a little unbelievable that after all this time this is one of the first actual new guns added since the launch of the game. I mean look at halo 5 how many weapons it had, it was an amazing amount but then when infinite launched they just said nah yall will be good with the bare minimum. Vehicles too! It’s just weird
It's because of Warzone in Halo 5: the sandbox itself was monetized through the REQ system. They added new guns for the sake of sales.
The only monetized source in Infinite is the armor and FX, so that's all they've been working on. Was that a good idea? God no. But it's what they did.
@@9000Dogs I mean even then, the unlock system in 5 is objectively better than infinite. You still could unlock everything just through playing and you never had to really “buy” anything. Yeah it could take a bit, roughly 7-10 games depending on your skill level. But it was so SO much better than having to pay $15+ for shit in infinite.
And Warzone is what BTB 2.0 should have been. We have BTB 1.5 if you could even call it that
Halo 5 wasn’t perfect but when you take a step back(which is what I’ve been trying to get everyone to do) and look at the sheer amount of FREE content and updates we had then you look at infinite, you’ll see how bad the community blundered that game. The campaign was shit I get it and the req system wasn’t ideal. But I’d take being able to unlock a REQ pack every few games over FOMO and spending a shit Ton of money on a broken contentless game any day.
In my opinion, a 3rd person view in Halo just doesnt feel like it fits (except for vehicles obviously), it kinda removes itself from what made halo feel special, with you being the Spartan, 3rd person just feels like youre watching a spartan.
But Fortnite is 3rd person, every game needs to be like Fortnite - Every AAAA CEO
Halo was originally meant to be 3rd person though?
@@user-ne9sd4ow1ofortnite didn't create 3rd person though
@@massachusettsthemercenary4963 it doesn't matter what it originally was supposed to be, its a First Person shooter on release, same with all the other games, and it should stay that way
That doesn't make sense if the point is for you to "be the spartan" why do you accept vehicle 3rd person and turret 3rd person but not a baseline?
2:03 I don't want an entirely 3rd person game. It should always be a toggleable option, like in GTA V.
Then you're at a significant disadvantage on way or the other
@flexdon5188 the only place it would matter is ranked.
It would be best it was implemented like Battlefront 2 so you can swap on the go. Then you could play in 3rd person to peek corners and swap to 1st person for accuracy. Or not swap at all.
But it would more likely be an option in settings that would effect matchmaking.
@@sakataslays meh halos an FPS shooter at heart, third person should purely be a social setting fir custom gamemodes or unique playlists, it's a fun feature, but it's not halo
Same
In -343- HALO STUDIOS defense the artwork on Ghosts of Onyx doesn't have an ejection port on the MA5K. Though since the rear is basically the MA40 they could've just used that.
I'm sorry, I try to be positive but I just can't with this. Like the stuff they added is neat and all but it's nowhere near enough to redeem this game. When you break it down, they added one new gun, a toggle for a third-person mode, and a playlist that disables modern Halo features. And then the rest is more battle pass and content shop stuff. It's far too little far too late plus a bunch of the same ol stuff people have been complaining about since launch.
This doesn't give me any hope for the future of this game. At best, it's an alright fluke on the content release timeline of this game. I want to be hopeful for Halo's future but I really don't think any of that hope lies with Infinite.
what’s wrong with infinites gameplay?
Spot on, these are scrumbs at the very best
Why do you continue to have hope at all, what's the point if you're going to say the same thing everytime?
*Would be nice if they updated the MA5K Avenger model and included missing detail like the ejection port.*
damn last time i was this early the gravemind was still dog food
Thats pretty f"%$ early😂
There are 2 things i see with the addition of the MA5k.
1. It means theres a possibilty or further cut vehicles and weapons and even new ones (falcon anyone)
2. The next game likely isnt coming out next year and is more likely a 2026 release. which is something already assumed but i think this further pushes that.
343 squandered so many opportunities with this game. We lost 1/3rds of the campaign, and future campaigns were cancelled, integral features were never added, and then Joseph Staten left, depriving us of the possibility of a neeHalo story made by the OG writer. Squandered potential doesn’t even come close, and I don’t trust Halo Studios is any better.
All they had to do was put their heads down & keep making new seasons & not give up on infinite. If the next halo is half a dozen years away then priority number 1 should have been maintain infinite. Sadly after seasons stopped they lost probably half the player base. I haven’t played since & the queue times are looking terribly long. But losing half the player base of an already dwindling number of ppl.
Can’t even get a game on halo unless it’s firefight. Quite sad.
@tookyohead you're so out of touch lol
More seaons? Fuck that stupid garbage.
They could have made a *real* game.
They add fucking elite armor instead of playable elites, that is fuckin heresy to Halo 2
8:04 the moment hiddenxperia lost credibility... "it doesnt matter" the lack in standards......
The OG scores you have playing over the infinite gameplay makes it feel so much more like halo then the current infinite tracks.
I loved Halo Reach's customisations, being able to earn credits with whatever you did and use those credits to buy the armour you wanted but also had to be at the required rank too
i think the 3rd person worked well was halo used 3rd person for when you use a turret which allowed the team to polish the view point
Oh God, I remember unlocking the red flames in Halo 3. Those were the days. Actually, if I recall correctly, I unlocked it with a stake-tacular, against Luke, Who is the whole reason for the steak-tacular achievement. I actually played several matches against the Bungie devs back in the day. and won most of them.
Im very happy that they added the MA5k thank god for a new weapon finally but its very obviously a gun they added because they knew it would be an easy addition. It is really just a touched-up AR model that has a faster fire rate and more bullets in its magazine. The M7 SMG would've made more sense for the Halo 2 update but they would've had to make a totally unique model and animations. Also the leaked brute shotgun and Falcon that have been in the files for months when are they gonna get around to implementing those, most likely because they actually require more effort to implement.
"Strafe Inertia". I didn't know how to say it until you did. I'm going to proceed to preach this consistently to all my friends(there are 3 of them).
Cool update ig, no where near in the slightest to bring me back to the game and pull me out of pessimism mode tho. Already gave up on grinding Infinite months and months ago even as a childhood fan. The definition of too little too late. Waiting for a new Halo game where maybe this time (for the first time since 2010) we can actually get a TRULY good Halo campaign. Im frankly done gobbling up scraps as a Halo fan. Give me something truly great or im gone and will stay gone.
This means that playable elite thing in those campaign mods could be possible. Letting players play as elites, hunters, brutes in 3rd person is now possible while having spartan team in 1st person basically making a new invasion mode
I ain’t tryna be that guy but a third person resident evil styled Halo game is not at all what we want. There a million more important games that should be made first. We need a game that’s gonna bring back Halo fans back not scare them away.
How would third person scare away halo fans? You say there's a million more halo games that should be made but you say that like they would all just be first person games?
@@proxywolfx because its another deviation from a formula that works in order to, again, somehow let 343 feel special
An ODST third person tactical shooter would kick ass. Think 2025 Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 but ODSTs.
@oreo-postraphe dude....your acting like Noone mods halo games to be 3rd person, one of halos earlier concepts was 3rd person for ce. You already have the 3rd person camera with a turret this is just fully implemented...and it's just a mode...it isn't really a deviation from formula
They have no idea what we want. Fr
Man you are optimistic af. Imagine being so bad that updating a game that you reskin a weapon and call it a new gun. Halo infinite does not look good bro 😭😂
It was there, then I remembered I still owned Halo 2 and I personally erased Halo Infinite from everyone’s memory.
I haven't cared for Halo Infinite since they refuse to add back assassinations and won't fix the broken melee random kill bug/glitch that has existed since launch and let's not even get started on the major mishap of coop campaign and that fiasco
10:35 Warlock looks like the atmosphere and architecture of Urdak in DOOM
Omg you're 100% right it's the heads hot multiplier that makes the multi-player feel weird to me, I just realized it
I remember playing a game of Desert Bus on infinite and saw a weapon with no name and only a white and black texture. The model looked banished and when i fired it, it was like a shotgun, had two shots then it reloaded like a breach action. Was on Xbox btw, aiming did a melee motion.
Edit: Checked in forge, its called the "Mutilator". Map is Highway Bus
Edit 2: Aiming isnt melee, after testing its a switch mode, where it switches between firing both shots at once or both individually
1 2 punch of a hidden experia video and mint blitz video at the same time.
19:21 and that's why I don't care about this update or really anything going forward for Infinite paywalls
Same, im coming back for the elite helmets, then redeleting immediately. lol
The new gun is just lazy
Halo Studios, add playable Elites back into the game at last and my life is yours!!!
played a lot of Gears of War so i know how 3rd person gameplay feels.
“They could have added a proper shotgun, brute shot etc…” me: gazing at my sticky detonator tattoo in the mirror 🥲
Lazy work, the game overall is playable but Im just waiting till they actually release a complete and fully baked game in the future.
They should give us a dedicated 1st person mode too then that never kicks you into 3rd person for driving a vehicle or using a turret.
I wish they would flesh out MCC so that I can play EVERY halo with my friends over cross platform... All we have is halo 3 and halo 3 ODST, and we would like to play more than just those 2...
Isn't MCC crossplatform?
@jasperfox6821 unfortunately it's only half cross platform. I play on pc, but my friends are on xbox. I can't play anything other than halo 3 and halo 3 odst with them because it's not fully cross platform. This means we can't play halo ce, 2, reach, or 4 together...
8:20
As a gun nerd, I’m happy you pointed that out. I kinda felt alone thinking either it was bugging for me or there genuinely wasn’t an ejection port..
A HiddenXperia AND Mint Blitz video in mere seconds? Truly a blessing
Reading the waypoint post seeing them talk about Spartans wearing Elite inspired armor without any playable Elites is agonizing.
and they added master chief for like 30 bucks. joke of a game and goes to show the halo studios rebranding is just that, a rebrand
The bit of shade lovingly tossed at Mint Blitz @ 0:50 😂😂
Seeing Mint Blitz's name on the other end of the killscreen feels surreal.
If I can get the Classic AR model on the new MA5K, I'm sold.
I already know that they're gonna do nothing for the Campaign tho😑
Blows me away that a game focused on fighting The Banished never included tue brute shot.
I would be all over a ranked playlist with no sprint/slide/clamber. They can call it “boomer slayer” or something cuz honestly that’s what me and the OGs are in the Halo community 😂. Oh well I’ll just go back to MCC.
Dude a 3rd person RE horror halo game would be lit af dawg thanks for the dream that'll never come true haha
I'll quit halo if I can't have my first person shooter
Straight up same
Not gonna lie man when I saw the title I just thought it was a clickbait bit and you were going to talk about something stupid…
No knocks by the way I’ve been following you for like a decade now and I know you’re a real one, I wasn’t going to begrudge a clickbait title for some minor controversy or news or whatever….
I gotta say, an actual major update to Halo Infinite is the literal last topic I expected to feature in this video lmao
Thank you my man. ❤
Just a minute in, can’t wait to see what’s up!
Despite everything about the new gun being trash, you’re like oh it’s from the lore so atleast it’s something.
Thank you for bringing up strafe inertia dude I think it’s one of the biggest reasons the game feels so sweaty need more voices speaking out on it
And the weapon lockers! So unnecessary! Thank you
Halo 1999 when? 😳
I actually appreciate the weapons nerd coming out. Always good to see a fellow gun enjoyer.
No automatic gun in Halo needs a headshot multiplier.
Third Person Halo is what I have been dreaming since 2006 when I first played Gears of War.
This is a dream come true.
The MA5K carbine is a good edition to the sandbox, since it can fill the role of a close-range automatic weapon.
I have to disagree with you about headshot multipliers. Precision weapons dominating the sandbox isn't fun.
it doesn't feel like a social game because of the SBM. I love the balance of the weapons. I play several fps games, and I have always felt like halo infinite balanced their weapons way better
Drink water
Thanks man, God bless
With theatre and spectator cam being something Halo refined and pioneered, it just seems totally natural and long time coming for the series. Like its been there and ready, but now it is standing tall
everyone forgets the fact that the Sandwich and Mythic Sandwich was added between the bandit and now. The biggest shake-up in video game sandbox history.
i'm kidding ofc, but its still silly asf and i love them.
i'm excited to forge a MA5K as a weapon combo into an MA40 with my MA5B model on it for the og Halo CE assault rifle in both looks and function 🙏🙏
(i just hope it actually works, although the MA5K may not be considered a legendary variant or even have one)
No offense but i could tell just the first glance that it was just a assault rifle you keep calling it a new weapon it’s not a new weapon at all just looks different sorta 343 just being lazy
who could've possibly imagined that classic gameplay still holds up
A headshot is a headshot keep the multipliers. Fight me.
Agreed. I feel like without it, only 2-3 non-power weapons in the sandbox are viable
I've been taking an extended Halo break playing games like Helldivers 2 & Space Marine 2 instead, but I'm happy to see this! Time to hop back on!
They genuinely need to sell the IP to someone who's actually going to do something with it. The fact that they're updating a AAA game for the first time in 3 years is _scary_ levels of incompetence.
We joke about games like Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League, but at least that game had *multiple* content drops for its 10s of players actually playing it.
I’m happy to see helioskrill back, but most of the reason I grew such an attachment to it in H5 was that I completed every campaign on legendary to get it. It wasn’t just cool looking, it was an award! This helioskrill still has the cool factor but is missing its charm of unlocking it
Why doesn’t Vale wear that helmet if she’s into elite culture
Couldn’t care less about this game.
yet here you are.
@ I do care about the Hidden Xperia channel obviously. And Halo. But Infinite is an abomination
@@arcanum3882 Calling Infinite an abomination is too harsh, especially when halo 4 and 5 exist. What do you call those?
@@Kevin-ox3db their writing is worse, but they feel more like halo in a lot of different ways, specifically with the engine and netcode. Also horrible games tho
@@arcanum3882 well, the artstyle and gameplay seem more halo-like on infinite, at least to me.
XPERIA! You and mint are world treasures for us fans in these dark times, thank you for the work you both do!!
This is what we're all wanting right here, THEY'RE MAKING HALO GREAT AGAIN
3 things
1) I have hope for Infinite now
2) I have hope for 343/ Halo Studios now
3) I have hope for *Halo* now
For Halo 7 to succeed it needs:
-Playable Elites
-Progression and Armor customization akin to Reach
-Campaign with a substantial story and replay value
-Slayer, Team Slayer, Swat, Infection, BTB, Invasion, and BTB Heavies all on launch
-Forge
-Custom Games playlist
-Ranked
-Consistent updates of new weapons, armor, and PvE content
-Firefight
-Minimal changes to movement from Halo 3/Reach. (Sprint cannot be a thing unless it’s an armor ability with downsides like slow sprint to fire speed)
that would be the dream, wouldn't it? I just don't know that if that's even possible with the climate of gaming were in right now
I remember mod tools letting us play in 3rd person, I did a whole playthrough it was very cool. RIP campaign team.