343 Has Not Been Making ‘Halo Infinite’ Story Content material, Was Pitching New Video games

I heard Jason Schreier was going to be doing a “what went improper at 343” piece to determine what on earth has been up with Halo Infinite these days, and now that it’s right here, after all, he’s delivered.

The piece particulars a studio that appears to have few guiding ideas as they deal with each the following phases of Halo Infinite and the way forward for the Halo sequence generally, which 343 has reiterated they’re not being faraway from, regardless of latest occasions.

The most important information within the piece is affirmation that Halo is about to make a grand leap to ditch the core Slipspace engine of the sport, and as a substitute transfer to the extra generalized Unreal Engine 5, one thing that was first reported again in October. The previous, generally historical items of Slipspace have been presupposed to be one of many causes Halo Infinite has moved so slowly, however critics of the swap to Unreal are anxious the change might make the sport not “really feel” like Halo any extra.

This swap will occur with the following massive undertaking that’s not Infinite, Tatanka, the codename for Sure Affinity’s upcoming multiplayer standalone sport that could be some kind of modified Battle Royale providing.

What stood out to me essentially the most, nevertheless, was this part, which confirms that 343 has not been engaged on story content material for Halo Infinite, and as of proper now, they’ve completely no plans to take action sooner or later:

“Since Halo Infinite was launched, followers had assumed that along with new multiplayer modes, 343 was engaged on new content material for the story. However that wasn’t the case, in keeping with the individuals accustomed to the scenario. Builders have been making prototypes within the Unreal Engine and pitching concepts for brand spanking new Halo video games reasonably than engaged on new missions for Halo Infinite. A lot of these builders have been laid off this month and the corporate isn’t actively engaged on new story content material, the individuals stated.”

It is completely weird that with the way in which Halo Infinite was arrange, with a transparent cliffhanger ending main into extra essential adventures of Chief and nu-Cortana, that nothing was developed as post-launch story content material, and that all the way forward for Halo seems to be multiplayer centered as the sport chases the stay service pipe dream of video games like Name of Responsibility or Apex Legends. However working as a stay service is the principle factor that Halo Infinite has been explicitly horrible at, and it’s wild to assume that the one new Grasp Chief content material we might get out of Halo within the subsequent few years is the excruciatingly horrible Paramount Plus present.

Coming away from all this, it’s laborious to grasp why precisely Microsoft goes to be giving 343 one more shot at one more Halo reboot, as clearly one thing is damaged at its core right here, possible with both 343 management, Microsoft management, or each. It’s not working, however everybody simply refuses to maneuver on. Besides gamers. They’re those transferring on.

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