Halo Infinite Story DLC Not in Growth, Future Titles Will Be on Unreal Engine

343 Industries has gone by means of some turmoil since Halo Infinite‘s launch, which culminated in some current layoffs that hit Microsoft as a complete. A brand new report has said that this has shaken up the developer, leading to some expertise adjustments and shifts to the Halo Infinite‘s roadmap.

Bloomberg’s report goes into how 343 was hollowed out throughout these aforementioned layoffs, however will stay in control of the Halo franchise (as was beforehand confirmed) regardless of some rumors. One of many greater shifts is a transfer to Unreal Engine, which was additionally rumored. Halo‘s Slipspace engine was reportedly archaic and laborious to work with, leading to delays and different issues.

If 343 does change to Unreal, this might mark one more studio abandoning its engine in favor of Epic’s in style one. Crystal Dynamics and CD Projekt Crimson are each utilizing Unreal Engine 5 to develop the following Tomb Raider and Witcher, respectively, whereas Hangar 13 is reportedly utilizing it to make the following Mafia recreation.

The primary recreation to reap the benefits of Unreal will allegedly be a mission codenamed Tatanka, which was additionally rumored in January 2022. The report notes that it’s being co-developed with Sure Affinity, and whereas it began out as a battle royale, it’d evolve into one thing else. 343 will “additionally discover utilizing the Unreal Engine” for future Halo video games, however some contained in the staff are apparently skeptical of the change because it may alter how the sequence feels.

And whereas many of the focus has been on Halo‘s multiplayer aspect, the report states that 343 is just not making story DLC for Infinite. Builders had been reportedly creating prototypes in Unreal Engine and pitching concepts for brand spanking new Halo titles, however weren’t making extra marketing campaign content material for Infinite. Bloomberg additionally says that a number of these individuals who had been prototyping had been amongst these laid off and that 343 isn’t actively making story DLC.

Halo Infinite is caught in a peculiar place, because it appears as if 343 is just not fairly wanting 10 years into the long run as was initially the plan, however is focusing extra on short-term objectives. Regardless, 343 Studio Head Pierre Hintze mentioned in an inside e mail reviewed by Bloomberg that 343 goes to help “a strong stay providing” for the sport, “[greenlight its] new tech stack” for future Halo installments, and “[bring] Halo to extra gamers by means of extra platforms than ever earlier than.”