Halo Infinite Is Apparently Getting A Gigantic Battle Royale Mode

Might be interested, will wait and see what it is like.

Yawn another battle royale game, what's next forza battle royale, final fantasy, elden ring?

It needs a battle royale - Dr. Disrespect

2 years to make a single map?
I guess we'll be waiting another 2 years for co-op. At this rate, Splitgate will have a full co-op campaign before Halo Infinite.

Before: "We're not getting enough content".
Now: "We don't want THAT content".

All opinions are fine of course, but there does seem to be a lot of moaning around Halo, which I find strange.

I find the game works perfectly well and is very enjoyable to play.

Content delays were inevitable due to previously reworking the game before launch, plus dealing with Covid situation.

But, there's new maps coming for arena and BTB, plus new modes AND maybe a major BR mode on the horizon... All sounds fine to me 👍

@suikoden final fantasy battle royale already exists and I think it is pretty fun. It’s only on mobile and I wish they would port it to console.

I really just want campaign expansion in new environments and upped graphics and environment effects, somewhere to explore more and discover.
Also in that dlc a big face off, like when we fought the scarab in Halo.
It just needs a bit wow in the campaign department.

So firstly, it wants to take on Fortnite, and Apex Legends, and Warzone, and PUBG.

And secondly, it wants to do that, against games that almost exclusively focus on the BR mode, while 343i already struggles to work on content for the open world campaign, and the Arena mode, and the unfinished Forge mode...?

People complaining on the internet ...shock horror ....il defo give it a try

Please correct me where I'm wrong? Didn't 343 say halo infinite will not be getting a battle Royale mode?

@GuyinPA75 Back in July 2018, 343 said the only BR they're interested in is the Battle Rifle. That was in the early days of battle royale games, Fortnite Battle Royale for example was less than a year old so battle royale could've become a very short term fad. As time went on, battle royale became gigantic and it's still very big even today so at some point 343 will have changed their mind which is understandable.

@Richnj it’s fair to say those games got their success in Battle Royale modes. They've since tried to expand out into other modes. Fortnite has Arena and Creative. Apex has Arena and Control. I can see why Halo would want some of that BR pie.

I’m not too concerned about output if 343 has Certain Affinity focus on the BR side of things. They need to get a full time team and remove tech debt. I hope season 2 sees regular patches because of system changes.

I’d actually prefer if it wasn’t BR and was instead a Hunt: Showdown style mode instead.

As long as it doesn't mess with development and support of the actual Halo multiplayer I'm fine with it but I've tried three BRs (Fortnite, Warzone, and Apex Legends) and have yet to enjoy...well any of them.

I just prefer a well designed arena map compared to a big wasteland map but maybe the days of great arena shooters really are in the past. Still looking forward to Season 2!

@ParsnipHero But how many BR fans are going to drop the BR they are currently heavily invested in?

How many Halo players are just dying for a BR mode? but never moved on to one of the others?

How many mid 2000s to mid 2010 games wanted to dethrone and get a piece of that competitive MP market from Halo and COD?, how manay succeeded?, and how many are left?

Back before Halo 4 launched I said that if 343i chases another audience, or an audience that has moved on, they will fail to attract those players, while also alienating the old players are are staying. It will please no one, and Halo 4 pleased no one. The MP died in a matter of months. At the time, even right past the release of Halo 5, players kept defending 343i's direction as "Halo needs to modernise or it won't survive", but to me, it always looked like the "modernisation" is what killed the community.

And again, I see that repeating. 343i chasing an audience that is already catered for, and players (and streamers) saying that Halo needs to stay on top of modern trends to stay relevant.

Like, even your idea of a Hunt clone, would at least be unique enough, and be a less crowded market enough, to draw an audience. Having a UNSC vs COV vs (AI) flood, sounds more interesting and more Halo than a BR mode. But that's just not the trend so that's not what the community is going to get.

@Richnj agreed on many points. I’ll be honest I enjoyed Halo 4 to a degree because I’m a Halo should have sprint kind of guy.

Halo 4’s biggest problem was player customised loadouts. Reach wasn’t great with them either but 4 took it too far with unequal starts.

I don’t know why they didn’t treat them like 3 and Infinite does. Have them as contested power ups.

It’s a shame a Hunt style game isn’t popular enough. Different fire teams going in with Covenant elite teams tracking down Flood/Banished HVTs would be a great PvEvP mode for Halo.

So it'll be split up into campaign , multiplayer & then battle royale multiplayer , the game as it is now is pretty lacking in content adding a battle royale would just slow down their drip feed of content even more

@Dezzy70 I think their focus is on the multiplayer , they have to sell those sweet sweet microtransactions after all

@Richnj didn't play the multiplayer for halo 4 but I did enjoy the campaign

@Would_you_kindly
True but such a shame as the fps tight control and grappling hook was great in the campaign and it’s was sort of adventurous in a good way.
More would be better and with more diversity.

@Dezzy70 didn't play the campaign for infinite because I wasn't interested in it when I heard that it basically makes the story in 4 & 5 redundant but from the gameplay it looks alot like doom eternal if that had a proper multiplayer I'd definitely play that

BR mode... Maybe it's just a Battle Rifle mode??

@suikoden Forza Horizon 5 has a Battle Royale...

@Would_you_kindly
Depends how you play the campaign can be a bit like Doom then not if you use the landscape and of course certain weapons.

@suikoden there's already an FF battle royal 🤣

I was worried Halo would slowly stagnate in the water. I'm glad 343 finally plans to put it down by making it into a generic battle royale shooter that's almost exactly like all the others.

Ah, so THIS is why there is a lack of content and co op to the core game. They've been wasting time and resources on a BR that no one wants except for a new, Halo-casual audience that knows almost nothing about Halo except for um, there's a green dude called Master Chief in it that kills aliens.

They have clearly bitten off more than they can chew rather than creating a complete, polished core experience FOR the actual long time Halo fans. SP campaign, MP, online co op, Forge, and now a BR. They've been secretly working on a BR this whole time while taking resources and devs away from the core experience. What do you want to bet that the BR aspect will end up being the most polished and fleshed out part of the game?

Is this why there is a huge, semi-open world map for the campaign? Were they planning this all along? Was the campaign map actually built around the idea of turning it into a BR with a few minor adjustments? Was the plan for a BR the reason why this game has been through dev hell up to this day? I've been defending the game wholeheartedly from naysayers up til now. Someone needs to get their priorities straight and give Halo fans the quality they expect out of this series.

Actually sounds pretty cool.
Wi wait and see what its like.
I enjoy COD Warzone alot, so yeah hope this become amazing as well.

I just hope they add way more modes and maps before Battle Royale.