Halo Infinite Gets A Minor Patch This Week, Here's What's Included

Season 5 has been a mixed bag. On the one hand it's great to get new content. On the other, games have been pretty challenging a lot of the time.

@ParsnipHero

It’s a double-edged sword:

The feedback from the sweats over the last two years has helped to keep the game relevant and ongoing, even while the rumors were circulating about the game being shut down completely, and that same feedback seemingly had a big impact on where the game is today and how it’s somewhat started to recover from its losses.

At the same time, however:

The sweats who provided the feedback and stayed with the game even when its future was uncertain, are the same group of sweats that are so good at the game, even when so many are getting back into it and are potentially a little rusty, that the skill barrier for enjoying multiplayer, or at least the perception of a skill barrier, is so high now that it puts a lot of people off from playing the game, especially since a lot of those original Halo fans were there for the social and/or party aspects of the trilogy.

@AccessibleDaydream that’s fair and all but I’ve played every single week since launch and both test flights. That doesn’t make me any good and I can’t keep up.

@ParsnipHero Oh, I totally agree! I’ve played regularly ever since the insider flights two years ago as well, and it’s difficult to not want to stop playing it at times because it feels like I’m constantly at a disadvantage.

At this point, I’ve all but settled for it being a skill issue on my part…

@Utena-mobile I've noticed that too. Almost like the more I play the worse I do? Maybe the game needs better skill matching?

@AccessibleDaydream I hear ya. It wouldn’t be so bad though if social games had a less dialled in SBMM though. Social shouldn’t be so competitive.

I personally feel my biggest issue is I can’t get my aim settings just right. I don’t have issues in other games but Infinite is definitely a perplexing one.

@ParsnipHero Yeah, I get that. I don’t know what it is about Infinite, but MCC seems to have aiming that’s less floaty and more sticky?

I’m really not sure if that makes sense, and I understand it was a intentional decision to ‘modernize’ Halo gameplay, but I almost prefer MCC (specifically Halo 3) at this point, and it saddens me that the servers seem to be barely populated compared to even a few months ago.

@AccessibleDaydream yea, I never really noticed it before. I took a long break from Halo and played games like BF4, Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends in that time. Never been one for CoD.

I come back to Halo Infinite and the aiming is different. Whenever I go back to MCC, which is rarely, I played Halo 4.

I'm probably going to reduce my amount of time playing Halo Infinite until the SSBM gets a little looser. Ideally I'm looking to move away from GaaS I get too easily addicted to the grind instead of playing for the fun of it. Although I say that you watch and they go and drop 4 more classic maps into Squad Battle today and I'll be hooked again.

Looking forward to playing Jusant though. That looks like a non-GaaS I can actually enjoy.

@ParsnipHero Sometimes I notice that after an update some of the settings will occasionally reset, so that might be something for both of us to look into.

Also, as for GaaS, I don’t really like them because I tend to get bored of them. I’ll start playing a new one, get super into it, maybe even give it my all for one or two seasons, and then I tend to drop them as if I’ve never even heard of them.

I also tend to be way too competitive, because for whatever reason, my brain tends to think that if I’m not the best at something or if I’m not at least getting better, then what is even the point?

Battle Passes are an issue for me too, both in terms of financial issues and lack of income making it so that I have to sacrifice other things and/or overdraft my account like I do all too often, and in terms of time and effort being overwhelmed and getting nothing done, and then running out of time on the pass.

@AccessibleDaydream yea, I understand there. It’s a terrible cycle and SBMM these days is pushing people to have to play at their best every game.

I’m not one for single player games honestly. I play online games because tend to be the most interesting opponents but I do feel I’m getting too old for constant competition. Plus the grind takes me away from my wife a lot of the time. She’s happy playing her games and whatnot but recently I’ve been playing other games like the new Mario game and we’ve enjoyed doing that.

End of the day time is really important too.