Rumour: Halo's Next Story Campaign Is In Development On Unreal Engine

It’s still a shame that we never got DLC expansions for Infinite’s story. It was built for that… seemingly…

@somnambulance Would generally always prefer a proper new campaign over smaller story DLC personally. But one of the problems Halo has had under 343 is not finishing the story properly after each entry. Will be frustrating if once again they don't finish this one off and move onto the next. Too many loose threads.

@Moonglow See, I sort of disagree about that. They could’ve launched a better multiplayer at launch. They made poor decisions with it from the start, unfortunately, and that derailed where Infinite could’ve gone. The whole progression system and playlist system arguably destroyed any momentum the game had to start. At least it did for anyone that I was playing with, as well as myself. You know there’s issues when pretty much everyone in my multiplayer circle dropped Infinite for Vanguard, which pretty much everyone agreed was a middling to weak effort for CoD (though not as bad as Cold War), but with better progression and matchmaking than Infinite. I’ll admit that mp is better now and I do hop in and do play a couple matches every now and then and have a lot of fun, but it’s a random thing rather than anything consistent, at least with people I know.

Also, rumor is that there was never any single player expansions planned either. We heard stories that the game was designed to be supported and expanded for 10 years following the launch, perhaps with large patches of updates, but that was all in mp initiatives. They didn’t lie about what would come, but it did feel misleading, especially with where Infinite ended in the story. It felt that perhaps we’d get a different kind of episodic campaign with how they described it, believed it to be potentially the first live service campaign. Could have been innovative in that. I dunno. I loved Infinite’s campaign. I honestly did really enjoy Infinite a lot, but it’s hard to deny that the game was launched in an incomplete state, had questionable choices in multiplayer, and the PR cycle had its fair share of misdirection. At least we didn’t get Monster and Doritos themed skins at launch. I remember the rumors of that prior to launch too. Maybe they pulled those plans after people got upset.

@themightyant You know, I sort of agree. Halo Infinite had a really rough go at launch and it might not be the worst thing to soft reset with a new title in a different engine now that so many changes happened in the studio. We can see if the new version of 343 is more capable than the 343 of old. I do miss the good old days of the 360 era when we got Halo 3, which was fun enough to last just long enough to stay relevant til ODST and then Reach was the next year and then Halo Anniversary the next year then Halo 4. Even if Halo 4’s campaign was a step down, it wasn’t as noticeable because, man, Halo fans were eating good and the campaigns, multiplayer, and forge stuff was all so high quality for a long time and so consistently released. Halo 4 was arguably 343’s best effort on multiplayer too, if you don’t count MCC.

I'm guessing they'll carry on with SlipSpace for multiplayer for a while yet - given Forge and the sheer amount of stuff that can be built on it.

Would be happy if they concentrated on a single-player / co-op Unreal campaign, then after that began to re-do Forge and multiplayer in Unreal - and once both are finally in it maybe we can start to get more frequent releases?