343 Industries has today pulled back the curtain on what to expect from Halo Infinite's next update that arrives on January 30th, as well as teasing a few features that will be arriving later in 2024. Let's get stuck in, shall we?!
Halo Infinite "Content Update 29" drops on the 30th, introducing a new Arena map called "Illusion", new Forge features including a "Covenant object palette", a free Mark IV armor core, and a Halo Wars-themed "Spirit of Fire" Operation.
Then, as we get deeper into 2024, Halo Infinite will be receiving a "Match Composer" feature for online matchmaking, a new "anti-cheat initiative", an improved networking system, and new ways of earning older customisation content.
You can get a deep dive on all of this in the video above - and it's summarised brilliantly in the post below:
It was also mentioned during the stream today that Halo Infinite will no longer be getting new "Seasons" in the future, with this model now being replaced by "Content Updates". You can still expect a lot of Halo Infinite improvements throughout the year, but it sounds like 343 Industries is slowly winding down development on the game.
In fact, some "brand-new projects" were even teased during the show, promising "exciting things for the future":
If you're interested in learning more about any of these new Halo Infinite features for 2024, it's definitely worth checking out the full Community Livestream up above. 343 Industries will be sharing a "closer look" at some of the main features in the January update in the coming days, ahead of its official release at the end of the month.
As for those "marquee" features that are releasing later in the year, the studio says it's "excited to let the team cook" for now, but promises to have "plenty more to share on these fronts as they get nearer to release".
Liking what you're seeing here? Any thoughts on the end of the "Seasons" model? Tell us down below.
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the best update that could ever happen is 343 disappearing and halo being given back to bungie
i plan on getting back into halo infinite , i have it installed, it’s just a matter of when i actually feel like playing some matches .
There's a huge amount of fun to still be had in the multi-player, the problem is that it's unenticing nowadays if you're not a hard-core Halo fan
@nomither6 I couldn’t disagree with you more. 343 hasn’t handled Halo well over these last 10 or so years. Despite the major improvements to Infinite there are still system level decisions which are not player friendly. That said Infinite is a great time.
Handing over Halo to the company Bungie are now would be a death knell to the franchise. I believe the current leadership and team in place at 343 care far more for Halo than current Bungie would.
@nomither6 you do realize Bungie is owned by PlayStation now right?
@ParsnipHero also Bungie is owned by PlayStation.
And whatever their new project is, I'm sure it'll take 5 years to get it functional, and another 2+ for it to be good.
Typical Xbox behaviour always talking about what’s to come but never deliver
This is all well and good, but desync still hasn't been fixed....
Though it really isnt for me, I respect 343 for chipping away at this game and continuosly improving it. It would appear many more people are playing it and enjoying it now, so its at least moving in the right direction for those who play multiplayer shooters.
Given what I thought of the single player campaign, its hard to be excited by the propect of new ips from 343, but I hope they prove my skepticism wrong and produce a banger! I have no desire to see any developer fail.
Halo will never be what it was. It'll never rekindle that past spirit.
The Spirit of Fire update makes me sad about the campaign, with how Halo Wars 2 ended I thought for sure the Halo infinite campaign would feature the cast of Halo Wars and would be integrated in to the main series.
The only thing that would get me to play is multi-team (3v3v3v3), BTB Heavies (with Gauss Hog added), or proper arcade style firefight like Reach had. Of course, 343 couldn't even copy firefight to MCC correctly, so I'm not holding my breath.
@NoLifeDGenerate king of the hill firefight is pretty sweet though. I’d still like to see the classic version return this year though.
Every King has his fall. Let it go.
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