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JLB
Banned
Theres one or two "frustating" fights through the game. I'd def recommend playing it on heroic.
the_master
Member
The thing I miss the most are the big epic battles.
It wasa key area of old halo games and I hope they put a big effort into it for future updates.
The silent cartographer when you just land with all the marines, when covenant and flood where fighting in the snow, the scarab in Halo 2, the scorpions in the desert halo 3, scarabs in halo 3...
In Infinite this is all gone. Open world but smaller scale battles, and a lack of epic moments.
Doing my second run now
It wasa key area of old halo games and I hope they put a big effort into it for future updates.
The silent cartographer when you just land with all the marines, when covenant and flood where fighting in the snow, the scarab in Halo 2, the scorpions in the desert halo 3, scarabs in halo 3...
In Infinite this is all gone. Open world but smaller scale battles, and a lack of epic moments.
Doing my second run now
Lukaku's First Touch
Member
Agreed, I wanted to see some 100 marines fighting a bunch of aliens. Max was 6....
wigsplittin4fun
Neo Member
I loved this game. To me it’s my fav halo campaign of all of them. They managed to make it open world but sometimes games need to be narrower in scope to point a player in a particular direction and I think this game does both perfect.
I also really enjoyed the sense of progression this game gives you as well by giving you weapon and vehicle unlocks. The Npc marines are actually useful too which was nice.
This game just nails it all, from there sound design, the graphics , the enemy AI and the robust amount of weapons and the ability to use it all in murderous sandbox I think this game ranks right up there with the best shooter campings of the last 10 years such as titanfall 2, and the doom remakes. It’s every bit as good as those snd I say even better. I can’t think of any FPS that has made me feel as much of a bad ass as this. I would shoot one dude with a Br in the head killing him, then grapple hook a guy from across the map, mellee kill him, shoot another guy in the head and then throw a sticky grenade in the middle of 3 grunts, all while getting out of range with the grappling hook before it went off killing all 3 of the grunts. I’m talking all of this within a 3 or 4 second span. The combat feels so fluid. Then add on boss battles and this game is a must play for anyone with an Xbox. I can’t wait to play legendary with friends when they allow that.
I also really enjoyed the sense of progression this game gives you as well by giving you weapon and vehicle unlocks. The Npc marines are actually useful too which was nice.
This game just nails it all, from there sound design, the graphics , the enemy AI and the robust amount of weapons and the ability to use it all in murderous sandbox I think this game ranks right up there with the best shooter campings of the last 10 years such as titanfall 2, and the doom remakes. It’s every bit as good as those snd I say even better. I can’t think of any FPS that has made me feel as much of a bad ass as this. I would shoot one dude with a Br in the head killing him, then grapple hook a guy from across the map, mellee kill him, shoot another guy in the head and then throw a sticky grenade in the middle of 3 grunts, all while getting out of range with the grappling hook before it went off killing all 3 of the grunts. I’m talking all of this within a 3 or 4 second span. The combat feels so fluid. Then add on boss battles and this game is a must play for anyone with an Xbox. I can’t wait to play legendary with friends when they allow that.
oldergamer
Member
That boss took a few tries, but if you look around there are weapons you can hammer him with once his shield is down that makes it easier.
Emedan
Member
Sure but how is that good design when the player is not guaranteed to have that upgrade? Should they not be beatable then? They're too responsive.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
You can do it with the base version that everyone gets. Its just easier with the upgrades. That logic applies to using all of the equipment.
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Ristifer
Member
I love the overall feel and gameplay in this game so far. However, I'm just not feeling the pull to push through it at this time. I think the open world itself is fine, but even with that setting, traversing to random bases and clearing out enemies feels the same each time. You can take some neat approaches to clear enemies, for sure. But you're still clearing out enemies at the end of the day. With the missions themselves not being anything extraordinary, I just feel like the game doesn't have enough to really grip me.
The story itself is whatever. It's Halo. I'm not that worried about it. The gameplay is enough to make me push through for now, but I'm getting the feeling I'll be moving on to other games before I finish this one. It's not terrible by any means. The mechanics are all there, sound design is fantastic, some of the atmosphere is terrific, etc. But I feel like it doesn't all click together as it should.
The story itself is whatever. It's Halo. I'm not that worried about it. The gameplay is enough to make me push through for now, but I'm getting the feeling I'll be moving on to other games before I finish this one. It's not terrible by any means. The mechanics are all there, sound design is fantastic, some of the atmosphere is terrific, etc. But I feel like it doesn't all click together as it should.
Emedan
Member
Really can't cause there are 2 of them and they're too aggressive
Salty Pickle
Neo Member
Really looking forward to playing this as soon as I’m able to get my hands on a xbox series.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Those red ones are special and should be viewed as basically a sub boss.
GymWolf
Member
Heroic solo is perfect, boss are not that bad if you use the grapple hook to avoid them.
Ia on normal take a deep dive dude.
GnomeChimpsky
Member
I got my only crash halfway through the main boss. I nearly quit the game then and there.
Lone Wolf
Member
I just tried this and holy shit! Melts everyone. I’ll be using this for my Legendary play through.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Fighting the same 5 enemies all game, outside, and then forcing the player inside to fight the same 5 enemies at the end is a bad design choice.
Leyasu
Banned
It could have been worse. It could have been like cod where you fight one enemy (humans) the whole game.
Stephen Curry
Member
1000%
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
100% and as early as late 22/early 23. Infinite supposed to be the platform for the next 10 years of Halo.
Microsoft recently trademarked:
Halo The Endless
Me is hyped.
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CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
I finished the game last night and I love, love, loved it. Unlike a lot of people, I thought the story was great. I thought it was super interesting. It really drew me in and kept me wanting to find out more. I loved all the characters, even the pilot I was bitching about earlier in this thread, by the end of the game I really liked him. Loved the Chief and The Weapon. The insanely hilarious Grunts are to die for. Such a great cast of well-written characters.
What I loved most was the outstanding game play, which is a hallmark of all Halo games, but to me this one is the best. The game is so much fun to play I'm starting a new game to play it all again. Unfortunately, I had trouble with several of the boss fights on Heroic so I'm not ready to try it on Legendary yet.
Yes, I'm a coward.
What I loved most was the outstanding game play, which is a hallmark of all Halo games, but to me this one is the best. The game is so much fun to play I'm starting a new game to play it all again. Unfortunately, I had trouble with several of the boss fights on Heroic so I'm not ready to try it on Legendary yet.
Yes, I'm a coward.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I'll take bad Halo over Call of Duty all day every day but at least with CoD it's more about the spectacle than anything else. With those games every time you shoot you get to see some kind of set piece with dramatic music. Removing a chunk of Halos sandbox for padding just feels bad.
darrylgorn
Member
Phase
Member
I wanted to throw him off the pelican the whole campaign.
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Agent_Nobody
Member
Chiefs voice: ‘Welcome to your new home soldier’.
Helghan
Member
Yeah, top of the doorway. Was very happy when I found that spot
AJUMP23
Member
I finished the campaign last night, and I think it was great. It is basically open world until you tell it to finish up. I played on Heroic, and there were some boss battles that just destroyed me, but I stayed with it and got through it. I missed a lot of the Audio logs, but I did get all the Spartan Cores. Overall I think it is one of the best stories they have done. I really thought Weapon would be annoying, but I thought she was great. Best facial expressions.
Havoc2049
Member
I finished the campaign today. I thought the story was great as well. It was tighter in scope and wasn't on a grand scale as say Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo Reach, but it was still enjoyable.
I hated "Fernie", the Echo 216 pilot at the begining as well, but there was some cool moments between him and the Chief throughout the game and he became a likable character. A nice return to Bungie Halo, where all the characters were endearing, even the enemies. A nice change from past 343 Halo games, where each game had two or three characters that were strait up unlikable and you would hear Halo fans complain about them for years afterwards. I don't know if it's Joe Staten or what, but kudos to 343 for bringing back the positive vibes with Infinite.
I'm going for the 8 hour speed run achievement on easy next. I also need to get that last skull on the last level, as that was the only collectable I missed. I thought I had met the requirements to have the door where the skull was at unlocked, but it got a little hectic on some of the battles on Heroic, so it wasn't unlocked when I got to it.
Anyways, great game and I'm looking forward to when Staten reveals the Live Service road map soon for Infinite, to see what the scope and frequency will be of future Infinite updates.
SirTerry-T
Member
Using the grapple hook to grab a weapon to kill a group of bad guys when each of your existing weapons are all out of ammo will never fail to make you feel like the coolest motherfkr in the room
Iced Arcade
Member
Yeah I only used the other gadgets to get the achievements lol. That grapple doe
BouncyFrag
Member
Every now and then I kill a grunt who sounds exactly like Emil from Nier and then I feel sad.
Lukaku's First Touch
Member
Yup. If I was master chief I would've never saved him. He'd talk that brute into suicide with his bs anyway.
the_master
Member
Also, have marines ride vehicles alongside you, and give some of them a grappleshot or a jetpack so they can follow you.
And the possibility to send them to a base or ask them to follow you. Even if it is through the menu (I hope they find a button combination though)
Chittagong
Gold Member
Piece of piss on Legendary. Just drill shields away with plasma rifle and then finish the job on top of the door:
CuNi
Member
Piece of piss on Legendary. Just drill shields away with plasma rifle and then finish the job on top of the door:
I recently finished the game on Legendary so just now came into this thread but I gotta say, the game was fun, except when it came to HVTs or Bosses. They were just a pain in the ass if you tried to do them the "legit" way. I always ended up cheesing them in one way or the other simply because of how much health they had and little dmg they took. I don't even know if there is enough ammo spread throughout the HVTs to do them in a reasonable way as you always have to duck and recharge shields after even a single hit of lvl 5 shields and hope you can manage to sneak in another chip dmg so they don't reg their shields either.
In general I have many issues with Halo Infinite. Especially when it comes to Story.. Oh god damn how much I hate the story development for Halo since 343 took over and Infinite just continues going down that awful path of them trying to kill of or remove everything that Bungie established.
JayK47
Member
Was about to ask my friend if they wanted to coop through the campaign. Turns out, you can't (yet). That is the only way to play Halo and it surprises me that this will be added at a later date, likely when everybody has moved on. Will the coop be for the campaign, or something else?
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
BouncyFrag
Member
Enemies need to start calling the MC John instead of demon.
RPS37
Member
I’m thinking there will probably be dlc which is more biomes and co op.
That seems like the smartest way to go.
Edit: I have no sources for this. I just think it would be a good idea.
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oldergamer
Member
co-op is coming in april/may with other updates
Phase
Member
From a Windows Central article (Dec 13):
"Dec. 8, 2021, 343 Industries head of creative Joseph Staten said the team was aiming to launch the co-op campaign around the launch of multiplayer Season 2. Season 1 of the multiplayer is currently slated to end on May 2, 2022, so it's safe to assume May 2022 is when the co-op campaign will arrive."
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I can't find a video of it right now but there's a fantastic Grunt taunt for not beating the game on Legendary once you beat it lol.
DrCheese
Member
Haha yea, once I got the wasp I just sat and blew them all up from the air. Cheesey? Yes but some of them could flatten your health in about 5 seconds otherwise.
I did them all after I finished the main game. I'll be honest,. now I've had a bit more time after doing so I'm not massively impressed by how little content this game actually had. For 6 years of development, it felt like I'd finished everything in like... 5 hours of actual gameplay. I would be somewhat narked if I'd paid full price for this & not just got it on gamepass.
funkygunther
Banned
So about halfway through the campaign it just says "fuck it" with the open world and funnels you into a corridor of an underground layer followed by a base attack on a bit of the map with nothing on it except that campaign mission. The more I play the more I can see this is held together by string and tape. Game is saved by the grapple hook and just generally shooting shit for sure.