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Halo Infinite's Split-Screen Co-Op Has Been Canceled

tommib

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Kaitlin Olson No GIF by The Mick
 

Matsuchezz

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The game pass effect!!! Tons of subpar quality games. Day one of course! Why they should put any effort on delivering the goods. Everyone is riding the best deal for crappy unfinished products in gaming.
 
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Havoc2049

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I still use split screen when I got family and friends to come over. When everyone is at their own spot cool online than. Nobody has people come over or what ?
Ya, but we play split screen multiplayer, which Halo Infinite does have. Split screen campaign co-op isn't really a party type game mode.
 

coffinbirth

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I'm completely guessing but I'm willing to bet that releasing Halo multiplayer for free was a giant disaster monetarily, and they are making the business decision to not pour anymore money down that drain.
Except this is a feature for the NOT FREE portion of Halo Infinite.
 

coffinbirth

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They know there's no point because people dont care anymore. Ain't nobody going back to this game. You only get one chance to impress and retain players. If you don't do it from the get go, they aint gonna return to the game months later.
MCC says otherwise. Also, if they're calling this a "ten year Game" you can't just drop one of the biggest planned features less than a year in without optics that hurt your brand as a whole.
 
Was anybody actually looking forward to split screen co-op? We've come a long way since LAN parties. I doubt this impacts more than like 10 people. They should be focusing on fixing the online experience anyway. Not that they seem to be doing that either.
Ah, the normal defense force is on the front lines for this one.
 

Inviusx

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That's complete horse shit. Couch coop may not be as popular as it used to be but it's one of those core features that made Halo what it was for so many people.

343i are such a shitty studio. Microsoft need to grow some balls to hand this IP over to someone else.
 

Sosokrates

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online coop sucks, it's always paired with lag, sometimes input latency when the game tries to keep everything in sync.


But of course standards on this forum are below ground at this point, so I guess you don't care if the experience is compromised.

also online coop in the first flight they did was a bugged and laggy as hell. Infinite in general has a terrible netcode (the worst I know of currently), so online coop will most likely be a shitshow as well
It was a suggestion not an endorsement.
 

GHG

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That's complete horse shit. Couch coop may not be as popular as it used to be but it's one of those core features that made Halo what it was for so many people.

343i are such a shitty studio. Microsoft need to grow some balls to hand this IP over to someone else.

id Software would absolutely kill it with this franchise.
 

Banjo64

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Live footage of people on GAF still defending this train wreck

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Hope they’re getting fat stacks. Personally I couldn’t lie like that for anything. I was told numerous times by well know posters that MS wouldn’t be concerned about the concurrent player base dropping below 5k players because Halo did it’s job of expanding Game Pass and that it would explode in popularity again at Season 2’s launch :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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Sosokrates

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Maybe Phil should spend that ~15 hours a week on getting this studio in line instead?
Some games don't even have multiplayer let alone co-op. Some companies even release the MP as a separate game and charge you for it.
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
“No one plays couch co-op, it’s like 3 people wanting this!”

Meanhwhile…
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Well actually they offered a free copy to anyone who bought this once. So I played this with my friend who was able to download it after an invite from me.

So it was online coop.

P.S Very deserving of GOTY. One of the best level designs in a game in the last 10-15 years. I cant think of many games that had this much creativity, variety and ingenuity in level design.
 
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Jennings

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Ah, this is no big deal. Thanks to X-Cloud you and your co-op partner can still play on the same couch by just streaming your game to the device of your choice. And now you don't even have to deal with losing half the screen to a distracting split-screen. Split screen is a relic, and cloud streaming is the future. You gotta respect 343i for leading the charge.
 
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eNT1TY

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A non-crossgen Halo is going to drop in a few years via a Bethesda/343i colab and all will be forgiven and this will be relegated to just a bad memory. Believe,
 

GHG

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What don't you understand? It does make sense.

What does Phil needing to stick a rocket under Bonnie Ross' and 343i's ass instead of being a fake friendly gamer have to do with whatever the hell it is you're rattling on about?

Lol, "let's shit on halo and hold it to a completely different standard"

They set that standard for themselves, nobody else.

lmao. I suddenly had an image of his mom yelling him to do his work instead of playing games all day.

"Philip, stop playing games all day and get your room in order!"

It baffles me that he's happy to brag about playing games for 15 hours a week when we are coming towards the end of a year where studios under his direct management have produced nothing. Tone deaf. The man is coasting.
 

Banjo64

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Lol, "let's shit on halo and hold it to a completely different standard"
Let’s compare it to… previous Halo games? I don’t even have the energy to talk to you boot lickers any more. The game is a travesty, 343 are the biggest joke in the industry, I personally won’t play another minute of Halo in my life after this botch job.
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
What does Phil needing to stick a rocket under Bonnie Ross' and 343i's ass instead of being a fake friendly gamer have to do with whatever the hell it is you're rattling on about?



They set that standard for themselves, nobody else.



It baffles me that he's happy to brag about playing games for 15 hours a week when we are coming towards the end of a year where studios under his direct management have produced nothing. Tone deaf. The man is coasting.
TBH, he bought fucking Activision at the start of the year. He gets a pass for like the next five years.

But yes, I see what you are saying. I was just thinking about this in the other thread about his letter. Someone said gamers dont deserve someone so great as Phil, and I was like he's produced a total of zero next gen games in the last 2 years, how can xbox owners be happy with this? I bought gamepass for three months over the summer thinking the online coop was coming because you know they announced it for summer. Now granted i got it for $1 but im still pissed that they delayed it to winter. I sound like a karen complaining about a dollar but its the principle of things. They announced it for summer. Not winter.
 

Sosokrates

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What does Phil needing to stick a rocket under Bonnie Ross' and 343i's ass instead of being a fake friendly gamer have to do with whatever the hell it is you're rattling on about?
You acting like Phil needs to spend time at 343, I was trying to make the point that compared to other games infinites MP aint as bad as your making it out to be.
They set that standard for themselves, nobody else.

Whatever they did, there MP is great. So if they missed there mark on some things it does not make the MP bad.
 

GHG

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TBH, he bought fucking Activision at the start of the year. He gets a pass for like the next five years.

But yes, I see what you are saying. I was just thinking about this in the other thread about his letter. Someone said gamers dont deserve someone so great as Phil, and I was like he's produced a total of zero next gen games in the last 2 years, how can xbox owners be happy with this? I bought gamepass for three months over the summer thinking the online coop was coming because you know they announced it for summer. Now granted i got it for $1 but im still pissed that they delayed it to winter. I sound like a karen complaining about a dollar but its the principle of things. They announced it for summer. Not winter.

It doesn't make any sense to me in all honesty. They do deserve him and I'll tell you why:
  • Xbox release no first party games for the year despite having more studios and IP than any other point in their history - praise Phil, we don't deserve him.
  • He has consistently had an issue with quality control for first party games, many of which have released underpar or outright unfinished - praise Phil, we don't deserve him.
  • Their flagship studio 343i have fumbled their last 2 releases, both under his management - praise Phil...
Need I go on? He gets a pass because he spends time on twitter engaging with fans, is a PR monster (literally he should be a case study, there's much to be admired here from a corporate perspective) and saves people a few buck with gamepass (while they are duped in to needing to subscribe for life and having nothing to show for it).

So many people have a habit of counting their chickens when it comes to him delivering on his promises when it comes to games, it's even happening with the Activision Blizzard acquisition before it's even closed and guaranteed. He's the ultimate hype man. As a result he has no pressure to deliver because he's loved by his fans. If they fired him (which there's a strong argument for being the correct decision) then his fans would riot.

So my stance on it is this - if and when they release a game I 100% want to play then ill purchase it on steam for a 1 time fee. If they release something I'm on the fence about then I'll pick up a single month of gamepass (but only when it comes out, not before... Not falling for that one again). If I don't like it enough to pay for it then no harm done, sub lapses. If I do like it enough to pay for it then I'll do so and the sub lapses. Everything else is just noise, my backlog is big enough and I can only play one thing at a time.
 
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sendit

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How was the first page possible without a single craig pic?

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Once they add ray tracing after the co op patch, Craig will look a lot better. Give them time. 343i has incredibly industry talent, a destination location where dreams materialize, and the budget backing of Microsoft.
 
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