There's been a lot of talk about whether or not Halo Infinite will feature a battle royale mode when its free-to-play multiplayer launches this Holiday, and according to the official Japanese Xbox website, that might be the case.
Earlier today, the site was classing Halo Infinite's genre as "battle royal shooting," as you can see from the video below. It could just be a translation error, however, as the reference has now been removed from the page.
While it sounds like it would make a lot of sense on paper, there's still a lot of doubt about Halo Infinite featuring a battle royale mode due to 343 Industries outright denying it back in 2019, with Franchise Development Director Frank O'Connor telling fans at the time that "we are NOT doing this as of now - and no plans to."
Do you think this battle royale reference is alluding to anything? Give us your thoughts in the comments.
[source reddit.com]
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Maybe for the multiplayer?
343 said back in the that the only BR they are interested is Battle Rifle.
https://nordic.ign.com/xbox-one-gaming-hardware/17049/news/halo-dev-replies-to-battle-royale-query-the-only-br-were-interested-in-is-the-battle-rifle
@BlueOcean
I remember
Wasn't it supposed to be free to play too?
@Justifier I deleted my comment accidentally. Yes, I think that the rumoured battle royale Halo game might be an online mode of Halo Infinite and making it free makes sense. Even if Halo fans don't like battle royale it makes sense to add a free battle royale mode. Why not?
@BlueOcean
Yeah, Halo games have always had ton of multiplayer modes. There could be battle royale and those who don't like it can play other modes. I hope Warzone will come back.
@Justifier With so many platforms to play Halo Infinite on, there will be tons of players.
Don't like battle royale, I'll just stick with the other standard multiplayer modes..
I'd only be playing co-op campaign or warzone firefight (without an online sub, because PC) anyway.
The bigger take from this whole thing is how outright stupid it makes 343/Microsoft look after flat out saying no before. Piled on top of everything else they messed up lately, yikes.
@Justifier @BlueOcean "Even if Halo fans don't like battle royale it makes sense to add a free battle royale mode. Why not?"
Because more modes requires more time, money, and resources. And unlike normal game types that could exist within other gane modesand playlists (example: Flag is part of objective games and arena), Battle Royale would require maps and play lists specifically for the mode. You couldn't stick it as a play list in to current War zone maps because they are far too small.
The only two options to that being that BR replaces WZ, or that Halo BR is a heavily stripped back and smaller scale BR experience.
This is also on top of the Halo Infinite reveal (after 5 years dev time) that raised eyebrows more than it raised hype, which, if it does have all these modes and is a jack of all trades and master of none kind of game, you'll get many asking if 343i wouldn't have been better off focusing on doing a few things well, rather than everything badly.
I think that the battle royale mode would attract another kind of gamers, new fans even.
Oh man, I don’t care for competitive multiplayer, but I still know that should this feature be out day one, it’s going to be huge.
Other than having to set up the whole shrinking arena thing, It wouldn't even be that hard to do with Halo.
It done large maps before (Forge World), the arena modes have weapons and vehicles on the map, and it even has the perfect set up for getting on the map ODST drop pods.
in fact, the fairly squishy ODST are all about dropping into hostile territory and using what they can to win.
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