The lack of Halo Infinite campaign gameplay this year has been frustrating for many fans. After last year's showing, which left a sour taste in the community's mouths, 343 Industries really needs to win back a lot of players for its campaign. Don't worry, the developer isn't tone-deaf and there's actually a reason why it hasn't been shown yet.
The consensus was that people believed Gamescom would be the time for the campaign to finally re-emerge with a release date. While we got the latter, no gameplay for the campaign was anywhere to be found.
Why? Well, the answer actually resided in last week's development update on the game, where the head of creative on Halo Infinite, Joseph Staten, revealed the team will "absolutely" be showing gameplay before launch. For now though, the team still needs to focus on shutdown mode for Halo Infinite before its December release date.
"Everybody wants to see campaign, especially campaign gameplay. We will absolutely show campaign gameplay before launch, but we just need to stay focused on shutdown mode. Once we're past that hurdle, we're going to be going after things like gameplay captures and trailers, that will all be coming a little bit closer to launch."
While some are worried about the lack of footage, it's good to see some transparency on the issue - even if it was buried within a lengthy development update. It's disappointing we didn't get any gameplay this week, but it doesn't sound like we'll have to wait too long, especially since the game now has a solid release date.
How do you feel about the stance on Halo Infinite gameplay? Let us know in the comments below.
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Campaign will be horrid but MultiPlayer will be good
It can wait but it would be good to see some campaign gameplay soon.
For some weird reason and I don’t know why I seem to have some renewed confidence in the campaign.
@Chaudy Stop talking. Campaign will be amazing.
@OliverOwen well I hope so but knowing 343, I doubt it
@Chaudy so glad we have a time traveller who's played the game. Hey, what's the lotto numbers this week?
Simpletons aside, you can hardly blame them for holding off with showing any campaign, after the free for all "let's hate on halo cus it gets us trending" mob. It's wise to keep their cards close to their chest and let us all see just how amazing it will be for oursleves
Absolutely understandable, particularly when you consider Joe Staten's history with the franchise. Those who kept an eye on the development of Halo 2 know how much a hastily built demo completely derailed their progress.
Let's just give them the time to finish the game. Heck, I'm absolutely fine going in as blind as possible.
I remember decades ago all we had was pictures in gaming monthly magazines CVG/EGM and when the game released sometimes a week or two after release a review.
Such a spoilt impatient bunch we are now a days 😂
Even if it looks amazing it will still receive plenty of hate because that's what sheeple love to do...love to see things that where once on top fail
Removed - flaming/arguing
@Chaudy
Let’s wait and see, I have some skepticism but I’m hoping for a great campaign.
I will of course judge once it is released and get to play it.
@OliverOwen If their track record is any indication, it will be anything but.
@InterceptorAlpha What did 343 do that was so ***** before? This confuses me.
@Broosh Halo 4 and 5. Neither of which were particularly well received.
Between Halo 4 trying to be a cod clone and the godawful Spartan Ops, to poorly written character like Andrew Del Rio and Sarah Palmer.
Then you have Halo 5 where the plot was damn near incomprehensible with badguys ( Didact) being killed off in a book instead of the game. So you're completely lost if you didn't read them. To add insult to injury the whole Hunt the Truth campaign was extremely misleading and left a bad taste in many peoples' mouths.
All of this is of course ignoring the issues at the sandbox and balance levels.
@Chaudy "Campaign will be horrid but MultiPlayer will be good"
So, Halo 5.2? Maybe they're holding back on showing the campaign in order to hide that you play 80% of the game as Spartan Locke...
@InterceptorAlpha Ah. Yeah I definitely consider them weaker than the OG trilogy but I've still replayed them both a lot. And Spartan Ops just felt like Firefight with objectives, but I get why they're hated too.
Personally as long as there's no Prometheans in Infinite that alone will elevate it above 4 and 5 for me.
Am I reading this right, he’s saying they have to focus on the game and not make trailers and gameplay captures?
Yet they’ve made multiple trailers and gameplay captures for multiplayer. Someone help me understand.
I don't know if i'll be alone in this but I didn't have any issue with Halo 4 or 5, both were pretty good to me.
About Didact, yeah, his death happens on the comics, Halo Escalation, I start to reading it after finishing Halo 5 and it helps a lot with the story, it also develops Sara Palmer and other Characters more, filling a few blanks that happen between Halo 4 and 5, I recommend anyone to read Halo Escalation comics, it is great.
I think the campaign will be amazing..
@Originut I'm not trying troll anyone. I can't believe people like you are sad enough to get triggered over a harmless comment about a video game campaign? I mean seriously?
There's plenty of time to show more footage until December.
@InterceptorAlpha always wondered what happened to the Didact, he just disappeared, this explains it… a little. Thanks
@LordMonkfish Then they should have even more resources available from the MP team to help out. It doesn’t add up.
@FriendlyOctopus spot on man. I’d wait until launch of it was me.
Shutdown mode ? Is this development lingo
@FriendlyOctopus I thought it looked pretty good last year when they showed it.
So they already opened the pre-order before showing the campaign? Unless you are not interested in the campaign, I think its better to wait until they show it.
I don’t care to see any campaign gameplay. What I seen is enough for me. I am already decided I will play this game, all it will cost me is time, and without up front investment all I need to do is drop it if it’s bad.
MS will for sure feel it if we are not engaged with the campaign even with the whole GamePass model, so it’s not like I think a bad campaign is not going to hurt some one.
I just want to be surprised by things when I see them for the fist time.
@Chaudy I can't believe you are sad enough to get triggered over a harmless comment about your comment about a game.
@FatalBubbles Different development teams.
@PsykoRobot Clearly you can't read, all those comments are directly at me when in fact I never commented at them in the first place. Maybe take some reading lessons rather trying to copy comments.
@Would_you_kindly I'm a software developer and have never heard of 'Shutdown mode' however each organisation has it's own acronyms and phrases so hardly surprising. To me it sounds like they're focussing on getting to a release version of the game, this probably means that they're feature complete at this point and primarily working on fixing defects.
@LordMonkfish I just don’t believe for one second that the people making the MP trailers and gameplay montages can’t do the same for the campaign. It’s a really poor excuse in my opinion. The more likely scenario is that they’re still trying to figure out what they’re doing with campaign 3 months from launch so they don’t want to show anything that might not actually be in the game at launch.
@LordMonkfish Then if it’s not done yet and they have 3 months that’s a bad situation. They should be doing but fixes and that kind of stuff. I’ve just lost all optimism for 343 at this point. The game would have to be incredible for that hope to be restored in them.
@Chaudy
Always got to be the troll monkey in the corner with the most garbage takes.
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