You might remember that it was revealed a few months ago that Halo Infinite would be shipping without campaign co-op or Forge this December, and it's now been confirmed that neither will arrive until May 2022 at the earliest.
In an interview with Eurogamer, 343 head of creative Joseph Staten explained that the plan was still to introduce campaign co-op during Season 2 of the game's multiplayer, with Forge arriving in Season 3. However, Season 1 was recently extended until May 2022, so we could be waiting a good while for both.
"Yes, we are extending Season 1. So our goal still remains what I said before, which is to ship campaign co-op with Season 2 and Forge with Season 3. But those remain goals. Those remain targets. And we can't commit to any hard dates right now, because as we're seeing with this multiplayer beta, other things might move up in the priority stack for us."
Staten mentioned that players have had some concerns with Battle Pass progression during Halo Infinite's multiplayer beta so far, and so if the team feels it's necessary, they may need to "move some of these bigger rocks sooner".
Ultimately, it sounds like both features are still quite a ways off, and we could even realistically be looking at up to year before campaign co-op and Forge are both ready for release in Halo Infinite. Let's hope it's sooner, though!
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[source eurogamer.net]
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As long as it comes out polished and ready to go they can take their time. I generally play campaign alone for the 1st playthrough anyway so I'm not too bothered about it not being ready at launch.
So basically they really weren't honest about Dec 5th or whatever they said. OK. Cool.
Only saying this because my guess very large majority cares hella more about campaign than multiplayer any day and twice on Sunday.
this wouldn't bother me half as much if they hadn't done the whole "your halo story" marketing thing before hand.
Mine and many others Halo story is playing these games in Co-op, I've played every other Halo in co-op (including Wars) with my brother before going through it solo. Would suck if I'd had to wait a year (though hopefully it'll be may) beause the PR made nostalgic.
well, guess I will wait with playing Campaign then, I got to play this with someone.
Definitely going to rush the campaign when it launches to get the story. Then have a replay for the open world experiments. Try and run legendary on coop with 4 of us web slinging around.
@GuyinPA75 Pretty sure more people care about multiplayer, if you are talking about vs and not coop. They said awhile ago that coop wasnt going to be there at launch. The only thing that changed here is that they extended the first season so that they could have more time to implement coop for the 2nd season.
@SplooshDmg That's what my second play through will be. I want to rush the story in a day or two before the memes/spoilers hit the internet. It was hard for me to want to play 4 and 5 because I heard so much negativity surrounding them. Then I played them and cried during 4 and was shocked during 5.
Does anyone see this as "a technicality is the best 'cality"?
As in "Wellll, we didn't technically lie, we said it would release with season 2, we just happen to be pushing season 2 back which in turn doesn't technically make this a delay of the coop but rather the season. "
I've been having high hopes for Halo's future, but the second a company starts playing these mental gymnastics, it is an instant red flag.
That's a shame, but not a major issue for me.
I'd always play campaign solo first to properly experience it, then normally do Legendary difficulty in co-op with my brother.
That can wait, as I imagine it's a lot more difficult to implement now they've gone semi-open-world.
@SplooshDmg I thought 2 and 4 had the most compelling stories in the series. I thought 5 really took the series elsewhere and it was needed and I thought it left us in a great place for another story.
Fine for pandemic times, hope it offers it locally
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