A lot of the Halo faithful have been anticipating campaign co-op for some time, after all, it's a pretty core feature of the series. Well, we've got some unfortunate news here as the mode enters testing. As it turns out, co-op won't contain online matchmaking once the mode hits the public build of Halo Infinite.
Xbox has confirmed the news with GamesRadar, who've been testing out the mode during its flighting phase. Here's what the company said about Halo Infinite co-op matchmaking:
"Online matchmaking will not be available with final co-op. We encourage you to continue to use the Halo LFG and the new Discord voice call feature on Xbox to find players to party up with as you continue playing the beta..."
During the flighting phase, this has made the process of testing the feature somewhat troublesome, as not everyone has friends available for the flight. Of course, Halo: The Master Chief Collection doesn't support online matchmaking for its co-op campaigns either, but we were hoping 343 might have found a way to incorporate it in Infinite.
Halo Infinite just can't seem to escape controversy. We loved our time with it for review and continue to play the game regularly online, but core fans continue to take issue with the game's post-launch 'live service' model.
Is this news disappointing, or would you normally party up with pals anyway? Let us know!
[source gamesradar.com]
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Never been a "play with randoms online" guy, so that's okay, just waiting with Da Boys to play CO-OP as soon as the update releases into the normal game.
I would NEVER play a Co-op campaign with a 'Random' stranger via online Matchmaking. Therefore I have absolutely no issue with any Dev who doesn't implement online matchmaking. It really should be 'invite only'.
LFG sites are useful to find a random person who maybe willing to help you out with a specific task/mission (like Achievement hunting - LASO run, help with bosses etc) but a general playthrough of a campaign should be 'co-operative' and being able to communicate, have 'fun' together etc is much more difficult with 'Randoms' and Europe has a LOT of different languages too...
Friends are much more likely to be 'co-operative' and more likely to be part of the 'team' and have the same agenda as you. Can't guarantee that with Randoms...
I was wanting to play this with my son but with them taking forever to add it I have since deleted it to make room for other games. To be honest now it doesn't interest me anymore. Sorry Bungie you dropped the ball here.
@Kaloudz IIRC Campaign MM was in Reach.
I wouldn't use the feature, but it sucks for those that use it. Hitting MM seems much easier searching discord.
@Kaloudz To be fair, Bungie "sunsets" content people pay for, which might actually be worse than delivering the other half of the game a year late....
The news just keeps getting worse and worse.
You'd think after all the hell of not having matchmaking for Firefight and coop previously would have taught them something.
Then again this is 343. Not sure why I expected anything decent.
Are they saying you can only play split screen? Or just not with random people?
I'd invite my friends to play... IF I HAD ANY!
@Stoned_Patrol the co op as of now is online only so it wouldn't be splitscreen
@Stoned_Patrol Non split screen despite them saying over and over all future Halo games would have it after their last backlash over it.
@RedSabat @InterceptorAlpha @Would_you_kindly
Cool it's all good that they stopped doing split screen, The industry has pretty much fazed out split screen as a whole honestly.
Also even if Halo does not feature a way to get match made with randoms to play co op campaign... It is very easy to just use the feature that is available for any game on Xbox, where you make a post looking for people to play with. You can put filters on your requests like having a mic as a must have... So this whole article is kinda mute if you actually know how to navigate your Xbox a little bit.
@Stoned_Patrol
Ah yes, nothing like playing coop with GLORIOUS desync. Halo Infinite has been out 9 months now and they still can't get the net code right.
Meanwhile if splits Reem had been included, I could have already cooped the campaign with her. As we had every Halo in preparation for Infinite.
Fact of the matter is that the only reason it was abandoned is 343 simply cannot be expected to create something in a timely, or even correct manner. So they had to cut entire features to be able to even get the bare minimum of Halo features usable.
Since we're on the subject of splitscreen, I'd also like to point out there's been a resurgence of games supporting it.
But hey, don't take my word for it.
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