Halo Infinite Season 4 Adds Infection Mode This June

A multiplayer fan favourite returns

by Liam Doolan Sat 20th May 2023

We've got a rather exciting update for Halo Infinite fans today, with 343 Industries announcing Infection mode for the multiplayer component.

It will be arriving in Season 4, which starts on 20th June. Here's the teaser artwork to go with the announcement:

Halo's Infection mode is a multiplayer game mode which is essentially a zombie mode, where players must infect each other or survive the infection.

343 has also confirmed a new Career Progression Mode update is coming in Season 4, but has not shared additional information about this just yet. Season 3 will run until 27th June.

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Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He's been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief. He's also got a soft spot for Sonic the Hedgehog.

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XsERTzX
Sat 20th May 2023

While cool to add a game mode I love... They still haven't fixed Halo 2 remastered in the MCC on either Series X or Series S. It is embarrassingly slow, multiple frame drops in a game that is from fu***ng 2014. How many times do we have to complain?!

I feel I've been pretty nice about it. Noting it in any posts made on reddit hoping the devs would see it. But not anymore. It's embarrassing. Brand new hardware that can chew through frames and Halo 2 Remastered is STILL a fu**ing mess?!

I'm losing faith. I would many times before stand behind 343 back when Halo 4 was released. I loved Halo 4. Since then it has been a disaster and I cannot condone anything they have done story-wise or gameplay-wise since. I'm legitimately sad at what Halo has become.

It was the killer app when Xbox launched in Nov. 01. It is what made people buy an Xbox. It's peak was Halo 3 in 2007. Reach was the perfect combination of all the Halo's, and appropriately was Bungie's swansong for the series.

Halo 4 was a good first effort, but unfortunately 343 has dropped the ball since. They lost the narrative. Nothing is subtle anymore like Bungie was so good at storytelling-wise.

Bungie never needed to directly tell you what was happening... You knew from cinematics and subtle storytelling. 343 shoves it in your face like you are a lower functioning human that needs to understand Cortana was a love interest that was lost, then replaced...?!

Aside from a full reboot I'm not sure how Halo could recover.

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Grumblevolcano
Sat 20th May 2023

@Kaloudz Yeah, the fan favourite mode which appeared in previous Halo games (mostly at launch but 7 months after launch with Halo 5) is coming to Infinite 19 months after launch.

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BrilliantBill
Sat 20th May 2023

Ok now deliver us Firefight and at least it is a complete MP suite. I would dip back when Infection goes live.

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ParsnipHero
Sat 20th May 2023

Never understood the appeal of infection. They’ve done a interesting job of differentiating it from previous versions though.

I heard some leaks of Jeff Steitzers’ announcer voice lines for infection and we’re in for an absolute treat. That man is a legend.

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Krzzystuff
Sat 20th May 2023

I haven't played infection before so will definitely be giving it a go. Gotta say fiesta is the go to mode me and my buddies play most of the time. The BTB Fiesta with the white weapons was also a big hit in our crew.

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ParsnipHero
Sat 20th May 2023

@Krzzystuff the campaign (white) weapons are so much fun. Hydra & needler are mindless fun. I love it.

And those weapons are in arena 4v4 with super fiesta too!

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jamescrowx
Sat 20th May 2023

@Grumblevolcano
It's a new game in the series and like most of the companies, they not have to add every thing from old games.

So in this case it's better later than never, don't get me wrong I want firefights but it's not I think they have to make it.

Thats one of the downsides of sequels, sometime things we love not come to sequels for good and worse.

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AtlanteanMan
Sun 21st May 2023

Still waiting on splitscreen multi-player that doesn't require individual logins. Not that I'm holding my breath for 343 to do anything about it. The lack of splitscreen modes has absolutely nothing to do with technical limitations of the hardware and everything to do with their greedy business models and priorities that force users to buy extra systems and copies of the game.

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XsERTzX
Sun 21st May 2023

@BobCoffee I do agree. I feel I got a bit too wordy with what I want, but you hit the nail on the head. I want more methodical multi.

Original Halo and Halo 2, even pushing forward to Halo 3 and Reach... They had a pace of play that allowed "amateurs" to still hold their own when they had a team in play.

What I mean by that is a team of 4, communicating and able to disable a higher level team with communication alone.

That isn't the case now. A high level team will destroy me and my friends. I'm not salty about it... I know they are better! But I want the fun of playing the game without highly competitive pro players burying me and my friends every other game.

Halo 2 multi was the peak for me. I wasn't good at the game. I was the hanger-on in the group... But I felt like I did contribute to their success. That doesn't exist anymore.

I'm anti-social. I don't like talking to people. If you are nice? I will throw on the headset. But that is g'damn rare. Back in 2004 everyone had a headset and wanted to talk. Nowadays its people who have the best come-backs. The best come-backs win. I am not in that demographic. So I will remain silent.