Halo Infinite Hits Highest PC Player Count In Over A Year As Season 5 Lands

Feels like it's nothing but PC players these days. Playing with a controller has never been harder 😕 All the updates and still no option to play with Xbox gamers only...

@pip_muzz isn't there a way to be put in a pool with just controller users (be they on PC or console)? I thought there was when I was playing regularly, which is admittedly a long time ago, so I might be wrong. Or maybe it was only in ranked play.

@Markatron84 yeah it's only in ranked play sadly. Has been since the start.

where will the single player/coop maps be located?

Hoping 343 can turn it around. Still might be a chance of some SP content for Infinite

@pip_muzz That kinda requires a much larger install-base of active players so that by separating the PC and Console crowds the matchmaking still works well and fast enough. Infinite has been struggling over the past years, not to mention the regions where there are generally less Xbox and Halo fans. Maybe if they keep this recovery tour and reach some consistent 40-50K players they can do that.

@pip_muzz This isn't the case at all... controller is the superior option. Take the recent HCS finals for example. All setups have both KBM and controller inputs available, but the vast majority use controller. You could make an argument that Halo has been primarily a controller-based game and that would explain the preference, but even people who play on both PC and Xbox agree that the aim assist for controller is extremely strong. I never play this game KBM.

@pip_muzz are you serious? Controller is basically broken. The game LOCKS ON if you shoot anywhere near an enemy. And you'll land every single hit. And get 50% accuracy at least.

With mouse you get completely stomped on by controller players in 1v1 fights as youll struggle to land every shot against a strafing player where controller players will land every shot automatically

@Markatron84 @pip_muzz

Unless you're seeing something I'm not, they've appeared to have removed that option.

It is grayed out and locked to cross play.

First match last night immediately ran into cheaters on PC as well. Had a player flying around that was one shotting everyone with a sidekick the entire game.

@dreadful
That used to be the case. But after they added aim assist to mouse, earlier this year, that argument kinda went out the window. But that's to say nothing of PC hackers which still haven't been taken care of.

@InterceptorAlpha it's the option to disable being put in a KB&M pool I thought was there, not the option to disable cross-play entirely. You can do this, but only in ranked play it turns out.

Personally I've never had any issues playing against KB&M players on Infinite while using a controller; I'm not a pro player by any stretch of the imagination but I can hold my own just fine.

@Markatron84 Yes. It used to be an option. However it is grayed out and would not let me disable it. At least last night it was. Unless it was another bug they introduced and hot fixed today.

@dreadful @MaxC the both of you have misinterpreted my comment as one of Controller/KBM superiority. It's a question of choice. The fact that certain people (yourselves included) think one side favours the other is proof as to why there should be an option to choose who you play with.

@pip_muzz You should just play. Cheaters are rare and losing because of control choice is too.

Most people are just bad and blame the same "cheaters," "lag," "bad teammates," and etc. they've been blaming since Halo 2. Skill, friends to play with, and a mic (communication) are far and away the things that influence your experience the most.

@old-dad Unfortunately there no turning this around… The game is basically on live support at the moment. The developers have already started development on the next game.

@pip_muzz No misinterpretation, I agree with you on having the choice. I was specifically referring to where you stated "Playing with a controller has never been harder" - even across all FPS games, there has never been a game (that I can think of at least) which so heavily empowers controller players. Once again, just look at HCS: players have their choice of what to use and basically 95% of pros are using controller. Look at any other competitive FPS and I guarantee no one is opting for a controller in Overwatch, Rainbow Six, CoD, CounterStrike, Valorant, etc, even though all of those games have controller input options.

I just think it's reductive to say that it feels like "nothing but PC players" are playing when its most likely you're playing matches with controller users.