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General Information
Release Date: November 15th - Multiplayer | December 8th - Campaign
Developer: 343 Industries
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
Genres: First-person shooter
Modes: Single-player, multiplayer
Free to Play: Multiplayer (Campaign paid for)
Platforms: PC | Xbox One | Xbox Series X|S
Availble on the Windows Store and Steam on PC
Included with Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass on PC
The Story
Welcome to Zeta Halo, home to countless forerunner mysteries and now a battlefield for UNSC and Banished forces. Wake up again as the legendary SPARTAN-II Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 and put boots on the Halo ring to quell the Banished occupation.
UNSC
The United Nations Space Command (UNSC), is the military, exploratory, and scientific agency of the Unified Earth Government. They are the major Human faction in the Halo Universe and the faction of which The Master Chief is a part of. Before the events of Halo Infinite, the UNSC forces already present on Zeta Halo were defeated by the Banished who arrived on the ring.
THE BANISHED
The Banished are a mercenary faction that broke away from the Covenant Empire. Led by Atriox but the Banished contingent on Zeta Halo are under the command of a Brute War Chief called Escharum. The Banished are made up of a number of alien races, such as Brutes, Elites, Hunters, Grunts, Jackals, Hunters and others.
THE CREATED
The Created are a faction of rogue artificial intelligences founded by Cortana and the Warden Eternal. They believe themselves to be the rightful Reclaimers instead of Humanity. Their goal is to assume the Mantle of Responsibility with the help of Guardians and Promethean forces they have requisitioned.
Other new foes also call Zeta Halo home, such as the Shock Rifle wielding Skimmers and the mysterious Harbinger. As the Master Chief, set foot on another Halo ring along with your new AI companion "The Weapon" and face foes old and new.
Campaign Gameplay
When all hope is lost and humanity's fate hangs in the balance, the Master Chief is ready to confront the most ruthless foe he's ever faced. Step inside the armour of humanity's greatest hero to experience an epic adventure & explore the massive scale of the Halo ring.
EXPLORE
Throughout the campaign of Halo Infinite, you'll be able to explore huge areas of Zeta Halo and tackle a variety of tasks aside from the main story. These tasks can vary from tackling challenging members of the Banished to capturing Forward Operating Bases (FOBs). Divert from the main path to your next objective and discover weapon caches and more to give you the edge in your next mission.
BATTLE
Wield classic Halo weaponry as you face the Banished on the surface of Zeta Halo. Classics return such as the Battle Rifle and Needler,
while new weapons like the Commando and Skewer allow for new ways to take out foes. All of this, mixed together with vehicles such as the Warthog and Ghost make Halo Infinite a game where you can approach encounters in a vast number of ways.
UPGRADE
Completing missions and various objectives on Zeta Halo will give you various rewards, once such rewards are Spartan Cores. These allow you to upgrade different systems of Master Chief's Mjolnir Armor such as the Shields, Thrusters and even new attachments can be upgraded with electrifying results such as the Grappleshot.
At launch Halo Infinite's campaign will only be playable alone (Single Player) but 343 have said Co-op will be coming in roughly 3 months after launch.
Multiplayer
Your story, your Spartan. Halo's celebrated multiplayer returns, reimagined and free to play! Seasonal updates evolve the experience over time with unique events, new modes and maps, and community-focused content.
A new introduction to the Halo Universe via a training academy will ease new and returning players into the gameplay of Halo Ininite, led by Spartan Commander Laurette Agryna. Additional training modes will let you fight against bots and practice your skills with specific weapons in timed trials.
ARENA
Halo returns to its roots with fair starts, on-map equipment, and 4-player squads to offer the ultimate arena-shooter experience.
BIG TEAM BATTLE
Create endless combat possibilities by mixing and matching a rich variety of weapons, vehicles and equipment to experience big-team mayhem and fun that embraces the full spectrum of the Halo sandbox.
Additional features such as Theatre mode return to allow for post-game replays and cinematic filming of your favorite moments. Custom games with friends, in which you can control the settings, maps and more returns as well. Forge Mode will not be available in Halo Infinite at launch but is due ~6 months after launch. Expect a slew of community made maps soon after.
Multiplayer Customization
As you progress through Halo Infinite's multiplayer, you'll gain XP and progress through a Battle Pass. You'll unlock a slew of different armor options, coatings, weapon skins, vehicle skins and more to give your Spartan a unique flare.
Halo Infinite boats a huge amount of armor customization options:
Armor Core
This changes the base armor/suit for your Spartan and allows you to use different sets of armor. In Season 1 of Halo Infinite you will have access to the Mark VII [Halo Infinite], Mark V(B) [Reach] and Yoroi [Samurai] cores all with different cosmetic armors you can unlock.
Armor Coating
A new color system for Halo Infinite, it allows for more unique separation of colors across the armor such as one arm being red or adding additional colors for more detail.
Helmet
A vast array of brand new and old favorite helmets return for you to earn and equip.
Other elements of customization are gloves, shoulders, kneepads and visor colors. Giving you a large amount of options to make your Spartan unique to you.
Battle Pass
All players of Halo Infinite will get access to the Battle Pass. For all tiers of the Battle Pass it will need to be purchased but you can always purchase it in the future or apply future seasons XP to any Battle Pass to still progress in it and get its rewards at any time.
The initial Season 1 Battle Pass of Halo Infinite will allow all players to claim emblems, visor colors, weapon attachments and a selection of armor pieces. Players with the paid version of the Battle Pass will get even more of the above including Seasonally themed gear; for Season 1 specifically, this includes a huge slew of Halo Reach armor for the Mark V core.
What's Next?
With the surprise early release of Multiplayer on November 15th, everyone has been playing the Free To Play Multiplayer. The first season "Heroes of Reach" went live and we've all been progressing through the Battle Pass. After a somewhat tumultuous period within the community regarding the Progression and other elements of the Multiplayer suite… we've now arrived at the launch of the Campaign.
While the Campaign is only single player to begin with, co-operative modes should arrive in early 2022. With the release of the campaign you can also expect more links to multiplayer with additional cosmetics being found in armor chests across Zeta Halo.
343 have already announced a flurry of upcoming updates to the Multiplayer suite with additional playlists and events coming before the Holidays. Until then, we have a chunk of Zeta Halo to explore with the release of the Campaign today.
We also know that later in 2022 we can expect Forge Mode to be released for all players.
Media
Video 1 - Halo Infinite | Campaign Launch Trailer
Video 2 - Halo Infinite | Campaign Overview
Video 3 - Halo Infinite Competitive Settings Reveal
Video 4 - Halo Infinite | Multiplayer Season 1 Cinematic Intro
Other Threads
Halo Infinite Review Thread
Halo Infinite Campaign Story Spoilers and Lore Thread [OPEN SPOILERS]
Halo Era Community OT
A message from the OT creator
If any of you missed the original OT go check that out and specifically anyone interested in reading about my retirement from posting OTs can also read my creator comments over there. But today is a day of celebration, we're all about to control the Master Chief for the very first time on Zeta Halo in only minutes after I post this second OT.
Shoutout to Terbinator who was the runner up in the OT Title poll and gets to have their suggestion of "Craigslist" sit proudly as the title of OT2. Thanks again to Kratos2013 for the suggestion of "Comeback Evolved" which will go down in history as the title for the original OT that ran from the Multiplayer Launch to the release of the Campaign.
Final fun little fact for you all, this version of the OT is actually exactly what my intended vision for it was, it is very very similar to what was posted in the first OT but this time we don't have the dates and coming soon info blocking a few sections and divining them. I'm also, personally, against splitting the Halo OT's into two as I feel like Halo is a fully connected experience and we should be able to communicate about the whole package in one OT. However, I do hope to see a "Open Spoiler Thread" pop up soon and when it does I will link to it in this OT... or maybe it will already be up by the time I post this and this sentence will just be totally redundant.
Thanks all and have fun exploring Zeta Halo - I know I will!
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Collab OTs:
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order | Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
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Collab OTs:
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order | Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
What to do while waiting for the campaign to download?
Listen to this... you won't be disappointed:
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So..... I have a question. I have gamepass for PC but I installed the multiplayer in steam. Since it all connects to the same place (I installed the game through gamepass and it just loaded everything like it was from steam), could I technically just launch the game through steam and it would recognize I have gamepass? And then I can play campaign? Because it's kind of a DLC right?
It's been six years since the last Halo. By normal timeline standards, this would be Halo 7. But i'm all here for this new journey for this beloved franchise.
LETS GO
LETS GO
Halo 5 MP was fine but man Halo Infinite Multiplayer just hits for me...I dont play alot of MP anymore but I can see jumping in a few every so often here
GP pre-load has been up on PC for a little while now I think, I just noticed it 10 minutes ago.
The only silver lining of having COVID is I'm home with nothing to do but play this campaign. Let's go!
Good stuff. Finished my multi-player weekly challenges last night so I can all-in the campaign for the next few days
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