WE FINALLY KNOW What Happened To Infinite's Campaign, DLC, Story & MORE

Ex 343 Dev here. Now I work at Epic Games. Microsoft's contracting policies are single handedly one of the biggest issues that Halo faces. Can you imagine how difficult it is to do your best work knowing that they'll get rid of you in 18 months and there's nothing you can do about it? Plus that forces people out the door just as they become fully trained and competent at their positions. All of this just so they can have the luxury of being able to easily lay off employees when it suits Microsoft execs. A SIGNIFICANT portion of 343's workforce is comprised of contract workers (including the entirety of the old MCC team). The self inflicted brain drain is maddening to watch, and it's (in my opinion) why most Microsoft exclusive titles are seeing a downturn in quality. They've created a business environment in which the talent they should be trying to cultivate is being pushed out the door and is then nabbed by other studios.

What percentage of 343 is still on Halo Studios?

They have a literal producer in today’s studio talking about how they don’t want to work on a game that glorifies guns. They are all at fault. Top to bottom. New and old.

The "leadership" is Microsoft, the same Microsoft who are in charge of the "new" Halo Studios.
Time will tell if they've learnt anything.

I love Mass Effect, but the first 6 hours of ME1 are a DRAAAAAG. Even tho I've replayed ME1 an unhealthy amount lol

Halo infinite had so much potential but unfortunately developers don't know how to make games great anymore take space Marines 2 by far the greatest shooter game and story

Halo is dead my son…..let it die

Honestly, just everything involving the infinity if what I wished made it in the most

" Hey, we have some really neat ideas to flesh out a Halo campaign like never before. Do you want to take the time and focus necessary to implement them properly?"

"No, we are still trying to figure out how much we actually want to charge them for monetization, so we know what to lower the prices to after the community inevitably gets pissed on release.

The attachments becoming monetized micro transaction skins sounds gross enough to be true for sure. Someone actually looked at it and said, “wait we can charge money for that” after cutting 2/3rds of the content.

No one cares, halo is dead.
After the new announcement and seeing the black female with her haircut, I can see where this is going.

Sound like they cut more content than they left us with. More than 50% of the content cut. Thats actually really sad, they had the funding with Microsft that they could have made it truly magnificent, but they chose to shoot themselves in the foot, for the sake of making money on it sooner.

My key takeaway is that the main problem halo suffers from is its engine, and the inability to deliver content with that engine due to how hard it is to work with. Unreal could open up 343 (now halo studios) to truly flesh out all the ideas they have for the story, atmosphere, and overall gameplay.

When was it confirmed that we would never get story dlc.. Just curious idk why i was holding out hope🤦🏾‍♂️🤣

Imagine how bad of a game build it was that Joe had to demand another year, and we still got something that felt quite unfinished. Microsoft execs are insane

343 is such a joke

The original vision definitely would've been better, but it still seems lackluster to what it could've been.

Halo infinite's original it to revive prior content and story of older halos (CE to Reach), but in doing so neglected to revitalize any of the old content along with it.
•CE & 2 had easily the most iconic of rings amd ultimately defined the setting thus inspiration of them, their creepy atmosphere, and sentinels would be most ideal.
•3 had a level of grit that made the halo games feel increasingly more intense graphical which is contrary to the shiny new infinite provides. In addition it were we see the largest amount of brute items which banish gear should more resemble.
•Reach & ODST provided a massive litany of weapons that should've been revived (UNSC & Covenant) that would've provided unrivaled variety.
•Halo Wars 1 & 2 also provide a mass array in terms of vehicles, but also should've allowed more story wise as Spirit of Fire was the apex a FOB ops and directly tie into the story as well as the list of characters still active on the ring. What's more is the addition of Banished icons that should've been included as bosses and enemies like Colony and his Goliath & skitterers.
•4 & 5 while being blamed for the poor story development have brought unique perks such as the renewed Elite faction which could introduce playable elites and renewed covenant weapons priorly mentioned. Also unique vehicles like "thr Kraken".

Ultimately i think Infinite's issue wad the half measure it took instead of commitment we deserve. Even if content was segment by DLCs and season it would've been leagues better.

What happened to it? It's not what we wanted, it's mid, 343 will never listen to the fans and it's been 10+ years so don't expect them to do it now. Halo died with Bungie goodnight

Of course this kid wears an optic gaming jersey 😂😂😂

This whole video is just finding out your crush felt the same way a month after they moved across the country. I wholeheartedly blame Microsoft's executives in ruining what should've been a massive success. I came across a former 343's comment about cultivating talent and culture were not first and foremost is their construct and employees were spent as reloadable assets who were laid off after becoming proficient at their respective roles. I used to love Microsoft/ Xbox, but after infinite I find 3rd party AAA games are genuinely better and willing to listen to their audience. CDPR I'm looking at you and the otherworldly turn around of Cyberpunk 2077 into the criticality acclaimed fan favorite GGoaT. Halo Studios has a gargantuan task ahead of them. Infinite could've would've should've been the 10 year game you PROMISED

First of all I am a huge Halo fan I enjoy your videos but it seems the wokeness is still there if they don't get rid of those woke females they had representing Halo the game is going to fail again you could tell just by looking at them they are not real Halo fans it's time to fire all the woke idiots if we want to have a successful game

Please bro don’t get your hopes up

Dude if they stuck with their original plan the game would have been a banger

The game they gave us was dog shit

Getting rid of split screen entirely After saying it wouldn’t happen is the reason I still haven’t played infinite.

I missed you man I haven’t seen your videos in a while oh man but tbh I lost hope on halo a while ago and lost all hope when 343 changed their name 😭😭

If this is the case with so much, why didn't they just release Halo infinite As a two part game like in metal gear solid the game has so much in it it needs two discs to play

I'm already blaming the new dev management team for the newly announced game being presumably shit

This channel is my TMZ/Jersey Shore I swear xD

This lines up pretty well with the other games. Halo 4 was the best <quality> out of all of them from because Bungie was still watching over it somewhat and halo is their baby.

Halo 5 is basically a smaller scale version of halo infinite. In this light it’s almost surprising that we got what we did to Halo out of it.

Just because they have new leadership now doesn’t mean everything is finally going to be okay. In fact, in some ways it looks like things could go downhill even faster than before. I don’t have any hope left for the franchise but I will always have fun replaying the OG games over and over again. They can’t take that away from me.

I think a good dlc for Infinite would’ve be the release of the flood. Don’t each installation has a containment of the Flood?

That factions system is giving me Far Cry vibes.

Better or not at all sounds terrible because it all was designed around endless DLC‘s and Liv service architecture instead of story.

Sigh Microsoft really ruined this game badly. 😢

FYI maybe the new leadership aren't the old however they uphold the same traits, they're all activists and not pure game designers. They will push things onto us just like 343. So I still have little hope.

I completely forgot about the trailers having desert content and then never realized that never happened.

The dev teams not being allowed to work together is like a sports team not being able to train together. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!

I bought the game over playing on game pass because they said this was the last halo now that turns out to be bs

I was really hoping we'd get an eventual Flood...well ANYTHING in Infinite besides an easter egg and mention
Noone cares about the "endless" or whatever they're called

Did u say sins of the father at the? I really think it said sins of the prophet🤣 i think I've played that to much lately🫠

its crazy how the single most impactful franchise in my entire life is now just a complete mental afterthought, I lived for Halo, every pet name, phone pin, email address, password, etc were all halo themed. I bought every halo edition console, every single legendary edition game.

Now I see this and I simply just don't care. It's clear they stopped making Halo games for Halo fans.
Perhaps they can win me back, but I doubt it.

Doing full on STORY dlc is ALWAYS a TERRIBLE idea, all it does is either delay yhe game till its done, or it gorces them to repease an incomplete game, but they still want you to pay full price for it...

Who the hell signed off on giving the Masterchief a grappling hook? I was a Halo fan since the OG days of CE. Played all the games, religiously, read all the books and Chief was my favorite fictional character in any IP, but, the franchise has been going down hill ever since Bungie left. The same pattern happened with every game post Reach. Game is announced, I get ridiculously excited, buy the game at launch, play it, and then am extremely disappointed mostly by the convoluted disconnected attempt to tell a compelling story by adding a bunch of new BS. Like seriously who the hell cared about SGT Locke and all the other NOT spartans. Forward Unto Dawn, Halo Legends, and The Fall of Reach were exceptions to the disappointing games. The studios have forgotten the most important part of these games is the grand story behind them. The new Halo TV show was awful. I watched every episode hoping they would turn it around, and towards the end they kind of did, but by that point they had made so many changes to my favorite character, like I said, in any IP, that despite desperately wanting to enjoy it I couldn't. Hate to say it but I am no longer a Halo fan.

Thank you for this great analysis ! Just one question where is from the image at 25min36 ? I don't remember such a video in trailer or cutscene

This all sounds cool, but none of it is original, its all heavily drawn from other games. Breath of The Wild, Ghost Recond Wildlands, Far Cry Games, and previous Halo games. Sure this would have made Infinite infinitely better 😏, but I still see that serious lack in creativity visible in 343. You can't just copy other people's ideas, I mean you can, but your game will lack soul.

I would love to do testing for Halo again, Halo 3 testing was one of the best experiences in my life, and set me on my path. Build and play testing is my passion in life.

The facts is that it's like it miss an entire game between halo5 and infinite, a game that they "explain" in 5/6 rush audiolog, we could have the reunion with chief and arbie, another reach title, another separation with blue team and presentation of Weapon AI, we could have seen the change of armour of chief, the war with the AIs and cortana, they can do A LOT but insisted they jumped everything and give us an unnecessary open world halo with 0 story (literally if the game was normal all the story could enter in 2/3 mission of another halo game) no story about the Banished, no story about other character like Locke, Blue team, Arbiter, Captain Lasky or Halsey. They do a really big shit and call it "infinite" and it really pissed me off. So much potential put in the trash.

The Mass Effect Andromeda dungeon is nothing like a Bethesda style dungeon. The Andromeda dungeons were open spaces that were ancient and filled with high tech stuff, think Forerunner esque. You had a lot of choice as to how you did the dungeon, you could go in silent or go full dynamite and destroy the dungeon while leaving. Basically they weren't linear and quite expansive with alot of freedom.

This is sickening all the stuff I wanted is on this list 😢