Halo Infinite season 2 off to “bumpy” start, 343 Industries says
Halo Infinite‘s second season of content, dubbed Lone Wolves, launched Tuesday, and developer 343 Industries admits it got off to a “bumpy” start.
While players have had positive things to say about Halo Infinite‘s new maps (Catalyst and Breaker), silly new unlockable cosmetics, and new multiplayer modes King of the Hill and battle royale-esque Last Spartan Standing, buggy challenges are souring the launch of season 2. Players didn’t want to see exploits fixed. The in-game weapons started to jam ,, which you don’t really want in multiplayer shooters.
Joseph Staten, head of creative for Halo Infinite, and John Junyszek, senior community manager at 343, both took to Twitter on Thursday to assuage fans’ anger and say they’re listening to criticism.
“Hey Spartans! This week has been rough,” Staten stated . “That definitely wasn’t our goal. Your feedback is being taken into consideration, particularly in relation to speedrunning and map jumping. We’re reviewing options and will have more news to come.”
With Tuesday’s update, 343 Industries wiped out well known glitches used by campaign speedrunners — including the perplexing removal of the ability to hijack the Pelican — and certain multiplayer movement techniques and skill jumps used by high-level Halo players. While the latter was communicated ahead of season 2, it wasn’t a welcome set of changes.
“Everything I enjoyed about this campaign that I’m excited to use when the co-op launches later in the year. “Gone”, said Mint Blitz, a long-time Halo player .. The YouTuber may have shown Master Chief on HaloInfinite s open world map. He also used early exploits to launch it Breath Of the Wild -style. Mint Blitz also criticized multiplayer movement changes, saying, “Nobody asked for this. For all of these changes
“We’ve seen the feedback around changes that impacted various multiplayer jumps and campaign speedrun strategies,” Junyszek said on Twitter. “We’re not at the point where we can promise anything yet, but want to be transparent and say that we’re taking the feedback seriously and reviewing options internally.”
Whether 343 will work to bring those enjoyable exploits back remains to be seen. The studio will at least try to ease the pain of the bumpy launch week. Halo Infinite players will get five XP Boosters and five Challenge Swaps if they log in while the ongoing Interference event is live (that runs through May 16), and Junyszek says 343 will be “reducing the difficulty of some Event Challenges and making it so that completing them earns you 2 levels on the Event Pass.”