On November 15, 2001, not only did Microsoft’s first Xbox see the light of day, but also the first Halo. The Shooter brand subsequently became the flagship product of the new console and the Master Chief is still considered the mascot of Microsoft’s games department to this day.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary, Microsoft came up with a real surprise: Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode is now playable – for free! Officially, it is still a beta, but it already includes all the content of the multiplayer mode and even the Battle Pass of Season 1.
Everything at a glance:
Halo Infinite: What’s in Free-2-Play Multiplayer?
If you want to play Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode, all you have to do is download it – you don’t need to purchase the full version or subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The campaign, however, will still not appear until December 8th and must be purchased beforehand.
Download: Where can I download Halo Infinite?
The free multiplayer mode is available in both Microsoft Store as well as Steam.
Size: how much memory does Halo Infinite use?
You need to download around 24 gigabytes for multiplayer mode.
Features and Scope: What’s in Halo Infinite’s Multiplayer?
You get that full multiplayer mode including all game modes and maps. So this is not a stripped down version or a trial version. Instead, you can use all functions except for the single player campaign, which we will talk about at the end of the article.
Our first impression of Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode was a few months ago, but it made us want more:
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Halo Infinite could become the best multiplayer shooter of the year
Cost: How is Halo Infinite’s multiplayer financed?
The MP part is to be financed primarily through microtransactions that can be made in the in-game shop. There is also a battle pass system. With the release of the multiplayer beta, the starting shot for Season 1, the title Heroes of Reach
wearing. You can find more information about the Battle Pass in the following section.
Battle Pass: how much does it cost and when does it expire?
The Battle Pass contains on the one hand free content, but on the other hand also a premium version, which according to the current status 10 US-Dollar costs target. This allows you to primarily unlock various cosmetic content, including new weapon tags, armor items, effects for your armor and much more.
Unlike in comparable games like Call of Duty: Warzone you can continue the Battle Pass at any time – even after the end of the season. So you are not under time pressure to complete the various challenges of the Battle Pass. A decision that was well received by the fans in advance.
Duration: How long will Halo Infinite Season 1 last?
Die Season 1 Heroes of Reach
runs until May 2, 2022. Originally, the seasons should only last three months each, but the developers now want to take a little more time to complete the content of the second season. For this reason, the first season is running a little longer than originally planned.
What are the numbers of players?
A Look at SteamDB shows: Halo Infinite got off to a great start and at least at the beginning a complete success.
On the morning of November 16, 2021, just a few hours after the release of the Free-2-Play multiplayer mode, they are still playing over 200,000 people Season 1 of Halo Infinite. At its peak, there were already over 270,000 Master Chiefs who chased their way across the maps.
Interest in the shooter also seems to be enormous on Twitch. Above 250,000 spectators followed the first matches on the streaming platform, here too the number has remained quite stable so far.
Still, it will be interesting to see how player and audience numbers develop over the coming days and weeks. Only then will it be seen whether Halo Infinite has what it takes to compete alongside MP colossi like Battlefield 2042 and CoD Vanguard over the long term.
How do players rate Halo Infinite’s multiplayer?
Numbers are all well and good, but what is even more important is what the people themselves say who are already playing Halo Infinite. So we’ve got through that already over 5000 reviews currently rooted for a mostly positive
Overall rating care for.
What is praised?
The gunplay, the sound effects and the apparently very balanced movement, which are important for an MP shooter, have met with positive feedback from many players. Of the Steam-User RIK
says about this:
The gunplay has turned out really good, the sounds have a lot on the box and the movement is really well solved all around, also in terms of sprinting. Not too fast and not too slow!
The technology also seems to be running very smoothly – in contrast to Battlefield 2042 – according to this review:
The game runs great in terms of performance, but you should set the Minimum FPS
set to 120, so I really get this FPS and not like before spongy ~ 70. In general, there are countless PC-specific settings for PC gamers! Really well implemented 🙂
[…]
The servers run extremely well, no in-game problems despite the huge onslaught, only rare crashes when a game is found, but it is not tragic that simply restarting it for a short time.
Incidentally, in Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode, you can finally test whether the mouse and keyboard or the controller are better suited for shooting:
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Halo Infinite: “PC vs. Console” becomes its own mode
What is being criticized?
No opinion would be complete without also naming the negative or criticized aspects of the multiplayer part of Halo Infinite. Because there are also quite a few reviews that are still rather critical of the game and currently do not recommend it.
This includes, for example User Faunts
, which allows the game to have some good features such as gunplay, but the bottom line is that it does not want to make a recommendation, mainly because of the in-game monetization:
Vehicles are weak and useless in the sandbox. In most cases, it is more useful to get around on foot.
No matter how much I enjoy the gameplay, and if it does [der Entwickler] 343 has finally listened to what the gamers wanted them to do, it’s the business model that pulls it all down. It wasn’t enough for them to add new things and put a price tag on them, they even took simple things like color schemes and turned them into another source of income. Sure, we still have access to six basic colors, but that’s it. No more custom colors, no choice, no freedom.
Ultimately, however, you should form your own opinion: Just play it yourself, after all, trying it out won’t cost you a cent.
What about the Halo Infinite campaign?
The Halo Infinite campaign is not part of the Free-2-Play offer and has not yet been released. Here it stays with the planned release date: On December 8th, the Master Chief is only allowed to go out again. Not completely, however, as the co-op mode will be missing when it is released:
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Halo Infinite: Two modes are missing for the release
The Forge, in which players can edit the Halo maps and create their own modes, is not yet part of the package at the beginning. This will only follow at a later date.
Now the question is: do you fancy the Halo Infinite multiplayer? Are you going to try it out or are you going to leave the world of Halo completely cold? Please write us in the comments!
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