I'm Done With Halo Infinite

so 343 has given us their latest update for halo infinite and a brand new road map don't worry guys these deadlines you can for sure count on this time the the last road map yeah that was a fluke with this latest 30 minute video by 343 industries it seems that for many all hope is lost for halo infinite let no joyful voice be harmed no man look up at the sky with hope that's the kind of vibe it feels like now before we get into my well-deserved rants let's calm down for a couple minutes nobody wanted 343 to fail when they took over halo from bungie except for maybe the playstation fanboys right but besides them i don't think anybody was sitting there like yeah i hope mcc has broken for three years and your childhood dream of playing combat evolved online just evaporates into [ __ ] lava every halo fan right now that is pissed off about the current state of infinite in 343 wants to be proven wrong every single thing i say in this video every every bit of criticism i want it thrown back in my face and i want someone at 343 to say ha ha loser you were wrong that's what i want i also want to mention that most of my complaints are squarely targeted at management at 343 and microsoft and also the previous leadership who were fired and or left 343 try to guess who i'm talking about the actual programmers and community managers the people doing the work on the front lines i'm sure are doing their best to make efficient consistent updates i have no doubt the teams are filled with talent and passion but talent and passion can't save a team if your head coach is a dumbass and he's calling the wrong place and not putting in the right players when he needs to what in the world you got a guy on either side of them what are you doing here i mean they don't even try to run a play i'm here to tell you that old act man is back and it's time to race for impact so let's look at the road map and the recent news and i'll try to give you a rundown without getting angry season 2 has been extended to last 10 months which now triples the length it was originally intended to be there will be a winter update so that 343 can technically make good on their promise of no more six month seasons season three won't be six months long if we just say it's season nothing for four months in this winter update we will get the forge beta campaign co-op mission replay a free 30-tier battle pass two new maps a match xp beta a new mode couple events and some quality of life improvements season three has officially been announced as echoes within because the echoes within me cannot stop screaming this will come with two new maps the return of the dmr a new piece of equipment purchasable hundred-tier battle pass custom game browser in-game reporting new modes narrative events and other things and this new road map of exciting content is all subject to change oh what the [ __ ] ever that's right because you can't count on 343 to make clear definitive deadlines for absolutely anything keep in mind this is a road map of what they're aiming for this is 343's best case scenario and it's causing everyone to abandon ship [Music] so now it's time for me to be angry two new maps in one year of life surface you serious right now you gotta be better come on now man this is crazy you gotta be better than that after a year and a half the game will get new sandbox tools that leakers have already discovered months ago and that's besides the point that they haven't even brought up any new vehicles oh we've seen the falcon in leaks but who knows when that's coming remember before the game came out and we knew the bandits were going to return and we thought to ourselves man imagine all the cool banished vehicles that are going to be in this game and it was the same [ __ ] that we've had before this is pathetic this is outrageous but we'll talk about the road map and content later a few days ago we heard from 343 community managers that big things are coming soon we are about to emerge from this cocoon and i thought they were going to do something crazy like boom here's a surprise forge launch go on go ahead folks you love it you love it go make some maps or here's a brand new update that completely overhauls the progression system hey guys we finally fixed the desync issue i expected something like that yes you emerged from a cocoon and what's inside a dead moth you emerged from the cocoon to do what exactly delay every feature that has been promised and to outright cancel a feature promised over five years ago get the [ __ ] out of here what did you think the reaction was going to be halo fans are an irate bunch i know because i am one myself but why is the fan base so up in arms this time why does it feel like it's the final straw how did fire 343 get trending on twitter if you've been following infinite since its reveal in 2018 it's impossible to articulate just how badly this game has been handled over the last four years and how disappointing it all has been i don't even know where to start the launch of infinite went exceptionally well for a few weeks and ever since then it has been straight down the gutter the proverbial nail in the coffin for me has been split screen co-op as being completely cancelled not twitter cancelled no actually cancelled what sorry you can't ever play this game with your friends or siblings or loved ones in the same room why the [ __ ] not that feature is not a priority for us at 343 industries sorry we misled you in this one foul swoop 343 you have finally and completely lost any and all trust and faith i had in you as a company as a brand and as the shepherds of halo again i want to be wrong about that this is a disaster and it's all on the shoulders of bonnie ross kiki wolf kill frank o'connor and phil spencer as well as any xbox and microsoft leadership involved with the production and planning for this game you all [ __ ] up you [ __ ] up bad you [ __ ] up so bad i can't even wrap my pea-sized brain around it you promised this feature to be in all halo fps titles moving forward you're a liar you promised that in 2017 after the backlash from guardians you're a liar your current ceo said this we didn't put split screen in with halo 5. i think it's incredibly painful for the community and for us you know i think and it erodes trust with the community as the community is part of our world building a lot of learnings from that um and i would say for any fps going out forward we will always have split screen in going forward um but painful learnings liar your previous creative director chris lee said that yes split screen co-op was a priority for infinite and then in 2020 he said yes co-op is gonna launch with the game so that was a [ __ ] lie for five years you have reassured us countless times that this is something you want to accomplish it's coming don't worry we hear you you haven't heard [ __ ] were you trying to pull a fast one you think we'd just forget that your ceo got up on stage and just [ __ ] lied to your consumers and fans of people like me who promoted this game thinking it was going to be the next big thing tell us what you know you goddamn liar getting my hopes up to play this game split screen co-op with whoever i wanted to try to relive the glory days you [ __ ] lied to me and what and what do you have to show for it nothing you have nothing else to soften the blow sorry i just kicked you in the dick i promise the pain will go away never before has this clip been more relevant every decision you've made led us from bad to us okay okay so you cancelled split screen co-op all right terrible news but you must have a spectacular reason for doing so i mean is this somehow going to save starving children in africa or that's what's the reason we have had to make the difficult decision not to ship campaign sports screen co-op and take the resources that we would use on that and go after this list and all these other things that we're going to talk about in just a second you are reallocating the resources for split screen to work on the live service excuse me are you trying to be a [ __ ] funny man with me right now do i look like i'm laughing you are the developers of the flagship video game series for a company that just dropped 70 billion dollars to acquire the biggest and most profitable game studios this side of the planet phil spencer just dropped 70 billion dollars to acquire activision blizzard as if he was just buying a car for his 16 year old son this deal was 10 times more expensive than what george lucas sold star wars for [ __ ] star wars and you're trying to tell me that you don't have the resources to produce features that debuted in 2001. was this game's development funded entirely by a back alley crack deal you blew it you had it all and you blew it you are you are on the [ __ ] box halo is on the box of the series x this was meant to be the landmark title for this new generation of xbox and you have [ __ ] it up i'm pissed because you lied to me okay because i was there defending you and hyping people up and i wanted this game to be great and i wanted bygones to be bygones and you know it's like yeah i'm passionate about these games i'm passionate and i'm gonna be mad when the developers don't meet expectations so many people were riding on this game thinking it was gonna be you know a big hit and it's like yeah i'm gonna be able to you know make halo content and really grow and thrive from that i hate that the halo content i make is is this the series x is meant to be the world's most powerful console and yet we can't even play your flagship title in the same [ __ ] room this is how you represent xbox this is how you represent microsoft game studios and if i was anyone worth my salt working high up on the food chain i'd be looking at 343 and asking myself whoa whoa whoa has anybody seen what is happening despite that i i appreciate that people at 343 haven't just like that the game hasn't just been canceled i mean maybe it's good maybe it's bad maybe just starting fresh would be good but i i don't know there's serious doubts around 343 and their ability to manage game development in a way that it is like basic like basic expectations even indie games don't have problems with creating a progression system yet multiverses and split gates just [ __ ] blow halo infinite out of the water you don't even have a progression system the incompetence has gotten so extreme it feels like this is a front like like tin foil hat maybe someone has actually infiltrated 343 in microsoft and has intentionally sabotaged the game like that that seems like a better explanation than just nobody there is working or you know maybe it's corporate deadlock and it's like hey can we make the game better nope run this update through 500 different people and then if one of them says no doesn't go through maybe it's deadlock but i i don't know if you don't think infinite is in dire straits right now think about this okay battlefield 2042 has more players on steam and offers a better live service than infinite the game that looked like this [ __ ] this is doing better than halo infinite the game i said was the absolute worst multiplayer fps title i have ever played in my entire life that game is doing better than infinite it's an embarrassment i'm not trying to be negative with these videos but this is how i feel ever like every positive thing 343 does is always overshadowed with 20 other negative things we have this drop pod that fixes aspects of the multiplayer but then oh yeah we also took out a lot of the fun things to do in the campaign now what really blows my mind are people trying to downplay the significance of split screen and its importance i mean you're not wrong it's not as common for people to play split screen as it was back in the early 2000s however i have seen so many people write comments like i played every campaign with my daughter in anticipation to play infinite with her and now i never will thanks 343 or yes i won't get to play this with my best friend and we are reliving the same exact thing that happened on halo 5's launch night this is a world where nothing is solved when someone once told me time is a flat circle even if split screen isn't as important as it used to be why are you okay with 343 lying to you we will always have split screen in going forward are you sure about that why why would you be okay with them making promises of what to expect then admitting they have no intention to deliver on those promises why are you okay with the game having fewer options and appealing to even less people why do you want halo infinite to be less accessible halo used to offer something for everyone and and that was before the meme it is a little something for everyone it truly did bang for your buck was a term thrown around up through reach halo had built up all these various communities and 343 has simply just been tearing them down one by one piece by piece grif ball get out of here forge don't care about your race kids get [ __ ] campaign co-op don't give a [ __ ] and they've just been tearing this franchise apart it's at this point of the video that i inform all of you i'm officially boycotting halo infinite cringe now before you cringe and roll your eyes yes i agree normally boycotting a video game is petty and unnecessary however it's only in this rare instance that i actually feel it's justified and warranted and i encourage anyone else who feels the same way as me to boycott the game as well don't go out of your way to like harass people that still play and have fun but just make this make the decision yourself i'm not going to play i'm not going to pay for anything i'm going to uninstall and i'm going to focus on other things that's what i'm going to do at the after this video until 343 and bonnie ross make good on their five-year promise to deliver split screen co-op uh into every halo fps moving forward always have split screen in i cannot in good faith support this company this game or continue to make content on it this might be the last halo infinite video i make nobody cares i don't care how impressive forge is i don't care how cool the wacky custom games are i don't care if halo infinite moving forward gets the best live service treatment ever until split screen co-op is made a priority like you said it would be i want no part of this this is all besides the point that fans have already discovered a glitch to play split screen that's right fans have to glitch themselves into campaign co-op split screen because 343 can't figure it out for some reason that just blows my mind it's like and people have shown it works on the xbox one so the idea that that like it's a hardware limitation it it gets harder and harder to believe that it's like what what are you doing making a mistake making a mistake making a mistake halo infinite is on track to have more delays than duke nukem forever the road maps get delayed the seasons get delayed the games get delayed we can't meet deadlines on anything we say we're going to and all we get out of these promises is just excuses we've given you every benefit of the doubt possible up to this point man it's just five years in development one year delay we didn't even know the title of this game until three years after guardians came out in the time a new halo normally would have already been released it's like how many chances do you get how many chances do you get we gonna is this gonna be another three to four year deal with mcc where the game is finally like at a reasonable place three years after launch is that where we're headed all we get are words and excuses we can't add more playlists because of ui limitations uh hold on one second why do you have ui limitations in a game you've designed from the ground up to be live service where was captain hindsight on that one we are discussing the feasibility of a slayer playlist nobody at 343 thought not having a slayer playlist was a good idea well clearly somebody did because the game launched three weeks early without one look i'm not saying it's impossible for halo infinite to make a comeback i'm saying it's improbable it's improbable that halo infinite ever gets the support it truly needs it seems on a foundational level the game is [ __ ] up the engine is [ __ ] up and the way they built the game around the engine is completely compromised the contracting issue means that all this spaghetti code has to be untangled and it's like a giant drawer of wires and that shit's gonna take forever to untangle i wanna see this game make a no man's sky or destiny type of resurgence i just don't think it's likely if if you ask for more time and you get it then you have to produce results you can't just keep dangling the keys in front of us shooty shooty that's the thing all these updates have bad news but without anything to compensate if you absolutely had to cut out split screen co-op then at least soften the blow with infection or two new maps or anything any desire i had to replay the campaign with friends has been pretty much obliterated because of how much [ __ ] drama surrounds this basic ass feature and even then this road map is subject to change they also had to delay the road map from january to april they they missed the deadline for a road map it's like this is a live service game and we don't know what the [ __ ] we're doing until april it just feels like 343 either doesn't listen to feedback or is completely incapable of making any legitimate changes based on feedback right when word first came out that infinite was going to have a progression system based solely on accomplishing arbitrary challenges we all said that doesn't sound like a good idea could you could you change that that was back in august and aside from the bare minimum changes to make progressing the battle pass actually feasible there's still no way to level up and gain xp outside of challenges we all played the flights in july 2021 and we heard that the color blue was gonna be five dollars and we wouldn't have any control over the armor coatings and creating our own colors we all said that should probably change with over a year to start addressing some of the most monumental and universal complaints what has 343 done to enhance the customization and move towards that idea of cross-court customization all barriers down what have they done visors the easiest thing they possibly could have made cross-court visors so great with a year under your belt you've effectively done 10 of what fans are asking for in this one category of the game now what about the stuff in the road map well if this was coming out a month before launch and this was season one and two it only last in three months i'd say it's pretty damn good i'm bummed that forge and co-op are delayed but i'm looking forward to it this road map coming nine months after release is unacceptable you're talking about the goal of achieving seasonality and we're nine months in you had six years to figure out how to achieve seasonality this is the story of the turtle in the hair except the hair never slowed down and the turtle keeps falling on its shell every five steps you were behind and i think the most the most baffling thing to me is the sheer lack of maps apparently not a single person in 343 industries current game development staff is capable of making a map using the tools they have apparently all the people at 343 are also incapable of taking someone else's map and being able to put it into the rotation for the multiplayer without breaking the game why where are the maps dude two maps in a year would be abysmal for a battlefield title but halo it's downright pathetic and the two new ones in november are gonna be forged so not even made with dev tools like how hard is it realistically possible to make a new map and put it in the rotation every two months whether it's a remake or something brand new how are the teams at 343 so underutilized and ill-prepared that new maps can only come every six months tell me [ __ ] man you people have already remade guardian and it's like that's that's the first thing in a long time that's really gotten me excited why can the fans remake guardian but you can't you know what i mean look at this graph comparing the post launch support of guardians to infinite and it's just like no contest and here's the thing even though i talked all this [ __ ] on guardians in the past i still played it a whole lot you know why because the updates were substantial even though i was displeased with certain aspects of the game the new content was interesting and fun to play around with if for a time that in mcc was broken you know the map rat race hardy labelle the lead multiplayer designer for combat evolved made rat race in a [ __ ] afternoon while he was learning the tools he would then use to make the other maps in his own opinion it's not a map he's necessarily proud of then what's the holdup at 343 just remake rat race okay let's get the easiest possible map halo has ever had and just remake it i'd take anything yes game development is hard but it can't be this hard because nobody else in the aaa gaming space seems to have this amount of dysfunction except cyberpunk and anthem and back for blood it's the biggest piece of dog [ __ ] actually a lot of other aaa developers have issues but it's like the mismanagement is off the charts right because they already had to take last spartan standing out of the rotation of playlists because of population issues so all the dev time spent creating that mode has basically just been wasted and that was the brand new game mode the focal selling point of this season that is supposed to last 10 months forge is the one saving grace of infinite and that's only because fans have been cyber hacking and making all this cool stuff not to mention that the custom games browser won't be launching alongside it so we don't even know if file share or custom games are going to be fixed in november i wager no mission replay is coming cool a level selector it's not really impressive it's kind of like saying hey guys we just launched the new pause feature now there will be a free 30-tier battle pass but what's funny is that the battle pass is made up of content and armor that daterminers discovered dataminers that dataminers discovered back in november it's just been finally released now match xp beta is not enough to expect this feature that has been implemented in literally every fps game with a progression system it's too unreasonable to think performance based progression would come a year after launch no we got a beta this [ __ ] how much xpd again is it too much is it too little we can't figure that out call it a beta i'm getting so sick of half-assed features being tested on us and then released i was fine with that before the game came out but it's like dude just just finish this [ __ ] i've never heard of a match xp beta or like a developer needing to flight or test a progression system after a game's full release covert one flag it sounds interesting i would probably be more interested in it if weapons like the pulse carbine were reworked to be fun and satisfying to use a couple events at least the yappening has cool modes but these events are of course ninety percent entirely focused on cosmetics and selling you armor in-game reporting i honestly thought this was already in the game but then i remembered that 343 has been asking players to submit tickets and complaints on a completely different website disconnected from the video game itself new narrative events ah i can't wait to continue the story of i'm a spartan you're a spartan let's go play multiplayer and arguably the worst part of this update is everything that wasn't mentioned which we can probably axe off the list completely playable elites get [ __ ] nah of course not greetings infection well we all joked they'd save infection for a halloween theme event but who would have guessed that that would be generous assassinations get real if only we could figure out how to monetize those and then maybe firefight [ __ ] man they haven't once brought up pve experiences or brought up the name firefight so that's probably not coming ever file share and theater fixes yeah no the theater's been broken in 343's games for 10 years that's not changing anytime soon custom games well i did ask 343 if customs would ever be fixed and they said yeah stay tuned that was six months ago i have stayed tuned and i have yet to get an update so i gotta wrap this up i've wanted nothing more than to be completely wrong about 343 and their ability to handle the franchise uh and halo infinite it looked like in 2018 this was the start of the redemption arc you know new slip space engine brand new console i had very little complaints from 2018 to 2021 in comparison to the levels of hype of what was being showed off for infinite still as a halo fan i won't ever stop loving the franchise it's baked into my dna ah but i've certainly stopped enjoying 343's spin on halo i'm supremely disappointed in at a loss for words at this point i'm not going to play this game ever again until split screen co-op returns i'll continue to make halo videos don't worry about that but i won't be covering infinite in the foreseeable future personally now i think it's best if the halo and paper mario fanbase come together and start their own support group so thank you all for watching this video um i i really dislike making super negative content like this but it's kind of necessary at times at least i don't like doing it for for halo because i've done that so much but this this is it for me leave a like if you enjoyed this video and subscribe to the act man for more awesome content alright everyone that's all i got for today this is the act man signing out peace

Channel: The Act Man

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Keywords: Halo, actman, the actman, the act man, Bonnie Ross, 343i, 343 industries, act man, halo infinite, halo infinite update, halo infinite roadmap, halo infinite forge, halo forge, halo infinite leaks

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Length: 27min 52sec (1672 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 14 2022