“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.” “We’ve seen the feedback around changes that impacted various multiplayer jumps and campaign speedrun strategies,” Junyszek said on Twitter. Mint Blitz also criticized multiplayer movement changes, saying, “Nobody asked for this. You may recall the YouTuber’s video in which he launched Master Chief across Halo Infinite’s open-world map, Breath of the Wild-style, using early exploits. “Everything that was fun about the campaign, that I was excited to try when co-op releases later this year? Gone,” said longtime Halo player Mint Blitz in a YouTube video. While the latter was communicated ahead of season 2, it wasn’t a welcome set of changes. 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. We’re reviewing options and will have more news to come.”

We are indeed taking your feedback to heart, especially regarding map jumps and speedrunning. “Hey Spartans, this week has been bumpy,” Staten said. 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. In-game weapons also started jamming, which is something you really don’t want in your multiplayer shooter. There have also been fixes to exploits that players didn’t actually want fixed. 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. We wanted to add our own flair while staying true to the 20 years of history.Halo Infinite’s second season of content, dubbed Lone Wolves, launched Tuesday, and developer 343 Industries admits it got off to a “bumpy” start. “We wanted to get back to the legacy designs that made Halo characters iconic, but we didn’t just want to just up-res them. “Like mentioned, we really relied on the designs of the past,” Repka continued. As a result, “every character in Infinite was redesigned in some way,” Repka said. Halo Infinite’s campaign character art lead, Bryan Repka, added that 343 Industries knew early on that it wanted to “spiritually reboot” Halo’s characters, and doing so meant taking a look at every single character in the franchise. In terms of which part of the legacy we looked to for inspiration, we settled most around the Halo 3/Halo: Reach timeframe and then incorporated the Banished aesthetic where it made sense along with the Halo Infinite art direction.” “One of the best examples of this is the Elites, Grunts, and Jackal who all have a much more ‘legacy’ design to them than we had in Halo 4 or 5. “The spiritual reboot actually made it easier for us to incorporate some more legacy designs into the characters,” Halo Infinite character and combat director Steve Dyck writes in the blog post.

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