‘Halo Infinite’ Just Stuck An Energy Sword Into Battlefield 2042’s Back And Twisted

Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode released three weeks early when it dropped this Monday on the 20th anniversary of the original Xbox and first Halo game.

[Lightning77]

It's no secret MS is trying to be on top of the shooter world. With making slight digs and references to BF. In fact it probably explains why they dont have BF on gamepass day one. They want Halo to have the spotlight. Obviously since it's their game.

[ocelot07]

Microsoft have the advertising rights for battlefield. Why would they take digs at it?

[Thunder_G0d_Bane]

I’ve played both. Personally halo feels like it’s halo 3 all over again and I’m way past that now the game needs to evolve. The game feels like it’s stuck in the past.

Having a lot more fun with battlefield 2042 despite some of the bugs the specialists add an interesting dynamic to the regular class system.

[ChubbyBlade]

@Thunder_G0d_Bane

I’m going to strongly disagree. It feels like 3 but updated. It has a whole plethora of mechanics that were never in the old games that fit.

They tried to “evolve” it with 4 and 5 and everyone hated those.

As for the specialists, most people hate those. So you seem to have opinions most people tend to not hold. You say halo needs to evolve but then enjoy battlefield devolving. Curious.

[--Onilink--]

Its not like its MS’s call to determine if BF goes on gamepass…. They dont own the game

[Atticus_finch]

But they would be paying millions to have on gamepass.

[Lightning77]

Of course not, there were rumors the game would go on Gamepass which were false. They want their own franchise to shine obviously, despite tye game being advertised and marketed on Xbox.

[BenRC01]

Very different markets. One is a very accessible noob friendly arena shooter and one is a military (broken)battlefield

[DuckOnQuack35]

Lmao this Halo has a way higher skill gap than this cod game with battlefield name slapped on.

[SlothLordPootus]

@duckonquack That's a good way to tell us you've never played a battlefield game without telling us you've never played a battlefield game. Not sure what part of BF 2042 gives you COD vibes?

Nearly every shooter on the market has a huge skill gap. COD is the easiest to pick up and play, that's why it's so popular, but if you get in a lobby with longtime players, you're gonna get dunked on. That's just how video games work.

[DJStotty]

@BenRC01

"noob friendly arena shooter"

Halo is not noob friendly, your getting that confused with COD which implements lag compensation, and noob advantage.

You clearly have not played much Halo MP.

[BenRC01]

Someone gets the drop on you in halo you just bounce away and regen your shields. Very, very noob friendly.
Like quake 3 arena for children.
It's a very well built game and looks awesome on the sx, but they're definitely going for the low skill fortnite crowd.

[Atom666]

20 years in, and the same advice is true:

If you think that Halo is "noob friendly" (which really just translates to complaining of TTK), it means you aren't good at the game.

If I get the jump on you and you just "bounce away," it means I seriously messed up.

[z2g]

EA games on Gamepass usually show up a few weeks after launch

[thesoftware730]

Lightning,
Let me fix your first sentence.
"It's no secret that every company that makes shooter want to be on top of the shooter world ". Since that is in fact a truth, they all should be gunning for CoD.

When did MS takes digs at BF? you making shit up bro. EA Play is included with GP:Ultimate and with that you play EA games on Xbox first (timed demos and such) if you are subbed. They also have a marketing deal with BF, so again what are you talking about?

[Knightofelemia]

@Lightning77

BF being on Gamepass day one is EA's call not Microsoft's unless Microsoft hashed out a deal with EA to put BF on Gamepass day one. Meaning a boat load of cash to get EA's greenlight to put BF on Gamepass like Microsoft made to put B4B on Gamepass day one. It would be no different then if Tales of Arise went to Gamepass day one Microsoft would have to hash out a deal with Namco to get Namco to green light Tales of Arise day one on Gamepass. Only games that will appear on Gamepass day one are Microsoft owned titles. And what ever title Microsoft works out with the developers and publishers to have third party titles show up on Gamepass day one.

[darthv72]

FWIW, the decision to have BF in the service is up to EA and if they wanted to it would be in EA Play (which is part of GP). If you look in the EA Play section you will find other BF games.

[Blashted]

Own both games, while Halo's battle pass/playlist system needs overhauled, its miles better than 2042. Halo released without a slew of bugs and server issues where as BF2042 is a steaming hot mess. Portal is the only thing saving that game from falling into the depths of the bargain bin with the likes of CoD Vangaurd. Good to see Halo back on top, here's to hoping they fix the mess of a battle pass

[Urrakia34]

According to the BF2077 apologists, the day 1 patch is going to remedy most if not all problems and magically turn it into GOTY material. /s

[SlothLordPootus]

Game definitely should have been delayed. I'm still excited to play it tomorrow, though I'm a sucker for bf games.

[Michiel1989]

just like they said about Anthem ;)

[UltraNova]

Sloth, I'm a huge BF fan but there's no way I'll be buying/playing it on launch. 20 hrs with open beta left me with a bad taste.

I'll wait until they fix the audio and most of the game breaking bugs first - even if it takes months. As for specialists, I'm willing to give this system a chance.

[4Sh0w]

Is this just people looking for drama where there is none. EA released their game, Microsoft released the Halo MP to celebrate their 20th Anniversary thats all.

[Ashby_JC]

It is indeed a clickbait article. Both games can exist. It is not like BF fans are going to stop play BF because Halo came out and vice versa. Or I dont know people can play both. Especially being that one is free to play.

[Kurt Russell]

Playing Halo on PC and loving it. The battlepass is atrocious though... Although I would be surprised if they didn't make changes there. Nobody will be even halfway through before Season 2 drops... so no reason to keep spending that money,

[Michiel1989]

their battlepass doesnt expire as far as im aware, once you buy one you can get the rewards of it forever. if you buy the second one and the first one isnt done yet, you have to choose which to activate and make progress on while you are playing (as it should be for all bp's in all games). I might be wrong on this, but from what i remember they made a couple comments on this.

[4Sh0w]

Michiel1989
You are correct, they never expire and its a great way to handle a battlepass.

[Kurt Russell]

You're both correct. But that's not my complaint... mine is about the way you progress being locked behind challenges. You receive no experience from playing. So you could have a blinding match where you kill 20+ people, nail out overkills all kind of stuff. But because you didn't get a kill with (x) weapon (which is sometimes not even on the map) you don't get any experience.

I have sunk about 6 hours in so far and am level 3. It goes to 100... and typically the real good rewards are towards the end of the battlepass tree. If they drop Season 2 Battlepass, I won't have an incentive to buy in as I will be about 20% of the way through Season 1 content at this rate.

It not expiring is great, totally agree. But they need to have match experience adding to your unlocks if they want me to ever complete the 1st Season and buy in on another.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Hazard Zone has a ton of potential, and it pains me to think that the mode might not be supported if this game dies before the patches are finished in a year.

And where the Hell is the Dualsense support? Between that and the lack of ANY voice comms, this game feels like the most desperate attempt to barely launch a game in time for the holiday season.

This game could have been great if they waited a year to release it, and just scrapped the last gen versions (is anybody buying them anyways?!?).

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Oh, and Infinite is everything I’ve been hoping for since 2007, thanks 343i!

[rzac]

Last gen games don't have anything to do with it. The changes DICE decided to with game is what killing it right now. Only 6 new maps on release. Characters that have abilities tied into who your playing as resulting in you possibly having to constantly go into your loadout and switch to another character instead of having them set as a quickselect option. Main complaint is that classes are gone. Resulting in alot of people playing snipers running with ammo just for themselves. Teamwork in this game is completely gone. One of its main staples the destruction physics are bare minimal replaced by storms/tornadoes. Portal has a extremely limited selection of maps that are tied into separate game modes currently only 2 for each era. Not to mention this feels like C.O.D but not in a good way.

[generic-user-name]

I've noticed games with marketing rights on Xbox tend to not be too bothered with Dualsense support as opposed to those with PS marketing rights. Though to be fair it does have haptic support, just not trigger support.

[jukins]

Why would they obtain marketing rights only to launch halo infinite early days before the official bf2042 launch.

[VersusDMC]

Because they thought Battlefield was going to be Call of Duty killer this year and when the public thought the game was meh they decided to F them over.

And probably now that FFXIV is coming out on Dec 8 as well they want to get Halo MP out before FFXIV hype drowns everyone out.

[jukins]

Not necessarily sure the public feels that way. More ppl watching it on twitch than halo infinite and vanguard. I myself am enjoying bf2042 far more than halo infinite but that just because ive craved these large war battles all year. Halo is fine but it's more limited maps, guns things to do

But still all i was simply doing was bringing up the question of why they obtained the marketing for the game if all they were gonna do was have halo take away from the player base. Not that its a loss to microsoft but still wasted money

[Ashby_JC]

So in less then a week they (whoever that is) gave up on Battlefield 2042 before it even officially launches on the 19th.

Games will sell for years on end they dont give up on games less then a week LMAO how old are you?

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Return of the King 👑!!

[bestofyou]

meh, BF2042 for me. Halo has never interested me at all.

[King_Noctis]

Have fun playing a broken game.

[bestofyou]

Ok you act like no games have issues at launch. Have fun playing an HD version of an old game with nothing impressive aside from a new paint job.

[iplay1up2]

Halo is free to play. If you have a PC or an Xbox, it is absolutely worth at least checking out.

[bestofyou]

The gameplay is boring to me, I played once with a friend and it wasn't fun at all.

[King_Noctis]

"Have fun playing an HD version of an old game with nothing impressive aside from a new paint job."

So what's new about BF2042? Do you even have leaderboard or score? And where is the server browser and team deathmatch? And why does the game has no spectator mode and no class system? Why does it have less weapons than older games?

Please tell me.

[bestofyou]

Oh Im not defending the problems wrong with it. But its does a lot of newer things than what halo has done. Larger maps, more players, actual environment destruction, better vehicles, better visuals, better replay ability and more game modes.

Halo remember you loved it 20 years ago and it was fun? Yeah its the same thing we just enhanced the resolution and updated the graphics. But you know it's halo! Please play it.....Please.

[King_Noctis]

When people buy Halo, they want to play a Halo game. They don’t buy Halo and expect to go in and play a CoD of BF game. And when it comes to BF2042, the dev made it lose its identity. You wonder why BF2042 got tons of low reviews score? And why Halo Infinite multiplayer got ton of praise?

Are we sure you are hating Halo not because it is a “bad” game, but because it is from the EVIL LORD that is Microsoft? Because based on your old comments, you love everything Sony.

[bestofyou]

And why Halo Infinite multiplayer got ton of praise? Because its finally released after the long delay and it's Halo. So you went back and looked that I like sony games...I have a gaming PC too that I could easily play this on if I wanted to.

[1nsomniac]

After hearing Halo was released I downloaded it last night, thought I would give it a quick go I'm not really a Halo MP guy, more single player when it comes to Halo games. Had a quick couple of games then played 2042. Only to want to go straight back to Halo instead. If anything its a far more polished game out of the two, I was pretty impressed by it, and I haven't been impressed with BF at all this year.

[DeadManMMX]

They also kind of undercut Forza Horizon's run but I see why they did it. Xbox launched with Halo 20 years ago. The original goal was to launch the system with the game just like the original XBox. That didn't work out. It was nice symmetrical way of celebrating. Horizon is good enough it will continue to thrive and grow. If Battlefield is good enough so will it.

[headshotfrosty]

Agreed but I think the strategy will help both games and XB brand. Two different genres so it gives folks like me something to swap between. Now they need a killer next gen RPG to launch.

[Petebloodyonion]

So ok MS's secret launch took EA by surprise because their will game launch on the 19th of November but they secretly launched earlier on Early access?
WTF is the author smoking?
Here's a simple explanation
BF2042 is currently a mess while Halo isn't thus having more ppl interested the working option.
See not complicated

[anast]

BF was already facedown...it couldn't have been easy...

[EazyC]

Sony need to enter the FPS fray again. Third party devs are shitting the bed hard, and MS is really bringing the goods. Halo looks great!

[Harryvok]

I think Battlefield and COD both being incredibly average this year will help Halo, which would have been popular anyway.

Admittedly I've never been a big Halo fan, but I'm not quite understanding the super hype after having played some games the past couple days. It really feels like it could be Halo 3 multiplayer with a new skin. Weapons don't feel weighty. Animations are average. Overall graphical fidelity very much looks rooted in last gen (yes, i know it's cross gen). Plus the battlepass is terrible. Maybe you just have to be a big Halo fan to appreciate it all. I've always disliked the hip fire gameplay of Halo.

[Father__Merrin]

Every halo ever released is always the best halo ever

[ChubbyBlade]

You must have missed the past decade.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

A corridor shooter vs a large-scale war. Totally comparable.

[frostypants]

No, Battlefield 2042 stabbed itself by being a bad BF game. Halo is a totally different type of shooter.

[Mulando]

Well, they did, indeed, but on the other hand, Battlefield and Halo have very different multiplayer modes. While Halo is more "few player deathmatch"-driven battlefield is much more "many players conquest"-driven. They can very well co-exist.