Halo Infinite multiplayer

JohnMao said:
Is this game worth checking out? Or is it like a Battle Royale setup (Which I hate)? P2W at all?
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No battle royale or P2W, just good ol fashioned arena shooter, good time too because they added 4 new playlists last night.
 
Anyone else unable to play on local servers? With the non-SA IPs block I get ‘No ping to our datacenters detected’…
 
SpleenPoker said:
Same. Just decided to boot up the game after 2 weeks and I get the same error.
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Edit: Ah, according to the Halo SA discord, it seems last nights update put a stop to the workaround. Not sure what to do now, since I joined a game with 150ms. Pointless. They block access to the workaround but then don't correct the issue we had to use the workaround for in the first place.
 
SpleenPoker said:
Edit: Ah, according to the Halo SA discord, it seems last nights update put a stop to the workaround. Not sure what to do now, since I joined a game with 150ms. Pointless. They block access to the workaround but then don't correct the issue we had to use the workaround for in the first place.
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Ah lovely… well that was fun while it lasted.

Edit: official response from 343:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1491841880060878850
 
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Supercarfan said:
Ah lovely… well that was fun while it lasted.

Edit: official response from 343:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1491841880060878850
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Sigh, well maybe they will fix the matchmaking eventually so we can actually join the server on our continent.

Such a pity too, since Halo was the only multiplayer FPS I enjoyed since gaming back to PC gaming this year. Battle Royale just doesn't do it for me sadly.
 
Easy way to fix this is for them to geofilter everyone, progressively.

If you can't match enough players to form a match in region A within x amount of time, move them to region B. Do the same for players from region C. Everyone eventually plays in region B if they can't get matched to their nearest data centre...
 
Tried to play Halo for the first time in a few weeks and it keeps crashing when I open it, anyone else had similar issues ?
 
I've forgotten about Halo Infinite. Season 2 is probably out by now...any good or more of the same? Kinda miss it...
 
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I've forgotten about Halo Infinite and that post,
 
I've finally played it on console, felt smooth and didn't feel like there was lag but I wasn't sure if I was playing with bots or not.
 
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Halo Infinite’s Juneteenth Cosmetic Briefly Named After Ape, Sparks Outcry​

Last night, developer 343 Industries rolled out a Juneteenth-themed cosmetic option for Halo Infinite, its multiplayer shooter. For a moment, the affiliated Pan-African-themed colour palette was titled “Bonobo.” A bonobo, for those who don’t know, is an endangered species of great ape.

I do not need to tell you how abhorrent this is.

Halo Infinite, which is based on a free-to-play model, has its weekly “reset” — when a slew of new cosmetics and modes cycle into the game, meant to keep the grind feeling fresh — every Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. ET. This week, 343 Industries added a free but time-limited nameplate in commemoration of Juneteenth, a federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States.

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An individual familiar with the development of Halo, who spoke to Kotaku under condition of anonymity, confirmed that Bonobo is indeed an asset-editing program at 343. Though it was commonly used during the development of Halo 5, the studio moved away from its use during the development of Halo Infinite. But it exists. It’s popular among staff. And it would widely be known by many employees at the studio.

That’s what’s so mind-boggling about how this happened in the first place.

It’s unclear whether or not the Bonobo program’s name would get pulled automatically in the text field for the name of a colour palette. It’s possible that someone on staff punched in the name of the program as placeholder text, and the studio’s normal processes for quality-checks on this stuff didn’t catch it. (Jerry Hook, longtime head of design at 343, left the studio last month. Multiple sources familiar with Infinite’s development, all of whom have requested anonymity, have told Kotaku that Hook heads up the game’s cosmetic system.) Microsoft, Kotaku is told, has many quality checks in place before anything makes its way to a public-facing position.
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Halo Infinite: Slavery Skin contains a racial slur, 343I apologizes and corrects

343 Industries has recently published within Halo Infinite of cosmetic contents linked to Juneteenth, the annual commemoration for the end of slavery in the USA. A skin of a emblem it was called with a term deemed a racial slur. The team apologized for the mistake and corrected everything...
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Halo Infinite: Slavery Skin contains a racial slur, 343I apologizes and corrects​

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Bonnie Ross – founder and head of 343 Industries – apologized via Twitter, where she wrote: “We were pointed out that there was a color option for our Juneteenth emblem that contained an offensive term. The team immediately resolved. the problem with an update. ”

A second tweet it then served to explain that 343 is “a studio and franchise that is committed to inclusiveness, where everyone is welcome and given the support to be themselves. On behalf of all of 343, I apologize for making a time of celebration harmful. . ”

John Junyszek – 343’s Senior Community Manager – later explained that the name “Bonobo” refers to one internal work tool of the team. He also states that it was not their plan to use that term as the name of the skin.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1536874972609511424

Since I saw 343 accidentally named the Halo Infinite Juneteenth emblem as Bonobo. Here is literally the program that was in an old Bungie Vidoc.

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Bonobo is an internal tool they use. Should’ve been picked up, but was legitimately an accident.
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I think they went into PR mode when the name caused outrage. Something tells me that this wasn't an innocent mistake, but that someone thought it would be a good idea to denote the name to the program without thinking it through. Odd, to name Bungie so directly, someone panicked and tried to cast the onus. Anyhow, the armour has been renamed to "Freedom".
 
Fulcrum29 said:
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Halo Infinite: Slavery Skin contains a racial slur, 343I apologizes and corrects

343 Industries has recently published within Halo Infinite of cosmetic contents linked to Juneteenth, the annual commemoration for the end of slavery in the USA. A skin of a emblem it was called with a term deemed a racial slur. The team apologized for the mistake and corrected everything...
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I think they went into PR mode when the name caused outrage. Something tells me that this wasn't an innocent mistake, but that someone thought it would be a good idea to denote the name to the program without thinking it through. Odd, to name Bungie so directly, someone panicked and tried to cast the onus. Anyhow, the armour has been renamed to "Freedom".
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I genuinely think it was a mistake, I'm 80% sure something else with the same name showed up before.
 
Soul Assassin said:
I genuinely think it was a mistake, I'm 80% sure something else with the same name showed up before.
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It being a mistake is probable, but I am not convinced in the way they ‘proved’ their way around this. Quickly pointing to Bungie when Bungie was sold years ago, they could have renamed the tool since, and why use its name as a placeholder? It is poor quality testing all around. The racist connotation is also a bit reaching, but I can understand it within the slavery context which is a topic that needs to be handled with care. All the developers had to do was to apologise, no reason to involve Bungie by naming them as the tool's creator, and then they also had to elaborate that the tool isn't used any more though it was used in this case?

Maybe too many people at 343 are trying to explain the mistake. Just a odd incident, the case is already closed and the community has moved on to other issues in gaming.
 
They really should include some region selection options, the matchmaking is weird. People all over the globe affected. Very slow progress being made on that game which is odd, it's a great shooter.
 
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