Halo Infinite (XB/PC/Cloud/Game Pass) - Big Update out now.

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Here’s a quick overview of what you can expect in Social Arena each day, with new additions bolded:

Weekend 1 (September 24-26)

Friday, September 24 @ 6pm-10pm & 1am-5am BST
Slayer on Bazaar, Live Fire, and Recharge

Saturday, September 25 @ 6pm-10pm & 1am-5am BST
Slayer on Bazaar, Live Fire, and Recharge
Capture The Flag on Bazaar
Strongholds on Live Fire and Recharge

Sunday, September 26 @ 6pm-10pm & 1am-5am BST
Slayer on Bazaar, Behemoth, Live Fire, and Recharge
Capture The Flag on Bazaar and Behemoth
Strongholds on Live Fire and Recharge

Weekend 2 (October 1-3)

Friday, October 1 @ 6pm-10pm & 1am-5am BST
Capture The Flag on Fragmentation

Saturday, October 2 @ 6pm-10pm & 1am-5am BST
Capture The Flag on Fragmentation
Total Control on Fragmentation

Sunday, October 3 @ 6pm-10pm & 1am-5am BST
Capture The Flag on Fragmentation
Total Control on Fragmentation
Slayer on Fragmentation

The full suite of Arena content will be available throughout all play sessions of Weekend 2 (October 1-3). We hope you’re ready!

Please note: We have discovered a few items we still need to chase down for Training Mode. As a result, it may or may not be available during the flight. Rest assured, the team is working hard to try and bring this experience online as quickly as possible.

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Hi Everyone,

In yesterday’s live stream we mentioned that there was an issue that might delay our Multiplayer Tech Preview. Well, the issue was this: we unintentionally included a group of concept art files in the Tech Preview build.

To be clear: none of these images spoil the Halo Infinite Campaign that you’ll get to play on December 8th. Indeed, we’ve already shown some of these images in previous blog posts.

This art represents a wide range of ideas that we explored early in pre-production and that we planned to share at a later date, as part of Infinite’s pre-launch promotion and other initiatives such as the upcoming “The Art of Halo Infinite” from our partners at Dark Horse (check out some sample excerpts below). For a time, we used these images as loading screens for internal studio builds—and that’s how they accidentally ended up in the Tech Preview build.

Rather than delay the flight, we’ve decided to share all the files with you now. Call it an unplanned “Happy Tech Preview Day!” gift. So, please enjoy this collection of beautiful art from 343 Industries’ incredibly talented concept art team.

TRAINING MODE
A new addition to the action, and a first for the Halo franchise, will be Training Mode. In Training Mode, you can load into a solo sparring session against Bots on the Arena map of your choice.

To help you focus on what you’d like to improve, you can customize the following options on the fly, mid-match:

Bot Difficulty
Number of Friendly Bots
Number of Enemy Bots
Weapons (Primary & Secondary)
Grenades (Primary & Secondary)
Equipment
Reveal Enemy Location
Playfighting
Infinite Ammo
Deathless

Over the course of your training adventures, you’ll be able to choose from all Arena maps available in the build as they arrive. So, when Behemoth is be added to the Preview on Sunday, you’ll be able to dive in.

WEAPON DRILLS
The ‘how’ is often just as, if not more important, than the ‘what.’ For those of you that joined us in the last tech preview, you’re likely familiar with the races for top scores with the S7 Sniper Weapon Drills all over Twitter. We’re extremely excited to see more of you enter the fray and push those scores as high as they can go.

Of course, you can take the time to learn the new weapons at your disposal, so you can come up with ideas of just how you’re going to put them all to use to maximize the number of Spartans you slay in any given round.

This time around, you’ll have access to the following Weapon Drills:

MA40 AR
BR75
MK50 Sidekick
CQS48 Bulldog
Needler
VK78 Commando
S7 Sniper
Plasma Pistol
Pulse Carbine
Ravager
Heatwave
Skewer
Shock Rifle

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BTB wrote:Managed to play a bit over the weekend, only against bots but it was good fun! Is it confirmed if there will be a free to play aspect of this? Or was that just a rumour from a while back?

more heat than light wrote:

BTB wrote:Managed to play a bit over the weekend, only against bots but it was good fun! Is it confirmed if there will be a free to play aspect of this? Or was that just a rumour from a while back?

Halo Infinite online is totally free to play. Campaign free via Game Pass.

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World premiere gameplay of Halo Infinite competitive and ranked multiplayer settings, with commentary from Lead Multiplayer Designer, Andrew Witts, and former Halo pro and member of the 343 Competitive Insights team, Sal "El Town" Mohanan, with host Andy "Bravo" Dudynsky.

BTB wrote:

more heat than light wrote:

BTB wrote:Managed to play a bit over the weekend, only against bots but it was good fun! Is it confirmed if there will be a free to play aspect of this? Or was that just a rumour from a while back?

Halo Infinite online is totally free to play. Campaign free via Game Pass.

Oh perfect! Now I just need to decide if I upgrade to the new Xbox or not for it...

Photek wrote:

BTB wrote:

more heat than light wrote:

BTB wrote:Managed to play a bit over the weekend, only against bots but it was good fun! Is it confirmed if there will be a free to play aspect of this? Or was that just a rumour from a while back?

Halo Infinite online is totally free to play. Campaign free via Game Pass.

Oh perfect! Now I just need to decide if I upgrade to the new Xbox or not for it...

Well the MP is 60 on Series consoles (120 on SX) so I'd suggest you should. The online in this is honestly glorious, it's retained the sandbox feel of the previous games and in all honesty I've no idea how they've got it so right.

Campaign footage is widely rumored to be on 15th of November (Xbox/Halo 20th anniversary).