What it’s essential know
- Halo Infinite’s newest mid-season “Drop Pod” replace for August brings varied enhancements to customization, with additional tweaks to gameplay balancing and participant development in multiplayer.
- Highlights embrace new cross-core visor compatibility, permitting current and future visors, and a few helmet attachments, to work with the complete vary of armor choices.
- Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries has additionally posted a full changelog, detailling different tweaks to Challenges, gameplay balancing, and a few squashed bugs.
Halo Infinite has obtained its August “Drop Pod,” the newest in its bite-sized content material updates pledging new options and high quality of life enhancements. The second patch to comply with the arrival of Season 2 “Lone Wolves” stows significantly greater than its predecessor, with sweeping modifications to participant customization, amongst different tweaks and fixes.
The August replace delivers upon previous guarantees from Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries, together with plans to broaden the sport’s customization choices by means of a handful of basic modifications.
Highlights embrace the primary cases of cross-core customization, permitting gamers to equip all current visors between the sport’s varied “Armor Cores.” The developer has pledged that every one future visors can even work between present and future cores, with coatings and a few armor items to comply with in a later replace.
The sport expanded armor compatibility additionally trickles down to pick helmets, with some current Mark VII attachments now working with a broader vary of Mark VII helmets. The replace brings three attachments to 12 new helmets, offering interoperability between unlocked and bought gear. Future updates plan to handle participant issues round customization with extra cross-core and cross-armor assist.
343 Industries has additionally added Challenges to Halo Infinite’s Pause menu, permitting gamers to view their necessities and progress throughout multiplayer matches. It’s a minor enchancment to a basic part of the sport’s multiplayer development, as soon as current in previous Halo video games. Nevertheless, Challenges received’t be up to date in real-time, although 343 Industries plans to alter this at a later date.
The brand new options are accompanied by an exhaustive listing of tweaks and fixes, together with a number of aiming to handle multiplayer balancing. Publish-update, non-tank autos just like the Ghost and Warthog will take much less harm from small arms fireplace, whereas the Warthog particularly sees elevated impulse from the Rocket Launcher and Repulsor. The Grappleshot additionally receives a minor buff, stopping gamers from leaving autos to keep away from an enemy “Grapplejack.”
Halo Infinite’s August Drop Pod clocks in round 2GB on Xbox consoles and PCs, with a full changelog additionally obtainable under, as posted through Halo Waypoint.
MULTIPLAYER
- The quantity of a close-by participant’s protect recharging has been lowered, particularly when the recharging participant is out of the road of sight.
- Choppers will not proceed boosting after being disabled by a Dynamo Grenade’s EMP impact.
- The M41 SPNKR’s harm radius has been improved and now extra persistently damages enemies.
- A totally charged shot from the Plasma Pistol will now appropriately deplete all Shields, together with energetic Overshields.
- Mark Assists and medals associated to the Mark system will now seem appropriately when the Superintendent AI is supplied.
- Gamers can not mark enemies who’re obscured behind waist excessive cowl.
- Headshots extra persistently register on enemies with out shields when utilizing precision weapons such because the Mk50 Sidekick or the Stalker Rifle.
- In Customized Video games, King of the Hill now goes to Additional time when each groups have the identical rating as time runs out.
- In Free-For-All King of the Hill matches, the mini scoreboard close to the underside of the display screen not reveals unused meters and the complete scoreboard reveals the next stats:
- Factors
- Rating
- Kills
- Deaths
- In Customized Video games, Attrition rounds now persistently finish when a staff is absolutely eradicated.
- Whereas spectating a participant in Observer Mode on PC, participant weapons will not shake when the digital camera strikes up or down.
- Resolved a difficulty the place dropped Tools couldn’t be picked up close to the decrease gentle bridge on Catalyst.
- Observers will not be counted as a member of the enemy staff in Attrition Customized Video games.
- The define of the Hazard Zone’s closing circle will not seem early in Final Spartan Standing Customized Video games.
- Dropped weapons will not accumulate throughout Tactical Slayer matches.
MENUS
- The fourth Problem slot will now at all times be enabled when a Premium Battle Go is supplied.
- Visor colours will now seem appropriately when utilizing the next helmet and attachment mixtures:
- Cambion helmet with the UA/Februus attachment
- AKIS II-GRD helmet with the TAS/Lantifrid attachment
- Land Seize and Final Spartan Standing now have distinctive Sport Mode icons in varied menus.
- Within the Ranked Area playlist menu, altering the Ranked Queue kind now appropriately updates the Estimated Wait tooltip.
- Error messages now persistently seem in matchmaking playlist menus.
BALANCING
- To take care of multiplayer stability, gamers will not be capable to exit a car to cancel an enemy’s Grapplejack.
- Non-tank autos, such because the Ghost or Warthog, at the moment are extra immune to small arms fireplace. All of those modifications apply to Multiplayer and some apply to Marketing campaign as nicely. See the Developer Notes for a full breakdown of the modifications in every mode.
- The Warthog can now be knocked round extra simply by gamers utilizing weapons such because the M41 SPNKR or the Repulsor Tools.
KNOWN ISSUES
With this replace, the staff has added one new difficulty to our Recognized Points listing. Go to the Recognized Points & Workarounds part for extra data.
- In Final Spartan Standing Customized Video games, bots don’t degree up after gaining sufficient rating to enhance their loadout.
- The Xbox app or Microsoft Retailer app model of Halo Infinite could obtain additional knowledge upon launching the sport.
