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The campaign is great, the only thing that stop it to be the best halo campaign is the lack of diversity, the Halo is an artificial structure so why not make it more diverse? Swamps, snow zones, deserts etc, halo 3 was the best in that respect.

Had a grunt kill me and he said " I did it, holy crap I did it". Couldn't help but laugh at it.

My only issue with the campaign is that the open world feels like a content island. Apart from Spartan cores the other unlocks don’t matter for the story missions.

The Marines in campaign, the BEST yet. They are quite scary effective.

I love waking up in the morning with a good cup of Coffee and hearing Jarek’s reviews. Really starts my Friday off with a bang

I never been a Halo guy and have no nostalgia for the series . That been said . I am glad to see this game turned out to be good .

on the bulldog. i agree, its seriously underrated by the community. when they do eventually add in the pump 8 gauge, my hope is it returns as halo ce's monstrosity of an unstoppable wall. primarily because if they DO do a flood dlc, i hope the ai count is bumped up to spv3 levels of insanity so u almost NEED to use it

I would love it if the Banished would start sending in reinforcements after you finish everything in campaign. Then you could get more use all of the vehicles and weapons you unlocked. Also, we need co-op. Being able to spawn in a tank, or two gun-gooses would be so fun with a friend on the open world

"Check back in 6 months and multiplayer will probably be in a much better state" Poor Jarek, he believed

The multiplayer portion is something you nailed spot on I have nothing to add. That said: I am so happy that people enjoy the singleplayer as much as they did. I just wish I did as much too. Don't get me wrong a lot is great. The gameplay is nailed to a T and exploration is fun but there where so many small annoyances I could not shake off. 1. A lack off different biomes. Forest and ruins and nothing else. I know the setting kind of limits this but come one alittle snow or sand here or there would shake it up. 2. The story missions felt very samy, go through corridor, symmetrical battle arena, fight, find power seed, get ambushed, do it again. The map design in these are not on par with hat we have seen in previous Halo games. Also these ineriors are pretty barren and lacks detail. Not Cortana even makes a joke about how an area looks exactly what you would expect since well, they look all very much the same. 3. The AI seems to not function if you are at a long enough range. If you snipe an enemy from long enough range I had all his pals just turn around and stare at me occasionaly shoot but not move at all, since a lot of them only wields plasma pistols picking off half of these stationary mooks use plasma pisols and at sniper Range they take a while to reach you and are not exactly hard to dodge. Close range the AI however is the same Halo enemies we all know and love ever since CE. 4. The dialougue. I blame the marvel movies for this. It felt like it never took more than 30 seconds for Not Cortana or even enemie chatter to just drain all tension or seriousness from a scene. 5. Some of the bossbattles I felt where just bullet-sponges in a fairly bland area. And one even got stuck for me so I just got to cheese him. 6. The open world parts of the game need optimization, I don't have a monster rig but it falls well within thier recommended specs and I got some nasty hiccups which even got me killed a couple of times. All that said these things can be seen as nitpicks or that the campaign was not for me. My feeling was that it was pretty by the numbers all in all and I did wish for some other ways to deliver the story than what we got but it is great to see people enjoying themselves with a campaign again. Stay awesome Jarek and community!

It’s always a great Friday when I’m working from home, watching Jarek’s new video on one screen and pretending to listen to my Zoom meeting on the other.

Jarek: "Halo is back." *PlayStation Startup Sounds* My Brain: "Something's not right here."

The fact they’re going to update this game including the open world. I can’t wait for coop to drop. Running around the open world with friends while each of us are in razorbacks loaded with marines while we move to attack banished outposts… ah it’s going to be great. Just wish they’d add all the old weapons back in along with a survival mode of some kind.

Lot of mixed things I’ve heard from reviewers on Halo Infinite, particularly the open world. Most have criticized how empty the world is and how it doesn’t really reward discovery, which I do think is a missed opportunity, as exploring a halo ring should be mysterious and force you to look around instead of everything being pinpointed for you.

Halo 5's mulitplayer was so insanely good. Same with master chief collection on PC. I think 343 really has some good multiplayer skills that a lot of people don't notice. I dont know what the hell they were thinking with the matchmaking/playlist & progress structure in infinite though.

I feel like people being upset about the progression is a combination of both that addiction for an unlock system as well as armor customization being a tradition since Halo 3 (arguably the most successful game in the franchise) and it’s expansion in Halo Reach and 4.

6 months? We waited more than a year for new content and modes

That rant on cosmetics was truly a relief to hear after all this time. It seems like there's too much attention this, and not the gameplay

Halo 5 did go back to all enemies speaking English instead of their own native tongue after Halo 4. Which means Joseph Staten did also reprise his grunt voice role in that one. And has even returned to both help out 343 and to voice the grunts again in Infinite!

i really love this game, like alot, i love the really low ominous sound that plays when things are quiet and you're just walking around, it sounds so much like the sound of bliss the halo ring had in CE this game is amazing, im even warming up to the pilot i kinda thought he was outta place in the story for a few hours, also im 14 hours in my heroic run and im only 38% done the campaign ive spent ALOT of time playing around and soaking in the atmosphere of zeta halo. and im gonna say this it may be an unpopular opinion but i think the weapon is a good character, and i dont think he facial animations are all that bad. some of them are really realistically emotional. i like her way more than the AI from halo wars 2 i can say that by far, that AI from halo wars 2 was so forgettable i dont even remember her name, people say things bad about the weapon like that AI wasnt in halo wars 2. maybe its just me but i did not like her at all she seems so scripted and she looked so weird. kinda sad you said that about my main squeeze tiny tina tho :( "shawty you da best" - tiny tina

15:25 Ah yes this aged very well

I feel as though I can vouch for the Xbox One S version running quite well, crashed a lot in MP “beta” but full release I’ve had no problems so far. The campaign runs about as good if not better than I expected and visually looks great on my current setup. So if you’re wondering “ooh I don’t know if it’s worth it because I only have a base Xbox one or Xbox one S and not a Series X or PC” I’d say worry not and go head. I can tell how amazing it would look on the series x and PC as well, so I’m excited to play on there as well, but as is on the One S it’s surprising solid, the frame rate is a solid 30 and I haven’t noticed it dip in those intense sections, 60 frames would be fantastic but on the One S I just don’t think it’s possible unless they sacrifice too many things, it wouldn’t be worth it. Halo is back baby, and mmmmph, it’s soo good.

No matter the wounds the Halo franchise shall suffer it will still remain a staple of gaming

My question about the campaign is about the set pieces. Halo 3 was good because even though the levels were lineal, each encounter felt different. It wasn't just a bunch of rooms with the same group of enemies connected with each other, it had variety in group composition, different types of driving sections, and generally had diverse types of events so that each mission felt distinct from each other not just because they were in different environments but because of what happened in each one. From what I've seen Infinite has a painful lack of diverse environments so it's gonna need sufficiently interesting set pieces, arena variety and enemy group variety so it isn't just "go from a to b kill enemy" in samey rooms.

I’ve been playing on One X and am in disbelief how good the campaign is. I honestly thought Halo was finished but now I’m optimistic for the future of the franchise.

The KBM issue you stated is something people don’t keep in mind when debating kbm vs controllers. A big part of pc fps pvp is being able to “shake off” your opponent with advanced movement which will lead to them missing. You lose this to an extent when aim assist actively helps the enemy track you and helps them stay on target with aim slowdown.

31:48 cosmetics are important in Halo now because Halo Reach happened, a nearly perfect customization and a game that released 11 years ago. Also, 343i said that if you were a fan of Halo Reach's customization, you would be happy with Halo Infinite's (about 1-2 years ago). Regardless, great review! I absolutely agree with everything you said about the campaign; I just finished it today and loved it.

Supposedly it’s Joe Staten who voiced the grunts, who also did it in CE and 2 and was awesome.

If ya ask me, the sides of this game that are unfinished are really starting to creep up on it. Its pretty clear the campaign and especially the multiplayer weren't ready to go.

Great video 👍 I am actually interested in what that psp in standing on, does if fit on a normal controller stand? 🤔

You dont know how many times i have been fucked over because of the crappy melee detection and the other guy hits you like nothing happened

I love the customizations for your Spartans in the MP, it reminds of Reach's customizations. I loved creating my own Spartan in the game. Now that you can do that in Infinite's MP, I'm going to do my own Iron Man color scheme for my Spartan again. So glad the campaign is really good.

I could not agree with Jarek's review of the campaign more

I miss when everyone was optimistic about Halo

Always awesome to see your vids Jarek. Live long and prosper my friend 🖖🏼

Flash forward to now and halo is once again on its way to the gallows. This is very deserved since this is the 3rd main halo game in a row to have a terrible story. The multi-player is also ass due to a lack of new content

Really good points made about PC vs Controller players. Stopped playing Halo years ago but can apply these points to so many fps games. I think input based matchmaking would probably be a much better system vs skill based matchmaking.

Despite all the little things here and there that most everyone has been complaining about with Infinite, this has been the most "Halo" feeling Halo I've played since 3. It's like once I finally saw that first open area after landing on the ring, seeing master chief floating in space in that teaser from e3 in his old memorable armor with the few piano notes just all tugged at the heart strings and took me back to better times. Made me feel that feeling when I was back in middle school and getting the original xbox 360 and loading up halo 3 and being so excited to play.

Halo Infinite needs more weapons in the multi-player. Fiesta gets annoying using the same weapons. Its still very fun, but gets old. Halo 5 multi-player gun wise was really fun. The gun diversity was insane. The gun diversity now is very low amd they need some maps. Other than that Halo Infnite is very fun and the campaign is absolutely beautiful.

The 2 secret blessings of the bulldog are the relatively incredibly fast reload time, and the increased rate of fire when you time your shots correctly instead of just holding the trigger down. I know we all love the original magnum and shotgun, but they completely invalidated other weapons, and it's good we have the weapons balanced to serve a purpose. I also see the advantages of the disruptor and the ravager, but I still don't like using those weapons much.

Did anyone notice Blademaster didn't officially die. He actually turned invisible and vanished. And there is even a rare animation of him cloacking. He will return.

Hey Jarek miss catching the streams but I'll never miss the videos. Keep up the amazing content bb.

Dsync 8 months later is not fixed

One of the skulls you can get is sitting in the middle of a room. I wanna say it's mission 12 or 13. When you go up to it, you will get demolished by 6 energy sword wielding camoed Elites coming at you from all corners of the room! It was hilarious how quickly I got destroyed lol

I agreed with literally everything you said in this video, the SBMM, the controller advantage, the weird mouse and keyboard aim (fairly certain it's a lack of magnetism and red reticle). I'd love to love this multiplayer, it's fun as hell with friends who are at my skill level, but it creates a situation where my roommate doesn't want to play with me because my lobbies are so much sweatier. Plus when I play solo it feels borderline unplayable, me nearly always being in the top 1-2 and at least one teammate doing absolutely nothing, half the enemy team leaving because we're dominating and being replaced by people who sweep the floor with my team suddenly, or generally just sweaty unfun lobbies.

In regards of M&K aiming I think it's because the reticle and therefore the none zoom hit box is super tight and makes it harder and less forgiving then older Halo's plus it's projectiles combined with small hit boxes.

Thank for backing up the bulldog. Almost everyone uses the BR even in competitive, but the BR is ranked like 19th for me out of the 22 weapons.

The writing of this story was the original creator of Halo name Joseph the creator that created the story of Halo Combat Evolved Halo 2 Halo 3 ODST in reach

Jarek:Halo is back Me: or is it?

Thank you for saying this about the SBMM. Me and my buddies have been trying to have fun with the game playing together, and whether we play together or not, we don't have a good time. We get put in lobbies with dudes that are incredibly good, while I'm a bit of a midtier player. I have my ups and downs, but I'm always getting put into games with dudes that are way beyond my skill level, and it got so bad, I've basically sworn off the MP until they fix this. I understand people are excited for this, and I love Halo, but as soon as I got into my first game, where I hadn't even touched the game, I'm getting shitcanned and I'm not having any fun. It's just seemingly not fair. Until it's fixed, I honestly don't wanna play the MP. Campaign, tho, is fantastic.

I had no idea SBMM was in Quickplay. That explains a lot.

Although it's not perfect yet, crossplay has let me on PC and my friend on console play Halo matchmaking again for the first time since Reach. It's an indescribable feeling. Thank you Infinite.

For what you said in "Classic Art Style Returns"... Halo Infinite and Breath of the Wild are 2 big examples that games don't have to look realistic to look good.

Not playing halo because of the cosmetics is dumb, yes, but they have been part of halo since 3 so the problem is the fact that something that used to be free with the full halo package is now made to dime you. And no, the fact that the mp is free means nothing because the campaign is still 60 bucks, so you're paying the same as before but getting less.

@14:00 in reference to your issue with swapping equipment in the middle of combat, I personally have the same issue on controller, it's not just mnk. For controller I have to press right on the d-pad, then it pulls up a teeny tiny menu on the bottom right to THEN pick your equipment. They desperately need to change to Halo 3's cycling system, wherein you simply tap the d-pad to cycle through your abilities on a list just like how you'd cycle through grenade types in Halo 3.

I love this game alot it made me feel as hyped as I was when I played halo2 as a kid

I enjoyed you referring to your sponsor as "Mechassault" at the end lol.

The sandbox is absolutely incredible in this game. For everyone saying it feels barebones: it is MUCH better to have a tight, logical sandbox than a bloated one with redundant guns. The only gun in the game that I'd call borderline useless is the plasma pistol, since it lost its EMP

I’ll be honest, the music in Halo Infinite It’s a masterpiece The chills I get man🙏

none: absolutely none: me:Mech arena= macarena

favorite grunt line in the game “just wait till i get my tiny hands on ya”

Halo infinite needs desperatley optimalization improvements. I play on RX580 8Gb and i have 50fps average in multiplayer and 40fps in campaign all on low settings 1080 80% scaling. I was shocked by that performance so i monitored hardware usage and found out that GPU utilization is may 100%, but the graphics card stays suspiciously cool and CPU utilization stays really low.

A little pet peeve of mine that I have with the multiplayer is the way shield flash effects are done. Half the time it feels like I'm shooting just some faceless glowing silhouette rather than an actual enemy because the colored shield flash effect is so overpowering that I can't really see anything else. A bit of an ironic design choice too, since there's supposed to be a much more prevalent focus on having cosmetics to customize your character, only for them to not be visible to others through much of the gameplay. Now, I know that the reason why is because, obviously with the removal of team colors on armor, they needed to make sure that you can still tell friend from foe but this seems a bit overkill. The outlines are fine and perfectly rectify that issue, but I think having their whole shields and therefore body, start glowing bright like a lightbulb is a bit much.

Jarek, did you play campaign on heroic? If so, did you notice that brutes and elites CAN throw fushion coils at you? I discovered that the hard way.

This is the best weapon sandbox for sure. Could still use some improvement, but it's the most fun and balanced.

While I am having fun with the game, I dont like how we have to wait a long time for coop and forge, not to mention they really have to get the playlist in multiplayer figured out.

Why does the plugged phone game have more online options than halo?

31:00 THIS... JUST THIS... I also never got this "addiction" to cosmetics and why people refuse to play a good game because of a "bad" or missing unlocksystem. The gameindustry did a great job to adjucate this generation of gamers to need unkocks... or better PAY for them. We realy need more games like Insergency were every gun, tool or attachment is playable at the start. Sorry for the rant... This bothers me a realy long time. Good Video. As always. Keep it up. 👍

Reason the cosmetic issues bother me so much (started in halo 3 for the record) is that we've had it so much better in games that are older than 10 years old, halo 3 gave your armor for getting skulls in campaign, for leveling up in MP and for doing challenges that were hard, felt rewarding. Halo Reach (everyone's favorite for obvious reason) made you level up your rank and made your earn credits to buy what you wanted once your military rank was high enough. There was more content as far as actual pieces of armor at launch and it was far more fun to earn them, in infinite we have a very small amount of armor, that we cant choose the colors we want on, and there are only like 5 pieces that you can unlock without buying it outright, or getting the battle pass which is littered with emblems that take up like 4 tiers of the 100, which is another issue, the noble team emblem for example is like 4 tiers cause instead of unlocking it once, you need to unlock for your playercard, your guns, your armor, and your vehicles. Its obvious padding which is annoying. Can't choose the colors I want with the freedoms of halo's 13 years older than the new one, and there is basically 0 armor to unlock without at least the $10 battlepass, which i would be fine with if they actually gave you shit in the battlepass, but all the padding, and even shoulders which take up 2 tiers for each set which is another thing that bothers me. It's a good thing the game is as fun as it is, cause I'm a pleb that likes progression and it is a fucking slog right now.

I love the clusterfucks of 12v12. Yes, I'm also a TF2 player, how could you tell?

Luckily a few days ago they added different modes to search in. Now there is a team slayer option which is awesome! I do agree that the aiming feels a little wonky though, even on controller. Sometimes I feel I'm getting headshots after a shield is taken out and the enemy just won't die. Also smacking up close doesn't always register like you said which is frustrating.

Reach and ODST were fantastic. Halo Wars 1 and 2 are great too

Jackals spoke English in Halo 5, basically sounded the same as in Infinite Also, glad it isn't just me feeling the melee and aiming/hit reg is off

SBMM has no place in pubs. Either Halo, COD or anything. Ranked should have strict SBMM. Pubs should have none or incredibly mild. Its meant to be fun not sweaty.

I'm only on Mission 5 and Love it. I hope we're on simillar :)

Watching this after six months of already passed the multiplayer is still not fixed they’re losing layers quite a bit if 343 does not do something the multiplayer is going to die

I was pretty surprised at how much I enjoyed the writing in this game. I loved the weapons personality and I think this game has some of the best Grunt dialogue in the whole series.

My fav youtuber and my favorite game series at since i was a wee lad?????? And its in a single video Feels like Christmas thanks santa

11:56 btw those elites didnt have shields on. if you are sneaky, and kill covenant silently, the elites will not activate their shield until they think somethings wrong, if you go in loud and they spot/hear you they turn their shield on

What's that shirt w/ the Crowbar that you're wearing? I wanna get 1 maybe

Joseph Staten did the Grunt voices, who also voiced the Grunts in Combat Evolved

You should do an updated review of the game a year from now to see where it's at

If you want to play the game in an insanely better way, get macros for your abilities. I have my macros setup so when I tap 2, I shoot a threat detector, and then I equip the grappling hook again. Makes it so much easier to in the middle of a fight when you can dash and drop walls without having to equip and then use the abilities.

"You'll find yourself dying around walls a lot." *seizes in battlefield 4 net code*

Never played CE but I felt it's style is the most stylish in the series and somehow this game feels like it nailed it also somehow I'm getting nostalgia vibes from this game which reminds me of CE yet I only played 2 and reach's campaigns.

One of my biggest problems with infinite is the self destruction system, ive lost ffa games cos I accidentally fell in the void. Ive never killed myself on purpose and i get punishment for it, and for the ppl who are griefing by killing themselves don’t mind if there score is lowered, pisses me off

Biggest let down for me is no blood like cmon old halos we’re so dope in campaign after a big scene to see the carnage actually looked like a battle especially in halo 2

Solid review Jarek. Have a great weekend bro.

I'm excited to pick up infinite. Seems like 343 is really coming into their own.

To be honest I thought that Big Team Mode was pretty great. Not a fan of Total Control and Stockpile though. But I thought the player count and map size was pitch perfect.

Sean Chiplock did one of the Grunt VAs

I have a base Xbox one from all the way back in 2013. I am a huge halo fan and have been waiting for the game for a very long time. Once I played it, I was very pleased. I expected the game to look horrible and crash a lot on my Xbox. Gladly, the game still looks very beautiful. (However it looks much better on newer consoles.) I only had one crash and that was when I was doing some pretty crazy stuff. Nothing ruined my experience though. Very happy

still haven't get this game yet cause Halo 5 I have not touched it yet and I mean how to play the new one without knowing how the game progress in terms of story

I've always played Halo on controller. I've been having alot of fun with Infinite on controller on PC!

See it's good and all that the gravity hammer and injury sword perry thing is a thing but that doesn't help on like normal standard maps when only one of them spawns.

Me being the type of player who enjoys playing different game modes in rotation and don't really hate any game modes I think it keeps me in it cuz it keeps the game fresh for me so therefore I'm ok with their decision with no playlists but that's me I definitely can understand peoples frustration of not having specific playlists like older games and I hope they bring it back for everyone elses sake or at least make a system like cod where you can filter out the game modes you don't want to play so let's say your ok with slayer and odd ball but don't want to play anything else then you can do that

Watched for the halo, subscribed for the “killing in the name” beat after video lml

They just fixed the Slayer Playlist issue. Slayer will now be it's own Playlist starting Tuesday.

Jarek, I really love The multiplayer of Halo infinite but this is my first halo game should I first play the other campaigns or can I start with this one?