Halo Infinite held its first testflight back in July, the lucky players getting first time experience with movement, gunplay, and even a bit of multiplayer. Throughout this week, 343 Industries began distributing invites for Halo Infinite’s second flight, which promises to provide more content for players to test out than the first one. The flight is currently scheduled for the next two weekends, September 24 and 30, where players can test the online Arena Slayer mode the first weekend, and Big Team Battle next weekend. However, according to 343 Industries, the schedule for the flight may change at the last minute.
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In a new technical preview, 343 Industries warned that the schedule for the upcoming Halo Infinite flight may change. Brian Jarrard, the Halo Community Director at 343 Industries, details the current state of the game in the preview, stating, “We are currently in a bit of a holding pattern due to some late breaking release issues, which may or may not result in a shift to our current schedule.” This news comes at the end of a very exciting technical preview, showing off the new multiplayer map Goliath, and a bit of the Big Team Battle game mode. Fans will remember that Halo Infinite was delayed itself from releasing in 2020 to 2021.
Jarrard would go on to update Twitter last night following the technical preview, giving fans an idea of when they will hear about the flight schedule. He writes, “No updates on flight timing yet, we’re in a holding pattern as work continues. We’ll see how things are looking tomorrow AM and make the call.” It seems then that at really any time, the news may break about the status of Halo Infinite’s next flight. With Halo Infinite releasing this winter, 343 Industries is aware of the present time constraints on development, and especially those that will come with moving the flight.
It is certainly not an easy decision that 343 Industries has to make regarding the flight’s schedule. Releasing an unplayable flight would do neither fans nor the development team any good, so if the problems really are as bad as they seem, then a delay is likely. However, 343 Industries has been very transparent with Halo Infinite’s development; it is better that it announces ahead of time there are these issues, than risk players getting online and the flight not working, knowing full well of the problems at hand.
Halo Infinite launches on December 8 on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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