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Halo Infinite
This weekend, Microsoft is hosting the first technical test for Halo Infinite with invites given out to a select group of players that have their hands on the game for the first time.
This is not an alpha or a beta, it’s a technical flight, and as such, players are running into some technical problems that will need to be corrected by Halo Infinite’s launch.
The entire test got off to a late start as 343 ran into some server issues that needed a whole lot of urgent work to get the entire thing online. It went live late yesterday evening, and players have been trying it out, if they can get in, ever since.
I’ve seen many positive impressions of the actual gameplay so far, though one persistent issue seems to keep cropping up: low PC performance.
Players are reporting lower than expected performance, given the capabilities of their machines, and low GPU usage. Here’s The Verge’s Tom Warren:
Of course, it is not unexpected for a technical flight to run into technical issues, and this is the reason these tests happen in the first place, so the game doesn’t actually launch in this state. Halo Infinite still does not have an exact release date for this holiday, but most expect it some time in November, meaning there’s still a few months until it’s live, and no doubt more tests to come after this.
There are a host of bugs and issues you can peruse through on this thread that features hundreds of comments about what’s going wrong with players’ own individual tests. Performance issues are by far the most common issue, but there are others with audio-cut off, settings not saving on restart and infinite loading screens.
Again, I don’t necessarily think any of this is cause for concern. A technical flight like this is supposed to root out issues and not be reflective of the final product. The hope is that 343 will be able to get a handle on especially the performance issues by launch, as I wouldn’t imagine they would launch if the game remained in this state.
When the game works, everyone seems to be having a lot of fun with it. I’d still expect a successful launch when that comes around, and hopefully these issues can be sorted soon.
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