343 delivered a nice holiday gift to fans.

The December update for Halo Infinite just dropped and wow is it ever a good one. This update offers up a bunch of new features, a custom game browser, some free cosmetic items, a new map, and several improvements for all available platforms. Best of all, this update is free to everyone.

Today's update includes the addition of the Custom Game Browser. This will let you start and join custom games using any map or mode combination....

The newly released update also includes the Forge Beta, mission replay, and more.

The WInter Update for Halo Infinite dropped today and with it has come some highly anticipated features that many fans say should have been included at launch. New features added to the game today include online co-op, the ability to replay missions, the Forge Beta, and other content that developer 343 Industries say is free to all players.

Online co-op will allow for you and up to three...

343 outlines proposed changes for the Winter update.

Halo Infinite's multiplayer has a lot of problems. From the lack of content, to server stability, to the absolutely awful experience system. Thankfully, 343 Industries will tackle at least one of those issues with the upcoming Winter Update. Sure, 343 Industries did a bit of tweaking to this system in the past, but it really wasn't enough.

When the Winter Update drops on November 8, Halo Infinite players will get to...

Those with data caps, you may want to stop playing until a fix is implemented.

If you are still enjoying Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode, you may be upset to hear that something has gone terribly awry with how the menus download and cache data. Or rather in this case: How that data is not cached.

Twitter user @NicmeistaR seems to have discovered that Halo Infinite was downloading a lot of data. He saw that just one match of Halo Infinite multiplayer ate up "305mb" of...

343 Industries says that the devs who would fix it are working on other things.

An issue that has plagued Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode may not get fixed any time soon, or possibly at all. At seemingly random times, there will be some synchronization issues in multiplayer that lead to situations where melee attacks just flat out don't register. The client and server each think that the players are in different positions than what the player sees on their screen.

On...

An update so large, it has its own table of contents.

343 Industries and Microsoft released a massive update for Halo Infinite today to kick off the start of Season 2: Lone Wolves. this update changelog is a big one. It's so big that it has its own table of contents, and I probably won't be pasting it here directly.

The update adds in a bit of new content, including the latest Battle Pass, plus "numerous bug fixes," and some new features. This second season for...

Whatever momentum this game had is long gone.

Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries just shared their roadmap of planned updates for 2022, and things aren't looking too hot. Halo Infinite Season 2 will go on for a very long six months. Just a year ago, 343 said that each season should last "roughly every three months."

The second season running for a planned six months is double that initial estimate. Furthermore, the first season for Halo Infinite will have...

Today's update may have actually made things worse for other game types.

Last week, 343 Industries said that they hoped to release an update this week that they hoped would address the ongoing matchmaking issues with the Big Team Battle mode. Well, that update was released today and it did not help. In fact, today's update seems to have made matchmaking issues crop up in the other game modes that weren't there previously.

For those unaware, players have been having some...

A pure Slayer playlist has been added in addition to other multiplayer improvements.

343 Industries just rolled out a new update today for Halo Infinite's multiplayer that should appease those who are fans of the Slayer game types. Today, the studio added four new social matchmaking playlists for Halo Infinite. They are Team Slayer, Free-for-All, Tactical Slayer (SWAT), and Fiesta.

The studio says that they will be continuing to work on "longer term plans for rotational...

Some franchise mainstays will be returning to the game.

Halo Infinite's multiplayer is quite good, but it's certainly not without some faults. One of those issues that isn't the Battle Pass progression system, is the fact that the game shipped with only a few game modes. Fans have been more than eager for the return of modes like free-for-all (FFA) and SWAT.

Thankfully, those modes and more will be coming to Halo Infinite. A Twitter post by 343 Industries community manager...

Get some bonus cosmetics for being an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate sub.

If you are both an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber and a fan of Halo Infinite's multiplayer, you might be excited to hear you're about to get some exclusive content. Starting on December 8, Microsoft and 343 Industries will be Game Pass Ultimate subscribers some exclusive content for Halo Infinite.

The first drop on December 8 includes the "Pass Tense" MA40 AR Bundle. This includes a special...

343 Industries will continue to work on the painfully slow Battle Pass progression system.

Jerry Hook, the head of design at 343 Industries says that the team will continue to work on the rather terrible progression system present in Halo Infinite's multiplayer. With developers returning to work this week after a holiday break, Hook says that working on fixing Battle Pass progression "will be top of my list with the team."

Hook's remarks come via a new Twitter...

Gated progression is the biggest issue upsetting fans.

Halo Infinite's first event, Fracture: Tenrai, gives players a chance to earn some free rewards such as the samurai-looking Yoroi Armor. Unfortunately, fans are already running into issues with the way progress is gated.

Fracture: Tenrai is a free event available to everyone playing this free-to-play release of the Halo Infinite multiplayer. There are 30 tiers of rewards to earn. Much like the much-criticized Battle...

Thankfully 343 Industries says that they are "looking at" progression.

After this week's surprise release of the Halo Infinite multiplayer, the general feeling among the community has been rather positive. That is, it's been largely positive except for one thing. Most fans seem to agree that the progression system for the game's Battle Pass is God-freaking-awful. Thankfully, 343 Industries say that they are "looking at" the Battle Pass progression and are "gathering...

Bugs, changes, and the like are expected.

Yesterday's release of the Halo Infinite multiplayer came largely as a surprise to most fans around the world. The free-to-play mode was made available to everyone on Xbox and PC platforms a few weeks ahead of the campaign's planned December 8, 2021 release date.

As polished as this release may appear, 343 Industries is making sure to put out the idea that this is a beta release of the multiplayer. That means that players will...