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Halo Infinite levels won’t be replayable at launch, but that will change343 Industries say they’re working on it
343 Industries say they’re working on it
Halo Infinitecomes out today! That’s fun. What’s slightly less fun, however, is that you won’t be able to replay story missions. Microsoft have said that, while you can keep exploring the game’s open world after you finish it, main campaign missions won’t be available to repeat. Fortunately, this shouldn’t be the case forever, because 343 Industries say that replayability is “being worked on”, though they don’t have a date for it just yet. (Mild spoilers for Infinite’s campaign below).
“The postgame does give you the option to keep exploring the wider environment, but for missions like the first two, where you’re not on the ring yet, you can’t replay from the same save file,” a Microsoft representative toldPolygon. “You’d be able to get any remaining FOBs, targets, [and] audio logs, but the main story missions would not repeat.”
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Halo Infinite | Campaign Overview
So, if you want to dive back into the campaign with new difficulty settings or modifiers, you’ll need to start a fresh save. From the sounds of things, at least completionists aren’t locked out of grabbing all the collectibles, though it’s still a shame to not be able to retry stuff without starting from scratch. Replayability is an especially odd omission considering previous Halo games made it easy to jump back into levels you’d already played.
It might not be that way forever, though. 343 Industries associate creative director Paul Crocker toldThe Verge: “We haven’t announced a date but [replaying missions] is being worked on.”
“We want to have replay that works well, and when you have a more open game, it gets a lot trickier,” he added. “So we made a decision to improve the quality of the single-player campaign to ensure that, as a foundation, that it’s as strong as it possibly could be so that we could then add the other features back in.”
Sadly, replaying missions isn’t all that won’t be available when the game launches today.Players will have to waituntilHalo InfiniteSeason 2 to be able to play the campaign co-op, and until Season 3 for the Forge level editor.
