Halo Infinite Dev Responds To Battle Royale Rumors
(GameSpot PS3 News)

Will the Halo franchise follow the likes of Call of Duty and Battlefield into the battle royale space? It doesn`t seem like it.Halo franchise boss Frank O`Connor said recently that the multiplayer modes for Halo Infinite available at launch are not 100 percent locked in yet, but what he can say for sure is that battle royale will not be among them. Writing on ResetEra, O`Connor`s statement came in response to a video from noted Microsoft insider Brad Sams who said 343 was in the early development stages of a battle royale mode for Halo Infinite.`We will not talk about the launch content of Halo Infinite until we`re ready,` O`Connor said. `I haven`t watched the video so if I am misinterpreting the headline as `Halo Infinite is launching with/as a Halo Battle Royale mode` that is still not the case,` he said. `You can probably make your own Battle Royale mode in Forge even right now though. It`s a mode not a genre. And all the variants out there now are in my opinion quite radically different from my perspective. Apex vs Fortnite is chalk and cheese--one focuses on movement and map traversal and the other on building and budgeting. Like CTF. BTB Super Fiesta (for example) contains a lot of the shenanigans and emergent fun of that kind of large experience but big sandbox modes are not Battle Royale any more than Oddball is CTF.`O`Connor joked that Halo Infinite will still have BR--the Battle Rifle, that is. And while Halo Infinite may not have a battle royale mode, O`Connor teased that 343 is looking into `big social modes with loads of organic shenanigans.``The launch modes for MP are not 100% defined and are subject to change till quite late in the process--but Battle Rifle will still be there,` he said. `So you can have BR. But are we interested in big social modes with loads of organic shenanigans? Yes. Specifically A blimp full of survivors heading to an Island after a (metaphorical) lecture from Beat Takeshi? No. We are NOT doing this as of now--and no plans ...