Halo Infinite multiplayer beta has huge tech issues — and that’s OK

Halo Infinite multiplayer beta has huge tech problems — and that's OK

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The Halo Infinite multiplayer beta is now officially live — and if you've been able to log in and play a successful match, so y'all're one of the lucky ones. It'southward safe to say that the Halo Infinite tech preview is off to a rocky start, from difficulty logging in, to games crashing one time they finally go underway. The bad news is that this state of affairs may go along until the current preview ends on August 2. The good news, however, is that these bug are precisely what a tech preview is supposed to evaluate.

Information comes from the 343 Industries website, every bit well as a Twitter thread from Brian Jarrad, the community director for Halo. Together, the two resource explain the kind of problems you might encounter while playing the Halo Infinite tech preview, besides as why said problems are all par for the course.

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"Only a friendly PSA this is a technical test at a scale unlike anything we've done to date," Jarrad wrote. "Driven past production. Non a game launch … Also a cracking scale exam for our systems as we've seen [Halo] Waypoint load dramatically increasing. Team has already been able to work out additional deployments but information technology'll likely go bumpy when anybody slams the site for their messages."

Equally we are all eager and increasingly impatient, simply a friendly PSA this is a technical test at a calibration unlike annihilation we've done to date. Driven by production. Not a game launch. Things are proceeding just at that place are many steps to navigate. (1/5)July 29, 2021

In other words: In that location are a ton of people attempting to play the Halo Infinite preview, and stress-testing is an important part of the procedure. Your obnoxious crash is useful data for the 343 team — and it may well prevent an even more obnoxious crash when the game is in total release, and your multiplayer rankings count for something.

343 lays out a number of issues that players accept encountered, including "a pesky issues related to Matchmaking that tin issue in a player being unable to bring together into a session, timing out, and then returning to the main carte du jour." If you lot haven't been able to successfully join a Halo Infinite game, residuum assured that you are not solitary.

"We're aware of and tracking a few different crash scenarios though the overall average failure rate is well below our targets," the postal service explains. "We're specially interested in getting mor ecrash logs fro a wider latitude of platforms every bit stability work continues internally."

Other bugs include incompatibility with sure AMD drivers, stuttering frame rates, missing player scores, disappearing weapons and ineffective melee attacks.

While these would all be glaring issues in a full release, it'south of import to remember that you lot should look to see these in a beta version of the game. As Jarrad points out:

"I worry that folks who aren't able to handle the unpredictability of this release timing and who are getting outright angry, already accept the wrong expectations going into a technical preview," he wrote. "In that location will be hiccups."

If yous want a flawless Halo multiplayer experience, you'll probably take to stick with Halo v or The Chief Principal Drove for the time existence. If you want to assistance 343 Industries gather data to potentially better the adjacent game in the series, however, consider hopping onto the Halo Infinite preview this weekend — if you lot tin log in successfully.

Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom'southward Guide, overseeing the site's coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a scientific discipline writing background, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of science and engineering. After hours, you can find him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.