Worse, the studio has additionally delayed its 'season three' of multiplayer content, choosing instead to push that content to March 2023 to make room for Forge and online co-op launches. 'We have had to make the difficult decision to not ship split-screen campaign co-op,' Staten says, then confirms this is a deliberate decision to 'take the resources we would use on that' to instead tackle other development priorities.

Advertisementģ43 Industries confirms cancellation of split-screen co-op. The news about split-screen does not appear as text in any 343 Industries communications this week. The news came as part of a 30-minute Thursday presentation about upcoming Halo Infinite updates, which additionally confirmed that online campaign co-op is now scheduled to debut on November 8 alongside the highly requested 'Forge' editing suite (used by fans to create and share new maps, custom gameplay modes, and other community content). The game's campaign is no longer slated to ever receive a split-screen mode for friends to share on the same couch. Today, after months of delays and optimistic suggestions, Microsoft and 343 Industries have walked back that pledge. At the annual DICE gaming summit, an event centered around developers, 343 chief Bonnie Ross made a pledge: Halo first-person games 'will always have split-screen support going forward,' she told the crowd. The critical and consumer backlash was bad enough to lead to a notable moment of damage control for the series' devs at 343 Industries. If you couldn't play that mode online, you were stuck with three dull, computer-controlled squadmates. Halo 5: Guardians landed with a thud, and high on its list of issues was a complete lack of split-screen multiplayer modes-especially for a linear campaign that revolved around four-player fireteams.

In 2017, the Microsoft-owned development team behind all things Halo began playing catch-up to the series' worst reviews and reactions in years.

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