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So excited for this campaign to officially begin! And, love seeing all the positive responses! I know many were getting very anxious for the marketing machine to kick in - it was always coming! And, there's more to come.

While many are praising 343, I also want to acknowledge a lot of partners across Team Xbox who worked really hard to bring this and all the marketing pieces to life (many of which have been working on Halo all the way back to the Believe campaign). Same goes for the folks who work on all these great promotional partnerships which have also been a great boost.

All these years on the front lines have made me kinda cynical by nature, and I generally assume the worst for everything, but my expectations have been surpassed time and again of late. Love this community, particularly when we're all riding high and buzzing with excitement. :) Let's go Dec 8!

Surveys are already all sent and wrapped up. They are indeed mostly randomized outside of only going to ppl who at least played a few games. It was sent to just a subset of the whole flight audience - enough to be representative and statistically significant. Unfortunately not feasible to send out hundreds of thousands of surveys. Thanks for participating - I believe we are still working on an outcomes recap, just taking time given how busy the road to launch is for everyone.

This is awesome!

The Craig of community management? :(

Ngl, things were not going my way in this playtest (they seldom do)

It could happen

Oh wow I completely forgot about that! What a time, what a crew. What's most mind blowing to me now, all these years later, that's THE ENTIRE FULL-TIME TEAM that shipped Halo 2. I think we were about ~60 ppl at launch. (30ish when I was hired) Incredible to think back at how much that sized team pulled off vs. what a typical AAA development studio looks like today.

It's 10 multiplayer matches - so Social Arena, Bot Arena, BTB all count. Academy (Training Mode and Weapon Drills) will not count.

Performance, optimizations, and networking all have an impact on aiming / input / responsiveness. And there are WIP elements to all three of those in this build. This is why some opinions are in such contrast or why someone said aiming felt 'great' during Training but terrible in PVP (there's no difference within the game so that implies a network-related cause). And mechanics within the game also impact aiming and perception of aiming - Sidekick and Commando have an accuracy penalty component, there's not a red reticule on PC, Halo Infinite overall does not feel exactly like H5 or MCC (diff networking model for starters), etc. Lastly, some folks have had wildly different experiences based on how they've tinkered with their settings (deadzones, acceleration, etc..)

Feedback is being heard and we'll get some good data as well to help people far smarter than me make sure the experience aligns with the design goals for the game.

Have definitely heard feedback from controller players, too. You're covered! We've heard negative - and positive - feedback from both M/KB and controller players (who play on PC or Xbox).

There's a Known Issues list on the support site that's been there since we began. I didn't have the character count but as I've expressed elsewhere, there are "known issues which can negatively impact aiming." Performance issues, optimization, and networking, for example, all have big impact on aiming/input/feel. That's what I'm referring to, not that we expressly "knew there were issues with aiming."

Under the hood there's zero difference in aiming between Academy and PVP. So in your case, my (non-engineer/non expert) assumption is that what you felt was network related. Academy is local, PVP is not.

For me personally, I didn't have any issue. Does that mean YOU didn't have an issue? Nope. Are others saying it felt good for them on XSX? Yep.
It's a hot topic, clearly, and something the team is aware of and monitoring. I'm not a sandbox engineer so lucky for most in this thread, it doesn't matter what I think. :) I'd just like to find a balance where the majority of folks are feeling good (we'll get more conclusive data than just some tweets and reddit posts).

There are a lot of factors that come into play here for sure, including bugs/pre-release nature of the build even.

Nobody is saying it's the same as H5, it's not. Also to be clear, I'm not trying to minimize anyone's feedback or frustration. To me, it feels 'fine' but I'm very used to it. I also see M/KB players who swear we need to reduce aim assist on controller because it's OP and plenty of controller players saying they need more aim assist because M/KB is OP.

This is clearly a negative theme for a lot of players so it's something the team is watching closely. Unfortunately there are also known issues in this build which can definitely impact aim/input. I've chatted with our Sandbox team and for now they're waiting until they get data coming out of this preview and can compare with current builds before wading into this. There are a number of factors that can be at play including game performance, network performance/latency, behavior of certain guns (Commando and Side Kick in particular), differences with past Halo games, red reticule not being present on PC, and so on.

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This was a fan-made custom figures #HaloSpotlight submission. Now that you mention it, I have no idea what's going on with the comments. Very odd. Megabloks is still a great Halo partner and nothing is changing there that I know of. Just a case of an unfortunate case of Spotlight content kind of creating a little dust-up as it featured a competing product.

To me personally, it does feel fine - and I also acknowledged I'm well acclimated by now. But clearly enough folks are expressing frustrations that it's a key theme and something the team is indeed monitoring closely.

It's unfortunately far from trivial and not realistic to release a significant patch for this weekend (we are also working hard to finish and ship the entire game in parallel). We may, however, have a small PC-only update coming that has some modest perf updates and addresses a cause of some frequent hitching. As long as that gets a clean test pass, we expect that update to land before the flight re-opens (PC only).

Tickets are for bugs and issues please, not feedback. We've heard the feedback from players who don't like this. If there are any changes in this area going forward, we'll be sure to provide an update.

not sure what GPU you're on, but the known issues list cites a specific AMD driver (or newer) is highly, highly recommended. (or latest NVIDIA might also help)