Important (and quite surprising) news for Halo fans: Halo: Infinite will finally receive a third-person mode in November.
343 Industries announced the news on Friday during a Forge panel at the company’s headquarters Halo World Championship 2024. For those not attending the event, the announcement was also posted on X/Twitter and included a piece of work-in-progress footage showing the third-person mode in action:
Experience a recent way to play!
Third-person mode is coming to Halo Infinite in November 🔥 pic.twitter.com/WkDkGLx8fF
— Hello (@Hello) October 4, 2024
As fans may know, this is the first time a third-person mode has been officially offered in a Halo game. Senior Community Manager John “Unyshek” Junyszek and Skybox Labs Senior Software Engineer Colin Cove provided a bit more information during the Halo World Championship panel, saying that in a future update they will start with the third-person Firefight mode, “but we also have the ability to run in PvP and controlling it in the Forge,” says Cove.
They explained that third-person perspective would be supported at the mode level, and that with Forge controls, modes could switch individual players (or all players) between first- and third-person perspectives as needed. It is currently unclear whether it will be available in campaign mode or limited to multiplayer.
While this is the first time that a third-person mode has been available on an official level, many mods have been added to the game over the years and have been largely well received by the community.
Halo Infinite first released in 2021 and has received a number of new maps, modes, quality of life improvements, and other additions over the years. Some fans started though note the general lack of additional developer content for this year. With the Halo World Championship already underway, we wouldn’t be surprised to see more Halo-related announcements over the weekend.
Alex Stedman is a senior news editor at IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she’s not writing or editing, she can be found reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.
