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Halo Infinite has certainly had an eventful launch. The game released over half a month early, was met with critical acclaim for how damn good it feels, and received massive backlash for its progression system all in the span of a single week. As the dust has settled and players have gotten more comfortable in the game, though, new problems have emerged—chief among them are complaints about in-game cheating. Things have gotten so bad, according to some, that a very vocal portion of the game’s console playerbase is asking for an option to disable crossplay.
As it stands, Halo Infinite has no client-side anti-cheat tools, which are a standard for most online PC games. If you’ve ever played a game with BattlEye, you’ve played a game with client-side anti-cheat. Instead, the game relies on a server-side system that attempts to identify cheaters and boot them from games. This is usually a far less effective way to handle in-game cheating, but is significantly less invasive.
Cheat reports have ranged from wallhacks, to aimbots, and some have even claimed to have seen infinite grenades and ammunition. Speaking from my own experience, I’ve definitely played against some very suspicious snipers, particularly in the game’s Fiesta mode. On my way to completing the five killing sprees required to finish the game’s weekly ultimate challenge, there was at least one instance where a player went on a 19-kill rampage before finally being stopped, despite our own arsenal of power weapons—the nightmarish sound of their rifle still haunts my dreams.
Amid these complaints, and 343’s promise to address cheating, some console players are demanding the ability to disable PC crossplay. Such a feature could effectively split the game’s community—which is basically never a good idea, especially when the community has already acclimated to a mixed playerbase. (Players can already self-segregate by control scheme in the game’s Ranked mode in order to maintain competitive balance, but that does nothing to change what platform an opponent is using.)
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