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36 via Moses' twitter

Next Xbox/Infinite needs offline Lan, this is ridicules

Unlisted video about 343/Infinite Edit: Now public

Not disputing that it sounds counter intuitive, but I don't see Infinite's public flighting starting before a demonstration of the game for all to see. And 343 has to release hardware specs prior to flighting to ensure people can play it. It would be odd for that kind of info drop occurring prior to E3, but I could be wrong. To follow the idea that 343 is going to start flighting before E3 and even before they officially show off the game: it would be an interesting experiment for 343 to let the game essentially market itself by just starting to invite people and letting them stream/capture and share the game, but realistically as Microsoft has a fairly sizable stake in the success of Halo it would be a potential risk to try something like that whereas E3 has been proven able to sell products. The other possibility would be that Microsoft is going to host some kind of Xbox event before E3 to show Infinite and other stuff off, but there's been no indication of that thus far.

I would highly doubt that 343 is going to start public flighting until people have seen the game/gameplay. We're not, in all probability, going to see gameplay until E3 unless they've got something up their sleeve. So it seems logical that flighting will start at or shortly after E3 2020. This would also serve as the big mic drop moment for microsoft "you can play Infinite today!"

@Trespa5s Global rank is indeed a little buried. In lobby you can hit X, select your own tag, then player details, in the upper left hand corner it will tell you your rank (though I don't think the symbol is displayed) and how much xp you are at.

I think I remember reading that ZBNS will be a toggle-able option within the settings, we could very well have Bomb/Oddball. Maybe @Tashi can confirm or deny?

I'd be very interested in trying these settings out. I enjoy v7, but as has been stated there wasn't really time to improve upon them and there are issues that can/should be addressed.

If we're going to play Reach, then we need to talk about Penance. The soulless remake of Damnation is not fun to watch, it's not fun to play. 1 team sits up top and camps while the other team gets picked trying to grab power-ups/weapons. The rest of the time is just a lot of sitting and waiting. Please remove it from the rotation.

Day before an info drop, feels like we've been here too many times... Here's hoping the announcement is good and gives us lots to look forward to.

Doom (2016) would like to introduce himself to you.

I've seen it said by multiple people that the games industry and the number of people in it is smaller than it looks. It could be less of companies copying each other and more of just the same devs bouncing between studios making the same changes/design choices that they made everywhere else. Kinda tin-foil hat stuff, but not completely unrealistic.