When 343 Studios removed the infamous Scorpion gun (also known as the tank gun) and a number of skill jumps used by Halo Infinite speedrunners in an update at the start of this month, the game’s community became extremely vocal about their removal. Following feedback, the developer promised to put them back and they have done so in the game’s latest update.
Halo Infinite May 25 Update Patch Notes
The latest Halo Infinite update was released on May 25 and is approximately 2GB in size. The main point of the patch was to restore skill jumps in four of the game’s campaign levels — Aquarius, Bazaar, Live Fire, and Streets — as well as the Scorpion gun to the end of the Outpost Tremonius mission. There was also a list of other bug fixes and gameplay improvements that can be found in the patch notes below:
Multiplayer
- Various skill jumps that relied on small props or thin ledges have been restored to the following maps:
- Aquarius
- Bazaar
- Live Fire
- Streets
- Semi-automatic weapons, like the Battle Rifle, should no longer “jam” or fail to fire after continuous firing.
- Wasps on the map Highpower will now only respawn two minutes after being destroyed.
- The Overshield will now be available at the start of matches on the map Bazaar.
- Zones in Total Control, Land Grab, and King of the Hill should no longer enter a state in which neither team is able to capture it.
- Fireteam members in Big Team Battle (BTB) matches will have the selected Fireteam Marker color.
- Scorpion Tanks and Wraiths will be dropped off by Pelicans more frequently in BTB matches.
- Join in progress rules have been improved so players are less likely to enter matchmaking sessions that are nearly complete.
- The Rakshasa armor core no longer appears incorrectly in the Customize menus after setting the Body Type option to 1 or 2.
Campaign
- The “tank gun” glitch in the Outpost Tremonius mission has been restored.
- Collecting Spartan Cores now consistently increases the amount of available Equipment Points in the TacMap.
- Prior to the Season 2 update on May 3rd, Campaign had a bug in which Equipment upgrades deducted less Spartan Cores than required. For example, an upgrade that was supposed to cost 3 Spartan Cores would only deduct 1. This bug never deducted more Spartan Cores than needed so players sometimes ended up with “extra” Spartan Cores. The Season 2 update was unintentionally removing “extra” Spartan Cores from players upon picking up new ones. This fix will allow players to keep “extra” Spartan Cores rather than correcting them.
Global
- Changes to the Speed Lines option in the Video tab of the Settings menu are now reflected in-game.
- A recent Gaming Services update improved the stability of the Microsoft Store and Xbox app versions of Halo Infinite on PC. This update was released on May 11th, and may have been automatically installed. Follow the steps below to manually install or check your version number.
- Open the Microsoft Store app.
- Select the Library button in the bottom left corner of the app.
- Updates will be listed at the top of the Library and additional updates may be found when using the Get Updates button.
- When the update is installed or if Gaming Services is already listed in the list of recently modified applications, click on Gaming Services to open its page.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the Gaming Services page to check the installed version number. This number should be 3.65.8001.0 or higher.
In other news, Microsoft has confirmed they are working on Project Keystone, a device that will allow players to stream Xbox Cloud Gaming games without the need for an Xbox console. Elsewhere, Sniper Elite 5 goes missing from Epic Games Store due to unforeseen circumstances.
