Halo Infinite has discussed its approach to the game’s battle pass, telling players not to expect silly dances in the game.
Infinite’s multiplayer is free-to-play supported by a seasonal $10 battle pass. It launches alongside the campaign on 8th December.
While the battle pass will contain a raft of cosmetics to earn, don’t expect dances for your Spartan.
“We struggled a lot with dance moves for spartans,” Halo Infinite head of design Jerry Hook told IGN.
“We feel that more traditional players would reject Master Chief flossing. However, [Personal] AI can go crazy. AI can do what it wants to do. That way you can preserve the militaristic feel without having to break what you would consider canon. Unless of course Joseph [Staten, lead writer] makes up a whole new story about dancing Master Chief, but until that happens, [we have Personal AI].”
Of course, Master Chief does all the silly video game dances in Fortnite:
Halo MASTER CHIEF Dances to All Fortnite DANCE Emotes! Watch on YouTube
While out of character emotes were a step too far for Infinite, 343 will release unique cosmetics that do not make sense within the Halo canon. One example of this is the Yoroi samurai armour. These sorts of cosmetics will be released via the recurring Fracture event.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise – 343 recently released Viking and gladiator armour for Halo: The Master Chief Collection multiplayer, and in doing so gave players their first taste of new “alternate universe” armour skins.
In the IGN interview, Hook said the Infinite team took notice of what the MCC team was doing with these cosmetics – and looked out for the community response as it worked out what to release as part of the Fracture event.