343 Industries announced the news on Friday during a Forge panel at the 2024 Halo World Championship. For those who aren’t at the event, the announcement was also posted on X/Twitter, including a bit of work-in-progress footage of third-person mode in action:
Experience a new way to play!
3rd Person Mode is coming to Halo Infinite this November 🔥 pic.twitter.com/WkDkGLx8fF
— Halo (@Halo) October 4, 2024
As fans will know, this marks the first time a third-person mode has ever been officially offered in a Halo game. Senior community manager John “Unyshek” Junyszek and Skybox Labs senior software engineer Colin Cove offered a bit more information at the Halo World Championship panel, saying they’ll be starting with third-person Firefight mode in a future update, “but we also can do in PvP and control it in Forge,” per Cove.
They clarified that third-person will be supported at the mode level and that, with Forge controls, modes can switch individual players (or all players) between first- and third-person perspectives whenever desired. It’s currently unclear if it will be available in campaign mode or restricted to multiplayer.
While this is the first time third-person mode has been available on an official level, a number of mods have added it to the game over the years and have been largely well-received by the community.
Halo Infinite first launched in 2021, receiving a number of new maps, modes, quality-of-life improvements, and other additions over the years. Some fans, however, had started to note a general lack of developer-made additional content for this year. With the Halo World Championship well underway, we wouldn’t be surprised if more Halo-related announcements were made through the weekend.
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Source: IGN