In some major (and pretty surprising) news for Halo fans, Halo: Infinite is finally getting a third-person mode this November.

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: (go to article)

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 have the ability to 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 perspective 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.

I haven’t had the chance to play infinite yet with my backlog being larger than a whale. But 3rd person halo seems so wrong. The corner peek will be killer with that shotty aha.