The glitched and overpowered “tank gun” from Halo Infinite will be reintroduced back to the game’s campaign in a future update, developer 343 Industries revealed Friday.
The tank gun is an exceptionally powerful weapon — effectively a portable version of a Scorpion tank’s cannon with unlimited ammo — that has become popular among speedrunners and as a technique to make the game much easier. Despite the fact that you must know exactly where to go to find the gun (which, by the way, is invisible), Halo senior community manager John Junyszek stated in April that 343 will be deleting the “tank gun bug” alongside the game’s second season, which debuted on May 3rd. That decision was not well received by the community, and it appears that there was enough backlash that 343 has opted to reinstate the tank gun.
343 will also restore skill leaps to the game’s multiplayer maps. The difficult-to-pull-off jumps (such as the “Pizza” jump) might offer players an advantage in a heated conflict, but it appears that they did so in a way that the makers did not anticipate.
“We originally identified these jumps as falling into a couple of categories: Places where the environment was poorly communicating the traversal options of the game world, places that created a combat imbalance, or a combination of both,” Junyszek said.
Junyszek previously stated that 343 Industries was exploring modifications in reaction to player input following the season’s premiere. “We’ve heard feedback on adjustments that affected different multiplayer leaps and campaign speedrun methods,” Junyszek remarked on May 5th. “We are not currently in a position to make any promises, but we want to be upfront and state that we are taking the input seriously and exploring solutions internally.”
Junyszek did not specify a particular date for the new update on Friday, but it appears that it will be available shortly. “Our team has been working hard to get as much as we can in this update as soon as possible, but there are still a few more steps we need to take before we can release it in the wild,” he explained. “We’ll publish additional information about the exact release date of this update in the coming days.”
The reversals are just the latest setback for Halo Infinite, which has had a difficult time since its release late last year. And we’ll have to wait a bit for several key features to be introduced to the game; 343 revealed last month that it plans to deliver an online campaign co-op in late August and open beta of Forge mode in September.
