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Halo Infinite launched its multiplayer technical preview this week in limited fashion: all you can do is play against bots – but these bots are no pushover.<\/p>\n

Halo Infinite is the franchise’s first foray into the world of multiplayer bots, and developer 343 is using the technical preview to gather feedback on bot behaviour and online performance. To that end, the technical preview debuted with the Bot Arena playlist, which puts four players against four bots on arena maps.<\/p>\n

The technical preview launched with bots that felt pretty easy, and last night I won every game against them. But while I slept, 343 pushed an update that added ODST difficulty bots and a new map, Recharge. And I am here to report these ODST bots are not messing about.<\/p>\n

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Halo Infinite launched its multiplayer technical preview this week in limited fashion: all you can do is play against bots – but these bots are no pushover. Halo Infinite is the franchise’s first foray into the world of multiplayer bots, and developer 343 is using the technical preview to gather feedback on bot behaviour and online performance. To that end, the technical preview debuted with the Bot Arena playlist, which puts four players against four bots on arena maps. The technical preview launched with bots that felt pretty easy, and last night I won every game against them. But while I slept, 343 pushed an update that added ODST difficulty bots and a new map, Recharge. And I am here to report these ODST bots…<\/p>\n

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