When the firstHalo Infinitetestflight ended, immediately, the question was, “When is the next one?” Now, days away from the secondHalo Infinitetestflight, 343 Industries has started sending out invites to eligble players.
After the first testflight which occurred this past July, it was an anxious waiting game for if fans would be able to get to try out the game oncemore. ThroughoutHalo Infinite’s development, the team at 343 Industries has been very candid with how the game is progressing through its monthly “InsideInfinite” update series. Previously,343 Industries announced the nextHalo Infinitetestflightto be targeting the weekend of September 24, as well as informed players on how to register for eligibility if they had not already done so. It looks like not only will fans be able to playHalo Infinitevery soon, they will be able to play longer as well.
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As of this morning, invites for the nextHalo Infinitetestflight are officially being sent out, according to the officalHalotwitter account. To have received an invite, players must have been simply been registered asHaloInsiders onHaloWaypoint by September 13. Players will be contacted via email with how to acess the flight, involving signing in onHaloWaypoint and looking for a proper notification there. Unlike theinvitation process of the lastHalo Infinitetestflight, allHaloInsiders will be receiving invites to this flight, there being no arbitrary, luck-of-the-draw system for selecting players.
Along with this announcement, the tweet links to yesterday’s “InsideInfinite” update, which provides a litany of details on how the upcoming testflight will work. For starters, it is not just a single weekend but two, running both the weekend of September 24 and September 30. Furthermore, each weekend will be testingdifferentHalo Infinitemultiplayer modes, with the first weekend running Social Arena Slayer, 4v4 multiplayer, and the second weekend running Big Team Battle,Infinite’s new 12v12 multiplayer mode. There is also promising news for players who may still have not registered to beHaloInsiders: “We will also be expanding our audience ahead of the second weekend, so you and your friends (who may have forgotten to register asHaloInsiders in time) can join us for some Big Team Battle and push the servers even further.”
Although the September 13 registration date seemed like a hard cut-off, it is great to see 343 Industries trying to give as many people possible an opportunity to playHalo Infinite. As 343’s last statement suggests, it will be interesting to see howInfinite’s servers handle the expected multitude of players, considering that the last testflight was mostly against bots.Halo Infiniteis just a couple months away, so this testflight will be really telling on where the game is at in the run up to launch.
Halo Infinitereleases May 28, 2025 for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
