On Xbox Series X at least, there are no performance issues either. The sense is that the feature is very close to completion and that a lot of work was poured into it, making its omission very puzzling. In terms of basic logistics then, split-screen just works then - give or take the occasional glitch. Some players have noted game save corruption (which would be entirely understandable), but that wasn't an issue in my play. Other issues I encountered included spawning under geometry, time of day drifting between the two players (one can be playing at night, the other in the daytime) and there's no character collision for the players, who can literally walk through each other. However, this can cause a corruption issue if the other player in standard gameplay. Player progress - including Achievement support - is unique to that player and even accessing the in-game map and upgrade systems can be done independently within each mini-screen. If they do not, one of them is killed and respawned near to the other.

If players do drift too far apart, a warning countdown appears that encourages players to get back together. If one player triggers a cutscene, the game switches back to a single view, before moving back to split-screen directly afterwards, resetting player positions. It's a convoluted and occasionally frustrating way to get campaign working in split-screen but it is effective, with gameplay that operates in much the same way as the online campaign co-op mode test-flighted last month. You'll see how I got this to work in the video above, but essentially it's all about creating an online fireteam, leaving the fireteam, selecting offline in the lobby, then adding other local profiles. The feature may never receive official support but there is a workaround that allows campaign co-op split-screen to work on any Xbox console - even the vintage 2013 Xbox One 'VCR'. Halo Infinite's campaign split-screen co-op tested - via a 'workaround' - in all three modes on XBox Series X, along with analysis of the base Xbox One experience. The situation changed a couple of weeks ago when 343's head of creative, Joseph Staten announced the cancellation of the feature, suggesting that - to put it bluntly - finite resources were better deployed elsewhere: 'We had to make the difficult decision not to ship campaign split-screen co-op and take the resources we would use on that and go after this list and all these other things.' I would say for any FPS going forward, we will always have split-screen.' It erodes trust with the community, as the community is part of our world building. To fully understand the story, we need to go back to 2017 when then-343 Industries head Bonnie Ross addressed the lack of split-screen campaign co-op in Halo 5, making this comment during the 2017 DICE summit: 'When we didn't put split-screen in with Halo 5, I think it's incredibly painful for the community - and for us. Adding to the sense of disappointment is how close 343 has got to finalising this feature - and it plays brilliantly. It's true that the feature is not without its bugs, but in my experience, these are relatively minor and it's possible to play through the entire campaign in split-screen mode.

The fact that 343 Industries isn't supporting it is all the more confusing because right now at least, it's possible to glitch your way into split-screen campaign co-op for up to four players.

The news of the cancellation of Halo Infinite's campaign co-op split-screen option has been frustrating - not least because I was looking forward to playing it with my son, just as I have with all prior Halo titles supporting the feature.

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