Why one renowned games analyst isn’t playing Halo Infinite on PC for now

Enlarge / Get ready for choppy frame rates on this bad guy's animations, even on your most powerful PC, thanks to certain missing optimizations on Halo Infinite's upcoming PC version. (credit: Xbox Game Studios / 343 Industries)

Ars Technica will eventually go hands-on with Halo Infinite's campaign on PC, but as I noted in my feature-length review, our repeated requests to test the game on PC were declined.

So ahead of the version's Wednesday launch, we're left sifting through reports from the few outlets that were deemed worthy of getting a PC-specific look at the Infinite campaign. The most comprehensive analysis thus far, delivered by Digital Foundry PC gaming legend Alex Battaglia, ends with a pretty strong judgment.

"I will not be playing to beat the campaign to completion until a number of issues I mentioned are sorted out, as I really want to have a super-smooth Halo experience that the current game does not always offer," Battaglia says.

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