An upcoming update to Halo: The Master Chief Collection will add multiple warring non-player factions to Halo 3: ODST‘s Firefight survival mode. The popular horde mode pits one or multiple players against increasingly difficult waves of enemies. Back in June 2021, developer 343 Industries combined the Firefight modes of Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach to improve matchmaking and bring the two distinct player bases together.
343 Industries’ Halo: The Master Chief Collection serves as an anthology of the sci-fi first-person shooter series’ early installments. The compilation, collecting titles from 2001’s Halo: Combat Evolved to 2012’s Halo 4, was released on Xbox One in 2014. However, the PC version of the collection was released gradually, with new games being added throughout 2020. While the November 2020 addition of Halo 4 completed the PC version of the anthology, 343 Industries still continues to improve and expand The Master Chief Collection. Season 8 will add the Flood to Firefight, allowing players to battle against waves of the parasitic alien creatures, along with more customization options for Firefight and a new Halo 3 multiplayer map.
A video posted to Reddit by user evgxmagma reveals that different enemy factions will fight each other if they are spawned in Halo 3: ODST‘s Firefight mode. The video was captured within The Master Chief Collection‘s test flight, which allows players to try out upcoming content before the official start of a new season. evgxmagma chose to spawn the Covenant and the Flood into a wave of Firefight, and the two iconic Halo factions immediately came to blows.
The upcoming changes to Halo: The Master Chief Collection‘s Firefight mode are no doubt exciting to any fans of wave-based survival modes. However, Season 8 will also bring with it a set of unusual cosmetic additions as well. New armor will be added to Halo 3, with each set based on a different historical mythology. Some helmets and armors will be based on Greek heroes, while others will be designed to resemble Norse Viking warriors. Master Chief’s iconic Mjolnir armor is based upon Thor’s famous hammer, so pulling other mythological figures into the world of Halo seems quite appropriate.
The changes coming to Firefight mode should be quite intriguing to any Halo fan. Combating increasingly difficult waves of enemies is always exciting, especially when done with a group of friends at one’s side. Now, the addition of alternate factions will add even more novelty and unpredictability to the Firefight experience. In a three-way battle between the Covenant, the Flood and a group of Spartan soldiers, only the toughest faction will survive the epic firefight.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
Source: evgxmagma/Reddit
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