Halo Infinite's new "The Gauntlet" PvE mode is hilarious, frustrating fun
You probably wouldn't believe me if i told you that I've spent over 100 hours already on Halo Infinite's new PvE gauntlet mode..but I confess. I did. And I'm still playing it. If you put down Halo Infinite, I think this is worth picking it back up. It is incredibly difficult..but im having alot of fun, and not just "fun game" like. No, its STUPID fun. The kind of fun that can be difficult to get right, but somehow, this game mode hits it almost perfectly for me...almost haha. There are some issues.
But I want to focus on the fun:
Its a simple gamemode. A sort of wave-based game, except with a twist: Defeat the bosses while endless waves of enemies spawn in. The longer you take to defeat the bosses, the more you get the harbinger. The harbinger usually carries the skull, and if you get the skull, you can take it back to base with you, and apply the skull to get an additional upgrade point ( or..sometimes points, which is weird? Its not clear to me yet).
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The tradeoff, though, is that the enemies get buffed. If you're in solo queue and you want to use the skull, your best bet is just to use famine. Its the least punishing of the three. Famine makes ammo on weapons drop less. And its not that bad if you don't miss your shots constantly and focus on bosses. Overall, this game mode reminds me of the old Serious Sam games, with a mix of hell divers and Halo's own firefight mode.
I personally find The Gauntlet funny af. The enemy AI dialogue is so good. The grunts seriously make me crack up. One time, our team got killed by Bassus, and I heard a grunt say, " This is MY ring!! You hear me!? MY RING" and I just cracked up because it didn't do jack sh*t.
Every match, once you kill the final boss, all the enemies in the map literally all die at the same time, destroying my ears, but it is extremely hilarious. I can't really describe why this game mode is so silly to me, but the NPC dialogue really helps make it very goofy. I was completely dominating the arena, getting kilimanjaro's back to back, and the harbinger had had enough. She teleported behind me, said "STOP" and one hit me, smacking my body out of orbit. I was crying it was too funny. I wish I had clipped that
I think its worth trying it though, and it came out of nowhere. I just wanted to go make a post about how fun this gamemode is, I'm hooked rn