The battle royale genre remains one of the most popular in the entire video game industry, with some of the biggest games in the world being BR titles like Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Warzone, and Fortnite. Considering how popular battle royale game are, many have been anticipating Halo Infinite to follow suit with its own take on the genre, but that has yet to happen. While it remains to be seen if Halo Infinite will ever deliver a full-blown battle royale mode, a leaked new game mode does seem to be testing the waters.
Dataminers have found evidence of a new Halo Infinite game mode called Last Spartan Standing. Apparently, the Halo Infinite Last Spartan Standing mode will essentially be a Free for All variant of Big Team Battle, where players are able to "level-up" their loadout. Some have taken this to mean that the mode will actually have more in common with Call of Duty's Gun Game as opposed to a traditional battle royale, but that remains to be seen.
On paper, Halo Infinite's Last Spartan Standing mode sounds like a small-scale take on the battle royale concept, but fans will have to wait and see it in practice before they can be sure. As for when Halo Infinite's Last Spartan Standing mode may make it into the game, that remains to be seen as well, but many seem to think that it will be coming at some point during Season 2.
Halo Infinite Season 2 is scheduled to start on May 3, bringing with it new content to the free-to-player multiplayer shooter. 343 Industries has not pulled the curtain back on all the new content coming to Halo Infinite with Season 2's start, but fans do know that it will be missing one of its promised features. Unfortunately, it was announced that 343 has had to delay Halo Infinite campaign co-op after it was previously said to be coming with the start of Season 2.
Halo Infinite campaign co-op was originally expected to be in the game at launch, only for 343 to make the tough decision to delay it. Fans then expected Halo Infinite campaign co-op to arrive with the start of Season 2, but while that's not happening, the feature is still expected to come at some point during the season. When Halo Infinite campaign co-op is added to the game, it will feature 4-player online co-op and 2-player split-screen.
So regardless of when exactly this leaked Last Spartan Standing mode is coming to Halo Infinite, Season 2 should still have plenty for fans to look forward to. Beyond that, there's also the Halo Infinite Forge mode in the works as well, believed to be dropping by the end of the year.
Halo Infinite is out now for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.