343 Industries has no plans to develop its Halo Wars strategy series
343 Industries previously said it was focused on supporting Halo: The Master Chief Collection and had no plans to return to Halo Wars 2, a real-time strategy game co-developed with Creative Assembly and released in 2017 on Xbox One and Windows 10. But now, all games MCC is presented on PC, and fans wondered if the team would return to work on the RTS series. Unfortunately, it would help if you didn’t count on it.
What’s more, there are currently no plans to release Halo Wars 3 or any new game in the series. “It’s not always easy to be open and transparent, especially when we expect that this is not the answer the community wants to hear. But we want to put it bluntly: 343 Industries has no current plans for further work on Halo Wars 2, including content updates, balance fixes, porting the game to other platforms, or releasing a new game in the series, ” community manager John Junyszek wrote in a post at Halo Waypoint. ” However, we will continue to monitor the game and make sure everything works as expected. “
United made a reservation that this is the present situation. Perhaps at some point in the future, the Halo Wars series will return, but for now, it’s better not to count on it too much: “As of today, the development team has no plans to resume work on Halo Wars 2, and we are not working on a new game from this series. … But we’re never going to say never, because, well, who knows what the future might bring. “
In general, no work is being done on Halo Wars – hopes of Halo Wars 2 being released on Steam can also be abandoned. A natural question arises – why? “It really comes down to issues of limited time, resources, and current studio occupations,” said Unisex. – The 343 Publishing team has no shortage of ideas and inspiration for MCC development, and a lot of work is underway to support the Halo series. Besides, most of the studio’s specialists are entirely focused on working on Halo Infinite’s launch. (and you may have heard, too, that the launch is just the beginning of this project). Given the wide-ranging initiatives that have already loaded the studio, we are unfortunately unable to devote the time and attention needed to create additional updates and content within the Halo Wars series. ”
Halo Wars 2 was released almost four years ago, and the last update for the game, which introduced changes to the balance, was released in August 2020. “ Halo Wars 2 expanded the Halo universe, introduced us to new characters and environments, and inspired the franchise with its classic art style and new Exiles faction,” concluded a 343 Industries spokesman. – Thanks again to everyone in the Halo Wars community for their support. We look forward to meeting the Exiles again this fall at Halo Infinite. ”
By the way, those wishing to check out Halo Wars 2 can do so thanks to the demo available in the Windows Store.
