As long as your connection works, it'll hopefully look good but you'll quickly notice the difference in quality compared to a console. Overall, a playable compromise seems like the best way to describe Halo Infinite cloud gaming. Our Stadia writer Tom Meyer, on the other hand, felt that his streaming experience was 'pretty smooth,' even if it 'wasn't as smooth as locally installed.' He felt it was, at least, a big improvement over the Master Chief Collection in visual quality, with much less pixellation and artifacting on screen. Overall, they felt that other xCloud games offer a much more fun time. Their first match over Wi-Fi was filled with 'audio cut outs, large amounts of latency, lag, and freezes.' After a router restart, they described the gameplay as 'improved, but still nowhere near being a fun experience,' and their third attempt over cellular had plenty of issues. WC news writer Zachary Boddy had a much worse time than I did. So I polled my fellow gamers at Android Central and Windows Central, asking them to play over the cloud and convey their thoughts. Of course, when it comes to Xbox Cloud Gaming, any gamer can have a different experience based on their internet connection and router. Compared to human players' improvisation, their consistency makes the lag surmountable. 343 bots have a tendency to make a straight beeline at you while shooting or move in predictable patterns from afar. My only good matches came against pushover CPUs in Bot Bootcamp.

Your only hope with Halo Infinite Cloud Gaming is to spray-and-pray don't even try to snipe. That's why a mode like Fiesta works best, since you can hope for at least one good weapon. But good luck with a Battle Rifle a foe can swerve back and forth headshotting you while you hopelessly try and fail to keep up with slower inputs. You can sort of aim where you want bullets to go and pull off a lucky kill. Your easiest time is with spray-and-pray weapons like the Assault Rifle or Needler or power weapons like the Rocket Launcher or Gravity Hammer that require much less precision and timing.

But against skilled opponents, or using the wrong weapons, you have no chance on the cloud when facing console or PC opponents. You quickly mentally adjust to the difference, where reacting to a foe's movements takes slightly longer to manifest on screen. To give Microsoft and xCloud all the credit they deserve, input lag on Halo Infinite is minimal, whether you use a Bluetooth or USB-C controller.

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