Halo Infinite’s bots aren’t actually teabagging, per 343 Industries
According to the developers, the bots aren’t actually engaging in this infamous behavior.
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What you need to know
Halo Infiniteis set to arrive later this year, bringing a long list of new features to the multiplayer suite, such as bots. During the recent Halo Infinite technical preview, many players saw different behaviors from the bots, including theinfamous “teabagging.“Speaking withEurogamer, developer 343 Industries says that while it may have looked that way, it was actually a movement-based bug.
“An example of what could look like teabagging is a bug with bot traversal that was in the technical preview build,” 343 said. “It caused bots to fail to successfully jump and clamber on the edge of stairs or ramps. A bot’s feet would leave the ground very briefly, then play a landing animation when they failed the jump, and they’d get stuck in an animation loop that could look like crouching rapidly. If that happened to be observed shortly after a kill, or near a player’s body, it can definitely feel like an intentional behaviour. In reality, the bot was just struggling to go up the stairs.”
Halo Infinite is currently scheduled to be available sometime in Holiday 2020 on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One and PC. The multiplayer will be free-to-play, with120 FPS support on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
We’re keeping track of everything players need to know about Halo Infinite’s multiplayer, including the variousmapsthat’ll be available and thevehiclesplayers can use on said maps.
A new Great Journey awaits
Halo Infinite is the biggest Xbox game of the year by far, featuring a wide array of maps for players to stomp around with in multiplayer, from classic Arena to Big Team Battle.
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Samuel Tolbert is a freelance writer covering gaming news, previews, reviews, interviews and different aspects of the gaming industry, specifically focusing on Xbox and PC gaming on Windows Central. You can find him on Twitter@SamuelTolbert.
