An update has gone live for Halo Infinite designed to fix issues with the Big Team Battle (BTB) matchmaking in the game. This is a client-side patch that will need to propagate through the player base in order to take effect, which could take some time. Update: Halo Community Manager Brian Jarrard has sadly stated that the hotfix has not resolved the issues with BTB matchmaking. Well, damn… today's BTB hotfix does not appear to be the outcome we expected. There are minor improvements, but overall matchmaking issues are still occurring. Thanks to the folks who have been working hard and we're sorry this didn't quite get the job done. Work continues. https://t.co/lKiFibBDtT — Brian Jarrard (@ske7ch) January 19, 2022 The hotfix comes as a new in-game event has been introduced to the game. The Cyber Showdown Event is running from 18th January to 1st February with glowy cyber rewards and a new Attrition game mode. This gives teams a limited respawn pool to give classic Slayer action a slight twist. Additionally, 343 Industries has revised store prices. The new hotfix weighs in at under 1GB on all platforms with the following patch notes addressing the two issues fixed and the compensatory XP Boosts and Challenge Swaps that will be handed out. Multiplayer Minor service adjustments to improve Big Team Battle matchmaking. The team is continuing to monitor and investigate this issue. Stay tuned to @HaloSupport on Twitter for updates on the investigation. Thank you for your patience. All players who sign into Halo Infinite between 10am PT on January 19th and 10am PT on February 16th, 2022 will receive 5 Double XP Boosts and 5 Challenge Swaps. These items will automatically be added to your inventory when you launch the game. Minor physics improvement to the Oddball to mitigate exploits. Unfortunately, the earliest signs have not been particularly positive. The update has been out for less than an hour and users are still reporting errors appearing when trying to matchmake. This has prompted a Halo Subreddit moderator to step in with clarification: Everyone, this is a client-side update, give it a second for people to download it before saying it doesn’t work. Already seeing people saying it’s working now. There’s a chance there were people in BTB games on the old build and they needed to complete before the new build would matchmake in BTB, could be any number of reasons why it temporarily didn’t work right after update. Have a little patience, in other words. Source: Halo Waypoint, Reddit
The next in-game event for Pokemon Go will be a shocking one, as the Electric-type themed Power Plant event comes to the game this week.
Power Plant begins on January 19 at 10 AM local time, running until February 1 at 10 AM local time. The event will focus on Electric-type Pokemon, with a focus on those from the Kanto and Kalos regions. The Kalos-born Helioptile will make its debut in Pokemon Go during the event, as will its evolved form Heliolisk--obtained by using 50 Helioptile Candy and a Sun Stone on a captured Helioptile.
The Power Plant event will also include a side event focused around Team Rocket Go. This side task--called "A Bad Feeling…" in the official blog post--will see more frequent appearances by Team Rocket Go both in balloons on-screen and at PokeStops. "A Bad Feeling…" begins January 24 at midnight local time.
Helioptile makes its Pokemon Go debut during this new event.
The full list of perks for the Power Plant event is below:
Pokemon Debut
Helioptile and Heliolisk make their debuts in Pokémon GO!
Helioptile can evolve into Heliolisk with 50 Helioptile Candy and a Sun Stone.
Raids
The following Pokémon will be appearing in raids and Mega Raids:
One Star: Beldum, Blitzle, Klink, Pikachu, Shinx
Three Stars
January 15-24: Druddigon, Mawile, Scyther, Typholsion
January 25-Feb 1: Dewgong, Druddigon, Monferno, Piloswine
Five Stars
January 15-24: Genesect (will know Techno Blast)
January 25-Feb 1: Regice (will know Thunder)
Research Encounters
Complete Field Research tasks for a chance to encounter Alolan Grimer, Electrike, Emolga, Helioptile, Joltik, Magnemite, Trubbish, Voltorb
Wild Encounters
The following Pokémon will be appearing more frequently in the wild:
The Pokemon Go Power Plant event marks the final event of the Season of Heritage story arc. It began in early December with the Winter Holiday event, and then continued with Mountains of Power, the game's first 2022 event, a few weeks later.
Now that Winter Wonderland 2021 is over, players are wondering when the Lunar New Year event will take place. Here's what we know about Lunar New Year 2022.
