As many fans ofThe Last of Uswill likely know, no franchise or company is ever immune to massive leaks that end up becoming spoilers for all people who read about them. What happened withThe Last of Us Part 2is that a major dramatic event was spoiled shortly before its projected release date, so there was a fairly high chance that players using social media and reading news about it were going into the game already knowing what that was all about, and it ruined the experience. Now,Halo Infinitegot the same treatment because of a technical preview that 343 Industries decided to share with the public, without noticing that a bunch of campaign files ended up being included alongside the test build, and dataminers found them.
Apparently, the extent of the damage that accidentally including the files in the preview has done is that the whole storyline of the campaign was spoiled and can be found on the internet. This is something that shouldn’t happen, but in this case, it’s best to try and avoid social media andHalo Infinitecontent for a few months—even though that only applies to fans who don’t want the fate of Master Chief and Cortana to be revealed beforehand. There are a few effective ways to avoid spoilers and hopefully, this is also going to be the last time anything is leaked aboutHalo Infiniteleading up to its release.
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Avoiding Halo Infinite Spoilers on Social Media and Web Searches
It should be noted that343 Industries commented on the leaksin different forms, with an example coming from Joseph Staten explaining how this mess happened and asking players not to spread the leaks if they happen to see them. Brian Jarrard also chimed in on the matter and asked people not to post the spoilers on their personal channels across different platforms, as that could lead to the content getting a strike and being taken down. This is good news because it means that 343 Industries and Microsoft are not going to sit back and do nothing about the leaks, but will actively try to remove them.
Still, a good way to avoid spoilers is of course to try and refrain from spending a long time on platforms at risk, likeRedditand Twitter. However, there is a way to avoid spoilers while also retaining one’s liberty in using social media, and that is muting specific words so that all content including them is going to be filtered and removed from the feed. In the case of Twitter, muting words is quite easy on both iOS and Android, and all that needs to be done is to go through the settings and choosing which words to mute, and for how long.
On Reddit, avoiding allHalo Infiniteposts with the spoiler tagis probably a very good idea, and the website is indeed one of the platforms where the entire leaks are currently found. On PC, a great way to do something similar to the act of muting words on Twitter is adding the Spoiler Protection 2.0 extension to Chrome, as it can be used to apply filters to search results and avoid all content with those specific keywords.
Players should be aware that this process can also prevent genuine news on the game from appearing, but for those who prefer the classic better safe than sorry approach, this is the way to go. Regardless, it is pretty unfortunate that the leak happened, particularly because 343 Industries did a great job thus far at makingeverything related toHalo Infinitequite secretive.
Halo Infiniteis set to launch in the Holiday season of 2021 on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
