Teabagging is a 20-year-old Halo tradition, the ultimate insult on the virtual battlefield – but don’t expect Halo Infinite’s otherwise lifelike bots to get stuck in.
Anyone who’s played a Halo game online will probably have been teabagged. For the uninitiated, it involves repeatedly pressing the crouch button so your Spartan character squats up and down on your enemy’s corpse.
Halo players have been teabagging each other since Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001, to rub it in, to frustrate and annoy. In the online world of Halo, teabagging is very much human behaviour.
So we come to the upcoming Halo Infinite which has, for the first time in the series, bots. And not just any bots – as I reported, Halo Infinite’s bots aren’t messing about.
Developer 343 used the recent Halo Infinite technical preview to gather feedback on bot behaviour and online performance. To that end, the technical preview debuted with the Bot Arena playlist, which put four players against four bots on arena maps.