The Halo Infinite development team is back to work following a break for the holidays, and the studio has now outlined some of its plans for the future, including improvements coming to Big Team Battle.

In a blog post, community director Brian Jarrard said the team at 343 is now "largely back in action," and that the current focus is providing a fix for the BTB issues that have been affecting the game for weeks now. "As you know, we've been dealing with some frustrating issues with BTB nearly since launch and despite a few attempts at solving and mitigating before the holiday break, we were not able to get this fixed," Jarrard said. "While BTB has remained playable, there are matchmaking issues that increase with more players and larger fireteams have a low chance of successfully joining into a game together."

343 assembled a "strike force" that worked on the BTB issues over the holiday break, and this team has now identified a fix for the "core issue" affecting the mode. The update entered a testing phase last week and "so far it's looking positive," Jarrard said.