On the other hand, if these journos saw that these claims were true and said as much, they'd likely lose access to demos in the future.  Why wouldn't they lie to maintain access?,(reply>), Halo Infinite campaign will be out in a few weeks, if they have lied it will be pretty much immediately obvious and open. The damage that would cause these journalists would far, far outweigh the benefit of sticking up for a single company only known for a single franchise. Journalistic bias almost always happens in much more nebulous and unprovable ways. Most likely if they knew there wasn’t unlockable armour in single player they would just keep their mouths shut and say nothing, or give a non committal “I don’t know, I didn’t see any, but I only played a small fraction of the game”. I don’t see them lying about such a short term provably false issue.