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Digital Foundry - Halo Reach PC/Xbox One Review: It's Good - But There Are Issues
- Thread starter Anthony Hopkins
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The biggest problem for me is the audio, it heavily detracts from the experience in my opinion. I played two hours a couple days ago, and the game feels and looks great, and it's definitely way better at 60 fps than 30, but that weird distant gun shot sound just kills it for me. It's also really hard to hear the characters when they speak during gameplay, it just sounds so off in terms of the entire mix.
Not yet.
Here is the last development update from November.
On the audio side of things, they're working on it. They had to rebuild the audio engine for Xbox One and PC which resulted in sounds being muffled but it's something they're looking into and hopefully we'll get the blog post detailing the audio issues soon.
Their VFR implementation (framerates above 60) that Dictator called out has gone through some different iterations, and in the flight before launch it was a mess, so hopefully they continue work on that end of the engine for PC players.
Really great video and hopefully with Alex and DF highlighting these issues they can get some fixes in for them.
Just quick mention about something in the video. Dictator when you use the coloured bar on the left to indicate the frames - when the colours were changing rapidly - it was setting off my mild epilepsy. I had to look away and skip a bit. Maybe a warning or something if others might be sensitive?
Just quick mention about something in the video. Dictator when you use the coloured bar on the left to indicate the frames - when the colours were changing rapidly - it was setting off my mild epilepsy. I had to look away and skip a bit. Maybe a warning or something if others might be sensitive?
I will add a warning in the description , sorry about that
The game just feels like a stuttery mess at 60 and 144 fps for me. Really disappointed with this port.
I'll never understand that, it applies to so many games, it's ridiculous.
I'm surprised Reach isn't getting a more heat for how underwhelming the port has been, especially after the wait and fiasco of MCC.
The audio is honestly terrible, it amazes me anyone can claim they didn't notice how bad it is. The entire game seems to be severely lacking in options. PC has virtually no graphics to change, there's no option to scale above 100% and there's zero UI customisation.
As mentioned in the video that game doesn't function properly at all above 60fps, and even on the 1X it's not locked 60fps which I thought would be a shoe in.
The audio is honestly terrible, it amazes me anyone can claim they didn't notice how bad it is. The entire game seems to be severely lacking in options. PC has virtually no graphics to change, there's no option to scale above 100% and there's zero UI customisation.
As mentioned in the video that game doesn't function properly at all above 60fps, and even on the 1X it's not locked 60fps which I thought would be a shoe in.
Most of these positives aren't positives. PP effects not scaling with resolution properly isnt clearly summarised.
By this point you'd think MCC releases would launch pretty much spot on before release but fuck it. Fix it later.
As an Xbox One X player the only issues that bother me is the sound being off. Doesnt sound quite mixed properly.
Problem is that only the cut scenes have subtitles, at least on PC.
I'm surprised that this wasn't mentioned.
All those scenes with bright highlights on the suits and PC players can't enjoy them in HDR. Disappointing.
Feels like we're back to old titles like FH 3 where also only the Xbox version was in HDR.
Well, at least it makes my choice easier to play on the PC monitor.
I think that Alex also did not mention HDR not being available in pc version of A Plague Tale.
Does he own a HDR screen? If not, let's chip in and buy him a c9 :) .
I absolutely adore his videos, btw. I know that HDR support is not that good on pc monitors, so that might explain why HDR does not get much attention.
Does he own a HDR screen? If not, let's chip in and buy him a c9 :) .
I absolutely adore his videos, btw. I know that HDR support is not that good on pc monitors, so that might explain why HDR does not get much attention.