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Halo Infinite 4k/60 Gameplay Demo
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I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get from these reveals of Guardians. Is it an open world game? Or is it the same Halo level structure but with a map?
Personally i played many 30fps titles of various genres in my life that i'm ok with how they run and feel but it's interesting to see a dev focus on 60fps in a 1st party AAA title. What you see are basically the cut backs of 4K/60fps, cross-gen and the fact that'll come out early in the lifecycle.
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Yeah, I just watched it in 4K60 and I think it looks really nice as well.
Well depends on how this runs on last gen machines. If Xbox One X can run the game like we see in the demo then there would be quite a bit of leftover GPU power to do some major RT implementation, though that seems like an unrealistic expectation.
At least we know the game isn't all bullshit like the Halo 2 demo. Yeah it's not as hype as Smoke and Mirrors. But it's all believable.
To be fair, I wasn't all that impressed with the visuals of Halo 5 when it came out.
Last time I was impressed was Halo 4. Man did it look great on Xbox360 for the time.
To be fair, I wasn't all that impressed with the visuals of Halo 5 when it came out.
Last time I was impressed was Halo 4. Man did it look great on Xbox360 for the time.
Guess I can buy that. But wow, lots of work to do in 4 months to launch your next gen killer app in that case.
Some of the art decisions are not my preference here, it gives the game a lower detailed look. A good example is how opaque the alpha effects are, and lacking detail as well.
Check out this difference between the shields on the elite. The Halo Infinite shield effect is completely opaque; it also looks like it has no small detail reads in the shield effect itself.
Here is the shield effect in Reach on the Elite. It has a varied level of opacity based upon damage type and has this tiling detail all across the shield effect. It also sticks to the outside edge of the model on full frontal views, so you can still see quite a lot. It has a lot of negative space. It just looks... more detailed.
Playing Halo Reach on the MCC, I always thought it aged well.
Game seems really fun, but I was expecting so much more graphics wise. Maybe RDR2 spoiled me, but shouldn't that game technically be able to reach 4k at 60fps on xbox series x?
Texture quality was so much worse than the earlier trailers. Some seemed to even lack proper textures. A lot of pop-in and grass popping out of view (too aggressive occlusion culling?). Directional light (sunlight) had cascades /stairstepping. It just felt so flat and like it was missing a lot of effects. Just doesn't feel right knowing what 343 did with halo 4 and 5. I also felt like there were barely any reflections present in the game. Even on the weapons.
Like I said the game looks fun to play, but this sadly just didn't do it for me.
Texture quality was so much worse than the earlier trailers. Some seemed to even lack proper textures. A lot of pop-in and grass popping out of view (too aggressive occlusion culling?). Directional light (sunlight) had cascades /stairstepping. It just felt so flat and like it was missing a lot of effects. Just doesn't feel right knowing what 343 did with halo 4 and 5. I also felt like there were barely any reflections present in the game. Even on the weapons.
Like I said the game looks fun to play, but this sadly just didn't do it for me.
after watching the 4k/60fps trailer a couple times I seriously wanna get my hands on this game it looks damn fun, I can totally forgive the visuals if they're going for a BOTW style "you can go anywhere" type of game.
If that's the case then it doesn't bode well.
I've seen some people saying how it's a demo or whatnot, to try and excuse the graphics but this game will most likely come out in November. This is what we're gonna get.
Aaron Greenberg said everything we've seen today was strictly created from home. Could have something to do with it, but that's just pulling a rabbit out of my hat.
The pop-in is more egregious than any screenshot. Embarrassing for a flagship reveal
Pretty sure that's exactly what it is. Everything is cross gen for a couple years, and ray tracing won't be in the game until post launch.
I'm getting the same feeling from this as I do of other games that have had development troubles. With the news of a couple leads leaving 343 in the middle of development, it might explain some stuff here. At the end of the day, if the open world/wide linear world is designed well and is really fun, thats all that matters to me personally. Wish they would've showed much more of that off.
You sure about that?
This is a game that has almost certainly gone through development hell.
The lead left half way through. It looks incredibly rough just 4 months from release. They are adding core graphical components like RT lighting post launch.
this is an epic thread.
when I focus on one individual element I think "that's not so bad" but when you look at the whole picture its so bad. its like a reverse magic eye poster
Disappointing visually. There is news of ray tracing support though in a patch after the game launches that can maybe address some of these issues.
when I focus on one individual element I think "that's not so bad" but when you look at the whole picture its so bad. its like a reverse magic eye poster
This is the game that's going to be front and centre to advertise the most powerful games console ever made. Might be an issue there...
Most disappointing thing for me was the enemy AI. They seem stupid as fuck. They just stood there and shot instead of evading or running like they did in previous Halo games.
Also disappointed about the open world structure. At least there's no XP and level ups and shit.
Also disappointed about the open world structure. At least there's no XP and level ups and shit.
I heard they spent 500 million dollars to develop the engine for Halo infinite. Where that money all went?
Haha, so, good joke 343i. Cobbling together a gameplay demo from fake assets that you put together in a week. Now show us the real gameplay...right? Right?
I'm gonna go to my cry corner now and reflect on all the mistakes I've made in my life.
I'm gonna go to my cry corner now and reflect on all the mistakes I've made in my life.
I really do like that artstyle, but it really doesn't look good in screenshots.
How do people feel about it going open world? I'm not really much of a Halo fan, but I really hate how open world is just becoming the go to for level design now, with even most linear games having at least 1 big open world like section.
How do people feel about it going open world? I'm not really much of a Halo fan, but I really hate how open world is just becoming the go to for level design now, with even most linear games having at least 1 big open world like section.
I'll give you a lengthy reply later, but sprint changes leve design for the worse. In halo 2-3, if you died you couldn't run across the map bacI to where you were to finish the fight, it also means leaves must be bigger.
I have 44 days playtime in halo 5 team slayer so i know what I'm talking about.
A few threads down I just saw the Ghost of Tsushima downgrade thread and yeah... exactly this.
See I'd be all for that if it was showcases. Where are the massive numbers of enemies? Large scale? Where is me in a pelican flying wherever I want, landing wherever I want, real time. There are open world games that are more impressive than this last gen.
I hope they just showed a very tiny snippet but man it is rough.
Went into the grapple hook.
Slap this onto the box
lmao
The part I can't wrap my head around is the pop-in. How on earth is that happening on the Series X? The new 343 engine must be a hot mess.
I'm having flashbacks to "Wall Guy" and screen grabs of Crackdown as "proof" that the 360 wasn't powerful and would fail. Same thing here.
My biggest worry is that the game being 7x larger means we won't get as many unique missions and we'll have to clear camps and AA guns like the ones in the demo a couple times. I really dislike repetetiveness in open world games and will always prefer linear games for their carefully crafted and unique misions.
I'm wondering if this will have DLSS 2.0 on PC, because I know I'm gonna wanna turn on ray-tracing and my 2060 isn't the beefiest card.
There is likely a story reason but does anyone else hate the columnar forerunner things littering the "natural" landscape?
I would assume these are showing how the underlying structure of the Halo rings are built. Maybe the terrain got all jacked up because of the Halo's destruction and revealed these structures. Halo rings are not "natural" in any sense and so I think that is the explanation for these sort of machne-looking formations.
That being said, there are real natural rock structures shaped like hexagons like that in real life. They been feature in many many games.
Not sure if you noticed but there barely is any advertisement for the Series X console outside of gaming platforms.