I felt like you did when I initially played. But now that I have about 6-8 hours on the game, I'm feeling more old Halo vibes than Halo 5 vibes.
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I felt like you did when I initially played. But now that I have about 6-8 hours on the game, I'm feeling more old Halo vibes than Halo 5 vibes.
Gonna be honest, I got matched with a team where I had 28 kills and we barely won 50-47. The other 3 were AWFUL.
I posted previously in this thread that maybe there was a bug. It definitely was not running at 120fps for me. The Sony x900H lets me know, the game was very jittery with every single camera movement. Just like any other game running at 60hz with a 120hz signal on the Sony x900H. I'll try it again right now to see if it does it again.
Apparently all Xbox One consoles are running at 30 FPS with intermittent performance issues.
Ah okay thank makes sense. I've been playing Halo 5 a bit recently and this just runs like ass compared to Halo 5 on my One X. Honestly my biggest issue with the game is it just feels like a F2P game. Something is off, but per usual the fans will shout down everyone until 6 months after the game is out and everyone acknowledges the problems.
Scoping in now with anything but the BR is pretty disorienting for me in this. Granted it is a small map, but the zoom on the spike rifle, commando and even sniper rifle are difficult to quickly scope in and stay on target. Getting the aim punch unscope furthers this issue. I'm not sure I'm a fan. A slightly larger map may prove otherwise.
Yes, I'm sure part of it is the jank coming from 5, but yes this feels incredibly unpolished compared to the Halo 5 Beta.
Coming from the game with the card and loot box system, lmao.
Woah, some high praise so far! I'm a Halo 3 fan, through and through, so glad to hear 343's striking a nice balance!
It's absolutely incredible that this was ever meant to release last year to be honest.
Halo 5 wasn't targeting multiple platforms, two console generations, and on a new engine.
You need to explain yourself better. What makes it feel like a f2p game?
Cant say i get the feeling with the gameplay off that. Gameplay etc feels very solid. Mostly menu's and Battlepass feel "alpha' but gameplay feels solid.
I also loved Reach back then but 3 always had a permanent place in my heart as one of the most played MP games ever for me. 4 lost me and I couldn't get into 5 at all, with several tries over years, but like 2 matches and I was so turned off it wasn't my Halo anymore.
This here feels like back in the day, 2007 and I'm really happy about it.
Feels like a F2P game? What does that even mean? It is a F2P game. It's a janky tech preview of one. When you say F2P game, do you mean a F2P game like Apex which has best-in-class movement or a F2P game like Warzone which has best-in-class gunfeel? It's also apparently running at 30 fps on Xbox One platforms, compared to Halo 5 which cut every possible corner to get to 60 fps.
There's been plenty of criticism in this thread already of various things. Halo is a franchise where the fans are the biggest critics. The whole "per usual fans will shout everyone down" is such a weird thing to complain about when this game is under such intense scrutiny from fans, newcomers, and people who won't ever touch the game because it's an MS exclusive.
I agree that this is buggier and certainly not as polished, but we're in a different era now and this isn't exactly a "public beta" in the way marketing has used the term in the past. As someone who's had plenty of exposure to games that are truly in development and unfinished in a way that they aren't meant to be public facing- this absolutely feels like a branched off build for a game coming out in November. Halo 5's beta was more polished because it was a public facing product in an era where flighting wasn't quite as commonplace. 343 is just being transparent here.
What people really mean is that it feels unfinished, which it is. The Halo 3 and 5 betas were 100% not the same, they were highly polished slices of the final experience, and this really isn't. There's plenty of warts that are common to games until 1-2 weeks before they ship- that's just how it goes.
Just getting the UNSC loading logo whenever I try to click on "multiplayer."
I think they've released all they're going to release for this flight.
What makes it feel like a F2P game is the weird UX built around battle pass. What makes it feel like a F2P game is just some of the weird decision changes where it feels like an off brand version of Halo 3. I've been playing Halo for 20 years and it's the same old shit, anyone who criticizes the game gets shit on for the first 6 months until people realize the game's flaws. Honestly, even for a Beta this game feels pretty bad in the current state. There's something deeply off with the gameplay in this, even if I fundamentally agree that slowing it down was a smart idea. The best way to describe the game right now is it feels like the mobile version of COD at all levels.
THANK YOU. The Halo 5 beta wasn't perfect, especially compared to 3. But both of those are significantly better than whatever this is in its current state. Again, not trying to be hyperbolic, but it runs and feels like a mobile game on my xbox one x.
I have no idea where this idea comes from. I don't think I've ever seen a fanbase as negative and critical as Halo's. I always feel like I'm the only one who is still having fun and loving the series when reading Halo threads around here.
A mobile game? Now I'm sorry that is ridiculous to say.
Also, Halo 5 released on Xbox One only, Infinite is doing all One consoles, series consoles and PC from day 1. That plus working in the middle of a pandemic? Come on now, be serious.
I think you may have missed my point though- that this is normal. I'm not playing on One X so I can't speak to that experience, but the game as it is on Series X a the moment is almost assuredly in the same state Halo 5 itself was in this long before release. Other "public betas" of the past were actually highly polished slices of their respective game. This is more like a genuine build of the game with cut content. Or at the very least, this is in line with the kind of level of polish I would expect from a build of a game that's 3-4 months away from release- people just aren't used to seeing those publicly.
Okay, tried 120hz again with my FOV at 100 like before and then tried it again at the default of 70 to see if that had any effect. But nope, it does not seem to be wanting to run at 120fps for me on Series X. The game is just constantly jittery when moving the camera around on the Sony x900H. Somehow managed a 20-0 game last game like that.
I definitely think people mean "unpolished" rather than feels F2P, given F2P is a business model and not an indicator of quality :P
But yeah, I basically agree with what you said previously. I think the gameplay of this feels polished to a significant degree already. I have some minor balancing qualms with some of the weapons but I obviously lack context of the full game. Point being- the game is in a good state, gameplay-wise, for something that's 3-4 months from release. The stuff around the gameplay though? Yeah, it's about in the state I would expect it to be in, which is absolutely not ready for release. A very normal thing.
Yeah, never mind what I said before. I just took a look at the Performance Analysis video. Now I see why it looks very jittery. The effect of frame rate being all over the place looked very similar to the issue on the Sony x900H of running a game at 60hz while displaying a 120hz signal. And the Sony x900H still doesn't have VRR. Looks like I will be sticking to 60hz then.
My biggest complaint with descope in this game is if you have the zoom set to 'hold', are holding the button to zoom while getting shot at, you descope for a few frames and snap straight back into zoom; combine that with getting shot multiple times and It becomes disorienting. It should descope you till you pull the trigger again (even if you were still holding it).
I know it's called Halo Infinite but these loading times are ridiculous!
(seriously though, is it loading infinitely for anyone else on PC?)
(seriously though, is it loading infinitely for anyone else on PC?)
If it's going to spawn it's in house elbow or nest.
It's commical watching the bots try to jump to turbine for a powerup. Like, it takes them 3 or 4 tries before they are successful and you'll often see 2 or 3 of them at atime trying 😂
Yep agreed. Should be standard behaviour. Hope you add your feedback officially so that they keep this in mind before launch