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This is about where I'm at after about 3 hours. It's shaping up to be the best Halo ever.
Low key loving the Jackel voice lines. "Shield gone. Run away now!"
Halo: Shadows of Reach novel happened.
I've just started reading it, and it's supposed to cover the period between Halo 5/Halo Wars 2 and Halo Infinite. (But I'm still very much at the beginning.)
Okay, thanks all!
I don't know if anything can top the environments from the second mission retrieving the Weapon. Best realization of Forerunner environments so far.
Main gripe so far is grenade and equip switching. I can fix it using paddles and face buttons but it's just on the wrong side of 'yanking me out the flow for a second' at times.
I'm not even done with the campaign but I'm hopeful for some new biomes being added. Maybe going to a different part of the ring will be a desert biome, or a snow biome.
This semi open world stuff is such a tease (which is fine)…but I wanna traverse the whole ring seamlessly, seeing the biomes change as I make my way around.
Let me dream. Lol.
This semi open world stuff is such a tease (which is fine)…but I wanna traverse the whole ring seamlessly, seeing the biomes change as I make my way around.
Let me dream. Lol.
Is there any way they could avoid this on controller do you think, some kind of weapon wheel maybe? I've not played the campaign on pad yet, I probably won't either, just curious.
A wheel a la Doom could work, but is a bit overkill for only 4 options - and with grenades, half the time you aren't carrying all 4 types.
Yeh I was thinking the same thing, I guess they could simplify a wheel and just have the slots appear if you're carrying. That would definitely feel better than reaching for the d-pad.
I play with pad in MP half the time, no paddles, and reaching for the d-pad to mark definitely does break the flow a bit sometimes. I wonder if this is something they're looking at.
Am I the only one that barely ever finds any of the collectibles? Especially in linear levels I tend to just not find them, always been an issue in Halo for me
You can use the scan to find everything, even skulls appear on it.
I'd recommend going to a point of interest like an outpost or FOB and just exploring the outskirts of that area, you will often find cool little details like an old sniper perch with a loaded sniper rifle, or a cave with a forerunner installation and an energy power weapon inside. It's pretty cool how much stuff there is lying around.
I'll try and use scan more then thanks! I've only just gotten to the outside world but definitely planning to explore as much as possible
They did a really good job of making exploring surprise me with little bits to find. I think it is a good thing they scaled things down from a full open world as there isn't much traditional loot to find, they have filled it with just enough surprise encounters and gear that it feels rewarding imo.
That first outpost in the open world has some cool little bits surrounding it, have fun exploring!
This is one of the best-playing games I think I've ever played. It just feels so damn good to play. The shooting is incredible as well. I am having such a good time with it.
I'm really glad I didn't burn myself out on Ubisoft open worlds recently (last one I finished was Origins)
While the activities unlocked on the map are pretty by-the-book, in the context of Halo mechanics and AI interactions, it's pretty good! I've been scouring the entire first(2nd?) map. Don't know how I feel about being already at Tier 4 grapple upgrades though.
While the activities unlocked on the map are pretty by-the-book, in the context of Halo mechanics and AI interactions, it's pretty good! I've been scouring the entire first(2nd?) map. Don't know how I feel about being already at Tier 4 grapple upgrades though.
Playing on Heroic and dying quite a bit is actually completely OK because the lines from the grunts when you die are amazing and there seems to be loads of them.
"I did it. I did it. I DID IT! I DID IT!"
"I did it. I did it. I DID IT! I DID IT!"
i was hoping like in MP since you can replace the intro video and such that i can find out where the images for it were at
Rolling around with your squad of marines is so entertaining that it really makes me pine for co-op even more. Wildlands and Breakpoint aren't good games, but if there's one thing they do well it's the experience of rolling out with your buds to get into shenanigans. Halo's sandbox is so much more impressive, that the level of co-op chaos could be even better here. I always played these games with my brother (and later also my brother in law) and damn this would be SO GOOD with a squad.
Yeah it doesn't feel like that to me. The world is smaller, the focus is utterly on combat, exploration and story (no cities, towns, 'side quests' that are perpendicular to the main story, etc), and the combat is infinitely better than most OW games, other than HZD for the 3rd person OW genre (although that had Ubi-itus more than this did).
I've never really looked into it too much, but what I remember people saying:
- Use rivatuner to cap frame rate to 30
- Turn off Vsync
- use a gamepad
- try motion blur if you have it off
- maybe try lowering your Hz if you have a high Hz monitor, something divisible by 30 (so, 60hz if possible)
I think they're so much fun on Legendary, personally. Really brutal and force you to play smart and efficiently.
Grapplehook is my favourite, I love the traversal with it. Razorback is easily my second choice, so good and as you say, you can roll up on most places and clear Banished out.
Chief doesn't feel that different (so far at least), in a good way. And if the player picks up on him knowing more than he's letting on (esp. re: the threat of the Banished firing the ring), it all makes sense. If anything, I think some of the whatever-I-got-things-to-kill DNA that we associate with modern Doom guy was borrowed from the way the Chief acts during the Halo game stories.
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Yeah I think people just saw the map occupied by side stuff and assumed the worst. But in reality the map isn't oversaturated with 50 different types of side content like far cry, and unlike far cry theres enough variance between each base clearing side things that each one feels fairly unique, having objectives to complete them helps too, as opposed to "kill all the bad guys". Hell, just going for Spartan Cores, some of them require you to go through some pretty fun combat encounters to get to them.
3 hours in, and this is definitely the best the campaign has felt since Halo 3. The emergent gameplay hasn't quite yet equaled the best levels of early Halo for me (Silent Cartographer, Assault on the Control Room), but it's early on yet. Also really enjoying the variety of enemy dialogue.
I'm glad they brought back the glowing blood from Halo 1 and the Halo 2 E3 2003 demo. They probably can't do the blood fire hydrant thing anymore due to the T rating.
On normal they dumb as a rock, called in a armored warthog he stands under it and dies..
Jumped down a cliff to get a core and 2 of them tried to follow, they fell to their deaths...
The stuttering during the cutscenes are so jarring. Anyone else get these? Also the lip syncing looks off putting too.
Not sure if this has been brought up, but every time I quit the game and restart it, some of my changed settings get reverted back even though the change shows.
eg I turn the sprint lines off. Quit the game, (like all the way to the dash) and restart. After restarting, the sprint lines show but the option is still toggled off in the options.
I have to turn it on and off again for it to take effect.
eg I turn the sprint lines off. Quit the game, (like all the way to the dash) and restart. After restarting, the sprint lines show but the option is still toggled off in the options.
I have to turn it on and off again for it to take effect.
The dialogue in this game is so hilarious
Could atleast be random concept art or something .
So we are supposed to have played Halo Wars 2 and read a book to kinda know all of what happened after part 5 and the start of this?
My sense of the story is that it wants us to be largely in the dark about what really transpired - it just wants us to know that humanity lost and is on the brink of extinction.
After dealing with some annoying crashes and weird PC display handshake issues (my monitor would start flickering and straight up not showing a display during the opening cutscenes), I got to play an hour or so last night.
This is by far my favorite 343 campaign. I'm not quite sure how it stacks up to the original series but I'm loving it so far. I enjoyed Halo 4's writing and Halo 5's gameplay, but Infinite manages to successfully marry both this time around and it's fantastic. I love softie, talkative chief. Putting his relationship with Cortana at the center of the story was the best idea 343's had with the franchise, and it pays off here. It's crazy how well Steve Downes manages to convey genuine emotion through a dude that's been a killing machine for the last 20 years. Jen Taylor is a gem, and I have no idea how she's pulled off voicing so many distinct characters. On top of that, the art direction is wonderful, and I love the Banished chatter.
My only complaint is how much of a hard reset this feels like. I'm not that far in but this game makes 4 and 5 feel basically non-existent - this feels like a hard reboot set a long time after H3, not any sort of continuation of the setup we saw in the last two entries.
This is by far my favorite 343 campaign. I'm not quite sure how it stacks up to the original series but I'm loving it so far. I enjoyed Halo 4's writing and Halo 5's gameplay, but Infinite manages to successfully marry both this time around and it's fantastic. I love softie, talkative chief. Putting his relationship with Cortana at the center of the story was the best idea 343's had with the franchise, and it pays off here. It's crazy how well Steve Downes manages to convey genuine emotion through a dude that's been a killing machine for the last 20 years. Jen Taylor is a gem, and I have no idea how she's pulled off voicing so many distinct characters. On top of that, the art direction is wonderful, and I love the Banished chatter.
My only complaint is how much of a hard reset this feels like. I'm not that far in but this game makes 4 and 5 feel basically non-existent - this feels like a hard reboot set a long time after H3, not any sort of continuation of the setup we saw in the last two entries.
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It sucks because it almost makes me want to not play the campaign right now and wait instead.
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