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Halo Infinite Speculation Thread
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Hopefully someone on that invite list has access to a barn.
If I were a betting man - Multiplayer @ Series X Reveal event in April, Campaign blowout @ E3. It's okay to hope!
Disagree. It's more than just a game for Microsoft - it's the tip of their spear for the next generation of hardware too. You want the first look at it to be on the biggest media stage possible, as part of the same conference where you're effectively making your sales pitch for why you need to buy their new console.
The game's existence has already been officially "revealed", and we've had a cinematic teaser trailer. All that is left is seeing the actual game for the first time, and you don't waste that on a Mixer stream a couple of months before E3.
The game's existence has already been officially "revealed", and we've had a cinematic teaser trailer. All that is left is seeing the actual game for the first time, and you don't waste that on a Mixer stream a couple of months before E3.
I maintain that waiting until that late in development for the first public flight would be a huge mistake.
The game probably comes out in November. If they started flighting the same week as E3, it would give them five months. You can do a lot in five months, aside from changing truly "big ticket" things that would have needed to be timeboxed way in advance.
They could very well start doing closed flights earlier than that. Personally I could see them doing flights for the Xbox One version of Infinite multiplayer prior to E3, since it wouldn't spoil much for the next-gen version. Especially if they restricted the testing to known, classic Halo modes.
I'm excited to see what 500 internal devs and hundreds of subcontractors can do with 5 years of development.
Judging from this angle, it looks like the raised bit on the AR is a scope. Maybe this indicates zoom for AR is back??
They had to make an engine (which can take a long time). Keep that in mind and you won't be disappointed
Judging from this angle, it looks like the raised bit on the AR is a scope. Maybe this indicates zoom for AR is back??
If you mean this, it is a scope. A woman took it off the rail in one of the toy fair videos.
When a few dozen people build the engine what does the other 400+ devs do? Kick rocks?
If the game releases and doesn't have a lot of content, or the scope is smaller than it should be it won't be because of the engine. It will be because of refocusing and other development issues.
Remember Bonnie Ross said the engine was created because the last one was terrible. Making content took way too long. The slipspace engine is supposed to much much quicker for making things and implementing systems.
Where did you get this image from?Halo: Infinite will be cross buy:
I predicted it correctly. :O
Stolen from Wario64's Twitter, but they announced Xbox Series X details moments ago: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/02...ocid=Platform_soc_omc_xbo_tw_Video_lrn_2.24.3
With more specs of the Series X confirmed, the thing is an absolute monster. The Xbox One better not hold Infinite back.
Looks great. I kind of hope they have these Jackals and the 343 Jackals, and they each have a different load-out / shield shape.
Thoughts on the new Jackal designs seen at Toy Fair?
Looks great. I kind of hope they have these Jackals and the 343 Jackals, and they each have a different load-out / shield shape.
Do we think the Covenant are going to be the main bad guys again or do we still fight the forunner bots? I feel like H5 made a big deal out of the Covenant remnants finally being defeated.
If the figures are an indication on how they'll look in the game, then I'm really happy.
Quite curious about this, because I just can't imagine that it'll be held back. But if it is... then I hope it isn't anything significant which is immediately noticeable and detrimental to the gameplay experience.
I actually hope that the more demanding modes in Infinite (campaign, Warzone, BTB, huge Forge maps) will be 30 FPS on the One S and One X due to their weak CPUs. Arena will run at 60 still.
Then, the Series X can run everything at 60 FPS or even 120 FPS for Arena.
Either that, or they developed some more of the "framerate magic" they employed for Halo 5 already with everything outside a certain radius getting rendered at lower framerates.
Infinite will still be 60FPS on Xbox One. Series X will have Ray tracing, higher quality textures, and maybe even a higher internal frame rate while not needing a dynamic resolution. XB1 won't need to render all that.
What I hope is that modes like Warzone and BTB can have player cap increases on Series X. Like 48 players in Warzone, and 24 in BTB.
I still don't see how the campaign won't be massively held back as its design will need to work with the limited tech in XB1.
If you mean this, it is a scope. A woman took it off the rail in one of the toy fair videos.
I'm sorry, that's not a scope. That's an ammo counter. It's existed in every single Halo game that's had an Assault Rifle. This model is just more reminecent of Halo: Reach, than Halo 3 or 5.Judging from this angle, it looks like the raised bit on the AR is a scope. Maybe this indicates zoom for AR is back??
I know reach has it stick out as well. But with this one, it looks like the front side is glass or transparent. With the reach AR, the front looks solid
Making the campaign run at 30 Fps would be a start. Sure it will limit the next-gen version no matter what, but it could make the difference less stark.
It's still a sort of sight at least in this case with the real NERF gun.
I felt like the pics from NYTF of the Halo Infinite toys were insufficient so I just went and got some myself
Shinobi effectively confirmed that there'll be a dedicated Series event some time before E3. We've also had Tom Warren suggest there'll be an event in Spring - and if memory serves, I believe he said April (?).
Think it's safe to say we won't be waiting until E3 for Infinite gameplay. Hell, we're probably less than 2 months away from the first showing.
Think it's safe to say we won't be waiting until E3 for Infinite gameplay. Hell, we're probably less than 2 months away from the first showing.
Nerf just designed it to be removable so you can put scopes and shit on the rail instead. Its appearance is just cosmetic, I wouldn't read into it.
April XSX event with Halo Infinite gameplay reveal and the first Flight in May sounds good.
Good, the third Chief in that last tweet looks so fucking sick. That's easily the best he's ever looked.
Thank you!
Looks like another half-step away from the mess 343 made when they first took over. It seems they've restored the Halo 3 Jackal design, so why do they keep holding on to the chunky bits of the biggest dump they've taken on a Bungie design? What did my people do to deserve this?Thoughts on the Grunt design?
I like it, though the lines on the head look weird, might look better in game. Not sure how I feel about the hands being bumpy and then just going smooth on the forearm, again might look better in game.
This Grunt looks like some kinda Frankiestein's monster cobbled together from parts of Reach (best) and Halo 4 (worst) Grunts. It actually looks like they've reverted the improvements made in Halo 5 (the crustacean exoskeleton) and brought back the rocky arm and leg texture.
At least they finally got their cute little Grunty dicks back. Baby steps.
Yeah, I would have rathered they used elements from 5 instead of 4 for the Grunts, but the armor looks so much better and having the pointy bottom helps a lot.Thank you!
Looks like another half-step away from the mess 343 made when they first took over. It seems they've restored the Halo 3 Jackal design, so why do they keep holding on to the chunky bits of the biggest dump they've taken on a Bungie design? What did my people do to deserve this?
This Grunt looks like some kinda Frankiestein's monster cobbled together from parts of Reach (best) and Halo 4 (worst) Grunts. It actually looks like they've reverted the improvements made in Halo 5 (the crustacean exoskeleton) and brought back the rocky arm and leg texture.
At least they finally got their cute little Grunty dicks back. Baby steps.
Can't believe we're getting major Halo : Infinite design reveals through...toy merchandising before an actual trailer or leak or anything. Very non-traditional for Halo. Kinda boring if im being honest. This shit is kinda wack but at least we're getting something. How much longer until E-frickin-3
Same thing happened with some Halo 4 enemies actually.
It does, but that's mainly because they've directly copied the Reach methane tank design. I'm kinda iffy on the rest, at least in this weirdly glossy textureless toy form. It looks so fancy, it's almost like he's wearing a Grunty Mjolnir.
Could be armor from Cortana. The blockiness could also work with the Banished.
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Yeah I'm super bummed by the grunt design here - not sure why 343 decided to strip away what made them so unique with their physiologyThank you!
Looks like another half-step away from the mess 343 made when they first took over. It seems they've restored the Halo 3 Jackal design, so why do they keep holding on to the chunky bits of the biggest dump they've taken on a Bungie design? What did my people do to deserve this?
This Grunt looks like some kinda Frankiestein's monster cobbled together from parts of Reach (best) and Halo 4 (worst) Grunts. It actually looks like they've reverted the improvements made in Halo 5 (the crustacean exoskeleton) and brought back the rocky arm and leg texture.
At least they finally got their cute little Grunty dicks back. Baby steps.
Ja herr BMW. It is called, Hunter Call of the Wild that has been modded with RT GI reshade.
It's a prototype. Look at the this render, and you can see the ammo count on the screen. Right click, open the image in a new tab, and you can clearly see the ammo count readout:
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