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Banished scarab possibly confirmed?!
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Sounds pretty similiar to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/mdbc04/banished_scarab_possibly_confirmed_the_image_of/
If true, I hope it's as fun to fight as the H3 Scarab.
If true, I hope it's as fun to fight as the H3 Scarab.
Oh man. Those sounds are fan-fucking-tastic. That skewer sounds absolutely brutal. Like a nail gun designed to shoot out railroad spikes. Perfect for a Jiralhanae weapon
After nearly a decade, 343i has finally learned the art of the Classic Bungie Style Tease the hype is absolutely off the charts
After nearly a decade, 343i has finally learned the art of the Classic Bungie Style Tease the hype is absolutely off the charts
If Scarabs don't dynamically walk around the map as optional objectives to take out then they fucked up.
Love the emphasis on punchier sounds with less crowding, player-directed sounds being boosted to prominence, the Acoustic Simulation system with its rays and voxelization, virtual surround sound, dynamic audio emitters... all taken together, this sounds like an incredible upgrade.
"We lost a friendly! Enemy on the Catwalk! Grabbing Shotgun! Enemy has sniper!"
While I liked the information, it was just too much all at once.
Really appreciate all the detail -- making a game like this sounds (heh) incredibly difficult. The amount of content and systems that have to all come together is immense. And lots of stuff to like in this blog - those BR sounds are amazing and the montage of all the different sounds was pretty great.
Glad they're getting the extra year and really looking forward to it.
Glad they're getting the extra year and really looking forward to it.
I made a thread last year ripping the Halo 5 multiplayer maps, including the complete lack of mysterious and haunting ambience that was present in so many early Halo maps.
I recently played Halo 5 for the first time and the multiplayer maps are absolutely horrible. What happened?
I never played Halo 5 when it came out back in 2015. I felt burned by Halo 4, and once I saw the continuation of that art design in Halo 5, along with the lack of any LAN or split-screen play, I avoided the game completely. Since Halo 5 is on Game Pass, though, I decided to try it out recently...www.resetera.com
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This is just incredible. I swear if I didn't know any better I would have said this is from Halo: CE. I hope this kind of ambience is present on the multiplayer maps as well. It just adds so much character to the game.
Same here! Part of why I love Halo CE so much is because of the incredible ambiance the game has and I am super happy that it's returning in Halo Infinite. That Forerunner Interior video just made me very excited!
Also the BR shots sound fantastic!! I am very appreciative of today's blog post and it's looking like they're sticking with releasing later this year.
This sounds amazing! I am so ready for Halo Infinite.
That is one long and extensive article. It turns out making games is hard. Hmmm ....
That is one long and extensive article. It turns out making games is hard. Hmmm ....
Can't wait to finally play it. The audio is sounding great. Also good to see 343 reiterating a Fall release. Definitely sounds like September or October release. If it were November they'd be saying Holiday.
The weapon sounds are great, something that I think have been pretty mediocre from 343 in the past (the human ones at least). Ths BR sounds Punchy without sacrificing fullness/balance. The H4-5 DMR, for example, is punchy but has no shape to the sound, like the microphone was way too close to the source when recording or something.
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Yup, that is what I want to hear in Halo.
That audio design is fantastic. I thought H4's direction was particularly lacking but 5 was a great step in the right direction and this looks to be a step further.
Everything I've seen about this game since the unveil last year has looked super promising. Really hoping we get a good Halo game this year. I miss this series so much!
Everything I've seen about this game since the unveil last year has looked super promising. Really hoping we get a good Halo game this year. I miss this series so much!
I hope so, but it could always be some random wildlife or even a new scream for the Prometheans.
With all the work they're putting into spatial audio I really hope someday we get VR support for Infinite (plus MCC). Good spatial audio solutions (with headphones) + head tracking in VR is one of the most impressive things in immersive media right now. Audio sources suddenly seem there in a specific spot in 3d space in a way that just isn't felt in the same way when playing on a flatscreen.
Regardless Infinite is a game that seems deserving of a good audio setup. I don't have the dosh for a decent 5.1 setup but fully plan on using my Philips SHP9500 which has a decent sound stage for directional audio.
Regardless Infinite is a game that seems deserving of a good audio setup. I don't have the dosh for a decent 5.1 setup but fully plan on using my Philips SHP9500 which has a decent sound stage for directional audio.
Sounds more fun than any encounter from the last two games.
I'm not exaggerating, that's what Halo is to me.
I know people didn't like them but I fully expect Prometheans to be in the game.
If I had to guess at a progression...
Banished -> Prometheans -> Flood
And then hopefully the gameplay allows for 4 way fights between all of them and the UNSC.
And then hopefully the gameplay allows for 4 way fights between all of them and the UNSC.
See, I'm kinda not expecting Prometheans, not as they were. I'd bet on Cortana having done some tinkering after the end of 5.
Oh I have no doubt they will be heavily overhauled again.
I feel like 5, despite it's problems, did do mostly good at retooling them to be more fun to fight.
Very interesting insight into the audio side of things, a part of game design which often gets overlooked beyond the music. Really happy to see confirmation of DTS:X and Atmos support, proper virtual 3d audio is huge for me. It's a massive upgrade over traditional surround and it almost feels like I'm jumping back a generation when I play a game without DTS:X now.
I really hope people are right about those sounds being a Scarab, it was always disappointing that you didn't fight any in Reach and they didn't even appear in 4 and 5. And if it is a Scarab please be more Halo 3 like as opposed to 2. The Scarab stand ins in 4 and 5 (Lich Kraken) and were more like 2.
Hard to say, they've talked a lot about how they don't want anything to distract from the Chief vs Banished story. I'm sure we'll get them eventually, but I wouldn't be shocked if the base game campaign only has the Banished.
...Right I forgot this will technically be a live service game... Like I don't mind live service games but I didn't really want Halo to be one.
There is no way 343 only included the Banished in a Halo campaign in 2021. It would be so so so slim.
Halo Infinite is supposed to be feel like Halo: CE. Well I'd say the Flood were a pretty big part of the game back then, both in gameplay and atmosphere.
Halo: Infinite is going to continue the story of Cortana going crazy. Considering her army is currently mostly synthetics, it'd be weird not to have Prometheans.
I think the reality is that they wanted/want to keep a lot of stuff secret until release, and that's why they're hiding the game that much. Yes, the game will have campaign expansions (unless one was supposed to release a year after release, so... This year in november), but they can still finish the story and start another one (like with Spartan Ops, still taking place in the same world as 4). I really think Escharum is a deliberately misleading foe. He might just be the antagonist for the first half of the game.
Delaying this game 12 months must have been one of the best decisions Microsoft have made.
it's all sounding great, can't wait to see what the game looks like when they show it off in the summer.
it's all sounding great, can't wait to see what the game looks like when they show it off in the summer.
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Can totally see that happening.
It really sounds like it does share some similiarities with the sounds from this HW2 cutscene:
(from last year for those who missed it:)
Halo Infinite | Official Soundtrack – Reverie
Humanity's fate hangs in the balance as the Master Chief returns in Halo Infinite to confront the most ruthless foe he's ever faced – the Banished. This song...www.youtube.com
Halo Infinite | Official Soundtrack – Set a Fire in Your Heart
Humanity's fate hangs in the balance as the Master Chief returns in Halo Infinite to confront the most ruthless foe he's ever faced – the Banished. This song...www.youtube.com
No doubt, that's Halo.
I see it going exactly like CE.
Banished for the first half or so. Flood gets introduced. Prometheans come in as a response.
Maybe a post campaign over world where you can find Prometheans roaming in early areas and Flood infections at night or something. Campaign has to have some GAAS elements for after the story concludes.