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Halo Infinite Technical Preview Visuals and Campaign Expectations
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The game looks great. Excellent materials work and lighting and the best art style in the series since Halo 3.
You can count on two things in this life: death and Fezan downplaying the heck out of a MS game 😂
Indeed op, and I played it on Series S.
You know what? Just gimme Nu Cortana, sandbox gameplay with decent AI, that Halo music and Halo feel... don't fuck up the story too much... and I'm good.
Feels like everything finally coming together for 343. All of their hard work, experience and learning from what didn't work in the past.
You know what? Just gimme Nu Cortana, sandbox gameplay with decent AI, that Halo music and Halo feel... don't fuck up the story too much... and I'm good.
Feels like everything finally coming together for 343. All of their hard work, experience and learning from what didn't work in the past.
dude just calls everything on the market rooted in cross gen lol
Lol what. I just don't get overhyped like I was just recently criticising graphics of gow
This ain't it chief.
Halo could have the best visuals of any game out and people would still say it looks ok. 🙄
So are you actually excited for this game or just decided to do a drive by post because of all the other topics? It helps that Microsoft has been pretty clear about their crossgen plans. I think this game looks great and the priority was always about smooth gameplay.
What about this art style is impressing people? If you took the gun and UI out of the frame I would have no idea which game this.
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This post on xboxera has a lot of awesome crispy screenshots from the MP. It looks awesome.
Halo has always had a semi-realistic sci-fi art style. It just looks very clean without the garish armor designs and some material shading from Halo 5. Taking away the gun and UI from almost any FPS game with a semi-realistic sci-fi theme would look the close to one another. Doesn't help that the MP maps/screenshots don't include iconic elements like forerunner structures in plain sight, the mancannons, iconic vehicles, etc.
This I agree with. Explosions and particles look pretty weak. The rockets/grenades look too orange or something? Plasma looks fine mostly, but the Ravager particles are pretty ugly.
I'm just glad it plays so well. I was really concerned that 343 would overcorrect and go into full Halo CE fetish mode like a loud minority thinks they want.
But aside form the various boost/hover related powers (rip) the game controls like halo 5. Although sprinting and sliding don't seem fast enough to be worth using.
I was extremely skeptical of the grappleshot, because it felt like a gimmick. But it is implemented so well that I fully expect it to be a permanent part of the arsenal going forward. It feels just as essential as grenades, melee and gunfire and with a little experimentation, can elevate all of them.
Need to gain ground quickly? Grapple. Need a power weapon? Grapple. Run out of ammo against a guy using a BR? Grapple him and reel yourself in for a melee. Chasing a guy around a corner? You can actually grapple and use your momentum to pull you aroud the corner faster And that's just after a day of playing. I can't wait to see the tricks tha the community comes up with using it.
I can easily see the grapple becoming its own thing with infinite ammo going forward. It's that revolutionary and integral.
And while I miss 343's more militaristic designs for human weapons (RIP BR85. You were the best) their alien weapons are all bangers. The pulse carbine takes the incredibly overstuffed sandbox of alien guns and merges 3 largely generic ones into one awesome gun. Take the basic role of the covenant carbine, the seeking properties of the boltshot and the overall asthetic of the storm rifle and you come off with an excellent and unique gun.
The heatwave is almost impossibly fun. And being able to swap between veritcal spread for single targets and horizontal spread for groups is *chef's kiss*.
The shock rifle is an alien DMR that fires electric bolts at precision targets.....and then those bolts chain to nearby enemies. So you can focus on headshotting an elite while taking out his grunts at the same time with chain damage. Genius.
Halo's weapon sandbox had become increasingly bloated with guns that were essentially mild remixes of each other.
AR-Storm Rifle-suppressor
BR-DMR-LR-Carbine
Sniper-Beam rifle-Binary Rifle
That's 10 weapons from the last game that essentially have the same purpose, plus or minus a gimmick or two. Most of these are gone or compressed into newer, more unique guns. They've given the sandbox a good pruning but kept the more unique elemtents. It's the biggest change to the weapon lineup since Halo 2.
But aside form the various boost/hover related powers (rip) the game controls like halo 5. Although sprinting and sliding don't seem fast enough to be worth using.
I was extremely skeptical of the grappleshot, because it felt like a gimmick. But it is implemented so well that I fully expect it to be a permanent part of the arsenal going forward. It feels just as essential as grenades, melee and gunfire and with a little experimentation, can elevate all of them.
Need to gain ground quickly? Grapple. Need a power weapon? Grapple. Run out of ammo against a guy using a BR? Grapple him and reel yourself in for a melee. Chasing a guy around a corner? You can actually grapple and use your momentum to pull you aroud the corner faster And that's just after a day of playing. I can't wait to see the tricks tha the community comes up with using it.
I can easily see the grapple becoming its own thing with infinite ammo going forward. It's that revolutionary and integral.
And while I miss 343's more militaristic designs for human weapons (RIP BR85. You were the best) their alien weapons are all bangers. The pulse carbine takes the incredibly overstuffed sandbox of alien guns and merges 3 largely generic ones into one awesome gun. Take the basic role of the covenant carbine, the seeking properties of the boltshot and the overall asthetic of the storm rifle and you come off with an excellent and unique gun.
The heatwave is almost impossibly fun. And being able to swap between veritcal spread for single targets and horizontal spread for groups is *chef's kiss*.
The shock rifle is an alien DMR that fires electric bolts at precision targets.....and then those bolts chain to nearby enemies. So you can focus on headshotting an elite while taking out his grunts at the same time with chain damage. Genius.
Halo's weapon sandbox had become increasingly bloated with guns that were essentially mild remixes of each other.
AR-Storm Rifle-suppressor
BR-DMR-LR-Carbine
Sniper-Beam rifle-Binary Rifle
That's 10 weapons from the last game that essentially have the same purpose, plus or minus a gimmick or two. Most of these are gone or compressed into newer, more unique guns. They've given the sandbox a good pruning but kept the more unique elemtents. It's the biggest change to the weapon lineup since Halo 2.
Agree that the particle/explosion effects bring it down a bit. I really like the beta and it plays great and looks clean. But I'm not blown away by the graphics or anything
EDIT: some of it is the maps. Bazaar BARELY looks like a Halo map to me
EDIT: some of it is the maps. Bazaar BARELY looks like a Halo map to me
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Nice screens! The Infinite beta is the first game to make my 1X feel like an older console.
Not that Infinite doesn't run or look great. I lost track of time and dunked on bots for like 3 hours in the same practice match last night. Game's fun as hell. It's just a little painful to know I'm not getting the tip top experience.
Not that Infinite doesn't run or look great. I lost track of time and dunked on bots for like 3 hours in the same practice match last night. Game's fun as hell. It's just a little painful to know I'm not getting the tip top experience.
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HOLY SHIT
Loved the MP in Halo 5, but the campaign was a huge disappointment. All I want is for Infinite to have a great campaign.
Very few games have such an interesting lore and setting that Halo has, but I never felt that 343 managed to translate that into a VERY good game.
Loved the MP in Halo 5, but the campaign was a huge disappointment. All I want is for Infinite to have a great campaign.
Very few games have such an interesting lore and setting that Halo has, but I never felt that 343 managed to translate that into a VERY good game.
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It looks good but still very dissapointing. Just noticing too many things that are last gen looking, especially for the xbox flag ship game.
Xbox was so bad last generation that anything that is decent this gen get blown out of proportion.
Xbox was so bad last generation that anything that is decent this gen get blown out of proportion.
The only graphical effect that I think looks bad/out of place are the plasma effects. The plasma grenade explosion look like paint gallons exploding and the Ravager is kinda the same but in red haha.
Understandable, but the gameplay is so ridiculously fun that it's easy enough to overlook the graphics after a while.
If we can't have truly stunning graphics and great gameplay, I'll take great gameplay.
Graphics wise i dont understand then. Even last gen xbox released some great looking games.
Don't get me wrong the game plays fucking amazing but we are at a stage where we can have both.
How many of those games were great games? Yeah gears looked good but it was stale same with halo 5 campaign.
Not sure what that has to do with it. It was about graphics. Not overall games.
I've been playing Gears 5 this week. Im not even a massive Gears fan. Its a fantastic game. Its nothing like the previous campaigns.
The absolute biggest issue I had with Halo 5 was the MP maps. In particular, the forge maps (and The Rig which I thought was insanely bad). My hope is that we get a remastered The Pit in Halo Infinite. In general, Halo 3 still has the GOAT MP maps out of all them.
the reason i dont consider this an amazing looking game is the art style. other than that it looks fine
It looks good but it doesn't feel good to play at all on controller. I played flight 1 and it felt good but playing flight 2 has felt just terrible. I don't know what changed.
The Forerunner interiors look fantastic.
Yep. Forerunner architecture looks perfect.
So glad they went back to the spirit of the design aesthetics from the original games.
Looks like they slapped some type of reshade filter on that bad boy to give the world more depth to it which i like. Will lead to more black crush on the image but it's worth it for the increased visual presentation.
It for sure feels and looks better than even the first test (newer build).
Love this map
Bazar looks solid too.
Curious how the big team maps will look.
Love this map
Bazar looks solid too.
Curious how the big team maps will look.