Blog post: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/inside-infinite-march-2021
Concept art for the "Skewer", a new Banished weapon in Halo Infinite
(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...
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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...
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Nice the audio tracks from last year got a Spotify release
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Set a Fire in Your Heart (Original Music from Halo Infinite)
Gareth Coker · Ep · 2021 · 3 songs.
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Confirming 3D audio support
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Ahhh, totally forgot about this blog post! I really need to go to sleep. :( gonna dig in tomorrow after work, the pics look so nice already!
Oh why hello there audio that clearly has something in it
The Flood at 15 sec
I honestly can't wait to learn what all this foley is going to be used for. That and talking about Halo Infinite's audio is just an excuse to watch a happy pug.
Playing through all the games in the Master Chief Collection at the moment. So excited for Infinite at the end of year.
BR and Skewer weapon sounds
I love that you have to spoiler that, in a game taking place on a Halo ring.
It's been kinda obvious, especially considering the nature of that particular ring, but might still suprise some people (and get the others hyped)
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.
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And now we have this -
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.
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...
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And now we have this -
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.
Apparently, Infinite is gonna have 3-4 hours of music recorded. This OST is going to be LONG, and from the tracks that 343 have released so far, I'm expecting it to be absolutely beautiful.
I don't know why people doubt this, they talked about ramping up for flighting in here too which is great! But yeah we are in polish phase now, a good place to be for a game coming out in Fall
Dynamic ambient soundscape
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This one sounds really nice. The sheer amount of audio sources:
We've shared and shown how Halo Infinite is the most expansive Halo game yet. How does this factor into building and delivering audio in the game? Are there new challenges and considerations given the less-linear, less-constrained nature of some of the game's campaign experiences?
CT: Absolutely! One of the biggest challenges of this game has been creating a dynamic ambient soundscape across such an expansive environment. In past Halo games we've had to manually place every ambient sound in the entire game, including things like birds, wind, rivers, trees rustling, etc. We knew that this approach wouldn't be feasible for Infinite, so we partnered with the graphics team to utilize the technology they built for populating the environment with visual decorators like grass, bushes, and flowers. We use this system to procedurally place hundreds of thousands of audio emitters across the ring.
The system uses color-coordinated debug wireframes to display where sounds will be placed in the environment, as seen below:
This image displays a top-down view within our editing tools of an environment featured in last year's campaign demo. The color coordinated dots are actually wireframe spheres, indicating the location of various audio emitters which have been procedurally placed by this system.
Getting the sounds placed is just the first step! We also built a brand-new system for controlling dynamic playback of ambient sounds. Each placement is actually a system combining a complex set of rules and logic that determine which sounds to play, how often, and when. A variety of factors feed into this system, combining gameplay states, time of day, location tracking, timers, and more, all working together to bring the environment to life. This gives us the ability to create a dynamic mix of ambient sounds that remains compelling and immersive the entire time you're playing.
Original Master Chief shield sounds returning
"The result was too many sounds consistently playing which made it more difficult for some of the most important sounds - like enemy's weapon fire, explosions, or bullet impacts - to really register with the player."
I can definitely vouch for this happening in Halo 5. Don't get me wrong, the sounds in both 4 and 5 to me were fan.ta.stic, and especially in H5, you knew exactly what gun was firing, which vehicles were moving around, the Spartan noises, etc. The game sounded excellent.
However, there were indeed times in Halo 5 when there would be so much happening, and so much going on, that the soundscape would become a bit overwhelming and muddled together. I'm glad to see them taking a different approach to Infinite's sound design, and hopefully, things can register and, "breathe" more.
I can definitely vouch for this happening in Halo 5. Don't get me wrong, the sounds in both 4 and 5 to me were fan.ta.stic, and especially in H5, you knew exactly what gun was firing, which vehicles were moving around, the Spartan noises, etc. The game sounded excellent.
However, there were indeed times in Halo 5 when there would be so much happening, and so much going on, that the soundscape would become a bit overwhelming and muddled together. I'm glad to see them taking a different approach to Infinite's sound design, and hopefully, things can register and, "breathe" more.
Damn, they should've kept us guessing until we played through the game. Would've been a great anniversary surprise too.
I found Halo 5 audibly exhausting. Every little click, beep, stretch, scrape. Felt like someone was chewing gum in my ear when using headphones. It was way way too much.
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