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[MOTM]

So you were banned..... for warring.

Yeah and .. ?

 

[Haggard]

Yeah and .. ?

 

[JLB]

I’m glad they’ve finally seemingly made the game that can satisfy both the legacy Bungie fans and the fans of 4 and 5.

The hyperbole around 343 has always made me laugh though. They’ve made 3 critically acclaimed games, with Halo 5’s multiplayer being lauded as one of the best in the series and the MCC being one of the best games of the generation full stop. They’ve always had the gunplay down, even in Halo 4. The way people talk about them you’d think they are some shitty mobile dev.

As you say, they must be feeling very good right now.

It really is something incredible. Finding a consensus between the old school and newcomers looked impossible for me.

 

[Hendrick's]

Xbox is going to own the end of 2021. Great year for the Series X.

 

[Raekwon26]

Yeah and .. ?

Exactly.

 

[Deputy Moonman]

MCC is perfectly playable atm on all xbox consoles. I've been playing Reach and H3 MLG daily. What kind of problems are you running into?

Im still playing on an Xbox one lol. The biggest problem I have are games occasionally crash at the start of a match and my box restarts. It's frustrating but doesn't happen often enough to make me buy a new system. I've noticed that it happens more in big team battle in the Halo 3 forge maps.

343I is under fire because they've managed to get Halo from one of the biggest franchises in the business to semi-irrelevent in the timespan of 10 years.

Halo 4's multiplayer was easily the worst in the series. Campaign was allright but a far cry from Halo 3
Halo5's single player was the worst in the series. Multiplayer was great after 2 years but everybody had left by then.
MCC: Broken for the first couple of years. Nowadays indeed one of the best games around, but the first couple of years really didn't help their reputation.

They finally seem to grasp Halo with Infinite, but let's not pretend like they've got a good track record.

I'd put Halo 4 matchmaking over Halo 3 and waayyyy over Reach. But I know that's not a common opinion. Everyone loves Halo 3 so much and I'm just like ewww most of the time lol.

 

[MOTM]

Exactly.

 

[TheTechnician]

So I just saw the Campaign Trailer where the narrator talks about outposts and strongholds...
And it's a open world.
So I assume what we get is a Halo / Far Cry Mix.. ?
That's is not meant as criticism. Iam currently taking over base after base in Far Cry 6
But I would say that in my Opinion Far Cry 6 is the better looking Game...

 

[Raekwon26]

Exactly.

 

[CuNi]

MCC is perfectly playable atm on all xbox consoles. I've been playing Reach and H3 MLG daily. What kind of problems are you running into?

We haven't tried it since S8 dropped as we completely lost interest in it, but H2 Co-Op was literally unplayable in S7.
Known bugs back then were "crash on start of cutscene", "crash on end of cutscene" and in anniversary graphics, "crash during a cutscene".
We literally had to play through the Level "The Oracle" 7x.
We dropped it at "Sacred Icon" as we've been on our 3rd try to play through that level in our "MCC Legendary Co-op run" and after being nearly done and watching a Terminal only for it to disconnect us again, we just gave up on H2 and proceeded to H3. Shame really, the game is looking great etc. but there are really really big issues in MCC when you play co-op.

Halo 4 for example, doesn't give you Terminal Achievements unless you are the one that activated the Terminal, and Terminals are one time use only.

 

[MOTM]

Exactly.

Certainly.

 

[onesvenus]

Flight sim is a poor example as the level of detail is being rendered from a cloud server farm

That's not true at all xD
Flight simulator streams aerial images and LODs from the cloud but those are rendered in the console. What you see when you are offline is what the game installed that, considering it spans the whole world, has a low level of detail.

Anyway, Flight Sim is not a cross-gen game so I don't think we can compare it with Halo. We should compare it with FH5 and, leaving art direction aside, Halo can't compare with it at all.

 

[DustQueen]

Despite the fact that it is clearly the same fucking Halo Reach(wich is heavily updated Halo 1 engine at it's core) engine with the new coat of paint the are trying to sell as "new"
It looks decent.
Nothing extraordinary though.

 

[DragonNCM]

RPG elements with openworld setings......imagin loot what will you find, armor & weapon upgrades,worhog,banshy,sabre upgrades.....infinite player preferences......I think we will see also some sort of skill system......can't wait for it.

 

[Negotiator101]

Certainly.

Why can't we just all get on?

 

[Hendrick's]

RPG elements with openworld setings......imagin loot what will you find, armor & weapon upgrades,worhog,banshy,sabre upgrades.....infinite player preferences......I think we will see also some sort of skill system......can't wait for it.

Is there loot, I hadn’t heard that. Have they said if you will keep weapons you find or are they unlocked and equipped like loadouts?

 

[FrankWza]

Flight sim is a poor example as the level of detail is being rendered from a cloud server farm. Rendering offline and natively from the console itself and the graphics look downright mediocre.

That’s crazy. I didn’t know that.

 

[Negotiator101]

Despite the fact that it is clearly the same fucking Halo Reach(wich is heavily updated Halo 1 engine at it's core) engine with the new coat of paint the are trying to sell as "new"
It looks decent.
Nothing extraordinary though.

Look at the scale and how everything has its own set of physics within the massive sandbox, its just an incredibly dynamic game that very few games come close to. Then take into account the advanced AI (no respawning enemies) who can use all the weapons and vehicles within the sandbox, it's a technical marvel and goes way beyond your normal AAA game.

All that and it looks top 5 graphics for the year anyway. Only Flightsim, R&C, Forza 5 and probably Battlefield look better IMO, and apart from Flightsim and maybe Battlefield none are technically as impressive.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Flight sim is a poor example as the level of detail is being rendered from a cloud server farm. Rendering offline and natively from the console itself and the graphics look downright mediocre.

That's not how it works. All the rendering is done locally on your machine. You need internet connection to get the data from the cloud as storing it all locally is impossible. If you disable internet connection you get lower LOD essentially.

 

[DragonNCM]

Is there loot, I hadn’t heard that. Have they said if you will keep weapons you find or are they unlocked and equipped like loadouts?

Nothing official....just my imagination.Watching the treiler I picked up some glimps of posible upgrades (at gavity hamer play).

 

[TheTechnician]

That’s crazy. I didn’t know that.

Its is not true.. rubbish in letter form..

 

[Y0ssarian]

Taking cues from DOOM/DOOM Eternal? I was sceptical as I am of most new games, but this actually has the potential to be the best Halo game

 

[deriks]

Taking cues from DOOM/DOOM Eternal? I was sceptical as I am of most new games, but this actually has the potential to be the best Halo game

With a few FarCry stuff too. It really can be the best in the series

 

[DustQueen]

Look at the scale and how everything has its own set of physics within the massive sandbox, its just an incredibly dynamic game that very few games come close to. Then take into account the advanced AI (no respawning enemies) who can use all the weapons and vehicles within the sandbox, it's a technical marvel and goes way beyond your normal AAA game.

All that and it looks top 5 graphics for the year anyway. Only Flightsim, R&C, Forza 5 and probably Battlefield look better IMO, and apart from Flightsim and maybe Battlefield none are technically as impressive.

Yeah. It looks like Halo engine launched on 12 tf machine with 720p/30 XOne version n 300000000 $ budget. Exactly my point

 

[TheDreadLord]

Despite all hate the game looks awesome. I just wish it isn't a DOOM 2016 clone at half the speed. Please, be more like Halo 1 and 2.

 

[Evilms]

Stream and download Campaign overview from Halo Infinite in very high quality

Stream and download Campaign overview from Halo Infinite in very high quality

www.gamersyde.com

 

[Zathalus]

Flight sim is a poor example as the level of detail is being rendered from a cloud server farm. Rendering offline and natively from the console itself and the graphics look downright mediocre.

That is not true. The console renders everything locally, the only thing that is streamed is map data and other live aspects like weather and flight traffic. All the graphical bells and whistles are 100% rendered on the local GPU.

 

[elliot5]

That is not true. The console renders everything locally, the only thing that is streamed is map data and other live aspects like weather and flight traffic. All the graphical bells and whistles are 100% rendered on the local GPU.

Thank you. I was just about to reply to correct that nonsense. The reason offline rendering looks worse is because you can't store petabytes of map and weather data of the Earth locally.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Despite all hate the game looks awesome. I just wish it isn't a DOOM 2016 clone at half the speed. Please, be more like Halo 1 and 2.

This looks nothing like a doom clone.

 

[acm2000]

I wish people would add GMT to the times too since that's what the world's clocks are set from

 

[TLZ]

4k version

It looks very nice and interesting.

 

[Certinty]

Would have preferred much more linear levels like usual to be honest.

 

[Leyasu]

Looks like halo. Which is a good thing.

Graphics are nothing special though. Looks like an above average cross gen open world game. A more competent studio dropping the of xbone could have pushed the graphics a lot more.

Not hating, I love halo. Just giving my opinion on both game and the devs. 343s management team needs to go

 

[Castef]

Overall, I expected better from a graphical point of view for the game on Xbox Series X.

On the other hand I really liked what I've seen in the campaign trailer and now I can't wait to play it.

 

[Castef]

Would have preferred much more linear levels like usual to be honest.

Well, we had basically 7 games with "linear" levels (as much as a typical Halo level could be considered "linear"), I really think that a bit of change could be welcome.

 

[CuNi]

Overall, I expected better from a graphical point of view for the game on Xbox Series X.

On the other hand I really liked what I've seen in the campaign trailer and now I can't wait to play it.

Game will, hopefully, do another big jump in fidelity once later expansions drop the Xbox one and Xbox one x. Keep in mind that infinite releases for those as well. There is only so much magic you can push with those consoles being dragged along.

 

[Concern]

Im actually looking forward to the open world style they're going with. But I'm mostly tired of every game becoming open world now. Most of them are poorly done next to games like gta, rdr, tw3 imo.

Either way mp is gonna be great after the flight tests too.

 

[Werewolfgrandma]

Game will, hopefully, do another big jump in fidelity once later expansions drop the Xbox one and Xbox one x. Keep in mind that infinite releases for those as well. There is only so much magic you can push with those consoles being dragged along.

Textures certainly look great

 

[Leyasu]

Game will, hopefully, do another big jump in fidelity once later expansions drop the Xbox one and Xbox one x. Keep in mind that infinite releases for those as well. There is only so much magic you can push with those consoles being dragged along.

Yeah, this is what I am thinking also

 

[ResilientBanana]

I can't recall a AAA single player title that has had this little footage from the campaign before release, but here's hoping The Legend of Cortana: Halo of the Wild holds up. My hope is it'll be a reverse Cyberpunk where they're actually trying to preserve more of the game because its great and worthy of being experienced. I dunno though, I look forward to reviews.

Halo CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Reach, Halo 4.. etc

Everyone keeps saying Far Cry, but I'm seeing Metroid Prime.

 

[reksveks]

The only thing that really bothered me was the new AI name “the weapon”

It will get another self-defined name imo, I am okay with others in the game world naming the AI based off its function.

Game will, hopefully, do another big jump in fidelity once later expansions drop the Xbox one and Xbox one x. Keep in mind that infinite releases for those as well. There is only so much magic you can push with those consoles being dragged along.

I am trying to remember the stuff that they are going to be adding post release:

- raytracing
- more dynamic weather
- co-op
- forge

I do wonder how they will make the decision when to stop supporting the xbox one with post release content but that's going to be a bit of a pain for xbox one users.

 

[Kagey K]

It will get another self-defined name imo, I am okay with others in the game world naming the AI based off its function.



I am trying to remember the stuff that they are going to be adding post release:

- raytracing
- more dynamic weather
- co-op
- forge

I do wonder how they will make the decision when to stop supporting the xbox one with post release content but that's going to be a bit of a pain for xbox one users.

By the time they stop, the streaming option for Series X games on XB1 should be out. Sure it's not the same as playing it locally, but at least the option to continue playing it is still there.

 

[ResilientBanana]

It will get another self-defined name imo, I am okay with others in the game world naming the AI based off its function.



I am trying to remember the stuff that they are going to be adding post release:

- raytracing
- more dynamic weather
- co-op
- forge

I do wonder how they will make the decision when to stop supporting the xbox one with post release content but that's going to be a bit of a pain for xbox one users.

Where is this information?

 

[reksveks]

Where is this information?

The post release stuff? Most of it is based off their blogs/videos. Raytracing was confirmed in the latest pc overview. The dynamic weather is the only one that's a bit of a stretch but its based off

Halo Infinite Features Dynamic Weather and Day/Night Cycle Impacting Gameplay

343 Industries' development team reveals Halo Infinite will feature dynamic weather and a day/night cycle, directly impacting gameplay.

gamerant.com

I am kind of hoping for proper rainstorms.

 

[Low Moral Fibre]

The graphics still look a little off like the lighting is in the uncanny valley (if that's a thing) where it doesn't look quite right. Still will be playing this day 1 and the trailer did give me goosebumps so bring it on.

 

[Phase]

I still don't understand how they're going to stretch a decade out of this title.

 

[ResilientBanana]

The graphics still look a little off like the lighting is in the uncanny valley (if that's a thing) where it doesn't look quite right. Still will be playing this day 1 and the trailer did give me goosebumps so bring it on.

Shadows, ambient light and normal mapping is a bit harsh. Not sure how they settled on that.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Xbox is going to own the end of 2021. Great year for the Series X.

The only two games on my list for the remainder of this year are FH5 and H:I on the PC. Can't really think of anything else, unless I'm missing a smaller budget indie title or the like.

 

[AJUMP23]

The only two games on my list for the remainder of this year are FH5 and H:I on the PC. Can't really think of anything else, unless I'm missing a smaller budget indie title or the like.

Age of Empires 4 is this week.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Age of Empires 4 is this week.

Oh shit, that's right... make that 3!