Tickle My Tendies
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Looks better. Textures look sharp. I hope this is a home run. I want this game to be great.
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Halo Infinite - New 4K Screenshots
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NullZ3r0
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Many people are bashing the graphics based on arts style instead of a technical nature. This is a conscious decision on 343's part to go back to the classic Halo look of bright colors and a slightly cartoony palette. I for one prefer the realistic style of Halo 4 and 5, but those type of graphics are not conducive to open-world, go-anywhere gameplay. It has nothing to do with processing power but rather the time needed for artists to pour over every nook and cranny to make sure that everything looks photorealistic at every angle.
By adding the grapple shot, we will be able to go places that were not accessible in earlier Halo games. So instead of 343 saying, "We don't need to spend anytime putting textures there because no one will ever see it" they now have to put textures there. Now imagine if they tried to do that with Hellblade 2-level visuals or art style. The game wouldn't come out for another 5 years.
I would love 343 to do a Halo Spin-off of Team Osiris based off of ID Tech that's more of a corridor shooter. I do believe they can tell other stories outside of the Chief saga where the team gets the freedom to do what they want. Hell, an ODST looter shooter based on Unreal Engine 5 would work as well.
ResilientBanana
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You can have sharper textures and less muddy visuals and still accomplish that task.
NullZ3r0
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"Looks better" is a subjective statement. It's not based on any facts but rather a preference you have for realistic visuals. These environments look great to me. The closer it gets to the Discover Hope and the Slip Space engine reveal, the better. But I think the environment looks great.
I just need to see how the Covenant looks. I don't like the bald brutes and I thought the Elites looked like shit at the reveal.
Show me a game that runs at 4k and 60 FPS on PS4 that looks better.
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
You mean you can claim they are better.
Elder Legend
Banned
Good point. It would be nice if it will be there day 1, but i am gonna go with assumption that it won't be personally.
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Dream-Knife
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Looks good to me; hopefully it runs at a great frame rate.
I still haven’t played the campaigns after 2. I’ll need to do that.
I still haven’t played the campaigns after 2. I’ll need to do that.
again show me another semi openworld crossgen FPS that run 60fps that look better than this ..feel free to post screenshot
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Kuranghi
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If those texture artifacts on the distant structures are from VRS I'm wondering why they didn't disable that for the screenshots 
Its a tool to decrease GPU so you can have higher framerates so I don't know why its on for a screenshot.
I'm guessing its because they didnt want to mislead people by turning it off because it will always be on for the consoles (I'd assume you can turn it off on PC) but I'd rather performance enhancing options be turned off for a promotional shot tbh, I also wish the shots were supersampled or recontructed at least a bit, is that how aliased the game will be on XSX? Possibly its how they will maintain 60fps?
No bullshots is good for when the game is about to come out but not being able to evaulate the art with no distracting VRS artifacts/aliasing would be better here. If it is VRS then its sucks in everything I've seen it in so far: Gears Tactics and this.
The tech presentations on it were great, the id software one in particular, they may have been using best-case scenarios though like an area so dark its near black. I'm happy with a big reduction in quality during camera pans if you can't see it due to the motion/added blur, as long as its back to normal quality with no pop-in effect by the time I stop moving the camera. Thats the only place I can see it being invisible right now, apart from the id software shadowed-area examples.
edit - I've no problem with the art style, I like how Halo 1 looks and I'd be happy for Halo Infinite to follow that style to a tee. Its just not visually impressive to me and has lots of weird graphics artifacts and aliasing that I think makes the overall IQ subpar.
Andodalf
-edit - You think I'm getting too caught up in the technical details?
Its a tool to decrease GPU so you can have higher framerates so I don't know why its on for a screenshot.I'm guessing its because they didnt want to mislead people by turning it off because it will always be on for the consoles (I'd assume you can turn it off on PC) but I'd rather performance enhancing options be turned off for a promotional shot tbh, I also wish the shots were supersampled or recontructed at least a bit, is that how aliased the game will be on XSX? Possibly its how they will maintain 60fps?
No bullshots is good for when the game is about to come out but not being able to evaulate the art with no distracting VRS artifacts/aliasing would be better here. If it is VRS then its sucks in everything I've seen it in so far: Gears Tactics and this.
The tech presentations on it were great, the id software one in particular, they may have been using best-case scenarios though like an area so dark its near black. I'm happy with a big reduction in quality during camera pans if you can't see it due to the motion/added blur, as long as its back to normal quality with no pop-in effect by the time I stop moving the camera. Thats the only place I can see it being invisible right now, apart from the id software shadowed-area examples.
edit - I've no problem with the art style, I like how Halo 1 looks and I'd be happy for Halo Infinite to follow that style to a tee. Its just not visually impressive to me and has lots of weird graphics artifacts and aliasing that I think makes the overall IQ subpar.
Andodalf
-edit - You think I'm getting too caught up in the technical details?
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it's a crossgen game what's wrong with you guys ..at this point this is trolling
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cyen
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Well, there is nothing interesting to talk about yesterday state of play so they have to turn somewhere else.
Huge improvement over the last showing but still doesn't look amazing (Many last-gen games look much better than this). On the other hand, Halo isn't really about graphics. They should drop the 60fps on X1.
GoT looks way better than this...
Syphon Filter
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My concern isn't the graphics necessarily, it's that the game plays like a COD ripoff which looks like it will still be the case.
PC will be the best looking version... why not use PC shots?
30 FPS, Checkerboard 1800P, built for 2 consoles at 30 FPS... on top of that 1 perspective to really focus on, with no local Co-Op... beautiful game, but Halo Infinite screenshots look better to me considering its targets
Silent Viper
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Forsythia
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baphomet
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Look at that first image again. 1/3 of the stuff in it is rendering significantly lower than 4k.
Bar81
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Not gonna happen. The grappling hook makes a cameo in Shadows of Reach, a novel with events occurring between Halo 5 and Infinite.
Physiognomonics
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First Halo had high resolution and realistic textures for the ground. I still remember how sharp those textures were. Here those ground textures look almost cell shaded sometimes.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
So excited to play this game. Like the painterly look. Not everything needs to be photorealistic.
Captain Toad
Banned
Another lying thread title. Says 4K screenshots, but there were only 11.
Silent Viper
Banned
Last year Reveal shot lol
Fredrik
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Looks a lot better when shown with that gif!Look way better now, so excited to play it
It's crazy that the weather changes everything
It’ll be interesting to see how much the trees and grass moves, there is some debris in one pic to the left so maybe we get some particles affected by the wind as well.
Razvedka
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Def dig the skybox and dynamic time of day.
LostDonkey
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Am I going mad or what...I dont see any difference
GoT isn't a FPS ...
Its 60fps on ps5, as I mentioned in my post
An FPS can't look good? BF1 looks amazing and it's an FPS.
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oldergamer
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Dude you're full of it lolI'm an Xbox fan and love halo.
I think all the screenshots looked great....
Up until I closely examined them - has anyone else noticed the amount of conceptual chalk art/What seems to be conceptual art overlaying/blending into some of the screenshots shown?
Anyone?
There isn't a consistency across images and in particular, the needle on the pine trees - some look chalked in, or mixed atop a conceptual art overlay... but others are highly detailed.
In one image, when looking at the tree line, then gazing towards the cliffs to the right - the conceptual art seems to be blended into the cliffside as well, and in some parts you see highly detailed textures.
It's as if the texture artist is plucking textures from concept art, drawn from conceptual chalk/thickly brushed concept art pieces... and meshing it together with the actual game assets.
Some of the trees in the distance, nay - many... are atrocious, awful and look as if they've been mixed/photoshopped with even worse conceptual art pieces.
I'm pro Xbox, a fan of good graphics too however - and I've seen far better on last gen - so I know Halo is capable of looking far better but for now
what gives with handing gamers photo's seemingly utilizing a blend of conceptual painted art overlaid atop and blended into actual in game screenshots.
Or perhaps they are just plainly using conceptual art for most texture derivatives. Which would be a jarring way to communicate Halo is going to use a mixed art style and filters across assets.
Visual Issues that I as a fan of both Xbox, and Halo... (and next gen graphics) have taken the time to highlight
However I do realize the game has essentially been 'restarted' I think a lot of these issues in fact communicate a partially mixed artstyle, and we haven't heard otherwise.
oldergamer
Member
NOVRS?
the point is that this halo infinite look better than most fps out there . period .
If you wanna continue to troll be free
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Maxwell Jacob Friedman
leads to fear. Fear leads to xbox.
343 havent made one of those yet
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-MJF
Ok, let's put it this way, show me a game that targets 4k 60FPS on PS4 that looks better. The result will be the same, none.
Spokker
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I don't get the idea that the Halo series is not synonymous with graphical leaps. The first Halo was a leap for first-person shooters on consoles, what with its lighting, textures, wide open areas and such. Halo 2 brought in those textures that loaded in after the level loaded, had vehicle parts you could shoot off and was an overall late-gen improvement. Halo 3 was 640p but introduced a dynamic lighting engine and had "nice water." Halo 4 was similar to Halo 2 in that it was a late-generation refinement, and holds up well in the Master Chief Collection.
Good graphics and Halo go together well.
Good graphics and Halo go together well.
Reindeer
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Negotiator101
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Probably an Easter egg, the Craig Brute is in one of the caves.
Halo is Back
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Iced Arcade
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Jpeg is Dead