TheShocker
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Halo Infinite Technical Preview Livestream July 28th at 2pm PST
- Thread starter ManaByte
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Craig of War
Banned
I am interested does that count.
DonJuanSchlong
Banned
I was thinking I didn't make it, and checked my secondary email (which is actually my primary, but use my Hotmail for Xbox live email ((which is technically my secondary)). And my primary email (secondary to xbl), has my invite!!
Dusktildawn48
Member
So what time does it start tomorrow?
CamHostage
Member
They only promoted it at the last minute and didn't promote it everywhere (I guess because it's a preview, it's not on Xbox.com or some other big places.)
...But also, as soon as I saw the invited going out, it totally erased my mind that there was a livestream this week too.
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Insane Metal
Member
The AO in this game looks pretty nice.
YukiOnna
Member
Considering how much attention they get on social media, I think a lot of people are interested...
anthony2690
Banned
Watched the ign gameplay match, looks incredible, can't wait.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Clamber is meh but I think sprint is more meh. It was never needed in any of the first three halo games and those games are widely recognized as the most popular. To me sprint just makes Halo look more like cod or some other generic shooter. Maps are unnecessarily large to account for sprint, which prevents 343 from making the smaller sized arena maps that many Halo fans love. Wizard/Warlock, Longest, Battle/Beaver Creek, Sanctuary, Ivory Tower, Guardian, Lockout, Midship/Heretic. Good luck. Those style maps won't work with sprint or play in the same way and never will. And watching the start stop animation of people about to start sprinting who then stop immediately is annoying as all get out. I enjoyed watching the 1v1 strafe battles from earlier Halo games. That was more organic. Sprint is forced.
Ultimately, I can deal with sprint being in Halo. I enjoyed Halo 5 quite a bit. But I don't think sprint actually adds anything to the game. About the only way to make sprint mean something is by adding the extra abilities that require sprint. Sprinting into a slide for a longer jump for example. Allowing a player to get to a spot that is otherwise unreachable. At least that is useful from a mechanics standpoint and allows for some increased skill in the game. However, I have a feeling that those abilities were removed from Halo 5 to make Halo feel more classic. But Halo will never feel like classic halo with sprint. That's just a fact.
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01011001
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Can’t wait to pwned noob who play at 30 FPS
people really underestimate how much of a difference framerate makes in a competitive MP game. for real, base Xbox One users will be fucking destroyed.
ALSO have you noticed how he phrased the info on the FOV slider? I can't remember word for word, but he said something along the lines of "The FOV slider is not PC exclusive but will also be on other systems" which honestly tells me that maybe base Xbox One or even One X will have a fixed FOV, at least on launch.
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01011001
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I think at this point Clamber is the worse of the 2 evils. Sprint in Infinite looks not much faster than base movement, and you can instantly shoot out of it.
Clamber is the same shit it was in Halo 5, so to me this is now the worst part of what I've seen so far
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Only starting to watch now and the first 30 seconds on Bazaar map and I'm already thinking fuuuuck there goes any form of stealth with the friend or foe highlighting players the second they're on screen. Sometimes you can just get away sitting still or crouch walking on parts of a map while hiding in the periphery of an enemy FOV, that's no longer going to be possible. Friend or Foe highlighting is going to be a very different Halo, could be good but given my love of stealth in the classic H1-H3 I'm not going to be stealthing like the old days. The good parts are even surfaces for clean gun fights, aiming, bouncing grenades and that classic Halo predictability during an even fight. Good stuff there. I suppose I should just write up everything together in one post but these two good and bad points hit me right away.
EDIT: Wait no one used the ping system in this preview? Honestly switching between Apex and MCC these days the ping system is a must have. Did I miss it?
EDIT 2: No splitscreen shown. Ugh.
EDIT 3: no BTB or objective shown.
EDIT: Wait no one used the ping system in this preview? Honestly switching between Apex and MCC these days the ping system is a must have. Did I miss it?
EDIT 2: No splitscreen shown. Ugh.
EDIT 3: no BTB or objective shown.
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anthony2690
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Surprisingly on gears 5 on base Xbox one, it has a fov slider too, so maybe halo will too.
01011001
Banned
maybe, but the way he said that way weird to me, why not say it is in every version or on every system? why say also on other systems?... it's just weird.
the game is clearly already straining the base Xbox One, so it could be that it was not in the realm of possibilities.
but I mean, we will see tomorrow when people get their hands on it, and if it's not there maybe it will come in a patch later.
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anthony2690
Banned
Sucks for older console owners as halo 5 and prior titles are 60fps right? Going to be rough for these guys going to 30fps.
01011001
Banned
yeah every Halo on base Xbox One is 60fps... this will be jarring for new players that haven't played the og Xbox/360 versions at 30fps before
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Mister Wolf
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The decision to make the One(One X too?) 30fps bodes well for the single player.
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It's been communicated to temper expectations that this technical preview is about 4v4 slayer against bots [4 players v 4 bots], and they announced today that at the end they will try and enable it to be 4v4 pvp (no bots). There should have been no expectation that there would be splitscreen included or BTB or any other game mode???
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
01011001
Banned
the stream today was only about the tech preview build, which is 4v4, 4 players vs 4 bots in social slayer. no splitscreen, no other modes and 3 maps I think.
this is only to test stability, Splitscreen, BTB and other stuff will be tested in later flights
but there is pinging and pinging enemies that get killed soon after actually gives you support points as well
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I read they stated a ping system. I have not seen it in the multi-reveal nor today's tech stream though. Also, they don't want to test bots with an objective social mode? Pretty limited for a game heading into gold cert in about 2-2.5 months from now.
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RoyalLaFlame
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Just saw a bit of the gameplay.... man, looks bland as fuck.
I'm starting to think that Halo is not for me anymore.
I'm starting to think that Halo is not for me anymore.
grfunkulus
Banned
Dear god I hope there is at least some period where there is pvp. Not that people who are involved this early on are going to abandon the game because there's no real pvp in the first flight but the ripple effect could be large. Even if it's not ready for prime time, I think they would be well served to at least let us have a go!
CitizenZ
Banned
Its only win factor, like most things today, is the name factor.
01011001
Banned
this is only a stability test. not a real beta. I bet these flights will be very frequent from now on and they said that they will get bigger in scope each time as well.
so I expect a new flight every 2-4 weeks or so
I think they will now that the cats out of the bag. They said it would happen if they get the data they were looking for from this preview, and that there will be a bug that will cause the game to start as a 4v3 and backfill in the 4th about 40% of the time, but still its something. It's not meant to be ranked play just testing data so nobody should get pressed about being down a man for a few seconds.
CrustyBritches
Gold Member
They mentioned in the video that this is a just one of many tech previews they'll do, so if you don't get in on this one, keep an eye for future events. They said they'll keep scaling up amount of users with future events, too. Also went out their way to say this is *not* a beta test or event.
"Hundreds of thousands of players this weekend". "There will be future opportunities for people to play". "This is the first test and the smallest."
P.S.- My invite was in my secondary email, and in the 'Promotions' tab, not 'Primary' in gmail.
"Hundreds of thousands of players this weekend". "There will be future opportunities for people to play". "This is the first test and the smallest."
P.S.- My invite was in my secondary email, and in the 'Promotions' tab, not 'Primary' in gmail.
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Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Game looks super impressive. Haters and downplayers be damned. I’m going to be playing some Halo this weekend.
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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I've not been a major Halo fan in the past, though I've always appreciated the franchise for its impact, especially the Bungie-era games. That said I can't help but be impressed with the absolute turnaround the game's had since the lukewarm (IMO) presentation in July of last year.
Not just that but the actual gunplay in the MP showings of late seems more energetic than what was in that July showcase too, tho you can still tell it's Halo and I think that's a good thing overall. Got the makings for a major success this Fall, tho I'm really interested to see more of the story campaign in particular.
Not just that but the actual gunplay in the MP showings of late seems more energetic than what was in that July showcase too, tho you can still tell it's Halo and I think that's a good thing overall. Got the makings for a major success this Fall, tho I'm really interested to see more of the story campaign in particular.
YukiOnna
Member
They said if they hit targets for the bot testing, they'll enable it Sunday eveningish for the remainder of the end of the flight test. I'm assuming next round is when we'll actually get proper PvP testing.
BLAUcopter
Gold Member
Looks tight! All over this like a RASH when it releases.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Exactly. They are opening up pvp on the last day. Nice little treat.
grfunkulus
Banned
Yep, as long as the population is as healthy as we all think it should be, that is far superior an option than not having it at all. Props to 343 for having transparency to this point on a lot of stuff that matters. So looking forward to this.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Love this weapons training
Dusktildawn48
Member
So how do we download it? And what time does it start?
They'll give us instructions via email and waypoint. It'll be this afternoon. Probably like 5-7pm PST
Dusktildawn48
Member
Well that sucks. I'll be at work at that time.
Hey at least you'll miss out on the almost guaranteed server crashing and crippled download speeds! Matchmaking will be available all weekend don't worry
Dusktildawn48
Member
That's true. And The Ascent releases at noon.
Balducci30
Member
I’m stoked so is everyone invited to this flight invited to all the rest that happen from now on?
Don't think so, but the future flights will be bigger so the odds are likely you'll get in