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New Halo 5 Coverage! (expect spoilers)
- Thread starter JumPeRJumPzZ
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Part of the reason may be that this is a preview build, and 343 had to tune down the difficulty to let some COD fanboy journalists feel more comfortable. More gameplay possibilities are great, but it is far to easy to take down multiple elites which is not a welcome change.
BTW, the UI shown in the beginning of the AR12 video is great!
Yeah, it wasn't that great. Perhaps too big and ends up as window dressing more or less. It's just sort of there doing nothing but smashing scenery with no threat for the spectacle.
It reminds me of that Halo 4 level on the mammoth but more open. Follow the window dressing.
Hypertrooper
Member
Why is he a noob? There will be plenty of people who never played a Halo before. He does not criticize the gameplay, he really likes it at the end. He is criticizing the story.[Call-Me-G];179696569 said:
Yeah I noticed the friendly Ai doing stupid things also, I feel that they're going to be like Mass Effect team mates where they don't really do anything, they might fire off a few shots but don't really do anything constructive
Tha Robbertster
Member
Game looks awesome! The difficulty of the AI looks kinda worrying though. In these video's, they seem really, really easy to combat. Of course, it could a lower difficulty, but for now, it seems like I'll start the campaign on legendary for the first time.
Also, the Kraken fight looks kinda underwhelming from what I've seen. It doesn't seem to do much besides be there. No big guns like the scarab.
Also, the Kraken fight looks kinda underwhelming from what I've seen. It doesn't seem to do much besides be there. No big guns like the scarab.
SmartWaffles
Member
Fair enough, but at least I wish in the final game we don't have to rely on elite combo all the time.
Dayum nice and big in-game subtitles!
schwabdizzle
Banned
I am not a big Halo fan but this game looks amazing.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Halo addiction winding up...have mercy 343.
Guadians seem to correspond with the expression more. I believe that in some of the stages we will have to face the Guardians, and some awesome platforming will be required to take them down.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Yeah, if they were going for a Scarab-esque battle they seem to have completely missed the point of what made those fun. It also looks like this dude from Half-Life 1:
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Also noticed that the Promethean Knights seemingly don't have a lot of visual feedback for hitting them or if their shields are going down (if they still have those):
http://i.imgur.com/9iqVeGR.webm
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
It ain't Halo without at least one mentally deficient Banshee lol
WordsintheWater
Member
Really can't wait for this
Hypertrooper
Member
It seems they do not have shields anymore instead a damage model as you can see here:
https://youtu.be/8J0HHz6pT4M?t=13m38s
Oh geez, don't remind me. I've done enough platforming onto space baby brains for two lifetimes.
The game has major visual clarity issues in general. All of the enemies are grey and even harder to tell apart than they were in Halo 4, which really shouldn't happen in a "Halo" game.
Every other big game this year, I have had the hype drop before it was launched, but this just keeps getting better. I love the themes, and I normally dont do multiplayer, but I am thinking of doing the campaign in co-op. Do they have a mechanism for making replaying the campaign viable (XP/get cards/new shit etc)?
That's cool. Wish they reacted more to being shot, though.
Looks great fun. A lot more frenetic than past Halo games. And I don't know if it's just me, but seems like there's a lot more enemies you're engaging with than is typical of the franchise, at least for early on in the game. For the first few missions or whatever, these arena's are literally littered with enemies to kill. I think the general fluidity of combat, as well as animations and sense of impact, look excellent. Weapons appear to pack a punch, and look satisfying to use.
Graphically, I think it looks absolutely fantastic for a 60fps title. The lighting is atmospheric, and the art direction beautiful. There are a few issues here and there, like explosions for example, but otherwise the visuals have been majorly tidied up. Things look cleaner than they did for example at E3, where at the time it was a bit of a jaggy mess.
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I do have a few minor negative take aways though.
Firstly, the AI, even for normal difficulty, just does not look especially competent. Especially for this franchise in particular, which has always been at the forefront of quality AI design. Here enemies seemed content with just standing around getting executed, and didn't seem to have the same urgency of self preservation as in past games. They weren't dashing for cover the moment shields were down, or threats were posed etc, or sniping from in and out of cover etc in quite the same way.
The Kraken fight just looked a bit dull and boring. The build up to it was fantastic. That sense of awe and magnitude, but then the climax soured it. Essentially just one big stationary platform which you monotonously hover around, picking off enemies before boarding and doing the classic blow up reactor routine. I thought there'd be more to it.
The only other minor negatives were the revivals, which appear to make the game far too easy, but that might not be the case further in to the game. And lastly, it's the emphasis on Locke. For whatever reason I'm just not as interested in his character or team as Master Chief and his. His character seems a little forced and bland, but again, that might be an opinion that changes after I've played through the game.
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In any case, overall I'm still very impressed with what has been shown, enough that I'm excited to play more. Now, where's the cheapest place to pre-order this thing in the UK? Lol.
Graphically, I think it looks absolutely fantastic for a 60fps title. The lighting is atmospheric, and the art direction beautiful. There are a few issues here and there, like explosions for example, but otherwise the visuals have been majorly tidied up. Things look cleaner than they did for example at E3, where at the time it was a bit of a jaggy mess.
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I do have a few minor negative take aways though.
Firstly, the AI, even for normal difficulty, just does not look especially competent. Especially for this franchise in particular, which has always been at the forefront of quality AI design. Here enemies seemed content with just standing around getting executed, and didn't seem to have the same urgency of self preservation as in past games. They weren't dashing for cover the moment shields were down, or threats were posed etc, or sniping from in and out of cover etc in quite the same way.
The Kraken fight just looked a bit dull and boring. The build up to it was fantastic. That sense of awe and magnitude, but then the climax soured it. Essentially just one big stationary platform which you monotonously hover around, picking off enemies before boarding and doing the classic blow up reactor routine. I thought there'd be more to it.
The only other minor negatives were the revivals, which appear to make the game far too easy, but that might not be the case further in to the game. And lastly, it's the emphasis on Locke. For whatever reason I'm just not as interested in his character or team as Master Chief and his. His character seems a little forced and bland, but again, that might be an opinion that changes after I've played through the game.
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In any case, overall I'm still very impressed with what has been shown, enough that I'm excited to play more. Now, where's the cheapest place to pre-order this thing in the UK? Lol.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Game looks pretty good, but also pretty easy. Might have to jack it up to Legendary for a first-time run through. I agree it would've been cooler if we had to board the Kraken while it was in motion (a la Halo 2), or at least offer the opportunity to board it early with a time limit attached (so once it stops you've got a very limited amount of time to defuse the bastard).
Other than that, no major complaints. Music sounds great, gameplay looks fiiiiine, and graphics are solid. Hugely looking forward to this.
Other than that, no major complaints. Music sounds great, gameplay looks fiiiiine, and graphics are solid. Hugely looking forward to this.
That and "you good" sounded super wooden.
Team Locke had the better opening cinematic (as far as what was presented to us)
DagnastyEp
Member
Really impressed so far. The 60fps seems super smooth from the videos. Environments look to be a lot more vertical and open. Hopefully the story holds up.
Isn't this ingame engine and the other one CG? I wonder why or maybe we have not seen everything.
edit: or the other is the game's intro and this only being a "cutscene". I guess that makes sense.
thetwinsattack
Neo Member
I was about to ask myself - it's in-engine isn't it? Certainly looks to be and I think they said most cinematics would be in-engine.
Real time?
Clamber could add a lot to that kind of level. Hopefully there is a level like that.
NippleViking
Banned
Anyone else notice Chief's hand quivering in the Blue Team intro from 0:10 to 0:16, as he brushes the rear of his helmet where Cortana used to be installed? Might just be a finicky graphical glitch - and hell, I may me imagining it - but if it's intentional, that's a little unsettling. Chief is/(was) stalwart incarnate.
Watched nearly every video. I liked the majority of what I've seen. The music is god damn amazing. Lots of classic Halo themes mixed with some of the better Halo 4 tracks. That mission intro alone made me have goosebumps.
Now let's talk about the Kraken:
The Kraken doesn't look like a standard vehicle to me. Looks more like a mobile base instead of the classic vehicular combat we are familiar with. It also looks like a one time only fight, as that thing seems to be scripted to start and to stop at a certain location. Doesn't seem like it moves freely or that you can get early onto the thing. Well, I hope I'm right and we don't have to destroy multiple Kraken's in the campaign, because that was the only thing that looked a little boring, in my eyes. I totally expect that we will get a crazy big and awesome ground vehicular battle. Halo wouldn't be Halo, if we didn't have at least one Scorpion section.
An other point that I'd like to know is if the Forerunner Phaeton is the only new vehicle? What about returning vehicles like the Revenant, Spectre or the Brute Chopper?
Now let's talk about the Kraken:
The Kraken doesn't look like a standard vehicle to me. Looks more like a mobile base instead of the classic vehicular combat we are familiar with. It also looks like a one time only fight, as that thing seems to be scripted to start and to stop at a certain location. Doesn't seem like it moves freely or that you can get early onto the thing. Well, I hope I'm right and we don't have to destroy multiple Kraken's in the campaign, because that was the only thing that looked a little boring, in my eyes. I totally expect that we will get a crazy big and awesome ground vehicular battle. Halo wouldn't be Halo, if we didn't have at least one Scorpion section.
An other point that I'd like to know is if the Forerunner Phaeton is the only new vehicle? What about returning vehicles like the Revenant, Spectre or the Brute Chopper?
Leyasu
Banned
I saw that. But I thouht that it was a glitch
Probably something to do with the 4 game, multi-novel history. I'm hoping by the end of Halo 5, and in time for Halo 6, we'll be plenty warmed up to Osiris.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Looks good. Seeing the Hunters swat way grenades was great.
RoyalLaFlame
Banned
The AI looks a little... eh, weak?
But that Blue team intro, that gameplay. Good lord this looks fucking amazing!
But that Blue team intro, that gameplay. Good lord this looks fucking amazing!
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
No time to read all those previews, but was anything said about the A.I.?
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
The multiplayer is utterly Halo. As in, REALLY good. Just my humble opinion of course, but even HaloGAF(RIP) is for the majority, really looking forward to it. Normally we hate everything. /SLURP.
MaxRealflugel
Neo Member
I appear to have wet myself.
The arena multiplayer embargo will lift on Friday, and Warzone on Sunday. You can decide by then!
gaming_noob
Member
I love what I see. It looks so damn fun.