dragonelite
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Im pretty sure digital foundry said it was locked 60 fps
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Halo 5: Forge - First PC Gameplay (Custom Match + 4K Map Flythrough)
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Im pretty sure digital foundry said it was locked 60 fps
Surely custom games on PC are completely customisable and up to 16 players? It's not just standard gamemodes, this is the full custom games system AFAIK.
I remember digital foundry saying it was pretty flawless.
I don't know the technical side of 60fps animations and drops so I'll leave that to others.
I think Mercy is an example of excellent design. Halo always looked best when alien architecture was at the forefront. Halo5 relies to much in human constructs, and that isn't nearly as interesting.
Bits N Pieces
Member
It's funny seeing the mouse cursor in use when he's tweaking the sensitivity in the options, lol.
Enjoy PC players, the gameplay for Halo 5 is sublime, just feel so good!
Enjoy PC players, the gameplay for Halo 5 is sublime, just feel so good!
Spacecowboy77
Member
Looks great!
I'll definitely check it out when released
I'll definitely check it out when released
By standard i mean the typical halo arena gametypes. Ofcourse you can tweak them to make your own rulesets and variants.
There's no Warzone in this release- which is new to halo and separate from the arena experience
Yeah definitely, always liked Alien themed maps but I'm not a great fan of their alien design either. It's still too Transformers and not ancient.
I feel that way about H5 forerunner stuff for sure. I think the covenant stuff was hit or miss this time around. But I think they nailed everything about Sanghelios.
VincentMatts
Member
So if the higher res assets are in there, does this mean a possible update when Scorpio releases?
luckygodzilla
Member
It actually doesn't, halo 5 is absolutely one of the best performing games of this generation.
Masterspeed
Member
I'm thinking by the time Scorpio is out, they would of moved on to another Halo. Hopefully Halo 6 beta or something. Considering Scorpio is out Winter 2017
Looking good! So are we gonna make a new thread for PC customs or what?
edit: New video from Gamespot
Halo 5 on PC - Everything you need to know (Shows forge in action among other things)
edit: New video from Gamespot
Halo 5 on PC - Everything you need to know (Shows forge in action among other things)
EdibleExplosives
Member
Well...I guess I've gotta get Win10 now, don't I?
Yeah, same. I'm still on Windows 7, thinking about dual booting it.
ThatsMytrunks
Member
Looks incredible, and I'm excited to play the game at a steady 1080/60, but I'd love it if they'd let us disable the framerate scaling on animations. I hate seeing animations of far-off characters running at 30 or 15 fps.
Gareth Bale
Member
They actually not going to have a server browser?
what's the logic behind that?
what's the logic behind that?
Conkerkid11
Member
Fucking hype
Forgot how great the audio in this game is
And the texture quality compared to Xbone is ridiculous. Consider the fact that when making this game originally, they had no idea it would ever be released on PC, and yet the artists made all these high quality textures anyways just so they could be downgraded heavily for the platform being released on.
Give us a gimped game, and if we don't like it, we must not want the full thing.
Forgot how great the audio in this game is
And the texture quality compared to Xbone is ridiculous. Consider the fact that when making this game originally, they had no idea it would ever be released on PC, and yet the artists made all these high quality textures anyways just so they could be downgraded heavily for the platform being released on.
Haven't watched the video yet, but I'm assuming it's P2P. So technically...
Kind of feels like that recent release and fail of Halo Online for PC over in Europe, where they released a lackluster Halo game on PC, and because it didn't do well, that must mean PC gamers don't actually want Halo.
Give us a gimped game, and if we don't like it, we must not want the full thing.
Because PC gamers would pay for the full thing, and you can't really just say, "hey, if you want the full game, go play with a controller and low quality graphics for a monthly fee."
batman2million
Member
there are going to be some great maps for halo 5 from this!
SmartWaffles
Member
Everything is run on dedis so no P2P. And this is really a tool for forgers not average gamers, custom games is just a nice side thing, so they are not going to have a custom games browser.
Nothing in Halo 5 is P2P, not even campaign COOP on X1. I highly doubt anything on WIN10 will be P2P.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Not including MM is just outright stupid imo. If they offer a browser that would be okay, but I doubt that will happen.
Why is it stupid? Its called Halo 5: Forge. Not "Halo 5 Arena: Sell your Xbox One Edition"
Broadbandito
Member
Why are we crying for matchmaking and other stuff when this is free and let's pc players get their friends together for some matches.
SmartWaffles
Member
Come on I expected better from you faz.
luckygodzilla
Member
File browser is confirmed to launch alongside the PC version for both platforms.
Think he meant custom games browser, like a server browser
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Sorry, I'm in class lol I meant to sell a matchmaking fee or something. That would be super cool. Either way, it's great that Xbox One owners now have a better way to create forge maps.
Btw, I don't mean a file browser (although that's awesome), I meant an old fashioned server browser so communities can be formed (a la TF2 or Counter-Strike).
Conkerkid11
Member
Finished the video with the brief snippets from one of the Halo 5 devs.
Sounds a lot like Microsoft forced their hand in the direction of, "this isn't for PC gamers, this is for Xbox One gamers who want an alternate method to create maps."
Between that tuning of the controls for people used to using an Xbox One controller, and making forge more accessible to people who were afraid of its depth, it makes this sound less like a PC version of Halo 5, and more like a tool for the console gamers to use, which doesn't make any sense to me.
Sounds a lot like Microsoft forced their hand in the direction of, "this isn't for PC gamers, this is for Xbox One gamers who want an alternate method to create maps."
Between that tuning of the controls for people used to using an Xbox One controller, and making forge more accessible to people who were afraid of its depth, it makes this sound less like a PC version of Halo 5, and more like a tool for the console gamers to use, which doesn't make any sense to me.
Because the forge community has been requesting this since Halo 3
Apologies for coming off rude in my post. I think selling dedicated server space using custom games browser would be kinda neat. You could have GAF buy one and then we just run Super Fiesta all day.
How'd you come to the conclusion that MS forced their hand? If they sought to add all the features you want, do you think the app would be launching on Sept 8th.
Also regarding controls, you got it backwards. They took a game that was completely designed around a controller, and tuned it for MK/b... Which is inherently more accessible for a map editor.
But yes it IS a tool for existing console forgers to use. I also imagine a number of people will use it to actually play customs... Even if they don't use the map editor.
Papacheeks
Banned
Hope this leads to them bringing Halo 5 in it's entirety to PC.
? it looks good. FFS people are spoiled.
Poodlestrike
Banned
It's something that's been on wishlists since Halo 3. Makes perfect sense to me.
Conkerkid11
Member
By watching the video linked in the OP where one of the devs said exactly what I described?
Where this post before yours makes more sense as a response to mine:
You can t have the same standards on pc and consoles. It doesnt work like that, for graphics and gameplay too.
Oh no, it definately is a tool for forgers (hence the name).
My question is: how did you come to the conclusion that MS 'forced' them to take this approach?
How does adding KB/m controls support that conclusion?
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Conkerkid11
Member
Because the dev said they had to make the kb/m controls accessible to those familiar with the Xbox One controls, which isn't something done for PC ports, but tools intended for console gamers.
But this opinion is clearly wrong assuming this happened because of the push Forge users were making for a PC version of the tool since Halo 3.
In the wake of all these other Xbox exclusives coming to PC, it just really feels like that's not the case though.
And I think Microsoft would prefer if everybody forgot that exists.
BigEmil
Junior Member
I'd rather have the Halo Master Chief Collection
VincentMatts
Member
Or 343 could be like Dice was with BF4 and patch/fix their broken ass game.
JigglesBunny
Banned
I understand not pushing the whole game, but for what you've already developed and plan on releasing, why not just include a Matchmaking/Server Browser system?
You have the game's whole Multiplayer in with the exception of Warzone, you're allowing players to group up and play matches through Custom Games, just implement a Matchmaking system and you'd be golden. Just seems like an odd choice.
You have the game's whole Multiplayer in with the exception of Warzone, you're allowing players to group up and play matches through Custom Games, just implement a Matchmaking system and you'd be golden. Just seems like an odd choice.
Everyone who is currently a forger has been using a controller... We all agree that this app is for forgers... So why wouldn't the dev try to make the transition in controls smooth? That doesn't take a publisher mandate. That's just common sense.
He also mentioned that they needed to "add the depth inherent to KB/m" input. It sounds like 343i recognizes their audience will likely be a mix of console and PC users and designed the controls accordingly.
Yes there is a push to bring Xbox games to PC, but H5, which had been in development since last gen, wasn't designed to readily make that transition. It makes a lot of sense to start with forge and custom games.
R3TRODYCE
Member
Spoiled? Lmao yeah ok.