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Halo 5: Guardians |OT5| Is HaloGAF irrelevant now?
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GringoSuave89
Banned
I'm on the verge of uninstalling this game. Not because it's rare that I play anymore, but the file size is just out of hand. I have other shit to download that could use the space. The only reason I haven't is there will come a day I'll have to reinstall, and it'll take like 4 fucking days to download.
Your kidding...
The Halo 5 credits file is 688 MB for 9:20 of footage. For comparison, an episode of Game of Thrones at 1080p is between 450 MB to 700 MB. Halo 5's credits is something like six times as much data per minute of footage for what could easily be a scrolling text file over an animated background.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
The Xbox One X version of Halo 5 it's going to be huge!
You need to get glasses or just quit shitposting. Yes the game needs compression, but a 1gig update is hardly comparible to a 32 gig update.
Holy shit! How does this get ok'd?
It's just exaggeration. There shouldn't be a 1.3 gig update for 2 small fixes. It is completely outside the norm.
Are we not allowed to joke around anymore?
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Seriously, did they accidentally stick a new map or two into this update? The size is weirdly big.
Forerunner
Member
1.3GB update for two small fixes. I downloaded ARMS the other day and the whole game was 2.2GB.
Doesn't change that these game files are getting gigantic. It's not just a 343 problem though
Oh yeah, it's insane how massive 5 is.
Just saying that these updates probably aren't actually adding to that total.
The biggest reason is textures eat up memory soooo fast. DOOM and Wolfenstein are massive because of Megatextures. Halo has a lot in terms of armor, weapons and maps, though I'm sure they are not compressed which is the problem
I'm assuming that they were compressed in such a way to ensure compatibility with their similarly compressed games. BF3's were so large because like Halo the only way to patch a map was to issue a new map file that included the patch. Every time an update came out, you were essentially redownloading the entire game again.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Bring back limits. Developers have gotten too fast and loose with all the shit they push through.
Nah. As neat as it was to download a patch instantly, you really couldn't fix much of anything. The amount of updates and features that had to die on the cutting room floor just due to the 360's patching structure would make people cry.
The update that fixed a couple of bugs in Rock Band 4 was 7GB on the One and PS4.
The update that fixed a couple of bugs in Rock Band 4 was 7GB on the One and PS4.
Jeff Freecss
Member
Well, if your game of throne file size is between 450~700 mb at 1080p, that means you download the low quality torrent.
YourExWife
Member
I dunno about 450, but h265 does some damn impressive shit with less than a gig.
EDIT: Just looked up a torrent for the s6 finale (the longest episode thus far at about 68 minutes in length) and a 720p h265 rip is 584MB. I could see the shorter episodes fitting under 700 at 1080p.
EDIT 2: 1080p encoding for S6E7 in h265 is 587MB.
Granted that size is 2ch audio. If you grab the 6ch of Ep9, I found one @ 800MB.
High bitrate? Seems about right for the Halo community.
Back in 2006 when short videos in Youtube 240p were the internet gold standard, we had a network of websites collaborating to distribute this monster:
Not to mention Amaroq's userloads mythica server, a general-purpose media hosting site for the Halo community, featuring an unmetered 100mbps connection and several terabytes of storage.
In a bizarre twist, capture quality was frequently lower than internet distribution quality.
It was awesome.
Back in 2006 when short videos in Youtube 240p were the internet gold standard, we had a network of websites collaborating to distribute this monster:
Not to mention Amaroq's userloads mythica server, a general-purpose media hosting site for the Halo community, featuring an unmetered 100mbps connection and several terabytes of storage.
In a bizarre twist, capture quality was frequently lower than internet distribution quality.
It was awesome.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Mythica Halo montages were amazing lol. The Wild West before YouTube!
Holy shit Mythica
We used to upload all our machinima shorts to that back in the day
Accidentally clicked that I worked for MS instead of No and now I can't answer it :c
What was this one about?
Forge
Fata1moose
Banned
IS IT ABOUT 4K BLACK UNDERSUITS AND PISTOL STARTS?
IT'S ABOUT HOW MUCH I LIKE PROMETHEAN VISION AND INFINITY SLAYER
actually haven't done it yet, watching pro league
Samurai G0SU
Member
Survey......
GringoSuave89
Banned
So Castle Wars is leaving, but Oddball is the replacement. I'm... okay with this?
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Good riddance. Castle Wars is a snoozefest and Oddball is long overdue.
Fata1moose
Banned
It't not Oddball unless it's a skull with proper commentary. 343i better properly support traditional game types in Halo 6.
Agreed... miss OG KOTH and Oddball.
Still missing Extraction.... they still haven't added the best thing from Halo 4 in H5 yet.
Fata1moose
Banned
I will say that Strongholds is the absolute best gametype that's not CTF or Slayer, it's leagues ahead of assault, KoTH, Oddball, etc... Though they still need to support old gametypes if they're good. No one is missing Territories or VIP.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Nah, assault shits on strongholds mate
I've never understood the idea of having to stand in one place to gain the hill/obj, be it KOTH, crazy king, team control, territories, dominion, extraction, strongholds etc. I agree strongholds is the best iteration thus far though. That said just give me flag and bomb all day every day, if only the population were all like me and like what I like.
*stockpile was actually really good...BUT due to randies not getting the gametype and mismatched teams it just ended up really lopsided 9 out of 10 games.
What irks me about those sorts of gametypes is they break the ability for one player to truly influence a game outcome. One really good slayer or objective guy could turn the tide of game, even without major teamwork required. For me these sorts of gametypes just scream always communicating, always playing with the same team and basically are devoid of jumping into matchmaking solo or buddied up REQing shit. I miss that. Assault returning in H5 was a godsend for me, pity it's not permanent and with a huge population. It's also been watered down a bit to really expose the bomb carrier in the interest of the lowest common denominator e.g. shit players who don't have a clue what to do solo or team play.
**VIP was good in H3 initially, before it had the stupid VIP indicator tracking.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Strongholds > H5 Assault imo. Maybe one-sided Assault in H5 would be better than neutral Assault, but we wouldn't know because it doesn't exist ;'[