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Halo announced for Xbox One, 60fps, 2014
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The robe is so incredibly silly and looks beyond stupid. There would never be an instance where it would be useful for Master Chief to wear. Not like it's gonna hide the fact he's an enormous supersoldier for more than a split second.
If they wanted to do a cool reveal they could have used an active camo or I don't know, ANYTHING that isn't completely out of character.
Cool looking trailer though I guess. Halo 4 was a mixed bag and I got tired of it much faster than any of the older Halo games, but I still think there was a foundation for something possibly great so I'm eager to see where they go with it.
If they wanted to do a cool reveal they could have used an active camo or I don't know, ANYTHING that isn't completely out of character.
Cool looking trailer though I guess. Halo 4 was a mixed bag and I got tired of it much faster than any of the older Halo games, but I still think there was a foundation for something possibly great so I'm eager to see where they go with it.
So you can't tell what armor ability he's using.
Must be some sort of weight reducing technology, as in his suit he weights about 650kg but leaves small footprints in the sand
lol
343i disagrees and says it is to hide his appearance but as they show by their decisions in halo4, they are pretty clueless:
I think my explanation makes a lot more sense, he must be a lot easier to detect through his suit signature that through vision, especially in the year 2600. And by advanced civilizations such as the forerunner.
Solo Legendary Ending.
Oh you do? I'm sorry to hear that.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
CAUSE IT WAS A FREAKING REVEAL TRAILER.
Mental Atrophy
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Senator Soufflé;62366421 said:
Cloaks have and always will be "in" when it comes to fantasy.
CassidyIzABeast
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Seeing all the amazing looking games at E3 has thinking we might get something close to the Spartan Ops videos in game. Can't wait.
Want your game to sell/play/feel even better? make it this much.
I'm way less involved than you were with Halo, but as fellow Halo widower...just let go.
343i is MS' dog.
Revealing the Chief with a poncho?
Sphinx should have been the flying vehicle in Halo4. not a possibility. a given.
With Destiny and Titanfall trying to grab a piece of the scifi sooter, there is 0% chance 343i will tune the experience down. Even though it would make for a better and smarter one.
Halo TV show by Spielberg? lol. has anybody seen Terra Nova?
MS is a clusterfuck.
I'm keeping my windows phone for now. but jeez...seing what MS is doing with Halo is like seeing an girl you had a crush on, and whom you knew got involved with a guy you thought was okay, only to become a lindsay lohan because dude is an abusive boyfriend.
pathetic.
Caayn
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It looks like the Lesser Ark from Halo 3. The planet you see in the sky closely resembles the planet that was found in the foundry of the ark. It is possible that the Lesser Ark still exists, if you've read the books you know how powerfull the forerunners were.
And the gaint machine is probably the War Sphynx/Seeker defending the tomb of Mendicant Bias.
dragonelite
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I would bet a desert environment would mask heat signatures pretty well.
The poncho looks fucking cool. Had me guessing for the game for a while.
PetriP-TNT
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Master Poncho was funny almost as dumb as that part in Transformers (2?), kinda surprising reveal (but not really)
Also lol if poncho does better job "hiding a heat signature" than a goddamn Space Armor from year one billion 5
Also lol if poncho does better job "hiding a heat signature" than a goddamn Space Armor from year one billion 5
Pastebin Halo Xbox One "leak" - most probably fake but I wanted it to share...
http://pastebin.com/qW6LVdFx
Again, it's pastebin, so take it with a truckload of salt.
http://pastebin.com/qW6LVdFx
At the moment 343i is in the prototype phase, but i will post the current state of Halo for Xbox One.
Just a reminder that the game you will see probably wont feature everything you are reading here.
Tech:
60 FPS has been confirmed at E3, now the team around Corinne is basically taking the Halo 4 Engine, "dumps" it on Xbox One Devkits and measures the perfomance and goes from there.
The Xbox One hardware is really powerful, though as many have stated not as powerful as Sony's machine. Nevertheless the team does have the goal to create one of the best looking titles next year. People are seriously overstating the power difference and underestimate the potential of the eSRAM (yes, it was included for bandwidth reasons, but the low latency does increase efficiencs in real world perfomance, if the eSRAM is used in smart way. I basically got the same code, with some optimization with the eSRAM running only 20% worse on Xbox Oen than on a PS4-Devkit from January.
Now what tech and graphical features will be implemented?
Deferred Shading will finally be implemented, Halo 4 was really sparse on terms of dynamic lights, a drawback of havin to use a traditional forward renderer. G-Buffer will consist of 4 MRTs. The entire pipeline is HDR and linear space. Those Render Targets will probably be stored in the eSRAM or split between the two pools, depending on perfomance.
Some form of SSAO will also be implemented, Halo 4 only had static and baked AO which looked great in pictures.
PRTs will be used, current tests with eSRAM and the results are amazing. Thanks to 5GB of ram (soon 6GB) the textures will look amazing and the models will have plenty detail.
There are a few drawbacks with aiming for 60 FPS. First the game will not render in native 1080p. Current resoultion on display plane 2 is 1920x720 (1,3 Megapixel compared to 2 for 1080p), display plane 1 (HUD an weapon) will be native 1080p. You literally cant tell the difference.
Cloud:
Dedicated Server.
First titel to showcase true power of cloud processing. Massive battles with 100s of AI (calculated by the cloud); massive worlds with dynamic weathher and global lighting (all done in cloud).
And yes, this will need an alway online connection(you dont need a powerful connection, those data pakets are really small)
Game:
Campaign is planned to be 3-5 times longer than Halo 4. No more linear , going open world.
Master Chief has gone rogue, has own ship and can visit different planets (6-8 planned). Each planet has several regions with main objectives and several side missions. ( Think of Wings of Liberty or Dawn of War 2 cmapaign)
Core gameplay is still Halo (2 weapons, grenades, melee; "30 seconds of fun"; sevaral different enemies) but there are RPG elements added to it: character progression (mostly items like forerunner relicts you will find that make Master Chief stronger or will give him more ablities), not really loot, but you will have to acquire weapons first, before you can use them in more missions. Weapons are stored in the armory on the ship and chief can choose his loadout, which he will use on the mission start. He can still pickup and use the weapons he finds in the different missions.Loadout weapons are basically the same you have in Halo 4 Multiplayer (you cant start with a rocket launcher, but you can call in those "super weapons" on a mission like in Infinity Multiplayer; difference is this is a limited ability, at "low level" you can call one time, this can be upgraded over time)
There will be more weapons in campaign than in Halo 4(and yes more "alien" weapons; not just human weapons with a different coat)
Enemies:
Elites (the same faction you fought in Halo 4), Grunts, Jackals, Hunter, Brutes, Drones
Promethean (heavily redesigned, more types like Promethean Warlords)
Humans (yep you will gith humans, but not UNSC, those are Insurrectionists)
Vehicles:
Biggest number of vehicles ever.
Warthog (classic, rocket, gauss), Scorpion and yes the Grizzly will be in, Mammoth, upgraded Mantis, more Halo Wars vehicles like rhino, wolverine, cobra, hornets, falcons, vultures
Chiefs ship can store a limited amount of vehicles (call in similar to weapons)
Forerunner War Sphinx are in, very powerful enemy "vehicles" (and yep you will fight them)
To put the gameplay in campaign into perspective:
The team was running an encounter test in the Halo 4 engine with prototype models.
This encounter featured several hundreds of Brutes with 2 Scarabs, 10 wraiths and several ghosts and banshees fightin against one Forerunner War Sphinx and some Prometheans. Now the player could engage in that battle or just simply watch them fight (Power of the Cloud: AI in short distance to chief is process on the box; rest in the cloud) and pick off the remaing forces.
Well the current player chose to engange, took his Hornet and landed it on one of the Scarabs ( the AI is amazing, the Brutes had now to choose who to fight, most forces fought against the Prometheans, a few took on the fight with chief; it really looks and feels like every single AI makes smart and menaingfull decisions))
The Player killed of the crew on the Scarab and well, thise time he doenst destroy the Core, he gets behind the wheel of the Scarav
And yep the Scarabs is destroyed withing seconds , thought the Player surived thanks to god-mode.
Those are the kinds of encounter you will find in the final game.
Multiplayer:
Split between two categories.
Halo Wararena ist basically Halo 2 reloaded. No loadouts, no armor abilites and perks.
Player Count 8-16, game types are Slayer, CTF(yes classic Halo CTF
Static weapon spawns, more weapons on map which means more ammo, weapons wont respawn as quick as in Halo 4
The seconds multiplayer categorie is titles Halo Battlefield (not final name obviously).
Those are basically really big teams battles like 32-64. Gameplay is more inline with Invasion from Halo Reach.
Custom Loadouts, "armor abilites" (more like class abilites), Vehicles, Infinity like call ins
Thats it for the moment. Just a small glimpse into what you will eventually play in November 2014.
Again, it's pastebin, so take it with a truckload of salt.
shinobi602
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Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I want to believe.
JetBlackPanda
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lolz nope..
wont believe any of it, that pastebin is fake as hell.
wont believe any of it, that pastebin is fake as hell.
:lol
Seems as likely as me winning the lottery without buying a ticket.
Expect QTEs, more linear hallways in campaign, more scripted events and whatever else that goes against what Bungie were trying to do with the original triology. On, and human enemies to bring it one step closer to that Call of Duty audience. Who needs aliens anyway.
Seems as likely as me winning the lottery without buying a ticket.
Expect QTEs, more linear hallways in campaign, more scripted events and whatever else that goes against what Bungie were trying to do with the original triology. On, and human enemies to bring it one step closer to that Call of Duty audience. Who needs aliens anyway.
JetBlackPanda
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and there is a ship, and its awesome. Also you can have so many weapons and you can choose, and the AI is so fucking good! also there are like 300,000 enemies on screen ( power of the cloud ) also the soundtrack made me cry, I also saw some new weapons they are awesome and you can level up like an RPG guys its going to be so awesome.
Darkmakaimura
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Oh let's hope that Pastebin is truthfact.
shinobi602
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I'll admit Master Chief going rogue and the traveling to different planets on your spaceship sound amazing.
This needs to be done 343.
This needs to be done 343.
NullPointer
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Don't toy with my emotions like this.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
November 11th, 2014. Calling it right now!
metareferential
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Miles Quaritch
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HOLY SHIT. If this is true (and that's a big if, pastebin are about as reliable as Xbox Support), my plans to not buy a One until 2015/16 are all shot to shit.
Goddamn.
Miles Quaritch
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Amazing is an understatement. It's exactly what the series needs to avoid stagnation and to wipe away the ill feeling created by Halo 4.
If true, it could be the shot in the arm the series needs. Although I have my doubts, it's pastebin after all...
Future PhaZe
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