Undoubtedly Halo 4 is going to be one of the best looking games for the Xbox this year, with the amount of details, lighting, and many more aesthetics. But how will this affect our gameplay? On Reach I’ve experienced quite a lot of times where the frames will drastically drop (Most noteably on Glacier.)
Impostering will likely be there but what of the already rendered models and landscapes before us. I fear that my experience will be lessened because of massive framrate drops.
Problem with Reach is that Bungie did not optimize reach correctly.
They also spent a lot of time wasting details in areas like boxes or something, stuff that most players dont even pay attention too.
my opinion anyways.
> Problem with Reach is that Bungie did not optimize reach correctly.
>
> They also spent a lot of time wasting details in areas like boxes or something, stuff that most players dont even pay attention too.
>
> my opinion anyways.
But isn’t Halo 4 building off the same engine Reach uses, or is that irrelevent?
They built pretty much everything from the ground up, or overhauled it.
There is still the halo code, but its just a few lines.
Frankie said that somewhere.
Most areas where there are drops in FPS are directly related to Forge. The most notably terrible ones being Sniping on Asylum.
But Halo has been 30FPS since Halo CE. And it’s never been a problem.
Reach used insane levels of particles and effects and dynamic lights everywhere, thats what caused the slowdowns.
H4 has higher base texture quality and more polys it looks like, but will probably turn down the effects so the framerate should be solid. Plus theyve got Corrine Yu doing the engine and she seems to be a genius, so dont worry.
As long as the FPS is stable, I see no problems here.
> They built pretty much everything from the ground up, or overhauled it.
>
> There is still the halo code, but its just a few lines.
>
> Frankie said that somewhere.
What they rebuilt was graphics and sound and stuff. As far as I know, they built off of the physics that was already there.
> > They built pretty much everything from the ground up, or overhauled it.
> >
> > There is still the halo code, but its just a few lines.
> >
> > Frankie said that somewhere.
>
> What they rebuilt was graphics and sound and stuff. As far as I know, they built off of the physics that was already there.
They also said somewhere that they are pushing the Xbox 360 to its very limits so I’m not sure how that compares to Reach in terms of performance. It sounds like it will perform worse to me, but nobody can tell for sure yet.
This game looks amazing visually…
The community needs to drop this conversation already. So many other things at stake.
> > > They built pretty much everything from the ground up, or overhauled it.
> > >
> > > There is still the halo code, but its just a few lines.
> > >
> > > Frankie said that somewhere.
> >
> > What they rebuilt was graphics and sound and stuff. As far as I know, they built off of the physics that was already there.
>
> They also said somewhere that they are pushing the Xbox 360 to its very limits so I’m not sure how that compares to Reach in terms of performance. It sounds like it will perform worse to me, but nobody can tell for sure yet.
Bungie also claimed Reach was pushing the xbox as well.
Like fatal said
think we are in safe hands.