Dear 343, some of us like to play splitscreen

Games Other Halo
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As i hope most of you know, Halo 4 won the VGA Graphics of the year (Hooray! congrats 343, you definately deserve it!). This is not surprising, the game looks incredible. The crimson map pack is no exception, all 3 maps are stunning.

This comes at a cost when you try and play splitscreen however. Harvest is fine, and wreckage is relatively fine aswell, as well as most of the default maps (though when things get hectic on some of the maps with better lighting not so much) but Shatter, one of the more beautiful maps of the 3, along with other vanilla maps (Complex, im mainly talking about you), the frame rate drops, often to the point where the game is unplayable =(.

I enjoy Multiplayer the most when im playing splitscreen, but its so frustrating when you have to play on one of these maps. I know your maps look amazing 343, but please dumb down the quality in splitscreen and save the framerate, its a more than acceptable trade off…

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In Reach they lower the graphic details in splitscreen. Seems like in H4 they lower the framerate instead :frowning:

DLC with 3 local players was unplayable.

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OF course it’s ok. You’re playing on a smaller screen anyway. It’s better to have lower visual quality than a lower framerate.

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Glad to see another thread on this. Even haven 4 splitscreen gives lag.

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Yes I can barely play the game in split screen which is upsetting because we only have one good tv so we like to split screen on it.

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I had no idea the frame rate was lowered! i play on a large plasma screen t.v and get roasted with my friend and splitscreen and we always thought it was just screen lag from the t.v… guess it was a combination of the two. Makes it pretty tough to get kills!

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I take FPS all day every day

Interestingly, I haven’t had any issues with split screen on my 20 year old TV. HD ftl.