Hello everybody. My name is lyejax and I am concerned about Halo Infinite’s health.
About me: Halo 2 Veteran, around level 37 at age 6. Level 50 in Halo 3 Lone Wolves, ranked 45-48 in every other playlist as I was also young when the game came out. Long time halo fan and also Onyx in Halo 5. I switched to mouse and keyboard on PC to pursue professional Fortnite (don’t meme me) and competitive gaming at a higher level.
I have been playing and tasting the Halo Infinite beta on a 1070ti GPU and an i9 10900k overclocked CPU. These are my findings.
-Without a fullscreen mode (only bordered) the frame drops and hitches are insane. I play on all low graphics with blur effects, etc. off. I run about 140fps consistently but I feel the game could be adjusted and could get more in fullscreen. I also believe the hitches and fps drops make it almost unplayable in certain games, especially with explosions and chaos. I can’t imagine big team battle.
-Sounds (menu music) is always reset when I log on.
-Red reticle does NOT show up on mouse and keyboard. Without the reticle highlighting red, it is nearly impossible to know if my reticle is actually on them. Also, it causes HIGH registration issues, where sometimes my shots simply don’t register. I have noticed it a lot with sniper rifles and skewers as well as the pistol. Tracking with an AR seems unaffected.
-Melee mechanics on MNK are so buggy. It doesn’t lunge like on controller, or stick. It just simply works or doesn’t and even the animation is awkward. Needs to be fixed.
MY BIGGEST ISSUE- The UI is awful. There is 8000 different settings, clicking on something loads it in and you have to use A and D to cycle through things. Loading the Spartan’s armor to customize is not good. 99% of the time the settings don’t even save, having to scroll through each armor piece the way it is feels so clunky and inefficient. Halo 3 has a better armor selection system and it is over 10 years old. The scoreboards, specifically selecting one individual players’ stats don’t show how many kills with each gun they have and the scoreboard is still on the screen while viewing their stats, making it blend and hard to read. It is awful. There is no option to UNBIND a keybind in the settings. You have to just bind it to some key. The last thing I will say is to revert the hit markers to Halo 5’s. The new ones in the UI are hard to actually see.
There is so many mechanics and elements that don’t feel smooth or right. The UI needs a whole rework and the gameplay needs to be adjusted quite a bit. As of now the game just feels like a console to pc port and not meant to be played at all on MNK. For the survivability of the game, competition needs to be heavily focused and there needs to be improvements on hit registration, melee registration, and UI. Thank you and sorry if I offend anybody with differing opinions.