First of all, this has been a blast so far, and I think it is shaping up to a masterful return to form for 343. I am absolutely hooked, I can’t wait to play more, and I’m definitely getting the full game the day it is released or available for preorder.
Here are some of the issues I experienced. After a few games the game search stopped working until I restarted the game. When I open the game or find a match it seems to take a while to load everything in, and I specifically installed this on my boot drive (PCIe 3.0 WD SN750) to test load times. The game runs fairly well and looks astounding even on Medium preset, and I have yet to really tweak the graphics settings much. I will try with everything as low as possible, and then everything cranked up to max settings during the next flight. Obviously there is still some optimization in order.
I really like the clan tag on the bots, clever stuff. The AI is very challenging as well. I think there were a couple instances where it was only me and one other player in the server, and we were pitted against a full team of bots. I’m sure you can imagine how that ended. I recommend taking a closer look at how the bots balance teams. I would also recommend implementing an option for the bots to auto adjust their skill similarly to the bots in the Unreal Tournament series. It’s hard to tell if this is already being done or not, because we are not running our own servers…yet. Speaking of servers, I was very impressed with the online service. I maybe experienced a smidge of lag in the entire 2 hours, and it was hardly noticeable.
The weapon effects look and sound super clean, and I really enjoy using the power ups. They feel like they belong in the game, and are easy to catch on when learning to use them. The grapple is my favorite. Actually, I’m pretty sure it’s everyone’s favorite. Side note, I use mouse and keyboard because that’s how I roll.
System Specs:
MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus
Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8GHz
64GB G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200MHz
MSI Radeon RX6800 16GB GDDR6
WiFi 6 Card
1TB WD SN750 NVMe SSD
1TB WD Black HDD 7200RPM
4TB WD Black HDD 7200RPM
Controller on PC does feel a bit sluggish. Am going to try settings to increase sensitivity
Also could be frame rate. On a 3060Ti and it shouldn’t be stuttering
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> Please do not enforce Temporal Anti Aliasing upon us.It ruins image quality.
> Or improve it marginally, game looks horrible as it is. Give people to trade jaggies with a sharp image. Much of us can endure jaggies, but the fuzzines and blurrines is a no no !
so true man, this blur is killing me.
I was able to press TAB to show the scoreboard yesterday and part of today. Then it was un-keyed. And when I go to key bind the TAB to scoreboard again the game crashes.
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> Hey, I was accepted into the flight and can’t get a steam code but my Xbox is working. I’ve tried signing in and out of HaloWaypoint and refreshing the page but it only shows the Xbox as active. Does that mean that I wasn’t accepted into the steam version of the flight? I was going to play on both to test as much as possible. Is there anyway to fix this?
After investigating my account I realized that I never updated my PC specs. My PC before was below the minimum required specs, so I was only accepted into the Xbox flight. I have updated my PC specs and I can now be accepted into the pc flight. I can only hope, I can get into the second flight for infinite. Thanks to those that messaged me to try and see what the reason was!
Wow. I really like how the game feels so far. Would love to see what it looks like in the 60FPS range, but my if it’s my hardware, I’m sitting around 30-35 FPS. I haven’t encountered any crashes or bugs yet. The only not normal thing was getting dropped from matchmaking multiple times in a row, but that hasn’t happened in a while.
I like the gunplay, and maybe I’m just bad at aiming, but the AR seems really weak. The rest of the weapons feel pretty good to me though.
The bots are pretty tough, but they feel like playing against other players which I like.
The equipment is pretty cool. I’ve gotten to use the drop shield, overshield, active camo, and the grappling hook. I would love the range for the grappling hook to be extended, but it is super fun to use! the drop shield feels like it disappears way too fast, but I’m not sure how much damage it’s supposed to absorb.
Hopefully this feedback is somewhat helpful. Looking forward to playing more this weekend!
So only 5 hours into playing and initial thoughts:
-The plasma pistol tracking feels not there. Where the pulse carbine feels about right in the tracking and I feel that the plasma pistol needs to be closer to it.
-The heat caster (shotgun?) feels ok vertical but worthless horizontal, it doesn’t feel very good overall when if you don’t hit with all shots you might as well be using the pistol to deal more damage.
-The skewer feels out of play in a 4v4 slayer match due to its super slow reload and sniper design. think it would be better as a vehicle destroyer then a sniper scope. the single shot feels like it should have a bit more aim assist or some sort of splash damage.
-the bulldog as a shotgun feels underwhelming an average of 2-3 shots to kill someone even at close range doesn’t feel like a great shotgun. it needs to deal more damage up close.
-I find it odd that you can shoot grenade spawns with the AR and it doesn’t blow up, but shot with a pistol and they blow up. Only the one you shot blows up instead of both, if one blows up grenades next to it should also blow up.
-The bots are dead accurate with headshots, but only use the pistol. never the AR. I never see them picking up anything like weapons, is that a higher difficulty bot?
-The bots when you melee them instantly hit you back as you hit them, but they then can hit you again as if they didn’t melee you.
At basically any video settings I’m getting ~24-35fps. That’s without the minimum fps set. Ultra drops it more. I know I don’t have a fantastic GPU for these days, but it hasn’t had this low of fps with anything else.
Ryzen 5 3600
16GB RAM
RX 580 8GB
Game installed on NVMe drive.
I received both emails about the PC flight yet when I go to messages my code isn’t there. I have went through the Insider flight tab and found no steam codes pertaining to this flight. I have been frustrated trying to find this code. I along with others having similar troubles feel disserviced by either A, getting falsely invited and given false hopes only to have them get crushed by this, or B, getting invited only to be forgotten. I along with others need an answer, have we been forgotten, or have we been falsely invited?
Right now the only issue i am experiencing is the horrible feeling aim. It is not responsive enough for PC. I feel there is almost a delay in input.
Also hopefully some optimizations are going into place as I have no issues hitting 240fps on other shooters but get around 65fps on this. Videos settings do not change anything fps wise.
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> I received both emails about the PC flight yet when I go to messages my code isn’t there. I have went through the Insider flight tab and found no steam codes pertaining to this flight. I have been frustrated trying to find this code. I along with others having similar troubles feel disserviced by either A, getting falsely invited and given false hopes only to have them get crushed by this, or B, getting invited only to be forgotten. I along with others need an answer, have we been forgotten, or have we been falsely invited?
Same Problem dude 
I’ve narrowed it down on my PC to everytime I press/hold the Shift button to run, and try switching grenades with the alt key, it causes a crash. This happens anywhere, including the main menu or other screens not in-game.
Another issue is when trying to swap armor coatings, even though it applies, when I back out into the main menu, it shows the old coating and going into a game shows the old one. I worked around it by messing with the options/favourite menus and factory resetting the coating, as well as restarting the game.
I’ve also noticed that when I start up the game, my audio seems to be turned back to max, despite the sliders being the same, I have the move the slider then set it back to get it to fix the audio. My FOV is also reset to 70 everytime I launch the game.
Trying to leave a game requires doing it twice, as confirming the first time does nothing, sending me back to the escape menu.
Specs are
CPU: i7-8700
GPU: GTX1080 latest Nvidia Drivers
RAM: 16GB @ 2666MHz
Game installed on M.2 NVMe
Dxdiag/other info can be provided if needed.
So far my main feedback is performance issues. When I capped my min and max refresh rate, the dynamic resolution butchered the image quality. Then I uncapped the refresh rate to disable dynamic resolution… I’m getting like 30fps at 1440p, even when I run low settings.
Rx 6700xt
R5 3600x
16g ddr4-3600mhz
Side note, the music is good.
Today I ran into a duplication bug it seems.
When the skewer is respawning and two players (possibly more) pick up the weapon at the same time both players get the weapon essentially duplicating the weapon.
This tech preview is overall decent, from what it offers I can say Halo Infinite’s multiplayer and monetization scheme can be quite enjoyable and attractive. However the preview itself is plagued with technical peoblems ranging from long load time to game mode failed to load at all. Knowing this is an earlier build I didn’t expect much, but the state of the software is far from usable, which only takes away time from this already short public filght. Wishing 343 can fix things up soon.
i5-9400F
GTX 1660 SUPER
16GB RAM
Latest Nvidia drivers
Playing on PC with a controller, aim assist seems little to non-existent. Framerate is also a mixed bag. 60Hz monitor fluctuating from 40-60, but never consistent on any setting. Does this game have a variable resolution? Sometimes it seems to be 720p, especially in the main menu.
Other than that, I am having a blast. Happy about the modernized controls, and sad that I have to wait until the winter to play the full release.
cant even play online, game auto defaults to offline.
My friend invited me using the Xbox game bar and after I joined it opened Minecraft.
Not sure if anyone had this issue but:
First install on external SSD (where I install all games) would crash once I started the game; loading screen for 2 seconds then would crash,
Once I moved the install to my main SSD it worked fine
Playing with the controller had issues, there was no feedback from my right thumbstick
Also please disable mic in game chat by default. I was talking to friends via discord but apparently, my mic would play through the game chat for everyone else to hear - I had no idea until another player told me
Thanks 343, happy to be a part of the tech preview
Unsure if I have some shortcut key in place. But whenever I try to switch grenades with the default key (alt). I’ve had my game crash on me. It doesn’t happen all the time but enough that its not coincidental.