Infinite Tech Preview – PC Specific Feedback

The game build is not displaying a cross hair for any of my weapons. It was fine for the first session i played yesterday but after changing some settings, possibly, it has disappeared. I have re installed game with no luck, I was watching ElamiteWarriors stream and he had the same issue. Anyone know of a fix?

<p></p>Gunplay feels great on MnK. The AR and BR feel a little too weak and it almost makes nading, melee, or swap to secondary absolutely necessary to complete a kill. Love where the pistol is at this point. The sniper when scoped in feels bad but I don’t know what it is about it. Maybe the initial zoom is a little too far? Maybe feels sluggish? The first bug I’ve encountered was my entire HUD disappearing (reticle too) after bringing up the scoreboard and hitting escape trying to figure out how to mute a teammate (which i didn’t end up figuring out how but the match ended so whatever). Further on that note, having the default voice setting to not be PTT makes a bunch of people not realize their mic is open the entire game. I also prefer hold to crouch and changed the setting but it kept it as toggle crouch. Love the game so far and the opportunity to test it out.

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> I have tested 5120x1440p at fullscreen and at windowed 2560x1440p, as well as low and ultra. The difference is maybe 8 FPS and am sitting at approximately 35FPS with a AMD 6800 XT Using the newest drivers.
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> **Edit:**Full PC specs to better show the strength of my system in addition to the GPU. (This information is already in the DXDiag but never hurts right?)
> CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Vermeer, VMR-B0)
> 3400 MHz (34.00x100.0) @ 4357 MHz (44.25x98.5)
> Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X570-PRO
> BIOS: 3801, 04/07/2021
> Chipset: AMD X570 (Bixby)
> Memory: 65536 MBytes @ 1575 MHz, 14-14-14-34
> - 16384 MB PC17000 DDR4 SDRAM - G Skill F4-3200C14-16GTZR
> - 16384 MB PC17000 DDR4 SDRAM - G Skill F4-3200C14-16GTZR
> - 16384 MB PC17000 DDR4 SDRAM - G Skill F4-3200C14-16GTZR
> - 16384 MB PC17000 DDR4 SDRAM - G Skill F4-3200C14-16GTZR
> Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
> AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, 16384 MB GDDR6 SDRAM
> Drive: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, 488.4 GB, NVMe
> Drive: Samsung SSD 870 QVO 2TB, 1953.5 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s
> Drive: SAMSUNG SSD PM871 M.2 2280 256GB, 250.1 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s
> Drive: ST8000DM004-2CX188, 7814.0 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s <-> USB
> Drive: USB3.0, Disk drive
> Sound: ATI/AMD Navi21 - High Definition Audio Controller
> Sound: AMD Starship/Matisse/Vermeer - HD Audio Controller
> Network: Intel I211AT Copper (Pearsonville) Network Adapter
> Network: Realtek RTL8188EU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter
> OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (x64) Build 22000.100

My system is a bit better than yours and I’m having the same lackluster experience
i9 10900k, Rtx ftw3 3090, rog z590, 64GB DDR4 Corsair , It’s on my 870 Evo 4TB, but i doubt there’d be a difference running from either of my 2x 2TB 980 Pro . Everything is optimized on my sys because I render a ton.

I’m having the worst experience with this game.

FPS limiter is terrible, if I run the game uncapped I can get around 85fps on med settings, however no matter how low the settings are limiting the fps to 60 (needed to use vsync) means the game cant actually hit 60, it hovers at around 55-57 and feels extremely stuttery

Just a few bugs glitches i’ve noticed so far:

  • I’ve encountered a strange bug whereby at the start of matches the game will only allow me to move forwards and backwards in straight lines, I can’t strafe side to side at all. Then when I go to settings I see the game changed my controller settings to “custom”. When I change it back to whatever setting I had before I can suddenly move freely again. This happened for three matches in a row before correcting itself. Very odd. - Controller preferences not always kept upon logout/login - Random flickering lights at the bottom of my screen sometimes - The audio can glitch out and go quiet, with a voice repeating one word over and over - Muting people in your team doesn’t always work - Crashes if you change certain keybinds at times, such as scoreboard tab - Plasma pistol feels…off. Like the tracking isn’t quite where it should be based on older games in the franchise - Weapon duplication glitch where two players can pick up the same weapon, but the bullets from the duplicated weapon won’t do any damage - Sometimes there can be a lack of audio ques regarding when you’re taking damageAs far as general suggestions go:

  • TTK could be upped a bit - Commando feels a bit weak for a 20 round weapon - Would be nice to be able to drill down fully into post match stats of yourself and teammates/enemies like the old games, rather than just an overview page of sorts. I presume this will be in the final game, but wanted to mention it anyway. - The double screen confirmation to change colour on items is awful. Why should i click the colour i want, then go into a new screen only to click it again before it actually selects? It’s horribly unintuitive and wastes time, it needs to just be a single screen where you can change colour at will. I genuinely think this game feels pretty great so far. The bots are an amazing addition to the game, the sound effects are meaty and a pleasure to listen to, the new weapon pickup/drop system is great, the grapplehook is SO GOOD and that recharge map is fantastic. The TTK could be ramped up a bit though, and i really do not like the scope on the sniper or other weapons, it feels very limiting and obnoxious to look at.

I would perhaps say that the AR is a little bit too effective as well. Halo’s best (and most daunting) feature is always the precision meta, the fact that someone good with a BR/DMR will almost always outkill someone with an AR, but i feel like there’s more leeway for the automatic gun users in this game so far, which is a backwards step and lowers the skill gap/ceiling.

But really good stuff so far, i’m impressed.

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> <p></p>Gunplay feels great on MnK. The AR and BR feel a little too weak and it almost makes nading, melee, or swap to secondary absolutely necessary to complete a kill. Love where the pistol is at this point. The sniper when scoped in feels bad but I don’t know what it is about it. Maybe the initial zoom is a little too far? Maybe feels sluggish? The first bug I’ve encountered was my entire HUD disappearing (reticle too) after bringing up the scoreboard and hitting escape trying to figure out how to mute a teammate (which i didn’t end up figuring out how but the match ended so whatever). Further on that note, having the default voice setting to not be PTT makes a bunch of people not realize their mic is open the entire game. I also prefer hold to crouch and changed the setting but it kept it as toggle crouch. Love the game so far and the opportunity to test it out.

Sniper zoom is too far or the maps are tiny lol. For me it could also be that I’m trying to play with mouse and keyboard and it just feels strange only with the sniper. Reminds me a bit of the halo2 lockout where no scoping will usually get you more kills.

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> The game build is not displaying a cross hair for any of my weapons. It was fine for the first session i played yesterday but after changing some settings, possibly, it has disappeared. I have re installed game with no luck, I was watching ElamiteWarriors stream and he had the same issue. Anyone know of a fix?

If you changed UI scaling at any point that will remove your crosshair, reset that back to default and you should be good to go

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> > 2533274840662088;621:
> > The game build is not displaying a cross hair for any of my weapons. It was fine for the first session i played yesterday but after changing some settings, possibly, it has disappeared. I have re installed game with no luck, I was watching ElamiteWarriors stream and he had the same issue. Anyone know of a fix?
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> If you changed UI scaling at any point that will remove your crosshair, reset that back to default and you should be good to go

legend mate
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> Can someone confirm this is purely a BOT test flight and ill have no chance to play with other people ?

There was talk that they may have pvp at the end

  • Friend or Foe: outlines are not popping up in the beginning of the matches half of the time. - Suggestion: make hitmaker optional/ toggle off or on. - Suggestion: option- override outlines on Friend or Foe with small lights on shoulders or chest. - Frames are choppy/ not 120fps yet. - Introduction: Spartan models are not line up properly and the end too. - Suggestion: frags grenades have to much explosion flare tone down some. - Suggestion: make medals go to the bottom-middle of the screen/ classic halo - Suggestion: nerf the AR range or make it inaccurate. - Suggestion: red vs blue overriding with Friend or Foe. for veterans. - Audio Bugs. - Rendering problems with the lighting. - AR mussel flash doesn’t work while aiming. - sometimes when you do Introductions people die right after. - PLEASE TURN ON FRIENLY FIRE. Bots are running in their teammate grenades without consequences. - <ul class=“itembox text-left hidden-xs”> - GeForce RTX™ 3070 GAMING TRIO
    NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070
    PCI Express® Gen 4
    5888
    Boost: 1770 MHz
    14 Gbps
    16GB GDDR6
    256-bIt
    DisplayPort x 3 (v1.4a)
    HDMI x 1 (Supports 4K@120Hz as specified in HDMI 2.1)

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PC/Steam =

  • When trying to change Keybinds the game crashes and shuts down.
  • Low FPS on PC even on low settings.
  • Audio seems to be low or fades out in games sometimes.
  • Certain settings such as fps cap, open mic/push to talk seems to reset on its own.

Sitting at 60-80Fps with a 3080ti, 3900x and 32Gb of ram but I notice hitches in performance when it comes to playing the new map and going to the middle and where the gravity hammer is on the back of the map.

DxDiag-


System Information

Time of this report: 7/31/2021, 14:05:07
Machine name: DESKTOP-00BAHVN
Machine Id: {ADA5C079-180D-46A2-A5C7-DF47C23DE265}
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 19041) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: X570 AORUS ULTRA
BIOS: F22 (type: UEFI)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor (24 CPUs), ~3.8GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32712MB RAM
Page File: 12403MB used, 25172MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, no HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.0.8
DxDiag Version: 10.00.19041.0928 64bit Unicode

DxDiag Notes

Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Display Tab 2: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Sound Tab 3: No problems found.
Sound Tab 4: No problems found.
Sound Tab 5: No problems found.
Sound Tab 6: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.

DirectX Debug Levels

Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)

Display Devices

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Full Device (POST)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2208&SUBSYS_261219DA&REV_A1
Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
Display Memory: 28463 MB
Dedicated Memory: 12108 MB
Shared Memory: 16355 MB
Current Mode: 2560 x 1440 (32 bit) (165Hz)
HDR Support: Supported
Display Topology: Extend
Display Color Space: DXGI_COLOR_SPACE_RGB_FULL_G22_NONE_P709
Color Primaries: Red(0.679688,0.311523), Green(0.274414,0.651367), Blue(0.150391,0.065430), White Point(0.313477,0.329102)
Display Luminance: Min Luminance = 0.060300, Max Luminance = 436.208008, MaxFullFrameLuminance = 436.208008
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: G32QC
Monitor Id: GBT3200

Hope everyone who can play the flight is enjoying it, but if you can’t for some reason report why. To those playing let us get those reports coming, I love this community. I can’t play due to have a 900 series card, but reported and sent all the necessary info.

GTX 970
i7 4790k
16 Gigs RAM
500 GB SSD
Latest Windows 10 Update
Latest Nvidia drivers (tried several other drivers, including ones 2-3 months old due the them announcing that the build was 2 months old and still nothing).

Been using the Waypoint Beta website and app to mess with the armors and such, but sure next flight 900 series owners will be fine.

My Feedback so far:

  • Please add an option to disable the head bob. - My game doesn’t hold the M&KB settings I customized, I have to redo those whenever I launch the game. - Give us the option to cusomtize the crosshair (color, size and elements thereof) - Performance obviously needs to be optimized, I just assume that the low performance is due to the early build.
  • The audio can glitch out and go quiet, with a voice repeating one word over and over - Muting people in your team doesn’t always work - Crashes if you change certain keybinds at times, such as scoreboard tab - Plasma pistol feels…off. Like the tracking isn’t quite where it should be based on older games in the franchise - Weapon duplication glitch where two players can pick up the same weapon, but the bullets from the duplicated weapon won’t do any damage - Sometimes there can be a lack of audio ques regarding when you’re taking damage - As far as general suggestions go: - TTK could be upped a bit - Commando feels a bit weak for a 20 round weapon - Would be nice to be able to drill down fully into post match stats of yourself and teammates/enemies like the old games, rather than just an overview page of sorts. I presume this will be in the final game, but wanted to mention it anyway. - The double screen confirmation to change colour on items is awful. Why should i click the colour i want, then go into a new screen only to click it again before it actually selects? It’s horribly unintuitive and wastes time, it needs to just be a single screen where you can change colour at will. - plasma weapon doesnt suppose to have ammo pickup.

Heya–loving the game so far with what we’ve played in this flight.
But as much with other AMD users, this game is poorly optimized, and that’s okay for a game that’s still in pre-release, we’re bound to have issues.

Dropping my specs here, constantly getting between 30-35 fps in both Low AND Medium settings, which is most modern games I get well above 120fps minimum in High/Very High settings:

  • CPU / Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 - Motherboard: ASRock B450M PRO4 - Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB RAM (DDR4-3200) - Storage: Team MS30 256GB M.2-2280 SSD / Seagate Barracuda 2TB Internal HDD - Graphics Card: XFX Radeon RX 580 ~ 8 GB VRAM – Driver is currently 21.6.1__General issues with the game thus far:__

  • No exclusive fullscreen option - Push to talk rebind crashes the game - Push to talk usage (or trying to use it) crashes the gameI’ll continue to keep an eye out on more of these flights, looking forward to seeing some improvements before launch <3

When you pull up the steam overlay it is recognizing the tab part as input to halo, instead of a seeing it as a combo command of shift+tab(default way to pull up overlay). You can also change screens while the match scoreboard is up. An example, if you have a match scoreboard up and pull up the steam overlay to tell your buddies how you did, the screen changes behind the overlay, and keeps the scoreboard up.

Example here:

Had a weird issue, joined a game in progress and I lost all sound besides spartan chatter and death noises

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> FPS limiter is terrible, if I run the game uncapped I can get around 85fps on med settings, however no matter how low the settings are limiting the fps to 60 (needed to use vsync) means the game cant actually hit 60, it hovers at around 55-57 and feels extremely stuttery

Can you turn off the fps limiter, iv tried on the minimum all iv got is off 30 or 60 on the maximum iv got 30 or 60 no mention of off

So, loving the flight so far, nothing like getting back to Halo after all this time.

I’ve noticed a few issues with the game and thought I’d get them out there so I can help out too.

First, everyone has noticed performance issues, I assume expected since we are testing bots, shop and battle pass. I run a RX 5700 XT and a Ryzen 7 2700X, both CPU and GPU only hover at around 50% utilization no matter the settings I choose in game. This results in about 40 fps on all the highest settings and around 60 if all settings are low. Again, I’m sure this won’t be an issue later since this is early.

Second issue, when I quit the game or the game crashes (very stable so far) some settings revert to defaults. I’ve noticed the FOV settings will revert to 70 or 78 instead of 120. My control settings also revert, I’ve only noticed my vertical inversion getting disabled and then my mouse sensitivity reverts to 1.5 from 2.5

Third issue, along with controls and the graphic settings reverting I’ve noticed on occasion that some of the cosmetics don’t seem to want to apply, specifically the Tahuna Sands armor coating, when trying to equip it the option to equip wasn’t there or I would choose equip and then go back to search for a lobby and it wasn’t equipped anymore.

Lastly, the Academy weapon drills don’t seem to track the star rating that you achieved, it does track the score that you obtained though. After a relaunch of the game it seems to have just reverted to no score like I never touched any of them.