To start out, my i7-4820K (4-core/8thread@4Ghz loading data from a NVME) was not able to run the game with the 980 Ti originally installed. Would stall out on the … loading screen for 3 minutes into crash at the first hint of sound with no visuals. With my room mates old 1080 ti installed after 3 minutes of loading it would load into the main menu. First impressions; music is generally good, could use more cowbell. The settings menu needs help, I think a little plagiarism would help.
Next I loaded into the weapon drills, which took quite a while for a small map and scripted Spartans without AI packages (assumption). I knew that I was I ran each lvl1 drill for every weapon and honestly I kind of forgot all about the loading times in between each weapon, though I know it was about 3 minutes to get from menu to map. I would dare say I was having some fun running drills. My favorite weapon out of the bunch is the needler. It feels close to H3, not quite the same but good. I generally liked the balance of the weapon sandbox. I felt like there is more depth than past games. The shotgun … needs work. I am mighty unsure of the skewer, and that wide spread gun.
Next I tried a match with 4 bots and… it couldn’t quite load it. It would crash every time. I have a hardware resource monitor working on my second screen and on the weapons drill map was demanding upwards of 90% of my CPU, my GPU wasn’t fully utilized % bouncing around (Forgot to record down %s for GPU) so I am assuming that having AI packages enabled for 4 bipeds is just too much to ask for by my i7-4820.
Next I tried a PvP match which I did load in and was getting around 55 Fps on medium settings across the board. Felt okay to a good-ish experience until the game had crashed to desktop after a few minutes of game play.
The game felt, good. Defiantly unfinished in many ways but good.
This was right before my bedtime, which happened to also be the last day of the beta. What a shame. It’s too bad that the player pool is going to be pretty shallow due to hardware requirements. I don’t plan on upgrading my setup any time soon.
The following was my experience leading UP to trying the beta. Btw, I was feeling pretty salty that day.
8/1/2021
I reinstalled Windows just to try out Halo Infinite. Boy what a mistake that was, just spent 5 maybe 6 hours trying to figure out Microsoft’s cryptic errors for Win10 saying that it couldn’t boot into the next installation process no matter what drive I tried. I ended up unplugging every drive except the install drive and unplug anything in PCI-E slots and SATA slots to get it to work. Then onto the update process that shouldn’t take that long if MS would just slipstream updates into their up to date ISO of Win10 on their site or media creation tool but of course not. after 2 hours of updates, I finally could install the game only to find a crashing game. lol, after all that I end up here seeing it’s a common issue with the 900 series, I got a 980 ti.
I ditched Windows 10 after it was either a big fall or October update it broke my Xbox 360 wireless receiver but could work if I used unsigned drivers.
I understand this is a beta, but I had sent a DXDIAG report to be accepted, and they give me a key to a game that is unsupported for my hardware? …
… I’ll be hanging out on Manjaro Linux when you need me.