They are ugly
Except for Craig
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> Except for Craig
yes craig is beautiful
They said they are working on fixing their facial expressions and adding hairdos such as beards and facial hair. Remember that was an early beta I’m sure it will look a lot better in the final version this fall. And I think they are adding a ray tracing update after launch so it will definitely look great.
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> They said they are working on fixing their facial expressions and adding hairdos such as beards and facial hair. Remember that was an early beta I’m sure it will look a lot better in the final version this fall. And I think they are adding a ray tracing update after launch so it will definitely look great.
Why do I see you everywhere and also that is true.
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> > They said they are working on fixing their facial expressions and adding hairdos such as beards and facial hair. Remember that was an early beta I’m sure it will look a lot better in the final version this fall. And I think they are adding a ray tracing update after launch so it will definitely look great.
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> Why do I see you everywhere and also that is true.
Haha idk I see you everywhere too 
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> They are ugly
The game looks great stop complaining
Judge them all you want once the game actually releases. There’s no sense in doing so now. 343 never intended to have them look like that in the final release.
I never really liked the design of the Brutes to begin with. They don’t look alien enough, they either look like gorillas or orcs. Elites are much more unique to Halo and more interesting.
As someone who prefers the sasquatch brutes from Halo 2 I can say that sure, newer incarnations of brutes aren’t as good looking or scary but to say that they’re ugly is…well correct in some ways but wrong in others. I’m sure your girlfriends parents wouldn’t appreciate her bringing you home if you were a 9 foot tall rhinoceros ape, but as an in-game enemy they look fine. Big, aggressive, bold features, not as hairy as I would like but eh.
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> They said they are working on fixing their facial expressions and adding hairdos such as beards and facial hair. Remember that was an early beta I’m sure it will look a lot better in the final version this fall. And I think they are adding a ray tracing update after launch so it will definitely look great.
No it was not an early beta. People have claimed it was a year old beta, six month old beta etc etc. It was not, 343i stated it was from a build a “few weeks” old, the gameplay reveal was supposed to represent the power of Series X, that’s why it got so much backlash, it looked worse than Halo 5. I’m sure the game will look better when it launches, but I’m expecting pretty much what we saw in the reveal, I hope I’m wrong but time will tell.
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> I never really liked the design of the Brutes to begin with. They don’t look alien enough, they either look like gorillas or orcs. Elites are much more unique to Halo and more interesting.
monke
I’m excited to see how they’ve improved their look with the graphics updates. Hopefully they’ve grown some hair in these past few months.
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> I never really liked the design of the Brutes to begin with. They don’t look alien enough, they either look like gorillas or orcs. Elites are much more unique to Halo and more interesting.
then how come your emblem is atriox the brute
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> > They said they are working on fixing their facial expressions and adding hairdos such as beards and facial hair. Remember that was an early beta I’m sure it will look a lot better in the final version this fall. And I think they are adding a ray tracing update after launch so it will definitely look great.
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> No it was not an early beta. People have claimed it was a year old beta, six month old beta etc etc. It was not, 343i stated it was from a build a “few weeks” old, the gameplay reveal was supposed to represent the power of Series X, that’s why it got so much backlash, it looked worse than Halo 5. I’m sure the game will look better when it launches, but I’m expecting pretty much what we saw in the reveal, I hope I’m wrong but time will tell.
I don’t think you understand. Back in July, the demo they showed wasn’t their best… it was no where near it. The game still had lots to be done, and they have done massive changes since July. It was an early build. Let me give you some quotes from the Inside Infinite article so you can actually understand better
> Firstly, I can confirm that the facial animation on NPCs was not fully implemented in that build, which resulted in Craig’s incredibly deadpan/lifeless look. All characters are modelled in a neutral pose, prior to blendshapes & animation being applied. So, poor old Craig was never intended to be seen in that condition which is not something that was evident during the gameplay. It was only later, in the close-up freeze frame of his one bad moment, where it came to light and the legend of Craig was born.
> There’s been further work done on the material fidelity and more variety added for Brute faces, we’re also working to add some hairdos and beards which was something we hadn’t gotten to in July. So, whilst we have come to love our dear old Craig, he’s certainly undergoing a significant makeover.
> Craig isn’t the only model to see improvements though, there have been significant changes to other characters & 3D models as we continue to evolve and polish our content, some of which can be seen in the Spartan and weapon renders being shared today.
> Firstly, there’s been a lot of work done re-tuning our dynamic lighting values to add more punch and contrast to the image. These included adjustments to our sun intensity, fog/atmosphere, and the addition of color grading which did not make it into the July gameplay demo.
> We’ve improved some of our materials to get more specular response, more wear-and-tear on weapons/vehicles, more fidelity in our characters, and more macro breakup on large surfaces like rocks, terrain, and the hex walls. We’re now also getting more of our textural detail coming through to the final frame thanks to a sharpening process that our graphics team have added. This helps offset some of the natural blurring of temporal anti-aliasing and it certainly helps our assets shine.
> Some of the key areas of progress include better quality of global illumination, ambient occlusion, shadows, volumetric lighting, sky, and atmosphere. We have also addressed issues with our GPU-driven rendering and texture streaming solution that should mitigate the LOD popping and texture quality issues that were prevalent in the July demo.
> July was indeed a very much work-in-progress slice of the technology, and a reasonable set of key features from global illumination and dynamic time of day, to GPU-driven rendering and variable rate shading were all in active development. Much of the graphics team’s capacity, along with that of some key technical artists, was focused on achieving high resolution and performance leading up to the demo, which meant several of these features didn’t quite get the level of polish and bug fixing that was warranted.
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> > They said they are working on fixing their facial expressions and adding hairdos such as beards and facial hair. Remember that was an early beta I’m sure it will look a lot better in the final version this fall. And I think they are adding a ray tracing update after launch so it will definitely look great.
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> No it was not an early beta. People have claimed it was a year old beta, six month old beta etc etc. It was not, 343i stated it was from a build a “few weeks” old, the gameplay reveal was supposed to represent the power of Series X, that’s why it got so much backlash, it looked worse than Halo 5. I’m sure the game will look better when it launches, but I’m expecting pretty much what we saw in the reveal, I hope I’m wrong but time will tell.
Completely agree with you.
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> I never really liked the design of the Brutes to begin with. They don’t look alien enough, they either look like gorillas or orcs. Elites are much more unique to Halo and more interesting.
They don’t look alien, but Halo does have the coolest space monkeys in town.
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> > They said they are working on fixing their facial expressions and adding hairdos such as beards and facial hair. Remember that was an early beta I’m sure it will look a lot better in the final version this fall. And I think they are adding a ray tracing update after launch so it will definitely look great.
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> No it was not an early beta. People have claimed it was a year old beta, six month old beta etc etc. It was not, 343i stated it was from a build a “few weeks” old, the gameplay reveal was supposed to represent the power of Series X, that’s why it got so much backlash, it looked worse than Halo 5. I’m sure the game will look better when it launches, but I’m expecting pretty much what we saw in the reveal, I hope I’m wrong but time will tell.
That was months ago. By launch it will have been over a year ago. There’s really no sense in judging a game as if it were finished when it clearly isn’t. That’s like looking at raw beef and saying it doesn’t look like a cooked burger.
The gameplay reveal wasn’t supposed to reveal anything for the Series X. The demo wasn’t even on an Xbox. The **Gameplay reveal was shown for one reason: to reveal the gameplay. It was never representative of the final build.**It doesn’t matter how old the game was when they showed the demo either, because the game was delayed a whole year. Quit yer yappin’.
Did I really start this argument? I was just stating that they didn’t look very good. Except for Craig.
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> > > They said they are working on fixing their facial expressions and adding hairdos such as beards and facial hair. Remember that was an early beta I’m sure it will look a lot better in the final version this fall. And I think they are adding a ray tracing update after launch so it will definitely look great.
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> > No it was not an early beta. People have claimed it was a year old beta, six month old beta etc etc. It was not, 343i stated it was from a build a “few weeks” old, the gameplay reveal was supposed to represent the power of Series X, that’s why it got so much backlash, it looked worse than Halo 5. I’m sure the game will look better when it launches, but I’m expecting pretty much what we saw in the reveal, I hope I’m wrong but time will tell.
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> There’s really no sense in judging a game as if it were finished when it clearly isn’t.
> The gameplay reveal wasn’t supposed to reveal anything for the Series X. The demo wasn’t even on an Xbox.
I’m not judging anything, it’s my opinion that what we saw is pretty much what we’re going to get, with better polish, hope I’m wrong but 343i’s track record with Halo does not give me much hope.
The gameplay demo was supposed to be an example of the Xbox Series X power. The demo was on a PC that was apparently similar to the Series X, but it looked worse than Halo 5’s beta, a beta that released a full year before Halo 5 itself.
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> > > They said they are working on fixing their facial expressions and adding hairdos such as beards and facial hair. Remember that was an early beta I’m sure it will look a lot better in the final version this fall. And I think they are adding a ray tracing update after launch so it will definitely look great.
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> > No it was not an early beta. People have claimed it was a year old beta, six month old beta etc etc. It was not, 343i stated it was from a build a “few weeks” old, the gameplay reveal was supposed to represent the power of Series X, that’s why it got so much backlash, it looked worse than Halo 5. I’m sure the game will look better when it launches, but I’m expecting pretty much what we saw in the reveal, I hope I’m wrong but time will tell.
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> I don’t think you understand. Back in July, the demo they showed wasn’t their best… it was no where near it. The game still had lots to be done, and they have done massive changes since July. It was an early build. Let me give you some quotes from the Inside Infinite article so you can actually understand better
I understand perfectly. I’m sure there will be improvements. You stated what we saw was an early beta. It was a few week old build, 343i stated that. The demo was also touted to represent the power of the Series X, that’s pretty worrying if that was the best they had. Like I said, I’m sure it will improve, let’s face it, it could not get worse than what we saw, but I’ll keep my hype in check.