What happened to the animations?

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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I remember when I first played halo 5 the animations were at 30fps so everything looked slow and… disjointed? Now I don’t see that anymore.

did this change or did I get used to it? I feel i was seeing people in real life move at 30fps for a bit there…

I just assume the servers got better.

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You just got used to it. It’s still at 30 fps.

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uuuh, H5 is 60FPS not 30…

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The animations in the distance are 30, the game runs at 60.

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Actually the animations in general are 30, but are rendered at 60. Which is why in theater you can only see 30 unique frames.

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Not true: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-what-works-and-what-doesnt-in-halo-5-tech-analysis

Specifically:

Half-rate animation: While the game operates at 60fps, active entities within the world will actually animate at half-rate when they reach a set distance from the player. We’re basically seeing 30 frames of animation per second while the game continues to operate at 60 in these situations. Halo 5 often places huge numbers of entities within each scene. You can have multiple Spartans fighting alongside locals against a huge hoard of enemy forces. In the busiest of scenarios, we see more active on-screen enemies than in any other Halo game. Yet, managing so many actors in a scene places additional strain on the CPU which could drop performance. It would appear that this system was implemented to prevent such a load from tanking the frame-rate. It’s successful but, more than any other sacrifice made, it looks rather jarring during normal gameplay. The distance in which enemies begin to animate at half-rate is just a bit too close to the player for our liking.

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I’m going to have to look out for this now… Interesting.

at least the game always looks good. Like the concrete on noctus. Haha.