I’m talking about the Waypoint stats. Why are the Spartans such poor quality compared to the Bungie stats? The colours are off, the lighting looks bad, and the armour pieces are hard to distinguish.
The Bungie stats actually looked like your in game spartan. The Waypoint ones just look very inaccurate.
I know that when control of the franchise was transferred to 343i, Bungie wasn’t required to hand over a lot of the “auxiliary” tech for Reach, such as film rendering and nameplate management.
Perhaps armor renders were another thing that Bungie didn’t need to pass on, so 343i had to build their own render system from scratch. It’d explain why the renders look so different – not just in lighting, but also in the low-level details, like anti-aliasing (Waypoint has a bad method, BNet has none).