Halo Infinite

Heroic seems spot on so far.

Murderised if you get too flashy or sloppy, but with just enough leeway you can still feel like a boss at times.

Yeah this is great. Absolutely love how this is going so far.

Crikey, I am rubbish at Halo. Getting my arse kicked on normal.

I need ammo.

I was missing the Halo CE hand cannon until I got to know the Mangler

I find that most of the weapons are viable. The only ones I can't get on with are the Needler (which should be be more powerful and also needs some way of dealing with Jackal shields), and the more powerful weapons like Hydra and Ravager, which fire too slowly and never feel powerful enough to justify their limited ammo count.

Anyway, has anyone managed to find this spartan core? It's the one nearest to where you first get dropped off by the Pelican.

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I'm scanning around the place but don't see anything. I don't wanna leave because enemies apparently respawn, and that would mean dealing with a pretty mean Brute officer again.

I agree on the story! Was also jarring that atriox throws you out the window in the opening scene and then confusingly isn't the big bad you see next.

I love the needler. I was working it as a combo, using it for fairly easily taking out elites and brutes, and then pulse rifle for jackals (SOOO many jackals...).

That first boss kind of handed me my ass a couple times, as I had really shite weapons at the checkpoint. I needled him in the end.

Stuck half an hour in last night and a couple more this morning before going to work (in the next room). It's excellent! The 30fps cutscenes, which I was convinced was just DF being DF, actually is really aggravating though. Didn't think it'd bother me as much as it does.

But fuck that anyways, the shootybangs are incredible. The sound is excellent. The visuals are super clean and, as many reviews said, it's kinda how early Halo exists in my mind. I've never been the biggest fan of the series, but this aesthetic, this music, and this gunplay is making me very nostalgic for the original game on the OG Xbox.

It also just slots nicely into this somewhat open world design without missing a beat. Feels quite natural in fact. Colour me impressed.

Yeah the 30fps cutscenes really stick out when everything around them is so crisp and smooth. They don't even look like a smooth 30 either. I'm sure I spotted some out of sync voice acting too.

Amazed that Series X couldn't run them at 60 and hope 343 can continue to work on improvements.

Kinda wish MS bit the bullet and went next gen only for this game.

Hoovered up all the optional stuff, now onto the Tower. Christ it's big.

Did you also find the spartan core from my previous post? I can't understand where it is.

I could definitely see Microsoft going next gen only for any future expansions for this.

I'm not sure why there's nothing there. Guess I'll come back later and see if anything's changed.

I doubt it. Basically, they would have to make DLC that is only compatible with the Series version. That is already pretty rare in itself, and for a Smart Delivery game it would be unheard of.

Suppose they would have to release Halo Infinite 2 for that.

The thing is that Smart Delivery means there is effectively one version of the game that runs differently on supported Xbox platforms. This is not like Destiny on 360 and Xbox One, which were two different games. I don't see how they could make DLC for it that only works on some platforms for the same game. If they wanted to do that, they would first need to release a new, specific version of Halo Infinite that only runs on SX.

Of course, that wouldn't be hard to fix. They could indeed make Halo Infinite HD, or something like that, that only runs on SX and is available for free to all owners of the game. ANd then use that for future DLC.

Also, this is all new territory. For all we know, it might be indeed possible to make DLC that doesn't run on Xbox One (they would also have to make sure that it doesn't show up on the store then). I don't think it would be good from a marketing standpoint though.

I think Halo Infinite 2/HD/whatever is more likely. When they talked about their 10 years plan, I think they just meant that Infinite would be the start of their GaaS venture, not that they would never release another game in the series for the next 10 years.

Story plays great doesn't it? It's nice that they've solved Halo's identity crisis by just going back to being as much like Halo as they can but bigger, faster, louder. PC performance is really the only drawback so far.