Halo coming to the PC after nearly 12 years with the Master Chief Collection - Sensationalist Headlines

Like look at this shit. this https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/209841/eaa917e4-65b6-4289-8e2f-da142f8b4b33/image.png became THIS FUCKING SHIT https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/209841/d094683e-28d5-4016-a35b-529675955078/image.png Which, also, since you can't see in this picture, has a giant skull for a face.

Elites were always my favorite, and 12 year old me's mind was blown when not only could you play as Elites in 2, and were significant characters but they became humanity's allies. Way cool. They way I understand it for 4, admittedly haven't played it, is that your fighting a faction of Elites that are not pro-humanity and do not follow the Arbiter. Okay, that's fair enough, I can reasonably believe that an entire species won't about face on humanity overnight and vice versa. I could believe the vast majority wouldn't. And let's face it, they are fun to fight. But where are they as allies? In fact, having them both as enemies and allies and the conflicts that would arise would make for a much more interesting and compelling story, and be a bit more unique. It just feels like wasted potential. I dunno, maybe it was done purely for gameplay reasons to avoid enemy/ally confusion, and the plot was an excuse to hand-wave it. But you fought Elites in Halo 2 as the Arbiter. Bungie's solution was to just give them distinct armor and visual cues to let you know you are aiming at an ally. Maybe I'm getting way too passionate about a decision likely made 9 years ago.

I haven't played Halo 5 but im pretty sure there is a part where they are allies and the Arbiter is back at least

I'll take this over the nightmare that is getting halo to run on an emulator anyday

To be fair, once you’ve been gaming at 144hz, 60 fps looks like a slide show. It’s pretty insane how used to things you get. Overall, I’m just glad it’s 60 and not 30 though.

For Fuck's sake man, which is it. 4k or 60. Pick one for the sake my sanity.

I think the other concept looks even better: https://www.halopedia.org/images/2/2f/Oxmguardian.gif It's a mysterious, foreboding design that's still slightly creepy in its simplicity while suggesting immense power. It does everything it needs to. Then you get to the 343i concepts...they're nearly all just random assortments of shapes with no sense of cohesion and no implications to their design. Just randomness for the sake of it or overt "It has a face, that's so you know it's bad!" stuff.

Infinite seems to be walking a back on some of the design changes, the marine armour and Chief's armour for one.

If you put Halo 5's elites on the old skeleton, it would look hilarious

I'm happy playing games at 30 FPS with a controller. I've been playing Breath of the Wild to death lately and the 30 FPS lock doesn't bother me. But mouse aim really benefits from high refresh rates. I recently played SOMA, a first person game, and the 60 FPS lock was a constant annoyance and hindered my enjoyment.

yeah... and the rest of the pc has to be able to run it

A 1070 or 2060 can handle 1080p144 just fine, and that's pretty decidedly midrange.

im really hoping this revives reach and 3's matchmaking in a significant way. would love to get back into playing those two online again regularly especially with all the player customization reach had

You still need the CPU get up to those frame rates. There's no point having a high end GPU but a low end CPU that's gonna stop you from pushing those kind of frame rates.

If they game engines haven't been changed significantly, modding shouldn't be a problem, Halo 3 and Reach have been modded on the 360, and Halo 1 and 2 Anniversary are based on their PC ports IIRC. It would depend on how the PC files are stored/encrypted.

Ryzen 1600s go for like $150 USD and that should work fine.

Ever since getting a 144hz monitor, I hate that I've become that guy, but yeah. I'm totally that guy now. These days, 60fps is the bare minimum that I think a game should run at now and find anything less to be almost intolerable, especially if it's a game where framerate and responsiveness matters, like a shooter.

http://i.imgur.com/OwTtbHf.jpg Why. What confuses me is that even on top of the objectively awful artistic choices, it looks like the tech itself regressed.It's like they chose their colour palette in MS paint

I don't see why if there is a demand that an uncapped framerate can't be added in a patch.

Most of the engine is heavily tied to fps. It would require rewrites.

You didn't even post the best part. Yeah, not only do the sights not line up https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/209841/312aaee0-40cc-4a0f-9b50-a97a25548171/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/209841/95c3da43-6ef0-4456-8ba9-eb54575a5358/image.png It's literally impossible to aim because the receiver is taller than ALL THREE SIGHTS

yeah that's what i was getting at.

I haven't played past Halo 2 I admit but from what I've seen from the 343i designs, it looks like they tried way too hard on making stuff look sci-fi so it starts to stem into really generic designs and art style (over detail, lots of shapes and make everything look sleek). It's a really common problem modern sci-fi media has I've noticed.

Ryzen 5 1600s are on clearance for like $80 and used GTX 1080s are $325 on reddit It’s a great time to grab last gen computer parts.

Also with the anniversary versions, do they let you switch back to the original audio and anything else they changed outside of graphics?

I think they were looking into letting us do that in H1A. It's no easy task because the way files are packaged.

Yes. It's also important to note if not already obvious that only 1 and 2 have updated assets in the MCC.

Franklez confirmed adjustable reticle (I think), https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1232/846c12b2-9a09-485a-b44c-88a3d351a803/image.png so that's something

No, that is referring to modern control settings that they just put into MCC.

The game's engines are literally bound to 60fps for physics and hit calculations and it would require them to significantly retool the games in order to get it to work properly above 60fps.