Halo Infinite

Halo Infinite’s Graphical And Visual Concerns Have Been Addressed By 343 Studios

Halo Community Manager, John Junyszek has posted a great in-depth blog post about Halo Infinite, revealing a bit more information about the game and addressing the graphical concerns that fans have had about the game since it was shown off at the Xbox Games Showcase last week.

In the post, 343 confirms that the art style is going for a more “classic” look with cleaner models and objects with less noise. In regards to the visual fidelity, 343 has admitted that they understand the concerns of fans and the likes of Digital Foundry They have said that this build was from several weeks ago, and that they will aim to do some work to raise the visual fidelity of the game, but also noted that this was s till a work in progress and by no means final.

Other key points of interest are around the fact that they still want fans to get hands-on with the game before launch (although admit that this will be challenging with COVID), the battle rifle is in the game, the campaign has 2P split screen and 4P online co-op and looks at multiplayer, forge, rank system and other multiplayer modes will be coming in the future.

343’S STATEMENT ABOUT HALO INFINITE VISUAL CONCERNS

First, we want to acknowledge that yes, we’ve heard the feedback coming from parts of the community regarding the visuals in the Halo Infinite campaign demo. While we see and hear far more positive than negative, we do want to share a bit more context. From our perspective, there are two key areas being debated around the community – overall art style and visual fidelity.

Based on our learnings from Halo 4, Halo 5, and Halo Wars 2 – along with strong community feedback – we decided to shift back towards the legacy aesthetics that defined the original trilogy. With Halo Infinite, we’re returning to a more ‘classic’ art style which was a key message going back to the very first reveal that garnered enthusiastic and positive responses. This translates to a more vibrant palette, “cleaner” models and objects with less “noise”, though it doesn’t mean less detail. While we appreciate this may not be everyone’s personal preference, we stand by this decision and are happy to see it resonating with so many fans around the world.

The second theme being discussed involves visual fidelity. Negative feedback in this area includes comments around characters and objects appearing flat, simplistic and plastic-like, lighting feeling dull and flat, and object pop-in. We’ve read your comments, we’ve seen the homemade examples of retouched content, and yes we’ve heard the Digital Foundry assessments. In many ways we are in agreement here – we do have work to do to address some of these areas and raise the level of fidelity and overall presentation for the final game. The build used to run the campaign demo was work-in-progress from several weeks ago with a variety of graphical elements and game systems still being finished and polished. While some of the feedback was expected and speaks to areas already in progress, other aspects of the feedback have brought new opportunities and considerations to light that the team is taking very seriously and working to assess. We don’t have firm answers or outcomes to share yet but the team is working as quickly as possible on plans to address some of the feedback around detail, clarity, and overall fidelity. The team is committed and focused on making sure we have a beautiful world for players to explore when we launch.

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