Halo: Reach Discussion

in related news: looks like this is joseph staten's last go as the grunt voice

hope these grunts are as comical

One can always do some pitch-altering to get the voice. Granted, it won't be the original anymore, but it's not much to fret over.

Oh Christ, it would be a nightmare to edit the pitches to sound like Staten's grunt. The pitch itself would technically be easy, but to have the same timbre/overtones and not have it with that "Foamy the Squirrel" feel would be nearly impossible.

True, but it's the last time he's being a grunt because it's the last time there are grunts. :P So I don't think we have to worry about grunts not sounding like Joseph Staten.

the halo 3 assault rifle looks like you're holding a fish

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Originally Posted by Hunter

I hope they fix the node point for the weapon on back if the player has a jetpack, because that will bug me, and check the guy at the back thinking he is cool by floating indoors Lol.
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And do the weapons get extra damage if they are dropped and picked up or sumthing? The AR in this picture has burns and scratches on the side of it and I havn't seen them in another picutres.
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That is some crazy stretching of metal ... I have watched tutorials on biped rigging so why not deselect the metalic parts when rigging... they they will just move and not morph.
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I do like how the armor actually looks more like metal now instead of plastic.

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Am I the only one that thinks (with the above pictures shown) that the environments look quite plain and boring unlike most of Halo 3's indoor maps?

Utilitarian human architecture doesn't tend to be that detailed...

Well, go back to like, Orbital. It was way more detailed then these levels imo.
(Also im not really talking about the 2nd pic, but the other ones. They look bland)

I want detail, scenery, etc, I hate how bland Halo is.

It is a beta, so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. Same goes for HUD, shaders, lighting, gametypes, audio...

e: but yeah, hypothetically, if the final version looks like those screens of Sword Base, I'll be disappointed. Here's hoping they continue to improve these things.

ee: Powerhouse is looking great. :P

eee: Dang, though, the geometry in the atrium of Sword Base looks like the designer was just learning the extrude and chamfer tools. I can't detect any sensible flow to the design, and no visually interesting complexity. Just a bunch of haphazard angles like somebody trying and failing to do a forerunner interior.

e^4: I'm holding onto the idea that there's some spoiler they're not ready to reveal yet contained in the scenery around the atrium, like some storyline object in the skybox or something, prompting them to use a placeholder version for the beta.

keep fucking e-ing: yeah, seriously, the geometry of the atrium is so out of whack with everything else I've seen that it's gotta be placeholder.