u/buddhistyeezus

Were the cutscenes in Campaign Evolved mocapped, or were they primarily animated using other means? The cinematics have a very different feel from Halo Reach and Halo 4, and not really in a good way

To me, the cinematics don't have much direction or intentional camera work behind them. A lot of shots feel like they're simply capturing the characters performing an action rather than actually directing a scene

A few things stood out to me:

• the overall art direction feels much more cartoonish at times, almost reminds me of halo legends

• Character movement feels unusually slow and sluggish, especially during combat. There;s almost no sense of urgency in how the characters move, even when they're being shot at. Chief has moments where he's sluggishly walking and firing while sentinels are blasting him, rather than looking like he's actively fighting something dangerous

Compare these to Halo Reach or Halo 4, where those games had much stronger cinematic direction. Things like character movement, camera positioning, pacing, facial expressions (really bad in this remake), and body language were all used to actually communicate what was happening and how characters were reacting to it

That's what feels missing here, I'm not talking about graphical fidelity during gameplay, animations and cinematics just don't seem cool to me at all. Am I the only one getting this impression? Or are expectations really this low?

I have a pc and Im normally fine with turning my settings down to favor performance. With GTA coming out, I’d like to play the game on ultra high without compromise, especially since I have a 4k TV now (4k not a requirement though)

I want to know how my PC compares to these consoles. It runs games like cyberpunk and rdr2 well, but I can’t put those games on high without some stutters, I value a smooth game before anything else

CPU Ryzen 5 5600x

GPU Radeon Rx 6600

16gb ram

the reason I’m considering xbox is because I have a history and game library already built up, I just havent owned one since the original One in 2015. can someone help understand how the series S and X stack up? I’m OK with the price as long as I’m receiving a noticeable upgrade. thank you

I ordered a ton of yeezy stuff since Feb. All of it has arrived (except for my WD-01, which I ordered 2 months ago), BUT I also received a duplicate WB-01. I don't think I was charged for it.

I'm wondering if the WD-01 was mistakenly routed to another order and the WB-01 duplicate ended up in mine as a result. Anyone else have this problem (I'm in the Bay Area)

EDIT: I emailed support 11 minutes ago and they responded, kinda surprised it was that quick damn

How is there no easy shortcut to simply record the last 30 secs of gameplay on PC? I can use win + alt + G, but if I'm playing forza on controller, they want me to reach for my keyboard to clip something? That's very dumb. I have a button on my controller dedicated for taking screenshot and STARTING a recording (both useless to me), but its incapable of recording 30 secs of gameplay. I've left feedback for this, but given how long this oversight has been active, I doubt they'll add this, microbutt never fixes anything

I can't seem to get the volume slider on desktop to work, multiple computers. I'm aware I can use separate extension to control tab audio, but I shouldn't have to. Any reason why this happens?

anyone notice the large influx of monarchs flying around? I was in evergreen and downtown SJ earlier and these guys were flying around all over the place, really cool

If anyones interested in a good read, there’s a book called “Bicycling with butterflies“ which documents the monarch butterfly migration (apparently they migrate just like birds)

Just switched to duckduckgo. When I search “topic + Reddit”, the first 1-3 results are Reddit and the rest are just the same bs articles Google provides.

why is it like this? I’m asking for Reddit threads about the topic im searching. I want it to work like Google, where most of the results are Reddit links. After all, my search does specify “Reddit”, don’t need a screen rant or windowscentral article. any fixes?

should everyone who has a negative thought about a show thoroughly check the subreddit beforehand and make sure there aren't too many bad posts already?

Maybe there’s a reason many people are posting about it being kinda buns

They're getting rid of sidebar, I use it for my AI apps (not copilot).

I'm not here to argue its functionality or blah blah blah, I want solutions. Is there an alternative browser that is lightweight and offers the same type of sidebar (if you say opera I will throw a rock at you). Or is there a tool that keeps sidebar functionality?

Again, I really don't care if you never used it before or if you think its useless, I'm seeing way too many MS employees on their 2nd accounts defending this.