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Probably the same people who played the Demo 3 Alpha and thought "I won't be getting this POS".Quote:
Originally posted by Kamakazie
This is an incomplete beta release, what do you expect?
Of course it sucks, it's only 3 of the SP levels and the key component, MP, is missing...
Those graphics look terrible. I really wanted to try this game out on PC, but I should have expected a crappy transition.... Ohh well, I guess Ill just stick with UT
Supposedly the new beta that was just leaked the gfx are much better, people are having probs running AA on ati cards which causes all the textures to be greyed out. Regardless though still in beta form and runs decent on mid-range < i.e gf3 or equiv > systems.
I'm not sure what to do on this one. On the one hand, I'm pissed Bungie didn't come out with this on the PC first so I feel like I shouldn't get it. On the other hand, I want to encourage them to cater to the PC market first so I feel like I should get it. I'm also leading toward buying it because I loved the Marathon series back in the day, and this is basically a newer version of it.
Aw man, no CO-OP? W-T-H! Why won't developers release more games with CO-OP? I love Sam 2 just because of the damn CO-OP! That blows.
I have no idea what some of you people are going on about with regards to Halo PC's graphics!!! Maybe you're using lame *** PC's or something, or maybe you haven't played the leaked beta at all and are just looking at the screenshots.
I've just played the Halo PC beta and must say that I'm really impressed with how the graphics have come out on this conversion, some wonderful shiny metal environmental texture mapping, proper bump-mapping (still quite rare to see even in modern games), DX8 water effects. Granted it's no Doom 3 or Half-life 2, though the quality of the graphicc in this really did blow me away. True I was expecting a shoddy conversion, and thus crappy graphics, but I'm really supprised with what GearBox have achieved. Millions times better than Xbox version IMHO.
I've played the Xbox version to death practically, however after playing the PC version I'd have to say I'm definately getting this.
In case you're wondering my rig is P4 2.0GHz, Radeon 9700 Pro, 512MB DDR266. It does run a bit sluggish though, even at 1024x768. Hopefully, this is because it's beta and thus unoptimised!
What about the co-op issue?
I'm not impressed with the Halo Beta AT ALL....it looks and runs so much better on my xbox.
Well one of my friends got his hands on the beta and said that they used low-res textures in the beta. Hence, the beta is not an accurate portrayal of what the full game will actually look like. Judge the full game, not an alpha or beta. That being said I don't think I'll end up playing this game, esp. seeing as how many quality PC games are going to be coming out soon. Plus, in my last semester and on the job hunt I need less distractions, not more :)
Exactly, they should only be allowed to release games during summer break or winter break.
But HL2 is welcome to be released anytime :)
Uhhh still no definite from anyone with the beta about coop?
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Originally posted by Unix0003
Uhhh still no definite from anyone with the beta about coop?
i heard it works.. havent tried myself... not interested in the game anymore :o
"From another message board i read that you can just edit the shortcut or use start, run and browse to your halo.exe. Then add -connect iphere. The ip should be the host's internet ip, none of that 192.xxx.xxx.xxx junk. so if you did the default install, you could click start, run, and then type the following in
""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" -connect 64.156.15.264"
Well, this would allow the computers to connect, but will it actually play in a coop mode going through the storyline? If so this would actually make it worth buying...
All you asshats complaining about gfx or performance: ITS A GOD DAMN BETA!
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Originally posted by Kamakazie
All you asshats complaining about gfx or performance: ITS A GOD DAMN BETA!
That was intelligently put...
If a person doesn't know enough to realize a beta is a horrible way to judge performance and graphics deserves to miss out on a great game (If in fact this turns out to be so).
You don't have to make yourself look stupid in the process.
Personally I don't care how it looks, if there's no co-op for the story avaliable I'm letting this pass me by. I own enough FPS games...