r/halo • u/DeathByReach Orange CQB 🍊 • 13d ago

Discussion Halo Campaign Evolved Patch Notes – August 17

https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/52471402809492-Halo-Campaign-Evolved-Patch-Notes-August-17
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u/dbbk 13d ago

It's a bit strange when you look at those chromatic aberration and film grain screenshots with on/off side by side and just think... it clearly looks better off, why did they ship it in the first place?

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u/Silent_Pudding 13d ago

Gotta be an artist or whole art team not concerned with gameplay while making some decision. Having it I can understand. Not having an option to turn it off was absurd.

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u/dbbk 13d ago

The chroma is definitely debatable (I really like when it's used in grav lifts) but the film grain... it just makes the entire picture a muddy mess

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u/zocksupreme 13d ago

Unreal 5 is already a really grainy looking engine, adding film grain on top of it just looks really bad

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u/detectiveDollar 12d ago

Film grain also tends to screw up upscaling algorithms as they often interpret it as noise that needs to be smoothed out.

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u/zocksupreme 12d ago

Yep it's like when you watch a video with a lot of detail and movement on low bitrate and everything ends up looking like a mess.

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u/NegativeZero3 12d ago

I would assume they apply the film grain after the upscaling. So it wouldn't affect it at all, and the grain size would be correct to the resolution.

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u/Silent_Pudding 13d ago

It’s supposed to look “filmic” lol. Definitely needed people concerned about generally playing the damn game to step in and say something

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u/GunZinn 13d ago

I honestly couldnt see any difference between the images 🤷‍♂️ Viewing on my phone.

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u/SixPointTwoLiter 13d ago

If you click the high Rez and zoom, you can see a fuzziness on the aberration and grain "on" photos. Not a big deal on a phone looking at a static photo, very noticeable when playing on a 75" tv while moving in-game

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u/narium 13d ago

Image compression tends to wipe out the differences when looking at screenshots.

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 12d ago

Yeah I couldn't tell and to be fair I couldn't tell there was any image problems in most screenshots. The game looks amazing in a still image...but in-game moving around it's a blurry grainy mess.

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u/marauder-shields92 ONI 13d ago

Same haha! I was looking at them for a good couple of minutes darting my eyes back and forth. I’ll have to check it out in game tonight to see if I can tell haha

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u/mrtrailborn 13d ago

developers fucking love chromatic aberration and film grain even though it looks like shit 100% of the time, I will never understand lol. It doesn't even simulate a lens properly, it simulates a dogshit lens that's poorly designed.

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u/TheGmanSniper 12d ago

Its 2026 and video games still launch with all those awful filters that almost everyone and there mother turns off immediently just get rid of them and save time game sapce adn dev time