"Halo 4: I Get a Woman!" - Sgt. Mjr. A.J. Johnson, RIP

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Originally Posted by DarkHalcyon

If I play four-screen multiplayer I better have a 120 degree field of view.

I'll be in a really meeeeeeeean mood if I don't!

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I'm pretty sure you don't, I was playing splitscreen and it felt tiny as hell even on 1080p

The ending was pretty bland. The CGI run after the credits helped, but the overall end was very 'meh'. Won't be playing again (and thus, won't be seeing the legendary ending) until the game launches to the world.

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Originally Posted by Masterz1337

SP really pushes the hardware, theres like 24 bsps for Dawn and the map is like 30 minutes long. Also, I've noticed how often the collect garbage, sometimes things will be deleted before you leave the room, quite annoying but still doesn't ruin my enjoyment of the game. Perhaps with all the BSP switching they had problems with letting you run around with the camera in SP Theater.

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Just because they have that many bsps doesn't mean they're pushing the hardware.

I just did some game state comparisons. In Reach, the object memory pool had a little bit more than 1.6MB of space. In Halo4 they added exactly 1MB more, so it's a little more than 2.6MB.

In Reach, the starting biped allocation is 6,464bytes. This doesn't take into account the node matrices (which is variable on the actual node count) and any other additional blocks they may have to append to the object in the memory pool. In Halo4, the object type sizes have exploded. The starting biped allocation is 9,848bytes.

The base "object" type itself (the base of all other types in the game) went from 424bytes to 1,136bytes, that's a 2.6x increase.

Unlike tags, they don't plan out the memory layout of their game state data, so they can easily explode their data structures with compiler-generated padding.

If they did internships, this is the kind of stuff I would have looked into for them (along with making sure they didn't ship with more debug data than they needed), even if I had to do it in my free time, as I question whether any of their engineers do already (or have the time).

Also, apparently they're using RAD's Granny somewhere in the engine, or in the production of the game at least. Which makes me scratch my head because they licensed Havok Animation for the game as well.

Check it:
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I want to go to the store so much to grab a package of it. Like, seriously, I just want to go to the store to get only that.

What's so good about this game fuel besides the fact that it tastes better than normal MD.

It's delicious and I need some for my ridiculous Halo shrine.

You get more EXP the more Game Fuel and doritos you eat. A lot of us are going to get diabetes.

Damn. My birthday is a couple of days before Halo 4. I know what I'll be getting.

Not halo 4.

Nope, the doritos and game fuel.