Halo Infinite (flight 1) vs Halo 5 gameplay comparison | No Commentary | Xbox Series X 

Totally agree, the grenade effects in general need work, especially the plasma

Good eye, that’s probably some of the polish that they are still working on. While they had footprints in this build, it didn’t have some things like bullet holes in surfaces for example

@@tannerskatrud7504 I believe the build was also 2 months old so I’m sure they’ll improve those things not worried at all infinite is looking amazing.

All in all though I really love this game

This build wasn't to test graphics or performance, it was moreso to make sure the code worked right in general. Bugs and the AI. Hence Tech Preview rather than Beta

Hoping we get some visual improvements to Infinite at launch. I think we will since this was an old build and just a tech demo

I think the explosion effects in infinite are miles better than in 5

But that’s thing , they still are polishing up infinite

The problem with Halo 5 is it pushed the visual effects to the limits and graphics suffered as a result. You'd see colorful and flashy wars going on in the maps but then low-res textured on the walls and floors and the lighting was distinctly not great, spawning many jokes about Glow in the Dark Spartans

@@Espartanica Also the problem with it it just did not feel like Halo to me. When I played infinite I had that halo feel like a mix of h3 and hR

@MrSpartan-117 but nowhere as Beautiful as H4, Reach, & H2A Multiplayer dat’s fs.

@MrSpartan-117 it seems dat we’re on da Exact same page hhmm.

I agree Halo 5 is low key better and has assassinations.

@@dilloon7626 Agreed Halo 4, H2A, and Reach were better looking in some ways than H5.

@@justchilling704 Graphics: H5 Beta > HR > H2A > H4 > H5 itself

I think that’s the aesthetic overall though lol

They looked like GI Joe figures

@@Doctor_D0M3 I have the same opinion. The plastic effect continues in Infinite.

@@Doctor_D0M3 Uhh… no? Halo 1, 2 and 3 looked more like metal with a matte paint job. Not plastic. They weren’t covered in shine and made clacky sound effects like toys. Reach looked about the same but with much higher fidelity, same with 4. 5 just looked like action figures with rubbery gloves and shiny armour who make plastic toy sound effects when they move about. Infinite looks more like Reach.

@@Doctor_D0M3 Infinite looks plastic? Halo 4 was just like 2, 3 plastic for sure. HD plastic but absolutely gorgeous for its time. Reach metal and infinite metal, though the robot arm is too shiny for me but that's just nitpicking really

I think my problem with Halo 5 isn’t the gameplay at all - It’s great, but it just isn’t what Halo was ever supposed to be.

@@mankdemelord6974 disagree… it’s better… it’s the evolution of a Halo game… it’s Halo, but more versatile and rewarding… Halo Infinite’s gameplay is a massive downgrade

@@RatKingN7 after playing both for some time now I will say I love halo 5 multiplayer way better halo infinite feels clunky and I wouldn’t say I’m a bad player but i find infinite just doesn’t feel right it feels slow. The turret has no cool down so u just hold and spray for some odd reason after boost with the ghost u can’t turn ur camera for a sec. I get that it’s a new game but it just does not feel polished at all…

@@slempty5481 it feels like an old PC game to me. I really think it's a step backwards from 5. You can't give us a game that feels as polished as 5 and as fast paced, then backtrack to this. It feels like we're ODSTs again tbh

@@Anonymous-qj3ry yeah 100% sometimes I feel especially with the gravity hammer it’s a hit or miss u can hit far away and get a kill but close up they live or they live for 2 secs more like they don’t know they were supposed to die and Ik it wasn’t lag. All the guns look cheap don’t get me started on the energy sword. And when I pop someone shields they look like a cartoon, that’s nice that we can change everything in our armor but it doesn’t matter if we can’t lvl up at least I have trouble leveling up. I find the driving weird that’s small tho, and it’s nice that we have some new weapons but I like the old ones better we either lost the old ones or they were changed drastically.

I am a huge Halo 3 fan but Halo Reach is way better. That game is still played

If only they could bring all the guns from across the halo franchise and balance everything. Bring all the ARs in and balance it up. CE one with 60 rounds but horribly inaccurate, halo 5 one that's actually usable, use halo reach sounds for this new AR, and halo 3 one that's between them all. Since it's infinite, why not? Infinite possibilities. AH what about the newer light weight armor that can do shit like in halo 5, boasting above and all, but weak in shields? Generalising armor in a single Halo game won't be any 'infinite' like this, you appeal to younger and older generations of halo fans.

@@saltytroopa6578 would be really interesting! But I’m not for cosmetics having any effect. I think it would be okay if for the guns though they even just had gun skins for the ar to look like the different styles. But wouldn’t mind multiple iterations. We better get the smg in this game though.

honestly that bothers me too

@@Gridlocked how do you know?

Tbh I enjoyed Halo 4 it never deserves the hate, the only mistake was not having a dedicated even start slayer and BTB mode.

@Scarlet Dani Halo Infinite did start with very little content which hurt the game badly and lost alot of players, but it's not dead. I still enjoy playing it every now and then, especially now that it's picking up the pace with new content.

Yeah Idk Infinite’s sounds so underwhelming

Infinite is in tech preview

@@nehalsoni6479 let’s hope so, because explosion visuals are also very underwhelming.

Yeah I think a lot of the sounds are good but they need to make the Melee sound more intense like we’re littlerally a superhuman armored Spartan hulk punching another armored spartan where we can hear the metal cracking/scraping or something.

Its the same developer im sure they going to polish the game in the final build

aside from the needler I agree

u gay

I think the opposite. Worst sounds I've heard in a game almost

Yeah they’re pretty terrible still

@@guitarjacob1237 they recorded actual guns and stuff for the game, which is why it probably didn’t sound as well because fake sound effects sound better then real.

agree with u, in halo 5 that was better

It’s a tech preview.

@@zillennialj8125 obviously.

What you're hearing is dynamic sound design. Halo 5 compressed everything. Loud everything (even trailed off bullets) sounds cool to some at first but is obnoxious. Infinite nailed it and is much more natural.

@@Doctor_D0M3 I'm literally an audio engineer and they talked about this in the audio edition of Inside Infinite a few months ago, but okay. They don't have 100% of the sounds in the game yet, but they have most of them and the dynamics of what they have in are hardly going to change. Not to mention, even Marty O'Donnell spoke on this exact thing in an interview recently. Halo 4, 2A, and 5 were over-compressed and maximized and the audio sounded like constant migraine inducing noise at full blast. I'm not intending to be rude here, but please don't assume you know everything on a subject when the creators (and ex-creators) themselves have even spoken about it.

Always? Nah, obviously at some point it will be beat, hao infinite is already kinda dominating halo 5 in the forge customs aspect

That's not a personal opinion, that's a fact.

@@gustavley2666 Halo 3 fans would disagree with you.

@@finnwhelan8442 haha maybe, but as a halo 3 fan (my first multiplayer and the most played including forge) is still a fact. I mean, for me is more meaningful/symbolic halo 3 but obviously halo 5 is evolved in every single way (because it's a more recent game)

Agree

Halo 5 sucks

Halo 5 is shit

I love halo 5

Bro halo 5 campaign was horrible but the multiplayer was amazing.

Bungieliver

I was thinking the same exact thing

Interesting take, bc Halo Infinite’s graphics are very similar to Halo 5’s I’d argue there’s not much of a difference, but I strongly prefer Halo 5’s sound design and minus Spartan charge I think the gameplay is more fun.

@@justchilling704 I don't see how you could think that. Halo infinites graphics are noticeably better. Looking slightly more real like call of duty style and halo 5 is more blocky. The lighting is also way better and in my opinion the sounds are better minus maybe the battle rifle. The customization and announcer are better and a lot of cool features like the game can detect when you ninja and 360

@@jordanochs1712 Just play Halo 5 on the later xb1 models and you’ll see that they really don’t look ch different 🤷🏽‍♂️

Oh Mackal.

@@N7_CommanderShepard oh no mackle the edgelord contrarions are coming

yeah its one of the best map ever

@@shynizz What about blood gulch? The best video game maps are usually considered between blood gulch and Dust II.

It only had better effects. Spartan are literally glow in the dark power rangers. The darkness does not affect them in any way. Everything is way too overexposed.

Why is it an improvement?

The dynamic lighting in halo 5 was terrible lol

@@tristenwilliams558 What he said ^

The Beta for Halo 5 looked FAR better than Halo Infinite could ever hope to be. Seriously, look up “Halo 5 Beta Regret Gameplay” on RU-vid and you’ll see what I mean. It’s a shame the final game had to be butchered so it could reach 1080p.

And many people would disagree because why would they model after the reach assault rifle if they didn't like it

Being an og fan the Reach Assault Rifle looked fine but it was jarring to turn to, the CE AR didn't look like that and Reach is a direct prequel so it should look similar of course. That's why Guzman and I myself prefer the Halo 5: Guardians AR over the Reach one Mr. Justice, nostalgia. I didn't start with Reach and I assume nor did Guzman. A cool idea in Infinite (though highly unlikely) is to sell not only skins but full model redesigns with added sfx so people can choose what they want, works.

agreed, the reach AR design is garbage imo and i hate that they bought it back but the rest of the game looks good

I like both honestly. I just hope they give us an option to chose between the two.

@@austrakaiser4793 I don't know if you played it. One neat thing was the armor had "cores" such as Mark 7 and Mark 5. Well guns also had "cores" so I hope one day we get the MA5B and SR99C.

And in Infinite it almost doesn't sound at all

That popping sound too everytime you got a headshot with the magnum or BR was always satisfying to hear

With sprint, clamber, slide, thrust (as a pick up), and some smart scope ADS, I can’t agree

@@atlfoevaeva09 true

@@atlfoevaeva09 smart scope isn't ADS. It's just a zoom in animation. Imo AR shouldn't have it but mid long range weapons have it fine even in 5

​@@atlfoevaeva09 Halo needs to evolve dude, things like the sprint will be part of the game for ever, but in infinite the balance, between the new and old mechanics, is almost perfect. Is not like halo 5 were the new abilities are predominant in the gameplay.

I was really feeling that it really does feel like a direct sequel

@@Doctor_D0M3 I agree with you, H5 was like a Halo out of the box, the use new mechanics, well 343 with Halo TMCC you can play different halo styles, H5 is one I like the most, It gave me the feel that the evolution of a spartan was real, like new technology on the armor, I will be rare to explain how that booster, ground pound, faster sprint, (Like more advanced tech) is gone. But I know that Infinite want to be like older Halos...I will taste how its fell that hook and those mechanics.

ya they for sure nailed the sound in infinite. It's honestly the best sounding game I've heard and i haven't even played it yet

@@LowTempDabr oh boy uou probably took that back real hard

​@@LowTempDabrlol. 😂halo 5 is still better . A game from 2015

@@Tbaggrrr Halo 5 is literally known by Halo fans as the worst Halo game ever released. You must not play much Halo lol w

@@LowTempDabr bro I been playing halo since day one!!!!

You blind af

I agree that’s the first thing I’ve said, and now that I’ve played both H5 it better so far. The only thing Infinite has is reach level customization, they couldn’t even out customize and 11 year game 😂

Halo infinite just looks really cheap compared to halo 5 despite being out 6 years alter

Pony fans be like:

@@Enlight9 I agree but lost don’t want to admit that.

but the grappling hook is way more fun

@@massid3774 yea but kinda contradicts the lore because they are way to heavy to be able to fly in the air like that via a quite thin string of metal, it just looks stupid seeing a 1 ton person flying through the air like that, those thrusters tho could actually be more realistic in terms of lore, seeing they’re suits are space like as a current astronaut now in real life actually has tiny little thrusters on them to help maneuver them threw space

@@dream8870 halo has always prioritised having fun gameplay over story continuity

Infinite will probably have jetpacks as well.

Yes, because we never had things like a deployable grav lift.

I completely disagree both games have a plastic look about them, H4 didn’t idk what 343 does with H5 and Infinite, and the weapons in Infinite and Infinite itself, doesn’t look much different from Halo 5.

They look very similar tbh, loved h5, confident Infinite will be epic

@@MartinAslaksen Yeah tbh Halo 5 has the more fun gameplay to me.

I think alot of it is that the forge structure objects look like plastic and also the lack of ruggedness as well in the game

@@michaelmann5105 Biggest issue for H5 and Infinite is what you said, and the dullness, and lack of any shine.

One would hope it would blow a 6 year old game out of the water.

it was locked at 30 fps for the technical preview, right? that'll get better for sure, especially on PC. I do agree though that the explosion effects needs a lot more work. the just look like paint

h5 had much better core gameplay imo. The movement rewarded the smart player more than the one with a better aim. The clever tricks you could pull off in 5 are much more impressive then anything in the old ones. Infinite is still good though and probably the best anything with that kind of movement can be but ultimately h5 put more tools in the toolbox.

@@formalranger2164 halo is about who has the better aim tho. Thats why halo 5 was unfun. It took what worked well and discarded it

@@dr._breens_beard The claim that halo is more about aim seems to be opposite that of the general consensus. Most people who love bungies halo say that halo is a game a chess. Chess isn't about how well you "aim" but it is more about out thinking the other player. If halo wasn't about outwitting the opponent then wouldn't that halo brainless? Halo is anything but brainless don't you agree.

Nah, because that would imply Halo 5 had fa... I'm kidding I'm kidding

I think infinite will be an exception to this phenomenon for a while until gameplay becomes stale. Looks promising tho, like it’ll deliver a new experience without changing anything too much

I dont think that will happen as people are happy with infinite

Infinite is literally trying to defeat this cycle, that's the point, I doubt everyone is gonna switch to 5 again, especially when infinite is multiplayer free.

@@rickygforce4217 True, the campaign sucked ass but you gotta admit the multiplayer was pretty fucking good

Abstract versus realism

They still wear the skin suit in Halo Infinite with the bulky armor plates on top. The Halo 5 Armor´s looked great in my opinion.

@@Zoza15 No, they mean the odd padding. Comparing the undersuit of Halo 3 and Reach to 4 and 5, the 4 and 5 suits look entirely different and Infinite is bringing back the older style. Just because they have an undersuit in Infinite doesn't make it the same odd one from 5.

@@Espartanica Sure, if we nitpick on the skinsuit being in Halo 5 then yeah it looks different compared to the older designs. But overall i still like the Halo 5 armor designs as a whole as i like the Halo Infinite armor design as a whole. They will likely bring the other designs back as a customization options later down the line.

@@Zoza15 It's not a nitpick. It's acknowledging the point being made versus being ignorant to claim that being an undersuit at all means being the same type as Halo 5's.

I love the H5 AR so much dude

I prefer reach/infinite

You’re not the first, it feels a lot like the og AR, and to me CE is a game that cannot be topped by any of its predecessors just because of the weird new territory it introduced. Quake with aliens!

Meh. Same design we’ve seen for 20 years. It’s nice to have something a little different with infinites design, even though it’s similar to reach

not only do I hate the reach look, but it also makes zero sense to me. Reach's design was supposed to invoke the idea that the gun wasn't finished because it was set before the event's of the first game. Going back to that design roughly 20 year's later makes no sense to me.

@@tekgeekster the fun part about the Reach design is that CE happens literally just a few weeks after Reach so the Reach AR is not that old, and even funnier fact, Halo Infinite takes places not even 10 years after Halo Reach, and something funny again is that H5 AR was inspired by CE pre-release design (not the final one), so it’s not the first time we have a throw back to older design in newer titles

Audio was fantastic what you talking about

Infinite has much better audio and I'm not saying that out of hype, it genuinely does have better sound design than Halo 5

I found infinites gun sounds to be really good and much better than the old halos. I mean again its just a technical slice and not even a beta so I am hopefull for it cause if the technical preview was this polished I am sure the game would smack hard

@@Samirxkhan Halo 5 has a way better audio design

@@deathtrooper2048 infinites was trying to make it as realistic as possible, while 5s was set to be better as a video game, it’s a compromise I guess. Guns are way too quiet in infinite though.

thats the point, in halo 5 everyone just used the magnum

Eww used to much ar should be better

@@luiiibilll00 so far in infinite I find myself just using the battle rifle and assault rifle with grenades don't even use abilities you pick up in Halo 5 I was using most of the guns I could pick up and abilities

@@assassin3003 yea you can thank late night gaming for bitching about that, apparently the game isn't fun if you all guns are good at killing

That’s not to say halo infinite isn’t impressive but it’s definitely not the focus of the game

Your smoking something halo infinite visuals blew halo 5 visuals out the water

@@tristenwilliams558 what?

@@tristenwilliams558 to each their own I guess

I definitely have to fully disagree. The weapon design sucked like the rocket launcher redesign, battle rifle, and most of the weapons looked really weird. The visuals looked so unpolished and bland, like I was playing with plastic toys. And the UI was actually awful. It was so annoying and confusing to navigate. And don’t even get me started on selling those terrible rec packs one by one by one. But imo Infinite looks fresh and polished. And the UI was simple to understand.

Como que hasta no verlo en acción? Si ya muchas personas lo jugaron incluido yo, y puedo decir que es mejor que el 5

@@dariuxito6276 Ya veremos. Tiene lógica pues son los mismos desarrolladores y seguramente habrá aprendido un montón con la experiencia Halo5, así que, todos esperamos que sea una evolución y que verdaderamente logre superar a su antecesor que dejó la vara altísima.

la verdad yo jugué la "beta" y la verdad es que se siente a nivel visual un halo primitivo ... supongo que se debe a la historia... sin embargo me gusta más el halo 5 en el aspecto multijugador. y la carencia que tiene es que en las consolas xbox one no va muy bien el juego ... la recomendación es jugar al menos en xbox series S para tener mejor framerate, por que si es crossplay la ventaja será para los de pc y xbox series ... pero en resumidas es bueno el halo infinite pero hay mejores y en la parte multijugador: halo reach y el 5 creo que están por encima.

@@LuisCarlosEChaves Sí. De hecho yo lo jugaré en Xbox One fat, y estoy por ver si es verdad que jugaré en condiciones de igualdad en partidas competitivas, sino es así, te juro que no será bien tratado en críticas. La mayoría aún tienen la clásica consola; aún la transición no se logra, especialmente por los altos costos y las actuales condiciones del mercado, que no son lo más favorable del mundo. A ver cómo lo resuelve 343, más cuando pretende el crossplay, a ver como le hacen para mantener la igualdad... siento que eso va a ser por medio del sistema de emparejamiento en el competitivo, no lo sabemos. Yo por lo que he notado, el juego se ve visualmente bien, sin embargo, siento que la esencia dejó de ser "frenética" como se logró en el H5 a ser más lenta y más clásica, al estilo HaloReach y HaloCE. La verdad, no sé porqué restarle la movilidad que se logró en Halo5, creo que en parte es por las quejas de la comunidad que no supo adaptarse al uso de las habilidades incluidas, especialmente la comunidad fan de HaloReach. Pero bueno.... para mí es un paso arriesgado porque hay hoy por hoy muchísimos que piden no se elimine el trust.

@@Melquiadeseljitano esperemos el producto final ...

I disagree that’s actually not true at all.

@@justchilling704 Trump won

lol this comment did not age well.

For sure!

Halo 5 just isn’t halo

@@skylertremblay3395 people said the same a out h2. h5 is more halo than reach and 4. H5 is a true arena shooter, its different but it still has the essence of halo.

@@GoldLBS no it doesnt, there was more to halo than simply being an arena shooter, halo was slow because it wanted to reward players for smart choices, halo had simple movement to keep the focus on gunplay, halo started you out with an effective but limited loadout to encourage you to experiment with the weapons. halo 5 gives so much power to the player at all times that the focus of gameplay strayed away from those things, with about half a dozen or more new powerful abilities which limit the scope of the gunplay and make experimenting with the physics of weapons obsolete, aswell as providing outs for players who dont think on there feet.

@@GoldLBS Halo 5 is great in a vacuum as a console sandbox shooter, thrust sliding and other input combos make for a solid skill gap, but it doesn’t feel or really play like Halo. I have well over 1000 hours in arena, I enjoyed my time with it but people like you need to accept that classic Halo is what really appealed to the masses.

Lighting and texture quality remains the same

No. The developer-made maps have pre-baked lighting in many areas.

@@luger700 Yeah, just like on the actual levels.

Fax infinite be lookin blurry asf sometimes

Meh idk infinite kinda wins with the intro/outro Halo 5 is dope but this one is just more polished up and shows ur unique emblem as well

@@kingineazzy Halo Infinite gives me Fortnite or just cringe vibes tbh.

@@justchilling704 Hmm really ?? nah I think u mean Tom Clancy’s XDefiant gives u that or Destiny would be more cringe too because u can dance & shit, this game u can’t 🤨

No halo infinite is better

I am glad you called it. That gun was powerful

In my experience most used the magnum second to the AR, or battle rifle especially in warzone no one used the default magnum in that.

@@justchilling704 I did

@@dreadlocsamurai4241 I used the default magnum until I could get the rifles.

Don't jinx it.

5 had the best muitiplayer in any halo

@@bibbotyty4209 huh nah halo 3 is way better

@@bibbotyty4209 wrong

@@bibbotyty4209 halo 5 had te\he worst

I feel the same way. I understand people will argue halo 5 mp wasn't a "halo mechanics" game. But damn, I loved it. it was a perfect mix of updating some old school elements while keeping the gameplay true. Clunky is a good description. Pretty sure people in Halo infinite can do Olympic lunges with the sword now.

I played H5 is was garbage from the soundtrack, artstyle mobility etc... halo infinite looks and feels much better

@@tristenwilliams558 Halo 5 is the only game I was really ok at. But I got a feeling a dread evertime I opened the game because I knew no matter what I'd get sweaty. Didnt get into the tech preview but im absolutely loving what im seeing!

@Gay Lover I hate halo 5 lmao rather play halo 3 then either

Idk why you hate it. It's the most fun I ever had In a video game

I’ll miss thrusters too.

Stabilizer was horrible im glad 343 when to more simplistic mobility

@@tristenwilliams558 I disagree, stabilizers aren’t even complex, and they were a great addition. Granted I think they should have been only for social.

@@tristenwilliams558 I think we all used to jumped and scope zooming in and the stabilizers were just a natural evolution of it… and the same could be argued to Spartan charge, the thing is the campaign never forced you to exploit these scenarios, just look at slide, it was the evolution of Halo Reach Elites movement, and when it came to these abilities in multiplayer they weren’t balanced, but man the movement really looked advanced kinda like Gears wall bouncing, you can hate it or love it but it went to develop a skill gap and that’s good

@@concentradosenelcraftlbb418 no there is a right way to evolve a franchise and a wrong way. 343 was concerned with following trends. 90% of the people that played the flight including me were very pleased

All the Infinite gameplay we have seen is from a months-old unfinished build meant to be a live test of certain mechanics and gameplay elements. They took in feedback from thousands of players over what needed improvement. Things like particle effects and sound design can and and most definitely will be polished before launch.

Same

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Yeah, me too, kind of. I really gonna miss the thruster in the Spartan Suit by default from H5, it felt more technological and gave the Spartans a lot more mobility and action in combat, thing that make Spartans, Spartans in combat. HInfinite felt like a little throwback in that aspect, Spartans seem more dumb in their mobility and I kinda see it a little bit more slow and less immersive. I don’t know, maybe is a personal thing, but I kinda prefer H5 in some aspects too.

well yeah it sounds and looks familiar because you've had it for literally 6 years. In 6 years you'll call halo 5 a classic halo and infinite will be a good game by then.

People say the ar in infinite is op

@@rohanalias9053 It’s alright, it’s the best AR in any Halo game yet. Fuckers just want it Merced because is not useless anymore. It’s no OP, it’s just good.

@@allen5448 yeah I actually meant more effective.not op .sorry lol

Its such a noob weapon tbh. Just spray bullets at mid range get pray you get a headshot once the shields are down. Its op because it has less than half a second longer TTK than the map pickups but requires zero skill.

@@Feshman117 that's kinda how assault rifles work, they're not supposed to have a ton of recoil, the BR has been braindead the last 2 games anyways and yet hardly anyone had been complaining, so glad it actually has recoil in infinite

Thats awesome High Five!

Thank you but actually no, I just hadnt played Halo 5 for a really long time. I'm a huge Halo fan

Dude that’s kind of savage

Halo 5 has the best multiplayer of any Halo IMHO. Hopefully Infinite’s will be better and if they nail the campaign it’ll probably be the best Halo game that’s a big IF though.

@@sammunoz2112 its not like Halo 5 so yea, it is better

Indeed it does.

wrong

it just doesnt

@@massid3774 It definitely does look flat, reminds me of Destiny actually.

@@justchilling704 it just doesnt though

Ratio😐

Back to Apex with you

In what universe lmao

In a few cases yeah. Infinite looks a little…. Dull and flat in too many areas. Looks like Apex.