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[Bernoulli]

former Art Director at 343 Industries, Justin Dinges, was working on the next "unannounced" Halo release between April 2022 and March 2023. Before his work on this next Halo release, 'Dinges served as Game Director as well as Art Lead on Halo Infinite. He also worked on both Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians as an Environment Artist.

Interestingly enough, although these might not be connected, 343 Industries Senior Character Systems Designer Ian Slutz, has been building "player systems and assets in Unreal Engine 5".

UE5-Powered New Halo Reportedly in Development at 343 Industries - Rumor

Microsoft's Halo studio 343 Industries might very well have begun development on an UE5-powered new Halo installment.

wccftech.com

 

[Ozriel]

Relatively old news at this point. Bloomberg reported this about a year ago.

Sensible switch. Slipspace is increasingly outdated and UE allows them to recruit better and to get more support from internal MS teams like the Coalition.

We’ll see

343 Industries Senior Character Systems Designer Ian Slutz

That’s one hell of a surname

 

[clarky]

Yeah this has been lnown for quite some time.

 

[Bernoulli]

That’s one hell of a surname

It's real

 

[MidGenRefresh]

343 calls Halo Infinite 'the start of the next 10 years for Halo'

It sounds like the end of numbered sequels, at least for now, as Infinite becomes a "platform for the future."

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Badlucktroll]

It's real

 

[ozz ex machina]

Good. Halo needs to get it's shine back. I liked infinites art style but it just was never impressive.

Also tonnes of issues with infinites multiplayer, the engine seems a real fucking shitshow to make changes on.

 

[Sybrix]

I love Halo and really hope this new version hits big, having UE will hopefully re-invigorate it.

Infinite has great gameplay and it looks ok, it's leaps and bounds ahead of Halo 4 and 5.

But the game engine is so clunky and the forge feature is great but the engine lets it down, the forge maps looks dog shit. The textures are so flat and bland.

Really hope UE injects Halo with the help it needs.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Bit sad as I liked the look of Halo Infinite a lot and its not like Unreal 5 powered FPS have blown Halo out of the gate graphically or for the smoothest and most of them aren't open world either
. Can't wait for the next Halo mind, given how good Infinite was., The game just needs more environmental variety

 

[Sushi_Combo]

343 calls Halo Infinite 'the start of the next 10 years for Halo'

It sounds like the end of numbered sequels, at least for now, as Infinite becomes a "platform for the future."

www.pcgamer.com

They 180'd so hard on this lmao.

 

[Synless]

They need to pull it from 343 and give it to the newly acquired first person shooter gods.

 

[Del_X]

Good to see more confirmation of this. The engine and tools were absolute dogshit. The fact that MCs hand and other assets "warble" from floating point problems when you stray from the center of the map is hilariously bad.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Halo infinite was and is a good game.

 

[ManaByte]

The engine and tools were absolute dogshit

The game runs at 120fps on everything, including the Series S.

Won't get that with Unreal 5.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

With how UE 5 games have been releasing so far, it doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. (I feel similar about cyberpunk 2). Hopefully 343 can do something great with it.

 

[Z O N E]

I think the real question is what's going to happen with Forge and if it will be even possible to have Forge in UE. Unless they someone incoprprate Unreal Engine Editor into Forge, which would be absolutely amazing.

 

[Griffon]

Those games take so long to make, it's a miracle I'm still alive when they finally come out.

 

[MagnesD3]

Halo 3 Remake is the only thing Id care about from them.

 

[Days like these...]

It's real

Should change his 1st name to Iam for maximum lulz

 

[Fbh]

Oh no UE5.
Here comes Halo in glorious upscaled 720p 45ish fps.

 

[MDSLKTR]

We will never get Halo in split screen ever again.

 

[Del_X]

The game runs at 120fps on everything, including the Series S.

Won't get that with Unreal 5.

There's zero reason that's even technically true

 

[Spyxos]

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Very shocked to hear that the studio responsible for developing Halo games is making the next one, and is using the newest available technology that many other studios are also switching to for current & next-gen development.

I can also confirm without any insider info, that the 3D Mario team at Nintendo is deep in development on the next 3D Mario game using newer technology than what was used in the previous game.

 

[shamoomoo]

The game runs at 120fps on everything, including the Series S.

Won't get that with Unreal 5.

Why not? Depending on how much 343 Industry modifies UE5 ,it can be performant.

 

[Imtjnotu]

Why not? Depending on how much 343 Industry modifies UE5 ,it can be performant.

480p upscale maybe. No console versions of UE5 games have been good

 

[ManaByte]

There's zero reason that's even technically true

No, it's reality. It runs at 120fps on Series X and S, and whatever your PC can run it at.

Halo Infinite Multiplayer Now Supports 120Hz on Series S - IGN

Halo Infinite multiplayer now supports a 120Hz refresh rate on Xbox Series S – bringing back a feature lost after the game's multiplayer beta.

www.ign.com

 

[Del_X]

No, it's reality. It runs at 120fps on Series X and S, and whatever your PC can run it at.

Halo Infinite Multiplayer Now Supports 120Hz on Series S - IGN

Halo Infinite multiplayer now supports a 120Hz refresh rate on Xbox Series S – bringing back a feature lost after the game's multiplayer beta.

www.ign.com

Yes - I'm saying there's no reason UE5 can't handle higher framerates.

Unlikely to matter since I doubt the next Halo game is releasing it's SP component on current-gen.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Halo infinite was and is a good game.

Yeah beyond 12-18 months post launch.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

They need to pull it from 343 and give it to the newly acquired first person shooter gods.

oh god, please no. Not the COD studios.

 

[adamsapple]

Halo infinite was and is a good game.

The campaign was pretty good, never got into any of the MP so I can't say I saw any of the issues there.

 

[ReBurn]

Keep it simple 343. Make good Halo gameplay first and add modes next.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Surely they'll get it right *this* time...

 

[LordCBH]

On the plus side, the campaign can’t be any worse than Infinite’s.

 

[Dr.D00p]

Halo infinite was and is a good game.

Certainly the best Far Cry clone of that year...

 

[FireFly]

Yes - I'm saying there's no reason UE5 can't handle higher framerates.

Unlikely to matter since I doubt the next Halo game is releasing it's SP component on current-gen.

There is currently, due to the the renderer being heavily single thread bound. Hopefully this will be addressed in UE 5.4.

 

[Phase]

Keep it simple 343. Make good Halo gameplay first and add modes next.

The various modes are part of what made Halo popular. They need to simplify the gameplay and have many modes on launch. I bet they could literally make a Halo 3 style game with upped movement speed and it would be heralded as the return of Halo by the players.

 

[Dibils2k]

more linear campaign please, where there is drastic visual change between missions

 

[FUBARx89]

They need to pull it from 343 and give it to the newly acquired first person shooter gods.

iD need to do Quake next best FPS dev MS have.

 

[ReBurn]

The various modes are part of what made Halo popular. They need to simplify the gameplay and have many modes on launch. I bet they could literally make a Halo 3 style game with upped movement speed and it would be heralded as the return of Halo by the players.

Be that as it may, stretching themselves thin on modes that never materialized is one of Infinite's biggest failures. They need to build a solid core first. Hopefully not having to also build the engine helps them focus on the core experience that can carry over into gameplay modes they can actually deliver.

 

[Phase]

Be that as it may, stretching themselves thin on modes that never materialized is one of Infinite's biggest failures. They need to build a solid core first. Hopefully not having to also build the engine helps them focus on the core experience that can carry over into gameplay modes they can actually deliver.

A competent developer could do both. Anything less is a disappointment. The game modes are sitting right there.

 

[shamoomoo]

480p upscale maybe. No console versions of UE5 games have been good

That depends on what features a company wants to use.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

I get really turned off when I see UE5. Not impressed with the Unreal engine much thee days. I think of stutters.

 

[Imtjnotu]

That depends on what features a company wants to use.

So you think 343 is going for basic nothingness to get it running at 120fps.

Stop. UE5 on consoles is junk

 

[intbal]

What's the definition of insanity?

Making a first person shooter with UE5 when you have access to idtech for free.

 

[Synless]

iD need to do Quake next best FPS dev MS have.

They already have a master chief who battles demons in hell.

 

[cireza]

Another game built with Resource Wasting Engine 5. And they have Id Software in their ranks. What a joke.

 

[Arsic]

I just don’t see a new Halo game winning folks over.

We all kept thinking they’d do BR and traditional MP with infinite, and we got a fourth of just traditional MP, no SP, and no co opat launch. To this day no co op, and no one talks about the campaign . The MP while better now is the sad story of the ship sailed. You wanted how much for the color blue!?

The next game would need to be developed starting with inclusion of what’s already in Infinite now as a baseline and adding onto it.

Let’s also get the elephant out of the room now: the series S will fuck this games potential up big time. Isn’t the S why they couldn’t get the co op to work for infinite?

If they do a BR mode now it’ll be welcome, but folks are also into extraction shooters heavily too.

I don’t see a new Halo able to appease and retain many folks no matter what road they go down on. Bungie was smart to let it go— they tapped out the possibilities worth exploring with the franchise.

 

[Games of Today]

I'm praying for this reality for the sake of Xbox players and Halo fans.

An UE5 powered epic about Space Marines would kick fucking ass, as long as everything else is designed properly of course.

Hopefully other AAA devs will follow like EA with Battlefield and others.

 

[gothmog]

I would expect them to prototype some content on a few engines before making a decision but it seems like they went with a relatively safe decision with UE.