Digital Foundry vs Halo 5 beta

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ganoncrotch said:

grannamir said:
It's a beta, ok... there's 11 months for the launch, ok... But;
- 720p as resolution even for beta is patetic. To me, this proves that this game, will not have more than 900p.
- having dips, framerate and effects issues in this stage, not good sign. Can be fixed ok, but....
- But to me the most concerning aspect is, even that is a beta, having TEARING in a 720p game is ridiculous.
Xbox fans talked a lot of shit about Uncharted 4, but now, what you all have to talk. Your best game and proud hope is not having good beggining, right...

Errrr 11 months is more time than goes into each yearly battlefield game or Fifa from the very start, do you really think they come out exactly the way they run and look before production begins?

Damn Battlefield 4 launched in a Beta state and took another few months to get to a point where it was almost considered ready to release, being 11 months from launch and having a next gen engine that mostly works is a great place to be for 343 for a smooth unbroken launch of Halo 5.

I agree his comment is silly (for several reasons), but games like battlefield don't take less than 11 months to make :p They usually have multiple teams working on 2 to 3 year development cycles to allow a yearly release. It has the added benefit of speeding up overall development time, since the teams can swap around assets and staff depending what the others need (such as ND's Team 1 jumping over to help Team 2 with UC4 while their next title is in early production). In some instance (such as COD) they cycle through actual developers.

I don't know about sports games like FIFA though.