Halo PC Updates Delayed, Much Desired

Posted by simoniker on Saturday February 7, 2004 @10:18AM from the make-it-go-faster dept.

Thanks to VE3D for its article reprinting comments by Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford regarding future Halo PC patches. Pitchford, seemingly irked at Bungie/Microsoft testing and approval delays, notes the enhancements Gearbox "...has generated between launch day and now is amazing in quality and volume. Thus far, just a fraction of that work has made it into the official updates." These prospective updates, mentioned last month, include the HEK (Halo Editing Kit), the lack of which is preventing substantial modding from taking place, and a waiting-in-the-wings "massive [graphical] performance boost... we call it 'fast shaders' - we're seeing a 30% to 50% [framerate] increase."

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Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-07 10:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

???

What are you talking about? Why would you want to share a monitor with a friend when you could have it to yourself? What's wrong with driving vehicals with a mouse?

Seriously - how the FUCK can you play an FPS game on a console? There is no way to competitively play an FPS title without a mouse and a keyboard.

On the point of frame rate... I'll give you that one.
Re:does anybody care? by Babbster · 2004-02-07 13:15 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Sure. Just like people still care about Tribes and its sequels. Most people wouldn't know about other games, however, because they don't show up on their Counterstrike server list.