343 Industries showcases Halo Infinite’s PC visuals

On their latest blog post over at Halo Waypoint, 343 Industries has released a series of screenshots that showcase Halo Infinite’s updated visuals, revealing huge improvements to the game’s lighting, shadows and ambient occlusion. These screenshots look much better than the game’s infamous E2 demo.   

The screenshots below were taken in a work-in-progress version of Halo Infinite, which were captured using the PC version of the game. The game is designed to have a similar look to Halo: Combat Evolved but feature modernised graphics with a time-of-day lighting system.

When moving away from Halo 5, 343 wanted to move away from overly complex visuals and create environments that are more easily read by players and didn’t overwhelm players with unnecessary detail. 343 claims that they are taking the feedback from their fans seriously and that they have worked hard to rectify the mistakes of their earlier E3 demo of Halo Infinite. 

Over the past few months, 343 have been reworking Halo Infinite’s engine to improve Halo Infinite’s graphical quality, pushing LODs further to reduce pop-in while reworking the game’s streaming system to mitigate texture quality issues. The result of this effort is the images below, which look a lot better than Halo Infinite’s prior visual showcases.