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arkham comparasion is music to my ears even arkham knight was open world but was through 3 islands connected from bridges much like infinite also comparasion makes since considering one of the narrative guys was from Rocksteady
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I’m not sure about winter, I believe you can see snow in one of the concept art pieces they released last month (and I don’t see them already releasing concept art for campaign expansions).
As for desert environments, I don’t think we’ll get them just yet. 343i said that the game woud mostly be based around PNW with sub-biomes like swampy wetlands, plains, and so on. Again, going by the recently released concept art, I believe that there shoud still be enough variety.
And then there’s all the interiors on top of that. I mean, there was also this, but that could be from a multiplayer map.
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@insane_cobra one multiplayer map from the beta has a desert theme, so why not? Maybe we’ll see different biomes after launch.
one question about the series X halo edition, are they shipping on november 15th in the US?
here in Brazil the date is december 8th 
Note from about 1:30 in the ‘Campaign Impressions’ video. We go under that structure that Alex Battaglia highlighted as being lit all wrong (or a near-identical one).
Alex bemoaned that the ground under the structure should be in shadow but appears to be lit for no reason… the reason, as we can see, is flood lights on the underside of the structure. 
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From previews I am getting the impression that there is a lot of indoor action, so it could be that most visual diversity is from various indoor environments.
I do hope they add more outdoor biomes with expansions, and still think just PNW is not enough, but as long as the indoor environments have a lot of diversity they may get away with it.
This is what I’m expecting. Every Fall for the next few years adds a new campaign with a new biome, enemy faction, weapons, and vehicles.
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I hope biomes are not seasonal 
If only it launched with everything (co-op, forge) we would probably have the best Halo game
- Living up to the promise of Halo Combat Evolved
- Good multiplayer
- Advanced Forge
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That was my very first thought when Alex mentioned that - how can you know there’s not a light source under that structure? Although my guess was a fusion coil. A lot of his other concerns were also based on guesswork (campaign structure, lack of setpieces, lack of visual diversity…).
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Yeah it’s a bit hasty to claim lighting is ‘wrong’ from a campaign clip when you have no way to go under there and see if, maybe, there actually is a light source after all.
I think his point on visual diversity was a fair one, though. He was saying that we hadn’t been shown it, and he was concerned that there would just be one outdoor biome. I think a lot of other people feel the same way, I know I do.
On campaign structure, it’s a valid opinion but I don’t think a good one. Anyone who’s spent some time looking at the tac map footage/stills they have shown will have worked out what the previews are saying – what we are really looking at here is level sized ‘chunks’ of the ring – large sandboxes with clear objectives, and actually a lot like what Crytek did in Crysis 1, which is Alex’s favourite game so he should appreciate.
Yes, they are all linked up and you can backtrack and explore, so it’s a ‘semi-open world’ game, but you could tell just from looking at the maps that it was still clearly structured and there was a linear path if you wanted to take it.
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I have no problem with that also the Flood is what got my attention
Or there is a clip where Miranda or Ryan are at a FOB in the daytime and the underside is in shadow, so it does look like there are simply floodlights underneath. It just goes to show that you can only glean so much from a video.
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What is this stuff about Infinite’s MP getting shadow dropped next week?
Are the twitter people this article quotes reliable?
There were rumors but I don’t believe that. Some Open Beta - maybe, but full multiplayer? It would confuse people considering campaign release later date.
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I think the Nov 15th will be something like an Open Beta, not the full launch of MP, but functionally have all the MP features in the test.
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It’s nothing. Xbox has continually marketed both coming on the same day and I see no reason why they should deviate, especially when any extra development time is precious. At best we might get an open Beta.
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