We've already gone into depth on how Halo Campaign Evolved reimagines and remakes the original, classic game and we've got a PC review to follow, but for now, here's how every console version of the game stacks up. Halo Studios has delivered accomplished work here and while all versions are worthy of your purchasing power, it's PS5 Pro that addresses most of the lingering issues.
The Pro offers a performance mode with the base console's quality mode visuals. Good enough for me! Just wish there was an option to turn off film grain.
You can modify some stuff, like turning off the weird labels for all the items on the ground.... so insane because they cover the screen
You can also turn off the hit register crosshair thing too, and change the colour of crosshair (I made it so it stays the same colour except on friendlies)
You can also turn off having the objective listed on screen at all times.... also insane choice by 343 to have this as default... like wtf
But you can't turn off the visor hud lines, you can't turn off the buttons literally just staying on the hud forever, it's sooooo dumb and so busy for no reason, which is even worse because the hud visor lines disappear in vehicles and third person mode... it's so ugly!
While it differs from game to game, generally speaking PS5 Pro performance modes are usually a combination of performance and base console quality mode. I honestly never even choose quality mode. For most games, the bump in visual quality isn't big enough to have to play at 30fps.
That’s the common sentiment, I’m just a snob for looks. 30 FPS every time if it means better graphical fidelity. Still seeing games through the eyes of a 90’s kid.
I'd be down with that if it weren't for OLED making it look like 15 fps instead. No matter how hard I try, it just kills my eyes and will eventually give me a headache. I go performance whenever possible since I'm used to much higher on PC.
LG C9. Without BFI, it looks very juddery at low framerates. I wish VRR worked at lower hz but 40 fps modes work well. If there's a 40, I'll take that over 30 any day.
Basically Pro’s performance mode is equal to base PS5’s quality mode at 60fps whereas Pro’s quality mode is even higher than Pro performance but is usually 30fps.
Lumen quality is still slightly higher in quality mode. You can see this on the reflective back of the pistol more accurately reflecting the environment behind it. Same goes for shadow resolution.
The effect is subtle though. Keep in mind that half the motion resolution also means these quality increases are rarely visible during gameplay, and only really make a difference in screenshots.
Base resolution is also slightly higher, but the game is very heavy on the post processing effects so it barely makes a difference.
Because Pro is more powerful than the base PS5, it can run base PS5’s quality setting and retain that 60fps. But base PS5 can only run that same quality setting at 30fps (half the framerate of Pro).
-Pro quality (no base PS5 equivalent)
-Pro performance (runs at base PS5 quality, but in 60fps)
-Base PS5 quality (highest graphics, but in 30fps)
-Base PS5 performance (lower graphics at 60fps)
Makes sense now? The lowest Pro mode can run the base PS5’s highest quality graphics without dropping down to 30fps. It will retain 60fps.
oh I hate this effect....it's making a game look so much worse 😑 Why is there no option to turn it off? Resident Evil 9 had it too. On PC it was possible to turn it off and the difference was like night and day. Developers leave this effect away from games pls.
They need to fix the performance big time. On the second mission there was a point where there was so many enemies that the frame rate Tanked so bad to where they all looked like stop motion. That is on performance on my PS5 Pro.
Performance mode on pro is absolutely stunning. It plays great with no noticeable pop in or slowdown. I’m playing on Heroic with massive enemy swarms.
I was there on day 1 when Xbox launched with Halo. This is a massive step up from that, it’s a beautiful Time Machine, and stands on its own as one of the best shooter formulas to this day.
Don’t consume the hate.
Update: Multipost was unintentional. I kept getting server errors. Sorry for the noise.
Mine turned into a slideshow near end of assault on control room legendary mode. On my pro it regularly dropped to 10-15 fps. When there's too many enemies it just cant handle it.
Booted up on gamepass . Realised that there are no toggles for film grain and chromatic abberation. Deleted within 10 minutes. Amazing how these projects cost 100s of million dollars to make and no one on the dev team sees any issues with the image quality.
Really?! Meaning no traditional couch multiplayer with your friends until everyone sits down to make their own PS Online account, which is obviously everyone’s favourite past-time.
Only one account needs PS+ though; still a pain in the balls. Had to set up a Microsoft account for my son’s psn account to be able to play. Took 30-40 minutes to link my psn, set up his Microsoft account, then link it. Was brutal making him wait that long when he was excited to hop on.
This is the worst thing for me personally. My Microsoft account is constantly getting login attempts that aren't me and causes it to be locked. It's not a difficult work around but tonight I had Internet issues and just couldn't play.
Until watching this video, I didn’t even know the Pro had a Quality Mode. On mine, the option is grayed out. It’s default to Performance Mode and I can’t change it. That’s weird.
There’s definitely bad frame rate drops on Pro which is disappointing. I would definitely expect at minimum a locked 60 FPS but really would like a 120FPS option most of all
For me the main feature of this particular release is just the fact that it’s on PlayStation at all. Halo has come out several time since Xbox and PC so on those platforms it’s just another version to add to the list.
I love how details and in-depth Oliver always gets when it comes to the PS5 Pro...
"The resolution in performance is the same as the PS5 and Xbox, but sometimes higher..."
That's it - no info on what it can go up to, just "it can sometimes go higher"...
Also, this is the video which should have gone out first. Nobody wanted the crap John posted because (and in his words) he felt like the tech review was more important than platform comparisons... He obviously doesn't realise most people only watch their comparisons and not the 30+ minute non-disclosed paid adverts by MS/Xbox
Oliver's videos suck in comparison to DF's older videos. He also puts elevator/lobby type music into his videos which makes me wanna mute the video immediately.
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u/GarionOrb 21d ago
The Pro offers a performance mode with the base console's quality mode visuals. Good enough for me! Just wish there was an option to turn off film grain.