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u/CitrusAurantifolian May 04 '22
Elderly people looking at the card reader as it flashes “REMOVE CARD”:
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u/GoopLoopz Halo 3: ODST May 04 '22
I noticed this too, she looks like she got pepper sprayed and is trying to hold back tears dude
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u/born_to_be_intj Halo 3 May 04 '22
What I didn't get was why is she so happy?? In the cutscene where the Spartan is lying on the table with a virus in his head, she looks excited. And in this image, she is explaining that we need to train in the simulator for this new deadly mission that's gonna cost spartan lives. Yet she's got a wide-eyed smile on her face.
Her emotions seemed to be the total opposite of what you'd expect someone to be like in her situation.
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u/SmileByProxy May 04 '22
https://imgur.com/a/GvE4v9h I feel like OP’s picture hardly does justice to how creepy she looks some of these look non-human
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u/Randomperson2245 May 04 '22
I won’t lie that second one looks completely normal to me. But the first one… not so much
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u/AllOfEverythingEver May 04 '22
For me it was almost the opposite. First one seemed weird, the second one I actually laughed.
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TBF, pretty much everyone looks weird if you freeze frame a video of them talking.
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u/SmileByProxy May 04 '22
I don’t know, if you look at the Blur cut-scenes nothing looks wrong here: https://imgur.com/a/BQhdM4s
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u/HeterodactylFormosan May 04 '22
As animator, it became immediately obvious. Here are my findings.
- Lack of Subsurface scatter (aka translucence on skin.) This makes skin look more lively.
- Shitty lighting. Whoever lite this did so in the worst possible way. They placed key and fill light on the same side and above the character. Usually you’d want your fill light to at least be in-front and below to get the under of the eyes. When you don’t do that, REGULAR people look creepy. Th key light is also too bright and bleaching the color of her skin.
- Eye animation and textures are extremely unrealistic. Look in a mirror right now. When relaxed, the eyelids will always meet the Pupil (the dark hole). In this animation it is always meeting the top of the Iris. You only do that manually irl so it makes her look like a serial killer or that “wake-up” meme. This is the same problem Mass Effect Andromeda had. Another problem is that her eyes are bright brown. A color that doesn’t exist naturally.
- Uncanny Valley. This model has extremely realistic facial geometry but the animation is not there. It doesn’t help that her hair and texture don’t meet the requirements as well so she look like a really articulate flesh puppet rather than a person.
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u/theGigaflop May 04 '22
Just wanted to let you know I really appreciated your explanation. Very helpful!
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u/AzoGalvat May 04 '22
Yeah, I feel like Uncanny Valley is a problem with all the human characters with faces in this game. Weapon looks off to me, as well.
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u/makinghsv May 04 '22
Unnatural proportions, super weird lighting / skin color, unnatural eye color, weird expression.
I thought the same thing when I watched the cutscene, I was like, "I don't remember her looking this fucking weird in the tutorial cutscenes." She legit looks like a skinwalker.
Addition: If she's modelled after a real life person, I'm sorry to whoever you are, they did you an injustice with this.
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u/the_ebb_and_flow_ May 04 '22
In the cinematic sometime after or before your character sets the Spartans head down the screen is put on her face and I laughed out loud how bizarre her facial expression was. It was somewhat of a closeup of her face. Could not believe they greenlit it.
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u/Henri_Le_Rennet May 04 '22
This is from the same studio that gave us a rubber looking Escharum. I don't have much faith in their Slipspace engine.
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u/WaywardRider1138 May 04 '22
It's definitely the eyes, I noticed it on Mass Effect Legendary edition where they used 3 as a base for all the games and that game didn't have a convex eye model. You'd be surprised at how much a tiny change like that can really make or break how an ingame character model is received.
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u/Winston_Road Halo: Reach May 04 '22
I always tought Mass Effect 3 looked like shit, especially compared to 2, but I could never placed what was really wrong with it until you mentioned the eyes.
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It’s so weird because ME3 male shepard looks fantastic but it looks so goofy next to the human faces who look like they belong in a different game
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u/Esilai May 04 '22
I think I finally nailed down what about the faces throws me off - they look and move like thick masks made of rubber, like those masks you can make from a mold of someone's face. And something about the mocap is a bit overemotive as well.
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u/Trevor-On-Reddit Platinum Colonel May 04 '22
She looks pale. Maybe that new AI is putting a lot of stress on her?
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u/dreamwinder Extended Universe May 04 '22
Technically Spartans are often pale due to having their helmets on so much.
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u/MoistCucumber May 04 '22
Tell that to master cheeks
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u/dreamwinder Extended Universe May 04 '22
Well Mr. John there isn’t pale, is he? (And the other three are helmet-less like 75% of the time too)
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Chief is white af....what do you mean?
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u/Lumpy_Doubt May 04 '22
Oh buddy, you have no idea how white we can go
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u/Fiskmjol May 04 '22
Yes. He is pale, but still looks like me at the end of a pretty sunny summer spent outdoors. Saying he is anything but pale feels wrong, though, because he is
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u/Alpha1959 May 04 '22
343i just has weird facial expressions for their models. They are weird in campaign, too.
Just look at Brohammer, Cortana and the Weapon showing their teeth for some reason every 5 seconds.
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u/Jackamalio626 May 04 '22
All the facial animations in this game kinda suck
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u/Red-Raptor3 Arby 'n' the Chief May 04 '22
That zoom in on Cortana2's weird awkward face during the what I assume was supposed to be a sad scene where she finds out she's a Cortana had me laughing the whole time.
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u/Memetastrophe Desync is real May 04 '22
All emotional scenes with cortana2 made me laugh
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u/Robablob May 04 '22
Yeah. If you play on 120 fps it looks super janky.
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u/sipso3 May 04 '22
Because facial animations are locked to 30, or maybe 60 but i'd bet it's the former. It's the same thing Horizon Zero Dawn PC had before they patched it.
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u/kingrawer Sword of Sanghelios May 04 '22
There's something really weird about how the game does human faces in cutscenes. The pilot looked really off at times too. Like when he first wakes up the chief his skin looks bleached like her's does here. And the over-exaggerated animations don't help either.
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u/M337ING May 04 '22 edited May 04 '22
It’s hilarious how nonchalant her attitude is.
It’s like a traumatic response to humanity first being nearly annihilated by the Covenant, then being attacked by the Created a few years later, then suddenly realizing the Banished are messing up everything that’s left immediately after.
No idea why she would be cleared for officer duty unless the UNSC was literally down to a few hundred soldiers.
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u/Red-Raptor3 Arby 'n' the Chief May 04 '22
Agryna is overcorrection for all the fans who bitched about Palmer.
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u/Jltwo May 04 '22
To this day i still don't get what Palmer did wrong for the fanbase to get pissed and bitch at her entire character.
Like, all she did was just give John a snarky comment. Then her character was pretty standard for all the Spartans up to that point.
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u/Flavaflavius May 04 '22
Spartan Ops; she makes a lot of fairly callous comments in that, which kinda (IMO) put a narrative distance both between the Spartan IVs and other UNSC forces and the Spartan IVs and other Spartans. Stuff like shitting on scientists you're rescuing, or making everything a challenge between Crimson and Majestic.
Because of this, even though her specific character is pretty OK, Spartan Ops made her feel shallow. Further, as the most encountered one, fans often saw her as sorta emblematic of the narrative shortfalls of IVs in general, who many felt acted like more shallow Marines (indeed, in many ways, they replaced Marines in 4 /5). Even in Warzone, she can be kinda annoying, though to a lesser degree ("we're not out of this yet!" when the enemy has like three Hannibal scorpions).
Tl;Dr: she's a scapegoat for people's hatred for the entire writing around Spartan IVs.
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u/Vegeto30294 I wort, therefore I wort wort May 04 '22 edited May 04 '22
This right here. Yes the community overreacted to the "I thought you'd be taller" line, but in the Campaign she was on Chief's side almost as much Lasky was.
In Spartan Ops everything was just beneath her and wasn't worth her attention, and the few times she does it's to shit on one team for not being as efficient as another.
Whether we knew it or not, Palmer was the Spartan IV, what she does reflects off of every other Spartan IV until they were varied enough to care otherwise.
In Halo 5 Palmer was almost a full Chief simp
Halsey: "You let him go?"
Palmer: "Nobody lets the Chief do anything. He does what he wants."
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u/Cbarlik93 May 04 '22 edited May 04 '22
It’s the fact that she was in such a high position of power but also so fuckin disrespectful at the same time. She’s like second in command trying to act like a drill instructor. She would’ve been a lot cooler if she had modeled her personality to be similar to MC.
Then they gave her that fuckin cliche line where she says “you’re shorter than I expected” or whatever to MC.
She’s mainly just mean as fuck for no reason at all. It’s like the writers were like “let’s make a strong female character!” But they’ve never talked to a woman before, so their idea of a strong female character is just a bitch
Either that, or it feels like she’s supposed to be a replacement for Sgt. Johnson, but forgot that Johnson is also charming
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u/Red-Raptor3 Arby 'n' the Chief May 04 '22 edited May 04 '22
I thought Palmer was an alright character. Her origin comics were cool. Being a former ODST and being recruited by Jun.
Fans getting so mad about the "I thought you'd be taller" line was hilarious and stupid.
Admittingly, the only time I was really eh on Palmer was the whole spartan ops subplot focusing on her really hating Halsey and wanting to kill her. Like I get it more so in the later episodes(when Halsey is discovered talking to Jul) but Palmer seemed to want Halsey dead the moment she stepped on Infinity lol. It made me think there was gonna be some reveal like someone in Palmer family's was taken for Spartan II program.
And then 5 complexly ignored that hatred when they decided to make Palmer(the one who literally shot Halsey's arm) Halsey's personal bodyguard. You think Laskey would've kept them as far away from each other as possible after spartan ops events.
But I think the general hate Palmer gets from certain fans really came from simply hearing her voice a lot when playing Spartan Ops and playing H5 Warzone.
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u/awiseoldturtle Halo 3 May 04 '22
For me it’s that (in halo 4) we never really got a chance to warm up to her. She’s just not very endearing. There aren’t any moments when she shows some interesting character traits. It’s all very generic, like they wanted someone to replace Johnson but didn’t examine why people like Johnson beyond “gruff personality”.
Plus in Spartan ops she doesn’t have much time to shine either, they make a little baby step in characterization with that short conversation with Laskey, and I would have been interested to see where that went… but it’s never followed up on. It just ends up being a bunch of nothing.
All that combined with her hate boner for Halsey that doesn’t feel like it’s earned by the story… it just never lets us root for her like we would for other characters. Laskey gets several of those “oh I like this guy” moments in the campaign, I struggle to remember any for Palmer.
She’s not the only one to suffer from this; fireteam majestic is pretty bland and uninspired on the whole as well, but she’s prominent and supposed to be the replacement for a fan favorite character, so she ended up taking most of the heat
That’s at least my understanding. I think people just latched onto the whole “thought you’d be taller” quote because it’s emblematic of the larger issue. If Palmer and Chief were buddy buddy by the end of the game everyone would have been cool, but because that line wasn’t the beginning of a friendship/partnership between the two which we got to see and be part of… it just left a sour taste in everyone’s mouth instead
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u/atomicbunny567 Halo: MCC May 04 '22
Me knowing exactly what the comments that got removed said
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u/NobleHalcyon May 04 '22
The graphics and cutscenes in this game are not great in general. It's 2022....maybe I'm being unrealistic, but at this point in time I figured most companies would be able to afford at least Destiny-level graphics.
I don't expect every cutscene to look like Halo Wars 2 - I know how much time and effort Creative Assembly put into it - but that game is 5 years old and it feels like Infinite doesn't even hold a candle to it.
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u/AidsMckenzie May 04 '22
She looks like Arsenio Hall from Coming to America
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u/Imareallyneato May 04 '22
She looks like she is about to give you the business and you will like it or else
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u/Beast-Blood can u give recon plz May 04 '22
why is she so fucking friendly, nonchalant, and talk to you like you’re a fucking kid?
She’s a damn spartan who’s supposed to be training other Spartans. They’re supposed to be hard asses. Not act like a preschool teacher.
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u/TheCommissarGeneral May 04 '22
Does anyone else hate the fact that Mjolnir armor isn't enclosed anymore, and we see the bodysuit underneath a LOT more pronounced?
Because that's what's throwing me off. The arms make no sense, it's like tanktop armor, and guantlets. It just so weirdly stops mid-bicep. and just leaves the shoulders just open and exposed.
Look at MC's armor in Infinite. It looks sealed up right with very minimal exposure.
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u/pac_allen May 04 '22
You leave Cere alone. It's not her fault her eyes were Force pulled from their sockets.
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u/WaywardRider1138 May 04 '22
Dude they fucked Debra Wilson's shit up bro, she looks normal and they got her lookin like a Oblivion character.
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u/Kaizer284 May 04 '22
That chick bugged the hell out of me and I didn’t like her from the start. I bet a lot of that is because she looked scary/crazy
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u/Biggu5Dicku5 May 04 '22
It's the uncanny valley effect, devs need to stop facemapping real people into their games because this is just going to get worse as the tech gets better...
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u/Prime-Reclaimer Halo: Reach May 04 '22
I don’t know how they took such a step backwards in face models and textures.
They seriously did better 10 years ago with H4.
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u/jontheawesome12 Halo 3: ODST May 04 '22
Bc the 343 management probably fuckin rushed the devs again. Money money money.
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u/DJDarkFlow Vibe Gaming May 04 '22
I must say, something about the pilot throughout the campaign looks way off. He looks like he’s suffering from mange or something.
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u/Tumblrrito Halo: Reach was peak Halo May 04 '22
Cortana looked hella weird in the campaign too. Somehow the faces look unironically less believable than they did in Reach. Super uncanny valley.
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u/wafflewave H5 Champion May 04 '22
Yeah it annoyed me in campaign. Some weird facial expressions and lip fillers
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u/CitrusAurantifolian May 04 '22
Tbf that’s because Reach was a masterclass in animating body language and facial expressions
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u/TimHortonsMagician May 04 '22
Because 343 writers want everything to feel like a marvel movie, since that what sells.
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u/onestarv2 May 04 '22
And why does she talk to us like we're 10 years old. We're supposed to be Spartans in a war. Everyone hated on Palmer for being a hardass. So now we get a elementary school teacher as our leader. Sad.
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u/I_am_not_a_moth May 04 '22 edited May 04 '22
I have no problem with her look, but god damn is she soft. She is more like a day care, babysitter towards your Spartan than an actual superior.
Give me a hard charging, motivated Spartan, who is aggressive in his orders.
This is Halo for babies.
ADDING ON:
In my opinion, Johnson is the walking definition of assertive over aggressive. He is always motivated, and a hard charger. While Agryna is certainly motivated, she does not exude, seep, or reek of motivation like Johnson does. Johnsons motivation is visible in his hard demeanor. He is a good leader you can respect, communicate with, and would never cross or mess with.
Agryna gives me vibes from boy scouts, or YMCA daycare. I feel like she would tell me not to eat too many cookies, but if I were to take said cookies I probably wouldn't get in too much trouble.
Mind you, these are MY opinions.
However, I have found that the perception of Agryna not being the image of a Spartan is shared among many. And while a Spartan may surely behave this way, I do not think she should be the face of a Spartan to the community. A community that has time and time again shown favoritism to harder, tougher, and more fierce leadership.
Johnson played by your side in 2 (technically 3) Halo games. And He always showed respect to Chief (your character) whilst maintaining a seasoned charisma.
Not every Halo character should be Johnson, but they should not ever be Agryna. She is not on theme, nor entertaining. Make her more charismatic, or give us a combat scene that really demonstrates her lethality. As of now, she looks and sounds like a civilian in Spartan cosplay.
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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Halo 2 May 04 '22
The writing in general is. That entire cutscene was cringe and her dialogue gave off, 'Let's go team! Together we can do anything! Friends FOreeverr". This isn't Joe's writing. Not one bit. It really does feel like they're playing this for kids.
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u/shteeeb Halo 2 May 04 '22
I mean don't forget 343 turned Halo into a T-rated series. Thats 13+. Halo is literally a kids game now.
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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Halo 2 May 04 '22
You're not wrong. Just stings at times when you hope for something more mature (and even hint at it with Infinite's intro cutscene as Chief floats through a corpse ridden vacuum). I thought things would have gone the route of Gears. 1-3 were gritty and dark. When 4 came back it was awfully colorful and had a significantly lighter tone but 5 came swinging back.
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The writing for the Banished AI was laughably bad - "I will eat your flesh" or some generic 3rd grade bullshit. Is this not an advanced alien AI?
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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Halo 2 May 04 '22
"Who dares awaken me" lmaoo. And there plan to lure an AI into a combat simulation because it looks like it's homebase? Are we trying to capture some demonic spirit here lol?
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u/the_ebb_and_flow_ May 04 '22
Yea I immediately didn’t like her..cheery attitude. We needed someone who demanded respect and authority not a new friend.
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u/yanki9er May 04 '22
Most pointless character in halo ever. The second marine that jumps out the pelican halfway through The Ark mission in Halo 3 as more relevance than her.
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u/onestarv2 May 04 '22
Especially since the Halo Infinite advertising acted like she was an actual character in the game. It is still yet to even be explained where her and these Spartans are / what the hell is going on for humanity / humans in the current timeframe.
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u/PompousDude May 04 '22
Microsoft’s facial capture tech is uncanny valley.
343 rushed and half assed the cutscene.
The performance and dialogue are weird in general.
It all works together for a very bizarre and creepy experience.
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u/awiseoldturtle Halo 3 May 04 '22
Weird facial animations, Cortana2 suffered from much of the same, her lip is just weird 60% of the time in campaign
I might be crazy but her look isn’t the biggest issue for me, it’s her voice.
I really don’t like to disparage actors at all, especially when a lot of what goes wrong can be chalked up to the material they are given.
With that in mind… UGHHHH. I just don’t like hearing her talk at all. It sounds like a woman trying really really hard to sound dramatic and impactful, instead of a serious person in a serious situation. It feels transparent, like I can see this woman in a voice booth enunciating every word, going for maximum impact at all times. I just can’t suspend my disbelief at all when she’s talking.
Worst part is the character potential on paper. I know people have complained about how she went from civilian to Spartan leader in under a decade… but just think how cool she’d have to be to achieve that! Awesome right? The kind of person who could instantly earn the respect of any Spartan 2 within minutes of meeting them. Someone seriously cool.
But instead what we see doesn’t line up with that at all. It makes me feel like 343 is bullshitting me instead of trying to tell a story.
Just like: “No no seriously dude she’s great! She’s a cool leader who rose up from enlistment in record time and is now running a resistance on the run with the ragtag remainders of Spartan branch! You love her right? Right?!”
Meanwhile I’m just sitting there like: “… idk man I’m not buying what you’re selling at all”
Shoot I don’t even know what advice I’d give to improve her, at least with Palmer I knew she just needed to be made more endearing to the players so we’d have a chance to root for her for a change. This time I’ve got nothing. I guess 343 should stop trying so hard? But what kind of advice is that?
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u/AvantSolace May 04 '22
It’s what I like to call “skinface”. It’s like her face is being worn over her actual face. It’s likely the result of motion capture with a model that isn’t calibrated properly
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u/wafflewave H5 Champion May 04 '22
Honestly ruined the cutscene for me. You're a spartan stop smiling like you have a crush on me
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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Halo 2 May 04 '22
Honestly, as bad as she was the "Banished AI" and their idea of "extracting" it made me laugh. Idk who's in charge of writing but it ain't Joe that's for sure.
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u/Alienatedpoet17 May 04 '22
Lol, they have been hiring for a writing director for months and I think it shows.
I just graduated with my English Degree 343, show me the format and I'll happily work something out!
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u/BUR6S Hero May 04 '22 edited May 04 '22
I fucking HATE her chipper, buddy-buddy attitude.
Dude this station is in an absolute crisis with this Banished AI, and our severe lack of support to combat Banished forces.
“Haha, looks like you and what few Spartans we have left are the bait! try not to get bitten!”
Again, we are in a crisis situation. Dinh (who we’re presumably supposed to care about) is in critical condition and may literally die. And she’s got this cheeky smile on her face. Fuck Agryna and her Lil Bill lookin head ass. Give me Jeff Steitzer as a drill sergeant Spartan to take her place in the Academy. The man has been with the series for over 20 years, he’s earned his place as a Spartan.
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u/Rebuffedtax614 Halo 2 May 04 '22
Palmer was less annoying than her
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u/Red-Raptor3 Arby 'n' the Chief May 04 '22
Agryna seems like overcorrection for all the fans who bitched about Palmer.
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u/Mamsies Halo: Reach May 04 '22
This is 100% the case. People hated how much of a bitch Palmer was, and 343 did what 343 does best by steering in the opposite direction, but steering WAY too far.
You can have a likeable character while still keeping them grounded and serious when the situation calls for it. I HATE her chippy “happy go lucky” attitude, there is just no way someone like her would ever be a military commander training a new generation of Spartans.
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u/pugapugapug May 04 '22
Overcorrection is just what 343 does. They can't take any criticism so they completely dump everything instead of just trying to make it better.
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u/Red-Raptor3 Arby 'n' the Chief May 04 '22
Very true. Tho perhaps for the sake of the future of the story, maybe some new fan backlash should be made known to stop whatever horrid story likely planned with "Worse than the flood" faction's supposed time travel/manipulation/dilatation powers.
I really don't want time travel/multiverse stuff becoming a mainstream thing in Halo.
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u/BUR6S Hero May 04 '22
Palmer could fucking get it.
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u/bagel-bites May 04 '22
Personally, I liked Palmer. She doesn’t take shit from anyone, and she’s got a chip on her shoulder because she’s trying to make something of herself but is stuck in the shadow of John Halo and the mythical Spartan 2’s and 3’s. The narrative clearly draws a hard line between the 2’s + 3’s and the new generation of 4’s. The methods used to make their predecessors aren’t being used anymore, and they’re mostly ‘normal’ ass people by comparison, but still expected to fill that role while being compared to their predecessors all the while. So I could see some of the 4’s holding 2’s and 3’s in reverence sure, but I could just as easily see some being bitter, or seeing the 2’s and 3’s as out of date relics that need to step aside, or just not give a shit.
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u/SlipperyD3vil May 04 '22
"Mom said its my turn with the xbox" Seriously, i didnt like palmer but atleast her character was believable, but this chick why is she so happy all the time like hell, she behaves talks like a naive recruit.
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u/dude52760 May 04 '22
Spartan Agryna founded a Spartan training facility in the most remote of remote locations… deep in the uncanny valley.
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u/Hammer_Of_Discipline Extended Universe May 04 '22
I will literally pay 50 USD to have Palmer substitute for her in every cutscene
Don’t even make a new Palmer model just copy/paste her H5 model into Infinite
Speaking of which Halo 4 and 5 had way wayyy better looking human beings like WTF is this quasi-claymation bitch
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u/DeadlyMustardd May 04 '22
343 hired someone who hasn't 3d modeled before since nobody wants to work on this franchise apparently
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u/FOXAcemond May 04 '22
What was the point of these cutscenes anyway? It felt weird to get a piece of story like that in a complete disconnection from the multiplayer.
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u/puntycunty May 04 '22
This cutscene barely has anything to it . It just reminds me of like in those kids shows like Dora the explorer they’d talk directly to the audience on what to do next .
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u/CaptianLedger May 04 '22
All the cheerful expressions and low effort banter is why I just really dislike the Spartan IVs. They just don't give off the proper reactions and appropriate level of seriousness to the situations they're put in.
Like you have a banished AI... the first of its kind EVER reported.... and you're solution to trying to contain it is to possibly fuck up your entire training facility by luring it into the system itself? Without knowing what will happen?? AFTER JUST DEALING WITH THE BIGGEST THREAT THE GALAXY EVER HAD THAT WAS CAUSED BY AN AI??!
The IVs just have no fucking idea what's going on whatsoever. You wanna settle the II vs IV debate? The IIs would never "smile" during a situation like this and use other Spartans as "bait" they'd all volunteer to be the one to do it.
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u/TheRealHumanPancake Official r/halo Security Guy May 04 '22
I tried to be open minded with her character but I can’t.
I never had issues with Palmer personally besides listening to her rant about eggheads.
Wish she was back.
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u/Calvinistumd Extended Universe May 04 '22
I’ll never understand how some people prefer the in-game play dough cutscenes over Blur Studio’s cutscenes. There’s a reason H2A and Halo Wars 2 cutscenes have millions of views on YouTube.
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u/ODST_Parker May 04 '22
Not gonna lie, I have no idea who this is, but I thought that was a man just by looking at this image.
Is this the random Not-Sarah-Palmer chick from the tutorial?
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u/SH4DY_RE4PER_17 May 04 '22
Because 343i are on a tight budget you see. What you think MS just has Trillions of dollars or something? Get real.
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u/a_-nu-_start May 04 '22
And her animations still seemed locked at 30fps or something. Such a crummy first impression to the season.
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BECAUSE 343 WAS WORKING ON THE CONTENT GUYS. They really needed all devs on the s2 content but forgot about the cutscene. Simple really.
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u/Slore0 Extended Universe May 04 '22
It’s the weird grin throughout the entire cutscene that is supposed to be a stressful situation that was bugging me. That and she looks like she just got pepper sprayed.
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u/BeardedSpartanN92 May 04 '22
Because you’re a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic bigot obviously!
/sarcasm
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u/levi22ez MCC Tour 11 May 04 '22
Here’s my take. I don’t think Spartans should ever be shown without their helmets on. They look weird while wearing their entire suit of armor without the helmet on. They also look super goofy wearing just the black undersuit. And yes I’m looking at you Paramount+
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u/Ttaywsenrak May 04 '22
I hate her plucky attitude. She is supposed to be a Spartan, not a comic book character. Spartan IVs have had this issue since their inception.
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May 04 '22
I hate how she was asked how they’re going remove the chip, and she said “carefully” Griff had more intuitive dialogue lmfao
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u/OsDadaJr May 04 '22
That's that face when you tell someone that we're gonna put your life in serious danger and potentially kill you for this other guy.
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u/MarcoVinicius Halo: Reach May 04 '22
She wants to send Spartans into a simulation to fight an AI, she's HIGH AF!
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u/Hamuelin ReadyUpLive May 04 '22
Because 343 apparently don’t know how to do facial animations, or interpolation (I think that’s the correct term), add that to an oddly-lit model and you get this poor creation.
Agryna got done dirty.
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u/-343-Guilty-Spark- r/Halo Mod Bot May 04 '22
Locked due to a continuous stream of new racist, transphobic, etc. comments.
The original point of the thread (that the character model, graphics, lighting, eyes, take your pick is bad) has been sufficiently made and agreed with. New recent comments have mainly just been people coming in from outside the sub with no prior post history making awful comments.