Halo Infinite Day Night Cycle Timelapse

[@MintBlitz]

One full day is one hour on Halo Infinite, this is 20x sped up A side note I just noticed, you actually get checkpoints standing still, that'll be useful for alot of LASO and Legendary playthroughs.

[@atomicproto3204]

Hey mint, there is more biomes than just forest and mountains(?

[@MysteryMango-fg2ic]

Good soundtrack choice

[@gabrielseaborn257]

@@atomicproto3204 To my knowledge no, it's the same general biome, albeit with mountains, caves, forests, ect. I'm assuming there will be subsequent DLC over the years with starkly different biomes, like a snowy DLC or a sand DLC.

[@atomicproto3204]

@@gabrielseaborn257 thats disappointing but it could work

[@gabrielseaborn257]

@@atomicproto3204 In the hopes it’s not paywalled, I’m completely fine with that. I’m okay with waiting, maybe less so for buying each DLC, but we will see how it goes

[@yankeefanbryson19]

Banished scouts reporting on the Chief's position: "He's just standing there... MENACINGLY"

[@valentine8004]

Honestly I would be creeped out scared if I were a grunt especially hearing all the stories of chief being a demon 😬😂

[@WatermelonDog512]

Lol

[@JackEverton101]

SpongeBob reference… I like it!

[@graham1188]

I'm impressed that they were able to make evenings and mornings actually have that distinct evening and morning look on a clear day.

[@thoughts9856]

Bruv Pokemon has been doing this for years lol.

[@niks660097]

@@thoughts9856 bruh..

[@Bob-in7zm]

@@thoughts9856 they’ve been struggling to make anything above nintendo ds standards recently

[@hypno18s]

@@thoughts9856 Nah not really.

[@beeswax2182]

Yall r wacked. There are hundreads of games that have done this and some probably better then infinite. And it doesnt look special or unique. It's a fucking day nigh cycle LOL Stop being boot lickers to 343. They ant anything special especially after MCC + halo 4 halo 5 disasters

[@paulie1039]

it makes me so happy that infinite came out like this. Anyone think it was worth the wait? I do!

[@narthandel3305]

I completely agree..... But they need to fix night, it's waaay to bright.

[@patoconzapatos]

@@narthandel3305 i'm not an expert, but i don't think that a day/night cicle in a ring planet should works in the same way that in a regular planet. (Sorry for my bad English).

[@thewaffle1736]

@@patoconzapatos haha I never thought about that.

[@darkblad3359]

@@mikeehrmantraut1899 Micro transactions? They have a shop for cosmetics though. It doesn't really affect the gameplay, now does it?

[@omgfussi6572]

@@darkblad3359 It doesn’t but the stuff is overpriced af. A single armor set in the shop costs is 20 bucks, when the battlepass is 10 dollars. The prices are ridiculous. With these prices, If you buy 3 armor sets you would’ve been able to buy the full campaign. No one is asking for the stuff to be free, just lower the prices to be fair.

[@caseyhall2320]

While I would prefer darker nights, I've tried to at least still enjoy the look of it. Which has made me come to a personal conclusion: having night time illuminated so well, but still feeling like a nice cool blue, kind of gives off an ethereal feeling to it. Especially since it's a Halo ring. This ethereal feeling reminds me of how...enamured(?)...I felt as a kid watching the night time scenes from James Cameron's Avatar; which I absolutely adore. I realize this is definitely a thing that'll mostly only work for me, but I hope this thought process helps others enjoy the campaign more. 😋

[@caseyhall2320]

@sly dankass yes, but game presentation and mechanics wise, we shouldn't just go "it makes sense with the lore so it's okay." That just lowers our bars for proper gameplay presentation. However, if you're someone who is just trying to enjoy the game despite some downsides, using lore for being okay with something is perfectly fine. Wow, I just wrote an entire oxymoron. Eh, whatever.

[@TM0DE]

I’m pretty sure his brightness might’ve been turned up

[@caseyhall2320]

@Enrico Benassi that's a good point. I guess we'll have to see from cutscenes and gameplay about whether the darkness is just shade from the ring or if it's from a planet.

[@TM0DE]

@Enrico Benassi makes sense

[@ogrimzyz8643]

@@caseyhall2320 I actually kind of like the nights, like the op said it has an ethereal feeling to it. I believe that even if it isn’t realistic if it gives you the feels, it is doing it’s job right. Minecraft is an example. Completely unrealistic graphics but I’m immersed in its worlds.

[@daniel13789]

I was really hoping for the night cycle to be as dark as "Truth and Reconciliation". Even so, the game looks very nice.

[@brancolt_]

it probably looked that way because the sun was covered by Threshold

[@felicitations372]

Holy shit it really does feel like Halo CE, this campaign is gonna be lit

[@pangolin7398]

The soundtrack is great

[@EliteEMan856]

Beautiful. Everything looks, feels, and sounds like Halo again.

[@listeed1995]

What I love about this is that the time is accurate. With many games such as GTA the time is unrealistically sped up for gameplay reasons, however with a Halo ring it actually makes sense

[@mattai075]

It’s an hour. Long enough to be natural, short enough to be realistically visible during gameplay.

[@Espartanica]

@@mattai075 Most importantly not short enough to be a pain in the ass. I hate games that give you a very tiny time frame to engage like Terraria's night. Bosses can spawn and give you only 4 and a half minutes to defeat them, at a point in the game where you can beat them but only if you have more time.

[@l-shadow1775]

Dying light has that problem too where day feels too long and night feels too short i hope in dying light 2 they balanced it out where it feels as equal as halo infinite's day and night cycle

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@mattai075 I thought it was like 4 or 5 hours? Oh well.

[@MadDadLad]

"Chief what were you doing up there all day and night?!" "I was just standing there". *MENACINGLY*

[@dookie_12]

WEE WOO WEE WOO

[@MadDadLad]

@@dookie_12 I'd pay good money to hear Joe Staten do a Grunt impression of that😂

[@markbaltazar6916]

@@MadDadLad I mean, the IWHBYD skull is in the game, so who knows

[@Mercurius19]

Cool, but it's a shame that night isn't all that dark. Edit: To everyone replying that nights wouldn't be dark on a ring world, I know, but past Halo games have had night levels that took place on the rings, so I don't think this one should be any different.

[@CaptainAmercia]

It’s pretty accurate with how night looks without any light pollution RDR2 is another great example. But yeah maybe messing about your brightness might do the trick I live in a rural area and it’s nearly impossible to see without lights but of course I don’t live on a Alien Ring in Space. I don’t think it’s possible for the ring to each a true Earth night which explains the lack of darkness.

[@InnuendoXP]

@@CaptainAmercia without light pollution with a full moon maybe. Every time I've been in the country without a moon up you can't see your own hand in front of your face & while you can see loads of stars, that starlight isn't illuminating anything & you could maybe see by silhouettes against the sky at most.

[@InnuendoXP]

yeah it's a missed opportunity I think. Look at the bases, vehicles, weapons - so many dynamic light sources- at night you could really see all of them shine. Having positions be hidden until they open fire. Jackal shields lighting up the world around them. Plasma bolts lighting the world up on their way past .etc That's what I imagine an upgraded Truth & Reconciliation to be like, and it looks like they even have the tech in the game to do it- they just decided night should be bright blue-grey for some reason. Like, at night the trees are casting shadows. What's up there in the sky that's bright enough to cast sharp shadows?? Because I haven't seen anything.

[@CaptainAmercia]

@@InnuendoXP oh yeah I was speaking on the look of the night sky and how it was accurate with a lack of light pollution but the darkness is another story like I’ve mentioned October 28th I was filming inside an abandoned farmhouse at 19:00 and it was just complete darkness couldn’t see a thing thankfully we had a flashlight lol

[@Mercurius19]

@@CaptainAmercia I tried thinking about if you could ever have a truly dark night on a ring world as opposed to a planet, but I then remembered that Truth and Reconciliation and other levels set on a Halo have taken place at night. So, it would be consistent for there to be dark nights on this Halo as well.

[@cyannnnnnnnn]

Watching this with good speakers, a good coffee, and afternoon rain in Sydney is a surprising moment of bliss.

[@dynamicphotography_]

Same in Oregon.

[@kevinflaherty1]

F for living in Australia

[@Sierra12377]

F

[@sarge4285]

I say having rain and thunder storms will definitely make the night more darker and make the experience more immersive , but other than that I'm sold

[@WigWoo1]

Love it. Though it doesn't seem that dark at night. Do you ever feel the flashlight is ever needed at night?

[@Wizards0nly]

In the case of Halo rings there isn't an entire half planet blocking it from the sunlight, merely shadows cast by the thin circular strip.

[@subsume7904]

Also the Halo Ring would be orbiting a planet, creating a lot of light at night time.

[@lykan2]

Considering Zeta Halo lacks a Planet to Orbit - which would cast a Shadow upon it like in Halo: CE or Halo 2 - it makes sense.

[@ChocolateManOfficial]

@@lykan2 Except it does orbit a planet

[@mr.sinister2029]

@@ChocolateManOfficial he just said that.

[@SpartanBrix]

Nighttime honestly just looks like a cloudy day lol

[@5446isnotmynumber]

They should add pitch black night skull in halo infinite.

[@THEL05]

@@5446isnotmynumber yes it would be fun

[@robertogonzalez1907]

@@5446isnotmynumber and if they don’t ill just play with my tv brightness settings to make it so

[@frailvoid5844]

The clouds and smoke/steam effects look great in this game, wonder if 343 picked up any tips from the Microsoft flight simulator team which has even more amazing clouds.

[@FatzerKanalevala]

”Under the cover of night” is finally back 🤟🏻 they also used those 80s-sounding synthesizers to evoke that combat evolved feeling

[@L0v3dNL0st]

Love the Greenskull shoutout! This is why I love ya man, you constantly show your love for halo and its community at large!

[@sithspartan6248]

Oh my…this soundtrack…it’s absolutely phenomenal. I love it when a different spin gets put on “Under Cover of Night”.

[@PeeMiIk]

I love this time-lapse, Cant wait to explore this new ring

[@raco1267]

I dont know if anyone notice it, but when the sunshine came, you can actually see a Phantom flying aroun the skyes and thats awesome!, it really contribuites to the inmersion making the world even more alive!

[@luismolina2425]

90% perfection! -5% no weather changes -5% night time should be ODST dark

[@abandonedchannel1159]

I don't know if the night should be darker taking into account we're now playing on a ring. Water changes should have been in the game though

[@robertogonzalez1907]

@@abandonedchannel1159 yeah but just look at truth and Reconciliation. It doesn’t have to be as dark but at least close…

[@brancolt_]

isn’t weather fixed to different sections on halo rings?

[@skatecar1596]

The fact that 343i could pull this off really shows that the only thing holding them back was the timeline

[@KittSpiken]

Don't discount experience.

[@drummerAVA]

The only thing holding them back was themselves… up till now, they could’ve made Halo games more in line with the OG titles, with the timelines the had, but they chose not to. I’m glad they finally came around…

[@mattjamco]

Seeing the atmosphere/ weather moving in the far part of the ring at the top of the video is honestly such a stunning detail- something you'd barely notice in a normal time-speed

[@maxj9204]

I wish night was way darker, but holy Christ does the rest of this look good. The cloud shadows, the sunrise and sunset.... 20/10.

[@unstablerupture6983]

Is the day/night cycle on a halo ring artificial, or based on a star it orbits I wonder?

[@danielawesome36]

Probably star.

[@otrapersonaquejuegahalo5577]

I can't find information about that but it seems to depend on the nearby star

[@wizzord8372]

It's a star you can see it eclipse behind the ring during the day cycle

[@Jo_ovie]

Artificial star

[@MadDadLad]

And what's cool about the cycles on a Halo ring is that you can see the opposite side of where you are in either light or darkness depending on what it is on the part you're inhabiting (daytime for you, nighttime for the opposite side of the ring and so on). That's a cool little detail I always loved with Halo :D

[@bruh-ix4sg]

wish night time was darker

[@imusie8545]

yeah same

[@InfectiousViper]

Yeah like in ODST or even Halo: CE

[@SaintSullys]

Mint you're the only person whos opinion on this game matters. The fact you love it gives me great joy

[@MintBlitz]

It's quickly becoming my favourite Halo game.

[@KKramsen]

@@MintBlitz is it really that good? damn, I'm hyped.

[@jord1215]

@@KKramsen this game will be the best halo ever done I guarantee it

[@KKramsen]

@@jord1215 i hope so.

[@swat3848]

Now all we need is a marine asking where blue team is lmao

[@derekkelly4152]

Man 343 is doing a great job at going for the halo 1 sound, yet doing something new! The main theme and "under the cover of night" have always been my fav's, but I'm LOVING the redesigned versions!

[@mspat8332]

Wow the night looks brighter than the morning wtf

[@SKYGAZE]

Greenskull filled my feed with so many spoilers, I can't stay on media.

[@vtrbswarmachine]

Legit Thanks MB for doing that. Why I always clean click. Glad you got the pre release. You're content is on point.

[@imusie8545]

night should be a taaaad darker imo

[@tinobenfante7315]

Yeah hopefully they tweak eventually but not a big deal overall.

[@Horrorpleb]

@@tinobenfante7315The sad part is I highly doubt they'll tweak night time, this looks final unfortunately.

[@InnuendoXP]

@@Horrorpleb yeah they've put out so much promo material with the bright grey night time there's no way this wasn't intentional The bit that gets me though is- the bases, vehicles, enemies .etc 'they ALL have functional dynamic lights on them that'd give a really dramatic shift in tone & play if it actually got dark. But what is this? Daytime but in corporate grey-blue??

[@Holy_King_Brian]

@@InnuendoXP I don't know why videogame developers are so afraid of nighttime. Almost any nightime section in most videogames is just daytime with a blue filter

[@BAYDROID]

@@Holy_King_Brian you can't see shit on HDR. Play splinter cell without using night vision. That how it looks real night

[@xeroxasaurus9883]

The night reminds me of Zelda BOTW night time. Where it’s like a full moon always. I suppose being on a ring like this your night wouldn’t be like a spherical planet where half of it is facing away from the sun totally in darkness, the ring would always have some form of light scattering around it just because of how it’s shaped.

[@robertogonzalez1907]

Not like this on a normal ring. Zeta halo’s broken island fragments may have something to do with this.

[@InnuendoXP]

no, Truth & Reconciliation in Halo CE was far darker than this. We still haven't seen what's up in the sky bright enouvh to be casting shadows at night but maybe there'll be a part of the campaign featuring a certain parasite that'll come out when Zeta's undergoing a planetary eclipse or something & night suddenly gets a whole lot darker.

[@unscinfinity3337]

@@InnuendoXP Bruh CE RING WAS BEHIND A PLANET

[@elliotchaparro3186]

I love that you used T&R for the music! 😎

[@hemandy94]

I hope they make night dark enough that you are not able to see hundreds of meters away.

[@TheHiralis]

Jesus Christ. It's darker at morning and evening than at night

[@InnuendoXP]

I hope we get an explanation from 343i for this because it's been the observation I've seen about a thousand times, Truth & Reconciliation was actually dark & also on a Halo, so what gives. Edit: and if not, hopefully someone will work out how to mod it in.

[@karl343]

@@InnuendoXP Something went wrong with the mastering of the game. The cutscene in multiplayer beta has raised blacks, it's washed out.

[@InnuendoXP]

@@karl343 that's just a video mastering, it has absolutely nothing to do with the black levels of the game's overall colour/luma profile.

[@karl343]

@@InnuendoXP Explain how HDR peak brightness is only around the 400 nit mark in game? My blacks also look raised on an LG OLED in Dolby Vision/HDR.

[@oranjeboven9622]

Why is midnight 1:35 brighter than dawn 1:46 in most parts? It really needs to be darker so the flashlight is more effective.

[@vt3036]

Maybe it’s because zeta halo doesn’t function like earth. Maybe midnights there are darker than dawns

[@pangolin7398]

There should be an eclipse when 1 side of the ring covers the star, and everything goes dark

[@scout9936]

It makes me really rethink my life when I realize that I've been waiting for the next game for SIX YEARS. Lads, this is gonna be great

[@Montasir125]

I hope the forest is a bit more dense than that, but maybe its draw distance?

[@ShItstick-dh7tl]

I was really hoping for true night time effects like the teaser showed there's so much shit that was shown in trailers that weren't in the game like deserts and biomes its all missing

[@villhelm3504]

Damn the music gave me chills. Hope all the other tracks are this great.

[@MaxGuides]

Yooo, these are the details that make the game great.

[@narthandel3305]

Ah yes, the cycle of day, dusk, blue day, dawn, and back to day.

[@mardelfidilio2759]

😁

[@ComradeSeanski]

déjà vu of me of watching the day and night cycle from BOTW in anticipation of that game- so so so excited for this campaign , thanks for all the coverage mint

[@cleanserofnoobs4162]

I love the eclipse where the sun goes behind the halo ring.

[@BIGWojo68]

I was waiting for it to turn to nighttime...

[@Eliteious]

Looks absolutely amazing

[@richacoll1]

Great job showing this I had no idea it had time of day, which is kinda cool with the halo aesthetic

[@existentialselkath1264]

It looks great, but I'm not a fan of how night artificially lights up at about 50 seconds into the video. Im not asking for pitch black nights but the brightness at 49s in was about right

[@robertogonzalez1907]

More like 50 seconds

[@absurdsnail3724]

This is cool, I'm hyped for the 8th

[@othellomcloutre]

This soundtrack is groovy and the open world looks magnificent. Can't wait to play !

[@Mark_Aaron]

Bro when it's night, you can see the sun rays shine up from under the ring. That is friggin amazing attention to detail

[@raphaeljacques9226]

I Love the fact they did a day night cycle

[@Tom-gp2uo]

I wish their was a brief time in night where it got far darker but regardless it’s so cool having this kinda thing I’m a halo game. I CANT WAIT!

[@ivanaviNiebla]

I really like the way the ammo counter looks brighter at night. Just realized that yesterday when playing that nightime map in multiplayer.

[@AbyssalSoda]

I just wish nights where a bit darker man

[@RamssesPharaoh]

Master Chief meditation time... Great video. Thank you.

[@greekpestnyc3145]

“There are no accidents.” - A wise turtle

[@eldafi]

Brohammer: Chief, you are standing still, what are you doing? Chief: Admiring the view. Brohammer: Ok, but don't take too long please. Around 48 hours later, Brohammer dies of starvation.

[@TheAdoringFan]

Nighttime is just day but blue 💀

[@pierce2lit097]

Your on a ring in space it’s not gonna get dark

[@robertogonzalez1907]

@@pierce2lit097 Are you forgetting what nighttime looked like in halo 1 and 2

[@xxminecrafthype443]

Hey mint, if you drive a vehicle into the forerunner doorway leading to the weapon cave on fragmentation and let it close onto your vehicle it will launch it across the map. I’ve only tried it with the chopper thus far, but I feel like you could hit some cool clips with it :)

[@nguyenangtuandung2745]

The Intro story sounds fake as hell but I like it hahaha

[@MintBlitz]

You’ve never left your Xbox on? I had to go shopping midway through my campaign video and it left my capture running

[@loganmackay7150]

The cloud shadows are a really nice touch

[@Chrysaor117]

Night being kinda bright makes sense, it is a floating ring in space so unless the sun is right behind where chief is it won’t be fully dark

[@whitedragon1204]

Jackal sniper was like "Yea I could kil him now, but that would be way to easy"

[@thefallengallery6459]

Morning time looks so crisp and clean - it's my favorite time. What a beautiful game. 343 has redeemed itself.

[@extremelyboredtatsumaki.495]

Night time needs a much darker mode, at least a skull for it. Pitch black, only light objects providing light, etc etc.

[@Yoda_Panda]

What's the name of this soundtrack. It's absolutely beautiful

[@forwarduntodawn2744]

Under Cover from Halo Infinite

[@Yoda_Panda]

@@forwarduntodawn2744 thank you

[@Necr0Mancer666]

I am playing the multiplayer and its so good! The graphics is crisp especially in HDR. I just cant wait for the campaign!

[@SeriouslyMikey]

Waiting for an actual night time and disappointed when it could be confused with a merky, cloudy day.

[@justsomehalofan4386]

I do love how clear daytime, sunrise/sunset look. Though I will say that night should be darker, looks more like a cloudy day.

[@InfiniteForges]

This game is incredible

[@donatturi2339]

Now the night seems darker which makes me happy

[@GJBricks]

Stunning! It is finally a living Halo ring!

[@pelvis349]

Came for the time-lapse, stayed for ‘Under Cover Of Night’.

[@cranberrykitty]

god I'm so happy with what we've waited for

[@jaysol191]

This is awesome

[@GameKnight914]

this music is so incredible

[@PMW3]

This would make for an awesome screensaver I'm not hating on what is here, but would be cool is if they were to throw in some weather effects. Have some storms, or snow move through from time to time.

[@mosisusasu9205]

Wait, but how does day/night work on a Halo? I get that on shield worlds like Requiem it's artificial, but Halos are exposed and in the middle of star systems so surely they are affected by it's light. Which raises a few questions.... Does a Halo rotate like Earth does? And on which axis? This could mean that you should probably get long days each with two nights, one that is dimmer like an eclipse (when the sun is obscured by the ring in front of you), and one that is properly dark when the sun is behind you. More likely they sit perpendicular to a star (like this extremely basic diagram where the Halo is the hyphen to represent the alignment: 🌞 - ), and then they spin horizontally as well so one half of the ring is back to the sun while the other half is exposed. That makes more sense I guess and would result in a more even day-night cycle.

[@dylansimpson]

The clouds in the background are going south, yet the clouds in the foreground are going east...

[@LordZonar]

What fucks me up is the other part of the halo in the background is moving towards you

[@robertogonzalez1907]

Clouds

[@Cheesepuff8]

Night looks way too similar to day, then again is that what it’d be like on a ring shaped planet

[@THEL05]

I understand the bright as in some games a dark night can be really annoying. Also, some other games as Botw had this bright night system and ended up really well… I think the dark night can be an option as a masterquest version of the game or a skull…

[@MoreLimitless_]

I really like how bright the morning setting looks although the night time setting looks really lack luster, I'd prefer it to be darker so that the flash light comes in handy more

[@BoralesPride]

nice music piece. one of my favorites from halo CE

[@spookyperson7096]

Since that part of the ring is so small compare to earth, I think night on there should be like dawn on earth, so it might be orange at "night" (idk, maybe the orange dawn also depends on angle with the sun or st)

[@aizmk432]

Nighttime may not be as dark as "Truth and reconciliation" but it is dark as a full moon night. Pretty realistic imo.

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

If it was a horror game, or when it finally shows the Flood, I hope it changes to something more dark and atmospheric like in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly.

[@iamme4184]

the cloud lighting is impressive, i wonder if its an actual lighting system with the ground mimicing the clouds in the sky or if its just a very slowly playing animation overtop of the ground textures

[@existentialselkath1264]

The game is using a proper volumetric cloud system, so I can almost guarantee that's where the shadows are coming from

[@iamme4184]

@@existentialselkath1264 oh sweet

[@DeLuciosX]

Two sniper at the base. "I can see him, he is on the mountain." "What is he doing?" "I don't know, he is just standing there, menacing" "Should be send someone over there?" "Better not, I really don't like this, nobody can just stand hours like that and don't be a threat." Meanwhile in Chiefs head: "Dudududuuuum, dudududuuuuuuuun, dudun dundn dudndn.............."

[@XboxTechJunky]

Casually uses new Under Cover of the Night 😂👏🏽

[@LSB44446]

Ngl cloud shadows are mindblowing

[@faberthecatgirl]

POV: Your Chief Stranded in Space Again

[@xmlthegreat]

I wanted the Truth and Reconciliation look as well, but I guess someone will eventually mod shaders or a lighting pack for that.

[@Destroyerz117]

Man I really wish the nights were darker, the game already has so many elements that could mix up the gameplay, the phantoms have these massive floodlights that light up the surrounding terrain, you a have flashlight you can switch on or off, jackals patrol with glowing shields, they really had a chance to make it something special. Maybe we would have decreased vision but in turn the enemies have a lower awareness so far away enemies would have a harder time spotting you, maybe this could play into your decision making do you attack a banished outpost during the day or night? but instead we just get desaturated day time...

[@valleybiitch]

who knew 343 had this in them dude, i really think this game is gonna be a masterpiece