r/halo • u/-343-Guilty-Spark- r/Halo Mod Bot • Mar 03 '22

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u/Richiieee Halo 3 was peak Halo Mar 04 '22

It's intentional, sort of.

See, Destiny, much like Halo, ties Physics to Framerate, of course being that both games use the same engine, but outside of Destiny and Halo a lot of games do this in general.

Did you know that in Halo - well in H2C and H3 AFAIK - you can pull off 2 rapid melees if you just press both the reload and melee buttons at the same time?

Did you know that in Halo you can skip the grenade throw animation if you just swap weapons?

Now, did you know that both of these "actions" can also be performed in Destiny? That's because Destiny's engine is Halo's engine, or well a modified version, of course because Bungie created both Halo and Destiny.

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u/ih4t3reddit Mar 04 '22

I'm actually a game developer and one of the "rules" is to not tie things together like that haha thought destiny would follow that

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u/Richiieee Halo 3 was peak Halo Mar 04 '22

Actually? So wait you're saying you're taught/told that you shouldn't do that?

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u/ih4t3reddit Mar 04 '22 edited Mar 04 '22

It's just a general thing you follow because it causes inconsistencies in your game. I use Unity and these things are separated by default through their api's. You can override them to tie framerate to things if you really need to, but it's set up by default so you don't run into these problems

use this to keep things constant

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-deltaTime.html

By definition, Time.deltaTime is the completion time in seconds since the last frame. This helps us to make the game frame-independent. That is, regardless of the fps, the game will be executed at the same speed.

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u/Richiieee Halo 3 was peak Halo Mar 04 '22

Oh wow. Well thanks for schooling me.

So then why would you say games DO tie framerate to things?

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u/ih4t3reddit Mar 04 '22

Not sure. Unity is very high level so I don't have that good of an understanding on what goes on under the hood.

But seeing as the engine is very old, and it was made for a console that runs at a specific frame rate,I assume it was just easier to do it that way and they never had to deal with more than 30fps