The biggest upgrade? For the majority of your time playing, at least during indoor segments and smaller skirmishes, you can look forward to a rock solid native 4K resolution at 60 fps. True 4K gaming was the Xbox One X promise, and Halo 5 is delivering in a huge way. There's still a dynamic resolution system in place to keep the frame rate stable, and stable it is, though the resolution will drop as low as 2816x1890.
Still, that's a far cry from resolution dips we saw on the original Xbox One, which saw drops as low as 810p (yikes). That's an unfathomable leap from sub-native 1080p to native 4K, and it's one that 4K TV owners are going to celebrate.
Even if you don't own a 4K television, Digital Foundry notes that that 1080p gamers have a lot to get excited about as well. The Xbox One X, unlike the PS4 Pro, will automatically implement a down-sampling solution, which basically eliminates all signs of aliasing and make edges extremely smooth. You can obviously enjoy the greater texture detail and less detail pop-in as well.
It is noted that some of the strange lighting and shadow quirks from the original game are preserved in the Xbox One X upgrade, which can make for some awkward moments. Likewise, new areas are loaded from the hard-drive in real time as you travel from one area to the next, which can cause some slight stutters, but those are few and far between. Overall, you're looking at a vastly improved experience in terms of image quality and performance, and this is a trend we can't wait to see more of.
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