Why does Bungie only give you 2 F*ing lights to use?

to make two bases(red and blue). Its fine because you can change the color.

 

Let me google that for you

If you're too lazy to even click that; it's because lots of lights = laggy games.

 

lol pinohkio
I have never seen that before.
When will people quit raging at bungie?

 

Its because the lights are dynamic lights. Dynamic lights take up quite a bit of rendering so bungie has capped it at two so the xbox can easily handle it and keep a peak framerate.

 

A better question is:

Why does Bungie give us 2 F-ing lights to use if using either of them causes significant frame lag? I'd be happier with 0 or 1 and no frame rate issues.

 

Then don't put lights in your map.

We should all have a choice on whether or not we want lights. Your opinion shouldn't influence Bungie in any way.

 

The lights didn't even work on Sanbox if you were playing Splitscreen and had more than two of them.

 

You know why bungie did this? They did it simply to annoy you! They were thinking;

"Gosh darnit, our game is too perfect. We need something to give to Mongorian Panda just so that he can complain about it... I know! Lets only give him two lights! That'll piss him off!"

 

It's the same in reach, Lights don't work splitscreen.

 

Just today I deleted them from Genome's next version and I do not plan to include them in future maps. Just not worth it.

 

Forge World is obviously bigger, and has useless waterfalls and all this **** that causes lag.

 

halo 3's engine managed 4 lights and it didnt effect the frame rate why cant the brands new reach engine handle 4?

 

Are you kidding? They ****ed with the frame rate so bad that they had to be automatically disabled in splitscreen, and thats on a map with nothing draining like a waterfall or water itself. Forgeworld is big enough already that it would crash Halo 3's multiplayer servers if it was a canvas. Reaches engine is about H3's times fifteen, and so they made use of that extra to update graphics, add effects, and make everything huge. And guess what? It still runs way faster and more effecient.

So, Halo: 3s couldnt handle four lights at all, they would cause insane lag in a larger game. And Reach has things other than lights that are way cooler, honestly. So i'm fine with the trade off.

 

This.