343 Industries Slipspace Engine Lead Developer Reportedly Leaves Studio - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 September 2022 / 2,493 Views
343 Industries founder and studio head Bonnie Ross announced earlier this week she is leaving the studio as she focuses on a family medical issue. Ross worked in gaming at Microsoft for over 28 years and was the lead at 343 Industries for 15 years.
A report from Lords of Gaming and corroborated independently by Windows Central claims David Berger, who led development on Halo Infinite's Slipspace Engine, is also leaving the studio.
Berger led technical development at the studio, working on Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians, and Halo Infinite. He previously worked on Mechwarrior, Shadowrun, and Too Human before joining 343 Industries. He spent over 20 years at Microsoft.
To replace Bonnie Ross are three people. Studio veteran and production lead Pierre Hintze is now the new studio head at 343 Industries and will lead development on Halo Infinite, The Master Chief Collection, and future games. Bryan Koski will be the GM of Franchise and Van Wyck will now oversee business and operations.
It isn't yet known who will replace David Berger.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Halo fans wanted blood. They're getting blood.
Can't say David was doing a great job with the engine to begin with though lol
Leadership makes all the final decisions. Not sure how it can't be put on them. Go do some research and you'll see where the issues stem from.
Maybe spencer should lead
the engine is not very groundbreaking the game is more or less the same on xbox one and series consoles i was expecting more from series x version
Thats not the engine.
What the engine does great is its great draw distanced etc
That is exactly the engine.
A game engine is actually a collection of "parts" or smaller "engines" working collaboratively.
For example... In a game engine you will have the Physics Engine, Rendering Engine, Sound Engine and more.
It is actually a good engine though, not class-leading, but it is good.
The Xbox One and Xbox One X did hold things back as engine design choices had to be made to accommodate those devices.
I took what Giggity said as referring to higher settings, something they can implement but was held back due to last gen.
Everything the engine does like Draw Distance, Physics, Rendering and sound i found were all very good
I think the biggest improvement they could have done would actually be for the lighting... And leveraged Ray Traced Global illumination, but still fall back on shadow maps, maybe even use some stencil shadows that Doom 3 used for indoor areas.
I find the lighting just to be unimpressive.
There are some very great material work going on though, indoor forerunner stuff is visually impressive.
Yeah the lighting does need work. Raytracing might fix that but i can't see current gen pushing it too far
One by one they fall,
What is going on here? Haha
