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Obviously it could be posturing, but Bungie has said multiple times that the graphics we are seeing in the beta are not representative of what the final game will look like. Did you see the water on Valhalla though? If you haven't yet, go stand in the river until you die. It's kind of cool to see you body float down under the water...looks pretty damn realistic.

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Yeah, the water is nice.

But I really think the "These graphics are not representative..." is pretty much BS. They knew this game was going to be largely judged by the beta. There's no way they'd intentionally release it with significantly gimped graphics. And given that there's only 4 months left til that game needs to be on store shelves - there's just not a whole lot of time left to change much.

I expect any improvements will be relatively modest.