Forgetting Jetpacks, the Spire, Forge World, Invasion, Firefight, the campaign, etc...
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Halo: The Master Chief Collection announced for PC (Steam/Microsoft Store) - Staggered release, Reach first
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I will gladly forget jetpacks thank you hahaha
(Don't actually hate Reach, but I do hate the AAs)
Shit, I can't. So many flying duels and white-knuckle escapes.
This, too, is genius.
(I'd love to see balloon drops of vehicles as well as weapons and armor abilities)
I feel like the size of Forge World and the (hopefully) vastly increased resources means we can some wild maps.
The PC mods for MCC are going to be incredible.
Man the amount of nostalgia this is giving me is huge. Halo 3 is and forever will be my favorite Halo game but I was still so active in the Halo community when Reach came out and damn it was still so good.Forge
I need a mod that lets me use the jetpack all throughout the campaign.
I'd personally recommend release order for gameplay reasons (Halo -> Halo 2 -> Halo 3 -> ODST -> Reach -> Halo 4), but this order isn't bad at all. There's nothing in Reach that spoils the later games, and it shows the events that lead directly into the beginning of the first game, so you might have a bit of a better understanding of the state of the story by the time you get to the first game. The PC release order is fine.
Thank you and to Silencio for your replies. I'll try the PC order starting with Reach then :).
Man, just thinking back, even as a kid I could notice some of the weird graphical quirks of Reach and learned much later on about frame rates and resolution. I really am excited for the resolution boost and 60fps.
Hope it comes out soon.
And I can't wait to see the mods for every Halo. Super exciting.
Hope it comes out soon.
And I can't wait to see the mods for every Halo. Super exciting.
Halo Reach forge is still the modes greatest. Hopefully Infinite can refuel that.Forge
I wanna play a game of HORSE with my buddies again damn it :(
First thing I need to see is someone to mod in playable Pelicans that players can actually jump into, with one person as pilot.
oh mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn I'm so hyped my dudes. These gifs are awakening something deep inside.
Cant wait to play Reach with a proper resolution and framerate. Ready to play some absurd custom games again.
I'm glad they are bringing over the full suite of modes so hopefull that ODST Firefight will also come at some point..
I wonder what the graphics options will be like.. Per game options?
I'm glad they are bringing over the full suite of modes so hopefull that ODST Firefight will also come at some point..
I wonder what the graphics options will be like.. Per game options?
You know, I'm really not that keen on the Blur cutscenes that Halo 2 Anniversary uses. A huge amount of the dialogue timing is off with pauses between lines often being removed for some reason, and some excellent editing -- such as the transitions -- are lost, and subtle emoting is lost. The new cutscenes are flashier, but they're not as... artistically cohesive as the originals. Not to mention how jarring the switch back and forth between ingame graphics and prerendered cutscenes is.
Of course you can switch back to classic graphics mode to watch the original ingame cutscenes. But it's a shame you couldn't get the updated graphics AND ingame cutscenes.
Of course you can switch back to classic graphics mode to watch the original ingame cutscenes. But it's a shame you couldn't get the updated graphics AND ingame cutscenes.
Very true.
Blur does excellent CGI but figure it is more fitting for Halo Wars or the like than a shooter with rather good graphics as it is.
Weirdly, they were either gonna do the cutscenes in-engine originally, or there's something glitchy going on, because it is possible to get (some?) cutscenes in new graphics but they aren't complete.
See here for an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzzrXrskM7k
EDIT We aren't entirely alone with this opinion, seen it expressed previously and elsewhere.
Can't wait to revisit Reach in 4K/60FPS! Hoping they also expand the Spartan customization in MCC. Has anything been said about that?
Forge in MCC is available for Halo 3 and 4, why wouldn't it be for Reach? Especially since bunch of Reach's "stock" maps were made on it.
The only thing's missing from MCC so far is ODST Firefight, and i think theater mode as well?
Man, why do i keep thinking something didn't have it (Halo 1 and 2 obviously don't, even in their anniversary versions)...
Guess it is down to fact i have never really cared for the mode. Must've ignored its inclusion in MCC.
Halo 2 Anniversary does have theater for multiplayer, alongside 3, 4, and Reach in MCC.
none of the master chief collection games has the armor customization they had in the originals, just pick from whole sets like this
Didn't count Halo 2A MP due to its kind of separate nature.
MCC Doesn't offer full customization for Halo 3 or 4 as it is, so people are worried the same will apply to Reach.
none of the master chief collection games has the armor customization they had in the originals, just pick from whole sets like this
Oof, that's boring. Do you play as the same Spartan in all multiplayer modes or what's the reason for this? Really hope this won't apply to Reach too.
Halo 3 and 4 (and Halo 2 A MP) have all separate armor and color selections. Halo CE and 2 only allow for color selection.
As for the reason why this is as it is, most likely the unified UI and rushed production.
I'd hope that if they make Reach have complete original-like armor selection, they'd update the others to do that as well.
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. They seem to be doing everything else right with this, so I'll just keep my fingers crossed, I guess.
e: watching this video I happened to randomly come across on Youtube
and I'm reminded how much I liked the leveling and customization systems and all the challenges and commendations and shit you can do in the game so now I'm crossing my fingers super hard and hoping they won't screw this aspect of the game up
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While they haven't confirmed officially, it's probably going to be the same as Killer Instinct:
* If you buy/use on the Microsoft Store, it's Play Anywhere.
* The Steam version is not Play Anywhere.
Altho the Steam version for this lists an X-Box Live login required, so maybe the Steam version will support Play Anywhere this time around?
Unconfirmed but I would be shocked if it isn't play anywhere in the MS store considering every other first party game is of late. Unless they try and justify how much work they put into it makes it a separate release almost...that will just make me feel less guilty when I buy on steam.
This is very interesting. Is there a chance they make the client of MCC F2P on steam. Then when you open it with your XBL acc it authenticates if you own the games or not already? If not you would need to purchase them (transaction through steam). Sounds like something I'm not sure Valve would allow.
5 surpassed it in every way but the fact it wasn't there at launch.
