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Halo: The Master Chief Collection announced for PC (Steam/Microsoft Store) - Staggered release, Reach first
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Reach is included for gamepass users in full. If you don't have GP you still get the MP for free in MCC on XBO
I believe is more a marketing strategy instead of feature testing
Release 1 game every X times means keeping people hooked for a long time
While also drip feeding the PC players the story. I am willing to bet the releases for 1-2 go by pretty fast
You know what makes a lot of sense, Reach in May, CE in June, 2 in July, 3/ODST in August, 4 in September. That's 5 months of Game Pass.
Awesome. I have a hard copy MCC and I have Gamepass that's awesome of them to include it for people who own the game already.
I think Reach might do April or May, Reach will also be a test for the Match Making and possibly cross-platform play, so it might need that extra month as a buffer, other than that. Yeah it lines up with what I see happening.
Reach was awesome, don't let the haters kill it for you. It was easily up there with 3 for me.
My optimism of getting to play on pc anytime soon has been shot. The popup message on xbox for reach on that says 'later this year'. Unless they plan on dropping it on pc sooner for testing (which I think would cause a shit storm for xbox community). So I'm now coming into Sunday a lot less optimistic.
Right? Hopefully we have our hands on it sooner rather than later.
I still maintain that Reach's Invasion is the most fun competitive game mode ever put in a Halo game. Warzone was kind of similar but the REQ system threw a massive unbalanced wrench into the fun. Hoping for some kind of good take on Invasion in Halo:Infinite.
Bruh, you're talking to a community that will have endless conversations about how addition of sprint and clamber ruined Halo beyond repair.
So how bad do you really think Reach is?
Well this is probably TU Reach, so if they removed bloom and nerfed the AAs, we should be okay. Bloom made battles too random was the biggest issue.
Invasion was the finest mode ever implemented in Halo. However I'd take Dominion over Invasion Slayer and maybe both of those over vanilla Warzone. Warzone Assault was good.
I loved H3 and I loved Reach. The additional weapons were fun as fuck to play with, especially the nade launcher, and the maps were good fun (PowerHouse forever). My only real gripe is that all the original multiplayer maps were based on campaign levels - not that they were bad, just that they weren't as out of this world as some H3 maps were.
I reckon Halo 4 drops about three months before Infinite which would probably be around E3 next year. Start with Reach this summer and you're probably talking a year between releases.
If they are smart that's what they should do, and I know 343i are clever cookies.
If they are smart that's what they should do, and I know 343i are clever cookies.
Reach multiplayer was poop from a butt, but I'll still probably give it a try when it comes out just to reminisce about what a dark time for Halo that was. The two things that I did not hate in Reach multiplayer were the Guass Hog and the Pro Pipe. Best Halo gun ever. Period.
343 did work to make it more enjoyable towards the end, so if it launches like that I could put a couple hours into it I think.
343 did work to make it more enjoyable towards the end, so if it launches like that I could put a couple hours into it I think.
Technically the MP maps were designed for MP, then used in campaign maps (and presumably got their looks at this point), except for Boneyard which is lifted directly from campaign.
So by the time the TU update came out all I played was mlg playlist. Which was no bloom no sprint. Did the TU also change default bloom on the DMR? Is there any comparison video? I don't remember the normal DMR being fixed.
TU added ability for Bungie and 343i to tweak weapon bloom. As such there were vanilla lists, "TU" lists with 85% bloom, and few zero-bloom lists. Campaign was untouched.
Great SP, very very "meh" MP but the silly game modes were pretty great.
Personally I don't think the sp was "great" just ok. It definitely feels like a game from the "compete with COD" era, and the Prometheans are pretty lame to fight and their weapons feel really weak and unsatisfying. The levels where you fight the covenenant are fun though. I would say it's the weakest campaign in the package but still worth playing if you like halo.
Honestly, the only thing in Reach that I don't like is the motion blur. Thankfully that is getting fixed.
Best story, incredible visual, good gameplay, mediocre level design, awful COD clone multi (before the legendary update).
Worth playing just for the character development, which was completely and sadly ruined in 5.
I wish Infinite can combine the best world of 4 and 5, 343 has showed they can do well in all aspect, just not in the same game so far.
They will probably gather bugs & glitches again, so these should definitely be submitted. Hope they see them, though.
The (object) motion blur should be good with 60FPS though as it was tied to FPS, wasn't it? Unless they mean the TAA, ofc.
The TAA they were using is probably ripped out and burned to the ground by now in dev I feel lol.
BTW, one question for MCC owners? Does the collection has language voice/text options so you can put the games in the language you want?
I'm OK with the spanish dub but i would like to listen Ron Perlman and Keith David without setting the whole game in english.
I'm OK with the spanish dub but i would like to listen Ron Perlman and Keith David without setting the whole game in english.
Yes, you can download whichever language track you want and un-install the ones you dont
Wow, that's so cool. I hope that feature makes it to Steam.
This is the best summation of my feelings about the 343 games I've seen in this thread. 343 has proven to me that they're passionate about the series, care deeply about it, and are capable of doing great things, but they just need to pull everything off at one time in one game with a good writer.
I'm particularly happy that you made the distinction that Halo 4's campaign had good core gameplay but mediocre level design. A lot of people write off the gameplay in 4 altogether, but it's really really fun during specific set pieces.
Dominion was the best part of H4's multiplayer, I hope they bring it back for Infinite.
Yeah, it'd be funny if they leave the TAA there and remove the motion blur thinking that's what people what were complaining about.
The games in the MCC got their own AA implementation, so I am sure Reach's awful TAA is longgggggg gone
I liked it. Made hitting enemies harder and challenged me as a gamer by causing massive headaches I had to power through.
60, but not uncapped. Not a good sign.
Hopefully it's just as easy to unlock the framerate as it is in Halo Forge.
EDIT: didn't realize tweet was for xbox version oops
A LOT of older Halo logic was tied to FPS, some events would straight up not fire at 60 which is why you had weird issues in Halo 2 Vista and MCC H2 where elites would not dual wield. Decoupling all that logic from FPS might be a massive pain in the ass but we don't know yet.