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So, as an apology to everyone who bought the MCC for its horrific multiplayer problems, anyone who played the game while connected to Xbox Live between launch and yesterday will receive a free month of XBL Gold, an exclusive in game nameplate and avatar, and, more excitingly, the ODST campaign ported to Xbox One.

 

http://news.xbox.com/2014/12/games-halo-thank-you-to-our-fans

 

This is especially awesome for me since the problems were all with multiplayer and I don't give two shits about multiplayer so I was unaffected, but get the bonus anyway.  :D

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Most of it is just the kind of stuff that always shows up in cinematics that you can't do in gameplay, like being more acrobatic, swinging around, grabbing guys and shooting them, etc.  The only thing I saw that appears to go beyond that is their ground-punch thing, which is a new thing they've added to the armor of the Spartan IV's, so yes Chief is outdated in that respect.  IIRC Spartan IV's aren't as physically capable as the Spartan II's (what Chief is), but they've obviously got newer equipment since Chief hasn't been in contact with the UNSC for a while.

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I actually would have preferred they stick with 30 fps and not made the visual compromises.  Halo has always been 30 fps and has always felt great, so there's no reason they needed to up it.  I don't feel strongly about that though, and the increased temporal resolution is nice.

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I didn't realize that Halo 5 didn't have split screen co-op or matchmaking... what the fuck 343? Couch co-op Halo is a selling point. A lot of my memories were tied to couch co-op. I didn't know it lost split screen and almost egged one of my buddies to keep his Xbone (He was thinking and did return it since he didn't have the time to dedicate to gaming and such) so we could do co-op.

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Yeah, I had forgotten until I went to play co-op with my wife. Massive disappointment.

 

Bright side is that Frank O'Conner said due to the backlash they're seriously reconsidering it for Halo 6, though sadly they can't patch it in to Halo 5 without massively reworking the engine.

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On 8/29/2018 at 8:15 AM, TheMightyEthan said:

Apparently they've updated the Master Chief Collection to 4kHDR for XB1X. Now they just need to port it to PC...

 

They're porting it to PC! And it will be on Steam! Also they're adding Reach to it!

 

Apparently it will launch episodically on PC, with Reach coming out first, then progressing in chronological order from there. No news yet on a release date, but there's supposed to be more info coming this weekend.

 

I was hoping it was going to be one of those simultaneous announcements/releases...

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