I think a good amount of people would pay $60 just to be able to play Halo Combat Evolved over a match making system for the first time ever. I know I would have. Everything else adds to the value. A really great package, and 100% worth the cash.
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Halo: Master Chief Collection Master Thread | This is it, baby. Hold me.
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I think a good amount of people would pay $60 just to be able to play Halo Combat Evolved over a match making system for the first time ever. I know I would have. Everything else adds to the value. A really great package, and 100% worth the cash.
Poker Face
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Someone NEEDS to remake this with the MCC collection using all 100 maps
well maybe not all 100
Twilight Gap
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FUNKNOWN iXi
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Outlaw Torn
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The Halo Bulletin is out for this week with a Q&A of the Master Chief Collection.
https://blogs.halowaypoint.com/en-us/blogs/headlines/posts/the-halo-bulletin-6-19-14
One of my questions was answered.
https://blogs.halowaypoint.com/en-us/blogs/headlines/posts/the-halo-bulletin-6-19-14
One of my questions was answered.
Poker Face
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HALLELUJAH
I remember watching this Halo 2 rap when I was 15 and it was the funniest thing ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VmyrHNEmFI
Watching it again at 25 and I still laughed my ass off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VmyrHNEmFI
Watching it again at 25 and I still laughed my ass off.
ArchedThunder
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I dislike Halo 4 as much as the next guy(quite possibly more...) but I'm willing to try the re-imagined Halo 2 maps.
CloudyTuba
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I dont know why everyone hates join in progress. Sucks being in a game that is severely unbalanced with no hope for new teammates to fill the gap. A guy and his guest leave unbalancing the game, then another couple quitters with bad attitudes also leave, then the game is wrecked and the few remaining people give up hope and leave. I played many games where it was only me and one other person left getting completely slaughtered by unbalanced teams.
Sure it isnt nice to join a game halfway over, but I always just viewed it as doing my part. Next time I'll be the one needing a few teammates to join and keep the game competitive.
Join in progress is a good feature eliminated for selfish reasons.
Stinkles you lied to me! I'm happy theyre all in now.
Definitely avoiding this question left and right. It's coming to PC
in two years.
Damn, one of the specific questions I wanted answered.
The other one being whether or not the PC banshee will be in H1 MP.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Solid Bulletin.
Poker Face
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As according to the bulletin it's a work in progress. If it seems decent I'll give it a try, but in it's current state no thank you.
It was incredibly poorly implemented with Halo 4, and that's why I don't want it. I only have bad memories with JIP, and would rather people just be placed with other quitters, or thrown back into the game if they try and search for a new game.
Pickles Spill
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Master Chief Collection on PC @ 4k. Believe
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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2 player online coop campaign for CE & 2 is a nice upgrade indeed.
ArchedThunder
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I really wish they weren't using the Halo 4 multiplayer Mark VI models for the remastered maps when they have the perfect model with Chief in Halo 2 Anniversary. I hope that changes.
I want to play multiplayer with this model damn it!
I want to play multiplayer with this model damn it!
Halo CEA already had online co-op.
Works for the remastered Halo 2 maps, Halo 3 and 4.
The Real Napsta
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I hope they make small changes to each game.
Like Halo CE really needs gametype timers.
Halo 2 backwash needs grenade starts.
Halo CE rockets 180 glitch
Like Halo CE really needs gametype timers.
Halo 2 backwash needs grenade starts.
Halo CE rockets 180 glitch
Fan-fuckin-tastic, all I needed to hear. I was a screenshot junkie in Halo 3 so I'm so happy to see Theater return.
Any word on campaign theater for Halo 3?
Basically kills any possibility of meaningful ranks for one thing.
#2 there is nothing worse than joining a game where your team is getting crushed. Its just a waste of everyone's time when that happens.
Honestly the Gears 3 system was perfect and should be emulated by every game.
Ranked games should have no JIP and unranked should just be rotating maps/gametypes with JIP and not have you back out after each match.
metareferential
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I understand that if a features was in the original game, then it's here as well.
Was hoping we were going to see something at RTX, but I guess not
What is RTX?
The Real Napsta
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Rooster Teeth eXpo?
Yeah, my mistake. Was confused for a second. Held in Texas right. Who knows, maybe they'll show off something new there. Maybe all Bravo meant was that Gamescom would have playable multi-player on the show floor.
Hmm, good point.
edit:
Frankie name dropped Zanzibar and Lockout, but I guess they didn't consider that official confirmation.
ShadowsFell
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After reading the bulletin, weren't maps other than Ascension basically confirmed as being some of the six remade maps? I could be wrong.
The Real Napsta
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I had heard lockout and zanzibar, which i guess is cool but we already have blackout, Last Resort, Halo 4 forge lockout pieces.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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So much this. Join in Progress single-handedly made Big Team playable. I love Big Team, but I can't even begin to tell you the amount of times I wound up 1v8 in Halo 3 (or 1v6 Invasion in Reach). But even beyond that quitting was always a big problem. So often it came down to which team had the first quitter was screwed. People just got pissy that "wah, I started a match halfway through", which seriously, get over it. Way better than the alternative.
my favorite Halo montage.
ShadowsFell
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Those were the two maps I'd heard about as well.
stangend77
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I wish they would do an opt in for the join in progress. I see how people don't like it if they care about stats, but I play strictly for fun so I'm willing to do it regardless. Sure others are too. Maybe reward people who join in progress with a little more XP or something. Best of both worlds!
stangend77
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Another option would be
Social Playlists = join in progress
Ranked Playlists = no join in progress
Please don't kill it 343. I hate empty games!!!
WhiteRabbitEXE
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That right there is absolutely perfect. Gears of War does exactly that and it works great.
Twilight Gap
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Join in Progress would have been much better if players had the option to disable it. I don't want to search five times and get put into matches that are halfway over each time (and in some cases, I'd end up in the same match I just quit).
The best place to implement it is in the lobby. Matches should never start with uneven teams.
The best place to implement it is in the lobby. Matches should never start with uneven teams.
ShadowsFell
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I think that may be the most reasonable solution.
MrFrankFontaine
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Damn, might have to buy an Xbox One sooner than I expected. That's just too good.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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You have my assault rifle, agreed but add gametypes too.
I enjoy the lucky CTF or BTB games you JiP into then proceed to bring your team back from 0 - 3 down to win 5 - 4 or similar. That underdog feeling is great actually but for the most part JiP seems to work better in the larger playlists.
Also the ranked = no JiP and social = JiP seems quite sound and that's what I'd like to see in future.
CloudyTuba
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I'm not so concerned with
I think that's selfish. I never considered it a waste of my time to help salvage a game plagued by quitters. I'm helping some poor dudes out that got ditched by their team. There were plenty of games that I joined in-progress that turned around after the empty spots were filled. Sometimes playing the underdog is fun.
Yeah, okay. I'm cool with that. Everybody wins. Good idea.
I am in full support of this.
Twin Tails
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Halo 4 campaign theater? was that answered?
rokkerkory
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Not necessarily. Embrace the supersampling!Guess I will have to get a new TV for this game
Guess I will have to get a new TV for this game
I was using a 720p TV up until a couple months ago. 1080p really makes a difference.
S0cc3rpunk
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Love how people who don't care about ranks dismiss it as "e-peen" as opposed to a measurement of skill between players. I don't mean to be abrasive so don't take it like that please. But ranks are more than just bragging to a bunch of people that you're a general blah blah. It let's you know how good you are relative to the other players in a game. The ranks in Reach and Halo 4 told me jackshit aside from these guys either played the game a lot and still suck, or these guys didn't play a lot and yet are good.
I wouldn't even say I'm good anymore. But I liked knowing how good I was. What my "skill" level was at, whether it was improving, what others were at. Ranks are more than just about being "fun" but giving folks something to do, to look forward to, to continually get ranks.
The games without ranks in a sense, also had the lowest player bases and the lowest time spent playing the games. People are competitive, they want to know how they did.
And in my anecdotal experience, I've always found the guys who say ranks are useless, they aren't needed, were always the ones upset that they could barely get over 30 in a lot of playlists. I'm not saying you, but even Frankie has mentioned "e-peen" in the past, but just look at a lot of the most played games on Twitch, ranks matter.
I'm interested in how ranks will work. You'd have to think they would only be in the game-specific lists, because someone could theoretically be a 35 in Halo 2's sandbox, a 45 in Halo 1's, and a 25 in Halo 3's, so rank feels.. off in mixed types. Someone could have a good long run of Halo 2 then you get matched with them in a Halo 3 match and they can't do anything.
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