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Halo: Master Chief Collection Master Thread | This is it, baby. Hold me.
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Jessie.Bristol
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Can you confirm or deny whether there will be the ability to search for Custom Games in TMCC? I know it's been a requested feature since Halo 2.
Beast Mode Activated.
bobbyrawlins
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Yeah, ok, after watching that b-roll campaign footage, 60fps looks fucking weird and I don't like it.
Jessie.Bristol
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I am also wondering if all of Halo 4's loadout options are unlocked at the start. It would make sense considering there aren't any individual multiplayer menu's for the games. The matchmaking takes care of all four titles, so it would be nice not having to grind for all of the weapons and abilities.
Sad face or moustache?
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edit: Anyways, yeah, not a fan of the new ODST.
Kinda odd how the metal shine/environment map disappears in direct sunlight for that Honour Guard comparison (shoulder & right leg in shadow vs his left side).
So it appears that neither Halo 2 Anniversary campaign or Halo 5 MP beta are going to be 1080p. Looks like 1536x864, roughly, for H2A campaign. Kind of a bummer seeing these non-native resolutions that scale funny. Hopefully they can bump up to 900p at least since it scales a little better.
EDIT: rescinding Halo 5 MP comment, too difficult for me to tell definitively, not sure what they've done with scaling or filtering on those shots now that I'm looking closely at the media assets.
EDIT: rescinding Halo 5 MP comment, too difficult for me to tell definitively, not sure what they've done with scaling or filtering on those shots now that I'm looking closely at the media assets.
I'm quoting this because it would make me happy to see
Computer
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Work in progress.... They already said the only thing that might be sub 1080p would be Halo 2 Anny campaign because the 2 engines running.
Kibbles
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What. Dan said H2A is 1080/60 in the major Nelson sanctuary walkthrough
The multiplayer is 1080p60 (also a different engine & developer handling it).
I didn't look at MP yet, but looking at campaign, I'm seeing a pretty consistent 12 steps across 15 vertical pixels ratio. 12 / 15 * 1080 = 864. On
EDIT: Took a look at H2A MP from the Xbox Wire media. Pretty much impossible to tell you the resolution. Bad compression (not sure if it's a workflow issue with the images, texture compression, or what), broken gamma and black levels, etc. But the big issue is that the images just look so damn soft. They might be using an FXAA implementation that's bringing a ton of blur with it.
PanicFreak
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Really? It looks more like 1570x921 to me..
Exploratory
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Anyone else think the multiplayer looks like a generational leep over the singeplayer?
Zeouterlimits
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What singleplayer? We haven't see any singleplayer.
Unless you mean Halo 2 Anniversary?
Because those 6/7 maps are in the Halo 4 engine, very different, kind of apples and oranges. We haven't actually seen the real upressed Halo 2 maps.
The helmet is wrong and they're the wrong color. They should switch them to black; black is what made them stand out and look cool.
Zeouterlimits
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Yeah, the ODST change is a questionable one.
I mean I guess the jungle combat look is supposed to be look more sensible and environment aware, but if you start that train of logical questioning of the universe you'd ed up pulling on a thread that unravels the franchise into something it's not [in my mind].
It's a difficult knife edge to balance upon. Rather than an easy knife edge to balance upon.
I'd love to hear why they made the choice. Did their armour really look so ridiculous in Anniversary mode?
I mean I guess the jungle combat look is supposed to be look more sensible and environment aware, but if you start that train of logical questioning of the universe you'd ed up pulling on a thread that unravels the franchise into something it's not [in my mind].
It's a difficult knife edge to balance upon. Rather than an easy knife edge to balance upon.
I'd love to hear why they made the choice. Did their armour really look so ridiculous in Anniversary mode?
Except it isn't. They've already said its a new engine.
Welfare
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Maybe just some armor camo.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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To be fair, the H2A campaign is running two graphics engine's simultaneously at all times.
Zeouterlimits
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It's a modified Halo 4 engine, come on, you know what I meant.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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It's not the same engine outright, but it's definitely based on a retooled Halo 4 engine, likely with some of Halo 5's engine improvements ported over as well. So more of a new engine than say, ODST's modified Halo 3 engine, but definitely not as much of a rework as a core-release engine.
PachinkoChampBruh
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i wouldnt say that but the h2a campaign does look kinda mute, like literally a new coat of paint over halo 2 og.
Where are the vids? The others that were linked are dead now.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
YouTube link sucks, the direct feed videos were awesome. Not sure what happened to those links.
CEA multiplayer used the Reach engine. Reach isn't in the collection.
It'll have the original CE multiplayer. The remastered Campaign is there though.
ohai
Time to update the infographic.
lol
StalkerUKCG
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In Halo CE Anniversary is the switch button now instant or does it still have that slight delay present in the 360 version?
Frankie, Pls respond
Frankie, Pls respond
It's instant.
Jessie.Bristol
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Already confirmed to switch instantly between original and Anniversary.
I may be getting ahead of myself here - but I can safely say this is the best news to come to Halo fans (and more so Core/Multiplayer fans) since halo 3. If its any consolation, I really hope they continue this momentum into H5 (specifically with the inclusion of a visible ranking system).
Best Tuesday of the year. Thanks Frankie
Best Tuesday of the year. Thanks Frankie
The areas they opened up hurt gameplay, i.e. Camp Froman and the interior of the base. Wiping out the pillars and ramps inside the base killed flag and assault games (don't even get me started on the changes to Assault in Halo 3; they also had an open box inside which players were able to flip over onto the flag/bomb spot with a Brute Shot, yay!).
The catwalk between Froman and the base also allowed Snipers to control that entire side of the map with ease.
Frankdonald O'Connor must be stopped at any cost.
Jessie.Bristol
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Since some people are saying the links are down for the 1080p60 Halo 2 Anniversary footage, I uploaded them to my OneDrive. You can stream or download them: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=088C13EAA79501AF&id=88C13EAA79501AF!105
I mean, Frankie has been pretty specific saying that a lot of the engine has been redone, and its not relying on old tech. There are bits of CE in Halo 4.
Hopefully all of that legacy junk has been replaced, and if it has, you can't really call it a modified halo 4 engine either. I guess it just depends on how far you want to abstract 'engine' discussion.
The Librarian
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All this footage looks fantastic!
I really hope they aren't like 4.
They have stated that there are no armor abilities in H5 already, multiple times, multiple sources.
But we still don't know anything about Spartan abilities other than everyone has them all the time.
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
There's one more thing...
The Spartan Abilities have been described as abilities more akin to high jacking a ghost than, say, armor lock.
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