OFFICIAL HALO MASTER PATCH COLLECTION, VOL: sign up for a patch beta! No really....

Just rewatched the vid.

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Forge on 2.... Eh

You're pushing it 343, you're pushing it. I like how they didnt go back to the H2 HUD though. Shields in the top of the screen is miles better than Shield in the bottom corner.

One minor thing I do want is universal medals. H2 killtac should be the same as the H3 one, same killing frenzys, etc etc. Also bring back weapon specific medals, no idea why those went out for 4.

 
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Fun Fact! #Halo: The Master Chief Collection has 93 competitive MP maps, 50 Spartan Ops missions from Halo 4 and 45 campaign missions.
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im not big on forge but hey.......more tom foolery
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they said theyd support the game as long as its getting played
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The rumors were true. 343 Industries is indeed working on a 10th anniversary edition of Halo 2, but that classic 2004 shooter is going to be bundled alongside Halo 3, Halo 4, and the original Combat Evolved as part of The Master Chief Collection.

What is The Master Chief Collection? Well, it looks to be one of the slickest greatest-hits compilations in recent memory. On a single Xbox One disc, you'll find remastered versions of all four Master Chief outings, each spruced up to run in 1080p and at 60 frames per second. And because this is the 10th anniversary of Halo 2, 343 is giving that game a bit of extra attention--think of it as a similar graphical upgrade to the one Halo: Combat Evolved received three years ago, right on down to the ability to switch between new and original visuals with the tap of a button. (Halo: CE Anniversary is also included on the disc.)

The whole thing is organized in a way that feels like listening to your favorite band's entire back catalog on shuffle. See, you don't launch each game separately from the others; instead, you access all of the campaign missions and multiplayer--yes, there's online multiplayer for all four games--from a single shared menu. And from there, you can mix and match in a way that few--if any--greatest-hits collections have ever allowed before.

Here's how it works. While you could load up Combat Evolved and play that through to completion before moving on to Halo 2, you can also queue up a setlist of missions from all four games. So you can play through every single Warthog mission in succession--or all the Flood missions if you're a masochist--without having to jump back out to a main menu. But you can also create your own continuous, cross-game setlists. That's because all these missions are unlocked from the start--343 is assuming you've played all this stuff before--and the overall game works in such a way that each of these older engines is loaded simultaneously under the hood to make it all flow smoothly.

(A quick note about campaign co-op: Like Combat Evolved Anniversary, online co-op has been applied to Halo 2. But all four games are sticking with their original player counts. So that means Combat Evolved and Halo 2 support two player co-op as they originally did, while Halo 3 and Halo 4 allow for up to four players total.)

Now let's talk about online multiplayer. Yes, it's there--even for Combat Evolved, which never featured network support in its original Xbox iteration. That may come as a surprise considering that the reasoning 343 used for not including multiplayer in Combat Evolved Anniversary was that it wouldn't feel the same going from offline to online. Instead, it shipped that remaster with access to Halo: Reach multiplayer. So what has changed?

In short: dedicated servers. All four games feature multiplayer running on dedicated servers. So now, according to 343, the multiplayer for Combat Evolved--and the other three games--won't have to rely on the peer-to-peer networking that the Xbox 360 used, thus providing an experience that better mimics Halo CE's offline immediacy.

Maybe that's the real reason; maybe it's not. Whatever the case may be, it's just cool to see online multiplayer returning for those earlier games--all of which run in their original engines, exploitable glitches and all. So yes, according to 343, all those tricks and exploits (think EXP boosting) you discovered in earlier games are still there, because the developers wanted to preserve the original character of these games--like a snapshot in time from before the dawn of patching and title updates. Except, you know, with all the downloadable maps included.

But what's really neat is that, like in the campaign, you can choose to play in multiplayer hoppers that shuffle up each game on the go. So in the pre-match voting screen where players cast a vote for one of several potential map-and-mode combinations, you might be choosing a match on Halo 2's Ascension, CE's Hang 'Em High, or Valhalla from Halo 3. And just like that, when the votes are decided, you'll be whisked over to that game's original multiplayer engine.

Assuming none of the multiplayer magic was lost in the transition to 60-frames-per-second gameplay, all of this adds up to one very cool package. For $60, you've got what is essentially the ultimate Halo collector's edition, and a ticket to transport back in time to the bygone era of early Halo multiplayer. And for story buffs, there are new cinematics that tease the events of Halo 5: Guardians, as well as full access to Ridley Scott's upcoming Halo: Nightfall episodic series. It's easy to feel cynical about remakes as a quick cash grab, but this is one case that looks to put all those other greatest-hits compilations to shame. The Master Chief releases on November 11 this year
 
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 hopefully I'll have the one by the time this comes out

Best days to play Halo online were the H2 and H3 days and now they're bringing it back 
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fuk. brb playin h2+h3 mlg customs with my boys late nights during middle school. Do not want an xbox 1 for this though :smh:
 
Forge to me basically ensures that H2 MLG is coming back. With Forge comes totally customizable maps: Weapon/powerup placements, timers, designated spawns, etc etc etc. They would have been just fine with running with what they had but now that they can make it into what they want I have no doubt in my mind we're going to see it again.
 
Can't believe how much backlash and bad vibes this collection was getting the in E3 thread.

It's like they finally listened to the community, but people are still complaining and saying why is this releasing.

Like why not?

If you don't want it just don't buy it that's all.

Yeah it might be a small niche market now, but let that niche market be.

If they were to redo MW2 with out the noob tubes and danger close/one man army and other things that the community complained about I would be happy as hell too and still play it.
 
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Can't believe how much backlash and bad vibes this collection was getting the in E3 thread.

It's like they finally listened to the community, but people are still complaining and saying why is this releasing.

Like why not?

If you don't want it just don't buy it that's all.

Yeah it might be a small niche market now, but let that niche market be.

If they were to redo MW2 with out the noob tubes and danger close/one man army and other things that the community complained about I would be happy as hell too and still play it.
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You do realize where majority of that thread is from right? From a thread that shall not be named :lol:
 
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Putting In Work said:
Can't believe how much backlash and bad vibes this collection was getting the in E3 thread.

It's like they finally listened to the community, but people are still complaining and saying why is this releasing.

Like why not?

If you don't want it just don't buy it that's all.

Yeah it might be a small niche market now, but let that niche market be.

If they were to redo MW2 with out the noob tubes and danger close/one man army and other things that the community complained about I would be happy as hell too and still play it.
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Just saying. It's #1 on amazon best sellers right now. So there really is a demand for a solid shooter experience on the console
 
Putting In Work said:
Can't believe how much backlash and bad vibes this collection was getting the in E3 thread.

It's like they finally listened to the community, but people are still complaining and saying why is this releasing.

Like why not?

If you don't want it just don't buy it that's all.

Yeah it might be a small niche market now, but let that niche market be.

If they were to redo MW2 with out the noob tubes and danger close/one man army and other things that the community complained about I would be happy as hell too and still play it.
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There are 2 Ps fanboys that bring up the fact that the game is old that it'll suck which really makes no sense. They then pad their argument saying "but the game isn't bad". Ok?
 
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Putting In Work said:
Can't believe how much backlash and bad vibes this collection was getting the in E3 thread.

It's like they finally listened to the community, but people are still complaining and saying why is this releasing.

Like why not?

If you don't want it just don't buy it that's all.

Yeah it might be a small niche market now, but let that niche market be.

If they were to redo MW2 with out the noob tubes and danger close/one man army and other things that the community complained about I would be happy as hell too and still play it.
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There are 2 Ps fanboys that bring up the fact the the game is old this it'll suck with really makes no sense. They then pad their argument saying "but the game isn't bad". Ok?
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Brah.. these are the same clowns hoping and praying for FF remakes.. I guess it's different for Halo
 
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There you have it:


All games will have online coop and MP (1 included for the first time ever)

Everything in past games will be there (glitches, super bounces)

Added playlists for campaign (all hog missions, tank missions, complete play through
 
From the looks of those screenshots, the Playlists aren't divided by games, if you jump into team Slayer you could be playing any of the games.
 
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From the looks of those screenshots, the Playlists aren't divided by games, if you jump into team Slayer you could be playing any of the games.
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thats right. saw that in a write up from IGN. I bet there will be an option tho for the individual games, but then there will be a second type/playlist to get the mix of halos 1-4. I'd be down for that.

Can't wait to play online halo 1. Hopefully they include the maps from the PC version as well. That Blood Island (?) map was super fun for CTF and king of the hill
 
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From the looks of those screenshots, the Playlists aren't divided by games, if you jump into team Slayer you could be playing any of the games.
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Naw man, I think they're set up like the for the single player. No way they'd toss you around each game with each of then playing different.
 
I'm sorry, but Halo 2 and Halo 3 have my heart and always will. I spent so much damn time playing those games it's not even funny.

If this brings back the old Halo 3 MLG crowd.. :smokin

Or the Halo 2 crowd as well.. :smokin :smokin
 
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