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343 Industries and Splash Damage have revealed some additional Halo MCC PC tech details, including the key pillars that the development team is focusing on for the PC version.

Earlier we covered that public flighting of Halo Reach would soon be available, but from the looks of it, fans will have to wait just a little longer as public testing has been delayed as getting the actual game build ready for public flighting is taking a bit longer that 343 Industries has hoped for.

“The good news is we have a huge audience of eager and passionate players standing by, ready to jump into a public flight and help us deliver the best possible experiences on PC and Xbox”, the team writes on the Halo Waypoint blog. “The less good news (depending on your point of view) is that all the work needed to get the actual game build ready for public flighting is taking a bit longer than we hoped.”

Community manager Ske7ch continued, “while the 343 Publishing team and our partners at Splash Damage and Ruffian have made great progress, there are still a number of items to work through before we feel we’re ready for the first public flight. While flights are obviously work-in-progress builds, they do require a certain level of polish and functionality to ensure that players can have a successful, enjoyable session and that the team is able to get the data they need to validate the flight.”

The development team doesn’t believe that a straight PC port will suffice and wants to deliver a version that is authentic to Halo and the PC platform. In order to deliver this authentic experience, the team has focused on three defining principles; PC Native, Legacy, and Engaging & Evolving. Details about the native pillar have been included below:

PC Native Pillar

Being PC native means that we deliver a best-in-class PC shooter as measured by PC gamers that require the following specifics.

Controls

Robust action mapping options

Great mouse/keyboard input across the entire game

Low input latency by leveraging raw input and latency validation via slow motion cameras

Support for a broad set of mouse and gameplay options

PC Native UI

Updated UI controls familiar to PC users

Robust video and game options that allow users to tailor the experience to their hardware

Support for FOV sliders (to the extent each game can realistically support)

Text chat

Runs on a variety of hardware and takes advantage of what is there in both UI and gameplay

Range of resolution and aspect ratio support for monitors

4K+ resolution, native aspect ratio support from 4:3 up to 21:9 Ultrawide

GSync/FreeSync support

High refresh rate support

Mice both high or low DPI

Multiple styles of Keyboards

Video cards, both dedicated and integrated

XInput supported controllers

Loading optimizations

High quality window handling

Borderless full screen

Flexible window resizing

Gracefully handles keyboard shortcuts such as ALT-TAB/ALT-ENTER, etc.

Halo MCC PC Tech Details Shared by 343i & Splash Damage; Team Says Straight PC Port Doesn’t Cut it

343 Industries and Splash Damage have revealed some additional Halo MCC PC tech details, including the PC version's key pillars.

wccftech.com

 

[Raikugen]

Halo MCC PC Tech Details Shared by 343i & Splash Damage; Team Says Straight PC Port Doesn’t Cut it

343 Industries and Splash Damage have revealed some additional Halo MCC PC tech details, including the PC version's key pillars.

wccftech.com

Hopefully this game sets some sales records on PC. Game publishers need to see how putting out polished products pays off in the long run. Here's to hoping

 

[Orta]

It's one of the most requested PC games of all time. They have to get it absolutely spot-on, and then some. If it isn't 100% I'd be pissed.

 

[Gavin Stevens]

I’m hoping we at least get FOV adjustments and please please allow me to have a center crosshair.

 

[CyberPanda]

It's one of the most requested PC games of all time. They have to get it absolutely spot-on, and then some. If it isn't 100% I'd be pissed.

Of course. They don't want to make the same mistake again with the release of the MCC on XB1(with all the bugs).

 

[GamesAreFun]

343 have really redeemed themselves, brings joy to my heart

 

[kraspkibble]

343 have really redeemed themselves, brings joy to my heart

cmon...they haven't put anything out to redeem themselves. once MCC is fully playable on PC and we get Infinite then we'll see if they redeem themselves.

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

Hopefully this game sets some sales records on PC. Game publishers need to see how putting out polished products pays off in the long run. Here's to hoping

Let's see if it's actually polished before we get excited..

Ray tracing please lol

 

[Tesseract]

thanks captain obviouses

 

[Tesseract]

also holy shit at text chat lmao, ranked shit talking is gonna be SO GOOD

 

[Bernkastel]

cmon...they haven't put anything out to redeem themselves. once MCC is fully playable on PC and we get Infinite then we'll see if they redeem themselves.

Let's see if it's actually polished before we get excited..

Ray tracing please lol

Its actually fully fixed and running in the Xbox One.

 

[Ten_Fold]

Not big on Reach but once Halo 3 hits steam, I might take a break from fighting games I love me some halo 3

 

[Shifty]

That's a solid list of bulletpoints, though some of them strike me as a little out-of-touch with the realities of PC implementation. High and low DPI mice are the same thing

The low input latency validated by slow-mo cameras is really impressive though. Taking that step further.

 

[GamesAreFun]

The team working on PC porting is larger than I expected

 

[xpresstuning]

I appreciate their approach and the information they shared. Everything they've announced about the collection leads me to believe that they want no issues comparable to what happened on the console.

I loved the original trilogy, and i'll gladly support Halo and the people responsible for bringing this on PC.

 

[somerset]

That photo shows who *really* makes your games, and not because of 'sexism' or 'racism' or any other woke nonsense claim. Insanely hard working young males, most of whom get little reward compared to what their skills would bring in another tech field.

Games by young males for young males. And for the longest time both sides of this equation were dismissed as 'pathetic nerds' by the mainstream. Which was *bad*, but no where near as bad as the new woke alt-left propaganda campaign.

Once they couldn't attract the opposite sex. Now, due to their inherent sexism, the keep the opposite sex out of their work-place. A lie replaced by another lie. And even here, too many of you believe this.

Here's something the alt-left never tell you. Males in these all male environments wish they weren't such 'sausage fests'. Far from actively keeping women out, they wish women had an interest *and* skills in their tech field- but they just don't.

For a woman in IT, game development is the worst, cos you actually have to be a good coder in gaming. While you may at first think this a sexist sleight, it isn't. 95% of male coders are crap- really really crap at their job. But they can find a job where being crap isn't a career ender- just not in game development. So woman are far better off in trad IT, with job security and standard fulltime perks.

Force equality of *outcome* in gaming dev, and some guy is going to have to do his job and hers. And that does happen in some larger companies, until the female is moved 'upstairs' into management (where to add insult to injury, she now gets paid more as well). Where positive discrimination happens, the real talent has to work harder for the same pay.

I witnessed this once. Small dev team for a small game publishing arm of a sizeable media corporation. All male, coders, artists and game management. The corporation needed to be more Woke. Forced a struggling game division to take on another very un-needed 'manager' cos she was female. Now the talent had to make money to cover her 'cost' as well- which was loads more than they were making a year. A little later and the game division was closed down.

The alt-left today say "equality of opportunity" is a sexist racist alt-right term. Today it must be "equality of outcome", and to their eternal shame, most ordinary people fall for this. So a photo of all male, mostly 'white' guys *always' represents something 'wrong'- something greater society must change using all means possible.

However, there is absolutely *nothing* wrong with such a situation if it truly results from natural inclination after equality of opportunity exists generally in society, as it does in the West today.

Today no nation is more Woke than the USA- today the USA, that *invented* the modern semiconductor revolution, can no longer make leading edge chips at American designed plants. The new hi-tech industrial revolution in Asia has crushed American industry and innovation. But at least those US companies can finally boast that positive discrimination has consigned to the dustbin of history all those research labs full of males.

Give everyone the *same* tech education options- as Asia does. But then allow people to make free choices, and accept the natural inclinations that exist within people- as Asia does. If positive discrimiantion must be used (and it is a really problematic technique) *only* allow it to be used to change things at the 'bottom' where most ordinary people experience life and discrimination. Higher up, and society *must* be talent driven.

 

[ResilientBanana]

That photo shows who *really* makes your games, and not because of 'sexism' or 'racism' or any other woke nonsense claim. Insanely hard working young males, most of whom get little reward compared to what their skills would bring in another tech field.

Games by young males for young males. And for the longest time both sides of this equation were dismissed as 'pathetic nerds' by the mainstream. Which was *bad*, but no where near as bad as the new woke alt-left propaganda campaign.

Once they couldn't attract the opposite sex. Now, due to their inherent sexism, the keep the opposite sex out of their work-place. A lie replaced by another lie. And even here, too many of you believe this.

Here's something the alt-left never tell you. Males in these all male environments wish they weren't such 'sausage fests'. Far from actively keeping women out, they wish women had an interest *and* skills in their tech field- but they just don't.

For a woman in IT, game development is the worst, cos you actually have to be a good coder in gaming. While you may at first think this a sexist sleight, it isn't. 95% of male coders are crap- really really crap at their job. But they can find a job where being crap isn't a career ender- just not in game development. So woman are far better off in trad IT, with job security and standard fulltime perks.

Force equality of *outcome* in gaming dev, and some guy is going to have to do his job and hers. And that does happen in some larger companies, until the female is moved 'upstairs' into management (where to add insult to injury, she now gets paid more as well). Where positive discrimination happens, the real talent has to work harder for the same pay.

I witnessed this once. Small dev team for a small game publishing arm of a sizeable media corporation. All male, coders, artists and game management. The corporation needed to be more Woke. Forced a struggling game division to take on another very un-needed 'manager' cos she was female. Now the talent had to make money to cover her 'cost' as well- which was loads more than they were making a year. A little later and the game division was closed down.

The alt-left today say "equality of opportunity" is a sexist racist alt-right term. Today it must be "equality of outcome", and to their eternal shame, most ordinary people fall for this. So a photo of all male, mostly 'white' guys *always' represents something 'wrong'- something greater society must change using all means possible.

However, there is absolutely *nothing* wrong with such a situation if it truly results from natural inclination after equality of opportunity exists generally in society, as it does in the West today.

Today no nation is more Woke than the USA- today the USA, that *invented* the modern semiconductor revolution, can no longer make leading edge chips at American designed plants. The new hi-tech industrial revolution in Asia has crushed American industry and innovation. But at least those US companies can finally boast that positive discrimination has consigned to the dustbin of history all those research labs full of males.

Give everyone the *same* tech education options- as Asia does. But then allow people to make free choices, and accept the natural inclinations that exist within people- as Asia does. If positive discrimiantion must be used (and it is a really problematic technique) *only* allow it to be used to change things at the 'bottom' where most ordinary people experience life and discrimination. Higher up, and society *must* be talent driven.

Wtf

 

[Afro Republican]

Of course a straight port won't work, it took them 4 years to get a working version of the Xbox game out lol.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

That photo shows who *really* makes your games, and not because of 'sexism' or 'racism' or any other woke nonsense claim. Insanely hard working young males, most of whom get little reward compared to what their skills would bring in another tech field.

Games by young males for young males. And for the longest time both sides of this equation were dismissed as 'pathetic nerds' by the mainstream. Which was *bad*, but no where near as bad as the new woke alt-left propaganda campaign.

Once they couldn't attract the opposite sex. Now, due to their inherent sexism, the keep the opposite sex out of their work-place. A lie replaced by another lie. And even here, too many of you believe this.

Here's something the alt-left never tell you. Males in these all male environments wish they weren't such 'sausage fests'. Far from actively keeping women out, they wish women had an interest *and* skills in their tech field- but they just don't.

For a woman in IT, game development is the worst, cos you actually have to be a good coder in gaming. While you may at first think this a sexist sleight, it isn't. 95% of male coders are crap- really really crap at their job. But they can find a job where being crap isn't a career ender- just not in game development. So woman are far better off in trad IT, with job security and standard fulltime perks.

Force equality of *outcome* in gaming dev, and some guy is going to have to do his job and hers. And that does happen in some larger companies, until the female is moved 'upstairs' into management (where to add insult to injury, she now gets paid more as well). Where positive discrimination happens, the real talent has to work harder for the same pay.

I witnessed this once. Small dev team for a small game publishing arm of a sizeable media corporation. All male, coders, artists and game management. The corporation needed to be more Woke. Forced a struggling game division to take on another very un-needed 'manager' cos she was female. Now the talent had to make money to cover her 'cost' as well- which was loads more than they were making a year. A little later and the game division was closed down.

The alt-left today say "equality of opportunity" is a sexist racist alt-right term. Today it must be "equality of outcome", and to their eternal shame, most ordinary people fall for this. So a photo of all male, mostly 'white' guys *always' represents something 'wrong'- something greater society must change using all means possible.

However, there is absolutely *nothing* wrong with such a situation if it truly results from natural inclination after equality of opportunity exists generally in society, as it does in the West today.

Today no nation is more Woke than the USA- today the USA, that *invented* the modern semiconductor revolution, can no longer make leading edge chips at American designed plants. The new hi-tech industrial revolution in Asia has crushed American industry and innovation. But at least those US companies can finally boast that positive discrimination has consigned to the dustbin of history all those research labs full of males.

Give everyone the *same* tech education options- as Asia does. But then allow people to make free choices, and accept the natural inclinations that exist within people- as Asia does. If positive discrimiantion must be used (and it is a really problematic technique) *only* allow it to be used to change things at the 'bottom' where most ordinary people experience life and discrimination. Higher up, and society *must* be talent driven.

Tech and engineering is (and likely will be for a long time) male dominated industries.

It doesn't even have to be sitting at a computer programming code. Out of all the technicians you've ever seen or met doing cable/telephone pole installations and repairs, IT Support (I'm not talking about phone calls, I'm talking about the people in that back room doing server hook ups and shit), or seeing the water meter person checking your home's usage.

Even something less tech spec, like calling someone to repair a leaky pipe or fix a fridge that is on the fritz.

Almost all guys. And for many of us whose called a repair line, a decent chance it's been 100% guys repairing your stuff. Just the way it is.

 

[Deleted member 738976]

That photo shows who *really* makes your games, and not because of 'sexism' or 'racism' or any other woke nonsense claim. Insanely hard working young males, most of whom get little reward compared to what their skills would bring in another tech field.

Games by young males for young males. And for the longest time both sides of this equation were dismissed as 'pathetic nerds' by the mainstream. Which was *bad*, but no where near as bad as the new woke alt-left propaganda campaign.

Once they couldn't attract the opposite sex. Now, due to their inherent sexism, the keep the opposite sex out of their work-place. A lie replaced by another lie. And even here, too many of you believe this.

Here's something the alt-left never tell you. Males in these all male environments wish they weren't such 'sausage fests'. Far from actively keeping women out, they wish women had an interest *and* skills in their tech field- but they just don't.

For a woman in IT, game development is the worst, cos you actually have to be a good coder in gaming. While you may at first think this a sexist sleight, it isn't. 95% of male coders are crap- really really crap at their job. But they can find a job where being crap isn't a career ender- just not in game development. So woman are far better off in trad IT, with job security and standard fulltime perks.

Force equality of *outcome* in gaming dev, and some guy is going to have to do his job and hers. And that does happen in some larger companies, until the female is moved 'upstairs' into management (where to add insult to injury, she now gets paid more as well). Where positive discrimination happens, the real talent has to work harder for the same pay.

I witnessed this once. Small dev team for a small game publishing arm of a sizeable media corporation. All male, coders, artists and game management. The corporation needed to be more Woke. Forced a struggling game division to take on another very un-needed 'manager' cos she was female. Now the talent had to make money to cover her 'cost' as well- which was loads more than they were making a year. A little later and the game division was closed down.

The alt-left today say "equality of opportunity" is a sexist racist alt-right term. Today it must be "equality of outcome", and to their eternal shame, most ordinary people fall for this. So a photo of all male, mostly 'white' guys *always' represents something 'wrong'- something greater society must change using all means possible.

However, there is absolutely *nothing* wrong with such a situation if it truly results from natural inclination after equality of opportunity exists generally in society, as it does in the West today.

Today no nation is more Woke than the USA- today the USA, that *invented* the modern semiconductor revolution, can no longer make leading edge chips at American designed plants. The new hi-tech industrial revolution in Asia has crushed American industry and innovation. But at least those US companies can finally boast that positive discrimination has consigned to the dustbin of history all those research labs full of males.

Give everyone the *same* tech education options- as Asia does. But then allow people to make free choices, and accept the natural inclinations that exist within people- as Asia does. If positive discrimiantion must be used (and it is a really problematic technique) *only* allow it to be used to change things at the 'bottom' where most ordinary people experience life and discrimination. Higher up, and society *must* be talent driven.

what

 

[CyberPanda]

what

Perfect gif response.

 

[renzolama]

That photo shows who *really* makes your games, and not because of 'sexism' or 'racism' or any other woke nonsense claim. Insanely hard working young males, most of whom get little reward compared to what their skills would bring in another tech field.

Games by young males for young males. And for the longest time both sides of this equation were dismissed as 'pathetic nerds' by the mainstream. Which was *bad*, but no where near as bad as the new woke alt-left propaganda campaign.

Once they couldn't attract the opposite sex. Now, due to their inherent sexism, the keep the opposite sex out of their work-place. A lie replaced by another lie. And even here, too many of you believe this.

Here's something the alt-left never tell you. Males in these all male environments wish they weren't such 'sausage fests'. Far from actively keeping women out, they wish women had an interest *and* skills in their tech field- but they just don't.

For a woman in IT, game development is the worst, cos you actually have to be a good coder in gaming. While you may at first think this a sexist sleight, it isn't. 95% of male coders are crap- really really crap at their job. But they can find a job where being crap isn't a career ender- just not in game development. So woman are far better off in trad IT, with job security and standard fulltime perks.

Force equality of *outcome* in gaming dev, and some guy is going to have to do his job and hers. And that does happen in some larger companies, until the female is moved 'upstairs' into management (where to add insult to injury, she now gets paid more as well). Where positive discrimination happens, the real talent has to work harder for the same pay.

I witnessed this once. Small dev team for a small game publishing arm of a sizeable media corporation. All male, coders, artists and game management. The corporation needed to be more Woke. Forced a struggling game division to take on another very un-needed 'manager' cos she was female. Now the talent had to make money to cover her 'cost' as well- which was loads more than they were making a year. A little later and the game division was closed down.

The alt-left today say "equality of opportunity" is a sexist racist alt-right term. Today it must be "equality of outcome", and to their eternal shame, most ordinary people fall for this. So a photo of all male, mostly 'white' guys *always' represents something 'wrong'- something greater society must change using all means possible.

However, there is absolutely *nothing* wrong with such a situation if it truly results from natural inclination after equality of opportunity exists generally in society, as it does in the West today.

Today no nation is more Woke than the USA- today the USA, that *invented* the modern semiconductor revolution, can no longer make leading edge chips at American designed plants. The new hi-tech industrial revolution in Asia has crushed American industry and innovation. But at least those US companies can finally boast that positive discrimination has consigned to the dustbin of history all those research labs full of males.

Give everyone the *same* tech education options- as Asia does. But then allow people to make free choices, and accept the natural inclinations that exist within people- as Asia does. If positive discrimiantion must be used (and it is a really problematic technique) *only* allow it to be used to change things at the 'bottom' where most ordinary people experience life and discrimination. Higher up, and society *must* be talent driven.

 

[waylo]

Whoa...revolutionary features like support for mice no matter the DPI as well as supporting alt-tabbing? Holy shit man, they really are going all out here.

...

Why are they hyping BASIC features that 99% of PC games have had for decades? Like, yeah, you're making a PC game, I'd fucking hope it supports mice and keyboards...

I'm still super excited for this, but any time I see a developer hype stuff like this, stuff that is the most basic of basic and should go without saying, I get a little worried.

 

[Stuart360]

Whoa...revolutionary features like support for mice no matter the DPI as well as supporting alt-tabbing? Holy shit man, they really are going all out here.

...

Why are they hyping BASIC features that 99% of PC games have had for decades? Like, yeah, you're making a PC game, I'd fucking hope it supports mice and keyboards...

I'm still super excited for this, but any time I see a developer hype stuff like this, stuff that is the most basic of basic and should go without saying, I get a little worried.

It might sound silly, but go read the Steam forums. Some people are even asking if it will have mouse and keyboard support, controller support, unlocked framerates, ultra widescreen etc. It is the most wishlisted game on Steam currently, they probably just want to make it clear to the potential customerbase.

 

[Deputy Moonman]

cmon...they haven't put anything out to redeem themselves. once MCC is fully playable on PC and we get Infinite then we'll see if they redeem themselves.

Seriously? Lol

 

[Snakey125]

cmon...they haven't put anything out to redeem themselves. once MCC is fully playable on PC and we get Infinite then we'll see if they redeem themselves.

Infinite is coming to PC...Where the hell have you been?


343 is doing a good job by being transparent with how they are doing MCC PC. All of the features are steps in the right direction. It excites me even more that I know people from the Custom Edition community are working on this as well. I know the developers of OpenSauce (a community framework for CE) and Halo Wars 2 modding tools is working on this version.

 

[Havoc2049]

That photo shows who *really* makes your games, and not because of 'sexism' or 'racism' or any other woke nonsense claim. Insanely hard working young males, most of whom get little reward compared to what their skills would bring in another tech field.

Games by young males for young males. And for the longest time both sides of this equation were dismissed as 'pathetic nerds' by the mainstream. Which was *bad*, but no where near as bad as the new woke alt-left propaganda campaign.

Once they couldn't attract the opposite sex. Now, due to their inherent sexism, the keep the opposite sex out of their work-place. A lie replaced by another lie. And even here, too many of you believe this.

Here's something the alt-left never tell you. Males in these all male environments wish they weren't such 'sausage fests'. Far from actively keeping women out, they wish women had an interest *and* skills in their tech field- but they just don't.

For a woman in IT, game development is the worst, cos you actually have to be a good coder in gaming. While you may at first think this a sexist sleight, it isn't. 95% of male coders are crap- really really crap at their job. But they can find a job where being crap isn't a career ender- just not in game development. So woman are far better off in trad IT, with job security and standard fulltime perks.

Force equality of *outcome* in gaming dev, and some guy is going to have to do his job and hers. And that does happen in some larger companies, until the female is moved 'upstairs' into management (where to add insult to injury, she now gets paid more as well). Where positive discrimination happens, the real talent has to work harder for the same pay.

I witnessed this once. Small dev team for a small game publishing arm of a sizeable media corporation. All male, coders, artists and game management. The corporation needed to be more Woke. Forced a struggling game division to take on another very un-needed 'manager' cos she was female. Now the talent had to make money to cover her 'cost' as well- which was loads more than they were making a year. A little later and the game division was closed down.

The alt-left today say "equality of opportunity" is a sexist racist alt-right term. Today it must be "equality of outcome", and to their eternal shame, most ordinary people fall for this. So a photo of all male, mostly 'white' guys *always' represents something 'wrong'- something greater society must change using all means possible.

However, there is absolutely *nothing* wrong with such a situation if it truly results from natural inclination after equality of opportunity exists generally in society, as it does in the West today.

Today no nation is more Woke than the USA- today the USA, that *invented* the modern semiconductor revolution, can no longer make leading edge chips at American designed plants. The new hi-tech industrial revolution in Asia has crushed American industry and innovation. But at least those US companies can finally boast that positive discrimination has consigned to the dustbin of history all those research labs full of males.

Give everyone the *same* tech education options- as Asia does. But then allow people to make free choices, and accept the natural inclinations that exist within people- as Asia does. If positive discrimiantion must be used (and it is a really problematic technique) *only* allow it to be used to change things at the 'bottom' where most ordinary people experience life and discrimination. Higher up, and society *must* be talent driven.

 

[Zaffo]

The team working on PC porting is larger than I expected

No blue/pink heads nor diversity for the sake of diversity, this gives me hope.

 

[Fluzer]

It's a shame that the initial release of MCC on Xbox One did cut it though. 343i of all people shouldn't be hyping up their work.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

Mastur Cheef is cumming to Steem.

 

[Silent Viper]

343 have really redeemed themselves, brings joy to my heart

Yes by burning Xbox audience. They will earn PC players but Xbox audience is ignored and burned by MS and lost forever.


Here's my prediction for next gen- Next Xbox won't even cross 10m sales worldwide coz it will not have any exclusives. Halo used to help push Xbox sales but now Xbox has nothing and on it's last breathe

 

[Sorne]

Yes by burning Xbox audience. They will earn PC players but Xbox audience is ignored and burned by MS and lost forever.


Here's my prediction for next gen- Next Xbox won't even cross 10m sales worldwide coz it will not have any exclusives. Halo used to help push Xbox sales but now Xbox has nothing and on it's last breathe

What thell are you on about? They're not ditching Halo on Xbox. And you need to stop thinking about Xbox as a console and more as a brand. This is where they are going with this. They want Xbox on every platform they can which means they are not fighting to be best selling console anymore. They want to expand their audience as much as possible.

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

Its actually fully fixed and running in the Xbox One.

I know, I play it.

Not saying this port will be 100% at launch though, Never assume.

 

[Kenpachii]

It's one of the most requested PC games of all time. They have to get it absolutely spot-on, and then some. If it isn't 100% I'd be pissed.

It is? can't see halo sell on PC even remotely

 

[Luffytubby]

It is? can't see halo sell on PC even remotely

I am also wondering if it will have any legs at all. This is so many years too late, and Halo being kept from PC gamers so long eventually turned from thrist to apathy. Halo has always had unique gameplay, but there has happened so much then. If Titanfall 2 could not recover thanks to Apex then I have no hope for this. TF2 has the sickest smoothest FPS gameplay, and to see it fail so hard is really, really weird to me.

I do not think Microsoft did very well with taking care of both Halo and Gears. Its not just about the games, but the IPs themselves were not well protected and maintained.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Yes by burning Xbox audience. They will earn PC players but Xbox audience is ignored and burned by MS and lost forever.


Here's my prediction for next gen- Next Xbox won't even cross 10m sales worldwide coz it will not have any exclusives. Halo used to help push Xbox sales but now Xbox has nothing and on it's last breathe

You were ignored and burned by them putting Halo on PC? The whole reason the console makers sell consoles is not to simply sell consoles. It’s about selling games and if you can be omnipresent then you win.

 

[theHFIC]

That photo shows who *really* makes your games, and not because of 'sexism' or 'racism' or any other woke nonsense claim. Insanely hard working young males, most of whom get little reward compared to what their skills would bring in another tech field.

Games by young males for young males. And for the longest time both sides of this equation were dismissed as 'pathetic nerds' by the mainstream. Which was *bad*, but no where near as bad as the new woke alt-left propaganda campaign.

Once they couldn't attract the opposite sex. Now, due to their inherent sexism, the keep the opposite sex out of their work-place. A lie replaced by another lie. And even here, too many of you believe this.

Here's something the alt-left never tell you. Males in these all male environments wish they weren't such 'sausage fests'. Far from actively keeping women out, they wish women had an interest *and* skills in their tech field- but they just don't.

For a woman in IT, game development is the worst, cos you actually have to be a good coder in gaming. While you may at first think this a sexist sleight, it isn't. 95% of male coders are crap- really really crap at their job. But they can find a job where being crap isn't a career ender- just not in game development. So woman are far better off in trad IT, with job security and standard fulltime perks.

Force equality of *outcome* in gaming dev, and some guy is going to have to do his job and hers. And that does happen in some larger companies, until the female is moved 'upstairs' into management (where to add insult to injury, she now gets paid more as well). Where positive discrimination happens, the real talent has to work harder for the same pay.

I witnessed this once. Small dev team for a small game publishing arm of a sizeable media corporation. All male, coders, artists and game management. The corporation needed to be more Woke. Forced a struggling game division to take on another very un-needed 'manager' cos she was female. Now the talent had to make money to cover her 'cost' as well- which was loads more than they were making a year. A little later and the game division was closed down.

The alt-left today say "equality of opportunity" is a sexist racist alt-right term. Today it must be "equality of outcome", and to their eternal shame, most ordinary people fall for this. So a photo of all male, mostly 'white' guys *always' represents something 'wrong'- something greater society must change using all means possible.

However, there is absolutely *nothing* wrong with such a situation if it truly results from natural inclination after equality of opportunity exists generally in society, as it does in the West today.

Today no nation is more Woke than the USA- today the USA, that *invented* the modern semiconductor revolution, can no longer make leading edge chips at American designed plants. The new hi-tech industrial revolution in Asia has crushed American industry and innovation. But at least those US companies can finally boast that positive discrimination has consigned to the dustbin of history all those research labs full of males.

Give everyone the *same* tech education options- as Asia does. But then allow people to make free choices, and accept the natural inclinations that exist within people- as Asia does. If positive discrimiantion must be used (and it is a really problematic technique) *only* allow it to be used to change things at the 'bottom' where most ordinary people experience life and discrimination. Higher up, and society *must* be talent driven.

what game is this story from?

 

[Tesseract]

That photo shows who *really* makes your games, and not because of 'sexism' or 'racism' or any other woke nonsense claim. Insanely hard working young males, most of whom get little reward compared to what their skills would bring in another tech field.

Games by young males for young males. And for the longest time both sides of this equation were dismissed as 'pathetic nerds' by the mainstream. Which was *bad*, but no where near as bad as the new woke alt-left propaganda campaign.

Once they couldn't attract the opposite sex. Now, due to their inherent sexism, the keep the opposite sex out of their work-place. A lie replaced by another lie. And even here, too many of you believe this.

Here's something the alt-left never tell you. Males in these all male environments wish they weren't such 'sausage fests'. Far from actively keeping women out, they wish women had an interest *and* skills in their tech field- but they just don't.

For a woman in IT, game development is the worst, cos you actually have to be a good coder in gaming. While you may at first think this a sexist sleight, it isn't. 95% of male coders are crap- really really crap at their job. But they can find a job where being crap isn't a career ender- just not in game development. So woman are far better off in trad IT, with job security and standard fulltime perks.

Force equality of *outcome* in gaming dev, and some guy is going to have to do his job and hers. And that does happen in some larger companies, until the female is moved 'upstairs' into management (where to add insult to injury, she now gets paid more as well). Where positive discrimination happens, the real talent has to work harder for the same pay.

I witnessed this once. Small dev team for a small game publishing arm of a sizeable media corporation. All male, coders, artists and game management. The corporation needed to be more Woke. Forced a struggling game division to take on another very un-needed 'manager' cos she was female. Now the talent had to make money to cover her 'cost' as well- which was loads more than they were making a year. A little later and the game division was closed down.

The alt-left today say "equality of opportunity" is a sexist racist alt-right term. Today it must be "equality of outcome", and to their eternal shame, most ordinary people fall for this. So a photo of all male, mostly 'white' guys *always' represents something 'wrong'- something greater society must change using all means possible.

However, there is absolutely *nothing* wrong with such a situation if it truly results from natural inclination after equality of opportunity exists generally in society, as it does in the West today.

Today no nation is more Woke than the USA- today the USA, that *invented* the modern semiconductor revolution, can no longer make leading edge chips at American designed plants. The new hi-tech industrial revolution in Asia has crushed American industry and innovation. But at least those US companies can finally boast that positive discrimination has consigned to the dustbin of history all those research labs full of males.

Give everyone the *same* tech education options- as Asia does. But then allow people to make free choices, and accept the natural inclinations that exist within people- as Asia does. If positive discrimiantion must be used (and it is a really problematic technique) *only* allow it to be used to change things at the 'bottom' where most ordinary people experience life and discrimination. Higher up, and society *must* be talent driven.

 

[John117]

I can't wait to play Halo MCC on 21:9.... I wanted an feature VR for PC but....

 

[Stuart360]

Yes by burning Xbox audience. They will earn PC players but Xbox audience is ignored and burned by MS and lost forever.


Here's my prediction for next gen- Next Xbox won't even cross 10m sales worldwide coz it will not have any exclusives. Halo used to help push Xbox sales but now Xbox has nothing and on it's last breathe

Any other forum, and i'd think this was a joke.

 

[Stuart360]

It is? can't see halo sell on PC even remotely

Its the most wishlisted game on Steam currently, and when you lok at some of the games coming out this year, thats quite an achievement.

 

[Codes 208]

Yes by burning Xbox audience. They will earn PC players but Xbox audience is ignored and burned by MS and lost forever.


Here's my prediction for next gen- Next Xbox won't even cross 10m sales worldwide coz it will not have any exclusives. Halo used to help push Xbox sales but now Xbox has nothing and on it's last breathe

Get over yourself and your piece of plastic, ms made it clear they want Xbox to be more of a brand than a console. Halo has been in the dumps for years, it’s about time it’s been brought back up, even if that means widening the audience. Which I’m itself is a good thing, people on pc being able to play it doesn’t magically take it away from you.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

also holy shit at text chat lmao, ranked shit talking is gonna be SO GOOD

Don’t teabag me bro

 

[VincentMatts]

Seriously? Lol

Its as if he forgot the major fixes and improvements to the current xbox version thats even allowing them to release this PC port.

 

[Bernkastel]

Yes by burning Xbox audience. They will earn PC players but Xbox audience is ignored and burned by MS and lost forever.


Here's my prediction for next gen- Next Xbox won't even cross 10m sales worldwide coz it will not have any exclusives. Halo used to help push Xbox sales but now Xbox has nothing and on it's last breathe

There's this weird conservative stigma that keeping everything exclusive to your console helps your system. Do you know Sega used to port many of their games to Windows,DOS,PC based systems,Neo Geo and even NES.
A great example is Ori and the Blind Forest. People on steam, who would have never invested on Xbox/Windows Store bought it, loved it and some even bought the Physical Xbox copy as it contained the soundtracks and now it's rumoured to come to Nintendo Switch. Heck, some Nintendo exclusive Youtubers like Haedox also got interested in the franchise and is the top comment in Ori and the Will of the Wisps reveal trailer. But Ori and the Will of the Wisps will be exclusive to Xbox One/Windows Store. Same way Killer Instinct appeared on steam, but Killer Instinct 2 won't be. Hellblade on switch will help advertise Ninja Theory's capability as a studio. Recore on steam also got many positive reviews.
Many of the people who will buy Halo MCC, will later be interested in buying Halo Infinite on Xbox One/Windows Store.
Xbox is doing a lot better than a few years ago and has many new studios. Xbox One is already nearing 50 million sales. Next Xbox will definitely do better, they are prepared for it.

 

[Deputy Moonman]

Its as if he forgot the major fixes and improvements to the current xbox version thats even allowing them to release this PC port.

Exactly. The game is fully functional now and has been brought back from the dead. That was a feat in itself. If you're actively playing the game, you can see the additional updates quite often. We just had the Yappening which was a random playlist update and a lot of fun. They added the match composer feature which is awesome and allows me to play only Halo CE matchmaking 24/7. I think there is a custom game browser in the works. They added Halo 3 ODST to the compilation as an original apology. Now, not only are we getting Reach on the console, they are adding one of the most requested features of the game, bringing TMCC to PC. That's a big wow. They added 4k functionality for people who play on a one x. At this point, anyone saying that 343 still needs to do more is someone who doesn't actually play halo, because it's getting absurd.

 

[Havoc2049]

Yes by burning Xbox audience. They will earn PC players but Xbox audience is ignored and burned by MS and lost forever.


Here's my prediction for next gen- Next Xbox won't even cross 10m sales worldwide coz it will not have any exclusives. Halo used to help push Xbox sales but now Xbox has nothing and on it's last breathe

And yet just this year, they changed the name of their game development studios from Microsoft Game Studios/Microsoft Studios to Xbox Game Studios. Microsoft has been making games for both Xbox and PC ever since they got into the console business. It’s nothing new.

 

[Silent Viper]

And yet just this year, they changed the name of their game development studios from Microsoft Game Studios/Microsoft Studios to Xbox Game Studios. Microsoft has been making games for both Xbox and PC ever since they got into the console business. It’s nothing new.

Hardware sales down 33%
Console getting less 3rd party games compared to PS4
Online community of many games shrinking coz of low player base on Xbox.

If you don't live in NA,UK and Australia. Good luck finding players especially in Asia which was not the case during 360 gen.

Consoles need exclusives to be successful. Nintendo and Sony consoles are successful because of their exclusives. 360 was successful bcoz it had exclusives.

Next Xbox will not be successful or do even current Xbox one numbers world wide. You can quote my post. If im wrong then i do whatever u will say lol.


People can deny all they want but no console in history ever achieved success without true exclusives.

 

[Havoc2049]

Hardware sales down 33%
Console getting less 3rd party games compared to PS4
Online community of many games shrinking coz of low player base on Xbox.

If you don't live in NA,UK and Australia. Good luck finding players especially in Asia which was not the case during 360 gen.

Consoles need exclusives to be successful. Nintendo and Sony consoles are successful because of their exclusives. 360 was successful bcoz it had exclusives.

Next Xbox will not be successful or do even current Xbox one numbers world wide. You can quote my post. If im wrong then i do whatever u will say lol.


People can deny all they want but no console in history ever achieved success without true exclusives.

"Profit for Sony’s gaming business dropped 14%, down to 73.1 billion yen, in the company’s third quarter which ended in December compared to the same period last year, thanks to a significant slowdown of PlayStation 4 sales, the company reported Friday."
-Source

On top of slowing hardware sales, Days Gone just bombed. Is this the end of Sony? As we get closer to the PS5 and Xbox Next launch, I'm sure Switch hardware sales will decline as well. Is Nintendo doomed? Nope. We are at the end of a console generation, where hardware sales of current gen consoles drop. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are all making a profit in their gaming divisions.

I've been part of online games/communities that were small or once popular games where the community is dwindling. Even games like Sea of Thieves, Halo 5 and Halo MCC, which aren't in the Top 10 on Xbox Live on a regular basis, still have a healthy player base and I never have a problem finding people to play with. If a game is in the top 50 on the Xbox Live charts, the community is fine. One really cool thing about Game Pass, is that there is always a steady flow of new players. I'm always running into new players in SoT and a large portion of them are playing on PC.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I prefer delays than games released with bugs.