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Bob Dobalina · Dec 20, 2014

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https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshingtonState/status/545000766969114625

Can't even express in words how disappointing this is. I care about this far more than sprint and other gameplay changes, multiplayer halo has been always been a staple whenever my college friends and I get together. Even as most games last gen moved to 1-2 players at most, we could at least count on halo

Silky · Dec 20, 2014

End of an era.

Halo, even with 4, has always been the greatest in local shooter fun.

What's left now? CoD?

PsihoPerihelion · Dec 20, 2014

WHAT THE FUCK

Twilight Gap · Dec 20, 2014

Splitscreen's been unplayable since Reach so it's no surprise. Can't imagine they'll maintain a stable framerate with 4 players.

Naughty_Doge · Dec 20, 2014

Wow I don't play Halo anymore, so I don't really care, but 4 player split was a blast with friends back in the day.

Bummer.

mazpratim · Dec 20, 2014

Omni · Dec 20, 2014

New news?

spindashing · Dec 20, 2014

Man... 4 player split screen was the shit back in college.

Seth Enosh · Dec 20, 2014

Wonder if COD will keep 4 player split screen. Ghosts dropped it to two, not sure about Advanced Warfare.

Not really that surprising, I guess, considering Halo 4 split screen had terrible performance issues in different modes, and MCC split screen also has huge performance problems. It doesn't seem to have been a priority for them.

nobodyshero · Dec 20, 2014

I can't pretend I would ever actually use it anyway.

Crisium · Dec 20, 2014

Disgusting design choice. Terrible trend of modern gaming. From Killzone, to CoD, to Halo, no matter if you hate the game or not... all FPS should be 4 player split screen. And yet none of these games do it anymore (still hope for next CoD?). Standard since N64, imo. Just degrade the graphics... there is NEVER an excuse.

Nibel · Dec 20, 2014

This is terrible.

Terrible.

My most beloved feature of the franchise and now they drop it, fuck this.

maxcriden · Dec 20, 2014

The sprint engine takes up a lot of power, there wasn't enough left over to split the screen more than once.

ThatsMytrunks · Dec 20, 2014

I'm surprised they're doing two player split screen at all.

friskykillface · Dec 20, 2014

;_; the end

I used to play 4 player at Christmas with cousins for halo 2/3, loved it

2 player is ok though since I'd only play that

maneil99 · Dec 20, 2014

Nail in the coffin. Halo is dead

Spring-Loaded · Dec 20, 2014

DEath to splitscreen plox

EBE · Dec 20, 2014

more screen space for me and my brother. my friends can suck it.

IISANDERII · Dec 20, 2014

Power of the Cloud

SSPssp · Dec 20, 2014

I'm keeping my pre-order for sure, (got in on the BestBuy B2G1) but I'm pretty disappointed with this. Local 4 player MP is my favorite thing about the series.

Gnome Scat · Dec 20, 2014

Silky said:
End of an era.

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Crimsonclaw111 · Dec 20, 2014

If it isn't one thing, it's another...

Nuke Soda · Dec 20, 2014

4 player split screen? What is this the stone age?

Sad.

TheRealTalker · Dec 20, 2014

PsihoPerihelion said:
WHAT THE FUCK

mazpratim said:
wut

THE FUTURE

it was only a matter of time before Halo local MP got the axe too.... at least they still have 2 player split screen compared to the other games that dropped it completely

One of the saddest things that happened last gen was the slow death of local MP

Volotaire · Dec 20, 2014

That's a shame. At least it has 2 players split.

Twin Tails · Dec 20, 2014

Halo needs to evolve

Jonnax · Dec 20, 2014

What is this madness?

Sean · Dec 20, 2014

Not surprising imo since the game runs at 60fps now.

Has there ever been any 4 player split-screen games that ran at 60?

pants · Dec 20, 2014

maxcriden said:
The sprint engine takes up a lot of power, there wasn't enough left over to split the screen more than once.

sprint processing

goldenpp72 · Dec 20, 2014

Ploy to increase Xbox One sales, everyone needs 2 in the same room.

Jack Scofield · Dec 20, 2014

I'm genuinely curious about the percentage of players that use 4 player split screen in this day and age. Has to be minuscule. Note: I'm not defending the decision, but there has to come a time where it's not worth the resources of getting it to work.

jesu · Dec 20, 2014

343 Industries just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about 4 player split screen...

Ah forget it.

XANDER CAGE · Dec 20, 2014

To be fair, 4 player split screen has kinda been bunk in Halo since Reach. The sacrifices made to framerate and world detail in Reach and 4 were way, way too much.

tuna_love · Dec 20, 2014

TheRealTalker said:
THE FUTURE

it was only a matter of time before Halo local MP got the axe too

One of the saddest things that happened last gen was the slow death of local MP

It still has local mp

Silky · Dec 20, 2014

Crisium said:
Disgusting design choice. Terrible trend of modern gaming. From Killzone, to CoD, to Halo, no matter if you hate the game or not... all FPS should be 4 player split screen. And yet none of these games do it anymore (still hope for next CoD?). Standard since N64, imo. Just degrade the graphics... there is NEVER an excuse.

Advanced Warfare is split-screen.

The game still has local MP, it's just 1v1 now.

Liferebooted · Dec 20, 2014

Isn't 4 player split screen something that died in the 90s?

maneil99 · Dec 20, 2014

Jack Scofield said:
I'm genuinely curious about the percentage of players that use 4 player split screen in this day and age. Has to be minuscule. Note: I'm not defending the decision, but there has to come a time where it's not worth the resources of getting it to work.

Look at the MCC, almost every game has split screen players

213372bu · Dec 20, 2014

Y'know that shooter that is known for pretty great local multiplayer and is a common dorm game...

Yeah, I don't either.

StevieP · Dec 20, 2014

Don't worry guys. All modern aaa franchises have this feature and not just on xbox. If you want to play 4 players, just buy 3 additional copies of the game, 3 additional tvs, and 3 additional online subs.

Tagyhag · Dec 20, 2014

2 player splitscreen has been dying for a while now.

4 player is all but dead, it's inevitable.

Hatchtag · Dec 20, 2014

Halo MCC splitscreen was fun the whole one time it worked, but I guess I can't expect literally anything but disappointment from 343.

K-A-Deman · Dec 20, 2014

Zoba said:
Splitscreen's been unplayable since Reach so it's no surprise. Can't imagine they'll maintain a stable framerate with 4 players.

Wait, what was the issue with Split-screen in Reach? my friend and i must've played through the campaign a few dozen times and never had any issues. Or was it online/split screen that had issues?

TheRealTalker · Dec 20, 2014

tuna_love said:
It still has local mp

yup I meant it slowly edging away from the local multiplayer scene

edited my post above

My bad

EchoChamber · Dec 20, 2014

Aleast make 4 player splitscreen 30 fps

Wonko_C · Dec 20, 2014

Sean said:
Not surprising imo since the game runs at 60fps now.

Has there ever been any 4 player split-screen games that ran at 60?

F-Zero X first comes to mind.

R3TRODYCE · Dec 20, 2014

People still play 4 player split screen...

Yagharek · Dec 20, 2014

4p splitscreen is essential for a game that doesn't have online multi. And going by MCC, halo 5 needs splitscreen.

FJ0372 · Dec 20, 2014

This is tragic. I've put so many hours into Halo games with 3+ players locally.

JayEH · Dec 20, 2014

Killing halo one step at a time.

213372bu · Dec 20, 2014

R dott B said:
People still play 4 player split screen...

If you have friends or go visit a dorm, it isn't uncommon to see people play together on one screen, regardless of how shitty it is...

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