I know people are desperate for any Halo on PC, but I'd really rather you guys band together and ask for MCC or something instead of taking any P2W scraps you can.
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Halo Online modders working to strip micro-transactions, release worldwide
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I know people are desperate for any Halo on PC, but I'd really rather you guys band together and ask for MCC or something instead of taking any P2W scraps you can.
Crimsonclaw111
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We did ask. Surprise, they gave no fucks.
Conkerkid11
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Party leader threw us into an Infection game, and the zombies have guns. lol
Crimsonclaw111
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Nice edit.
I don't get why they should give any fucks. They're trying to sell consoles. I don't see any major Sony Playstation IP's coming to PC...
Its just not worth it, people will find excuses for anything.
I'm still holding out for MCC on pc instead of this monstrosity of mechanics from 3 different Halo's.
legacyzero
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I agree with this, because I love the Halo campaigns. But Halo Online is certainly a start if they wanna gauge interest on the platform.
Irresistable Thing
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I'm very skeptical Microsoft has any PC release plans for this outside of Russia. For Microsoft, what's most important is a consistent subscription-based revenue stream. They get it from Azure. They get it from Office 365. They get it from Xbox Live and a cut from each Xbox game sale.
You don't get that from PC gaming other than through micro-transactions or MMOs. There are not that many F2P shooters in North America that are very successful (maybe Planetside 2, but it has a very different scale to Halo's 4v4). Russia and China have shown interest in such games though, so that's where Microsoft will probably focus.
Overall, North American PC gamers can offer Microsoft some monetary value, but not enough to justify bothering to put the effort in.
You don't get that from PC gaming other than through micro-transactions or MMOs. There are not that many F2P shooters in North America that are very successful (maybe Planetside 2, but it has a very different scale to Halo's 4v4). Russia and China have shown interest in such games though, so that's where Microsoft will probably focus.
Overall, North American PC gamers can offer Microsoft some monetary value, but not enough to justify bothering to put the effort in.
Well, they're certainly getting that message loud and clear here. lol
Only sprint in this release. Most people are working to take sprint out too
Brerlappin
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Youre absolutely right. I just paid 5 bucks to Evolve to play Halo online. You listening, Microsoft??
Conkerkid11
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Not sure if anybody else has been taking pics or anything, but menus are straight up Halo 3.
Names were auto-generated upon launching the game. No way to change them as far as I know.
legacyzero
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Yep. Halo community voice is loud, apparently.
Yup, but it's hitscan unlike Halo 3.
MrGreencastle
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Yep. Modders even stuck the Bungie logo in there.
legacyzero
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BAHAHA
Gameplay doesn't matter in what I'm saying. The engine is nearly Halo 3 in everything. Menus, Player Model choices, etc.
Yes, sprint, perks and spartan abilities from Halo: Reach/4/5 are in the game but it's hilarious to me that 343 is using Bungie's engine for a PC port that isn't a PC port of the engine's game.
Well, it IS a Bungie game. Kinda shit for Saber Int. though :/
They're a good developer.
FTFY.
MiloFoxburr
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Short of releasing Halo Online worldwide I don't really see how any legal action will stop the community now. The cats out of the bag so to speak
"Look guys, you've forced our hand. MCC is releasing on PC worldwide."
*releases as broken as the X-box 720 release*
"Nah, we're cool with your pre-Alpha Halo 3-but-not-really release. We good."
MrGreencastle
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Well considering the game isn't even out yet, technically, they're certainly being beaten to the punch. I'm not convinced they can even do anything about it though. It's easy enough to set up a tunnel on PC and play over a virtual system link/LAN, which is what everyone is doing as far as I can tell. Right now, tools like Evolve, Hamachi, Tunngle, etc. are being used. Only a matter of time before someone develops a custom VPN "server browser" application specifically for this game.
KojiKnight
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If Uncharted 1 and 2 were released on PC and then they said no to 3, you'd likely see just as much outrate realistically.
I guess we'll see with the start of the work week tomorrow. It's certainly going to be interesting to see how everything develops on both sides. Like you said, I'm sure someone is head down working on building a working server setup to make server browsing possible, it's just a matter of time.
Are you saying you don't want MCC on PC?
MrGreencastle
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When life gives you lemons...
I bet we will see a 10x increase in users whenever Infection customs are figured out.
Not if it's as broken as it's X-box release, no.
I'd be fine with a Halo 3 PC port, meanwhile. That and putting Halo 1-2 on Steam (stripping out Halo 2 "Vista"'s GfWL code)
The Faceless Master
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but that level of 'broken' wouldn't even be considered bad on PC
Type "name (your name)" in the console that pops up when you launch the game to select a name.
Umm.. then they would fix it. Heck, they could even put that shit in early access.
The X-box release couldn't even be played online, their main selling feature for a lot of people. If they released it like that on PC there would be fury. While it could be fixed, sure, I don't want people to have to put in that work to fix 343's fuckups. It's telling when the community can make a LAN tunnel option for a free-to-play leaked release work faster than 343's X-box division can fix a multiplayer option on official X-box Live servers.
The Faceless Master
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like DOA5 Last Round?
It works fine now, is this a hypothetical in which they somehow re fuck it up or did you not know that?
MrGreencastle
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That's... a matter of opinion. It's functional, sure - compared to what it was like at launch - but it's nowhere even close to how they advertised as "exactly as you remember it". There's a massive list of things that still have yet to be fixed or even acknowledged as issues by 343i.
I'm talking purely in "I can connect to people relatively swiftly and play matches without a myriad of networking issues" which I can. I don't know the ins and outs of the games to tell you exactly what's missing but the only problem I've had so far is that the very first game took too long to find.
If Uncharted 1 and 2 were released on PC and 8 years later they still hadn't released 3 I think I'd get the message.
What you dont want uncharted online?
MrGreencastle
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https://campaign.evolvehq.com/
Check out that flow of cash donations:
And the players on Evolve's own app:
Check out that flow of cash donations:
And the players on Evolve's own app:
NullPointer
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Poor Haloes, what have they done to you?
If this screws the revenue they had planned for this games, I can see them shutting down more development, and Saber interactive loses big time. But hay, it's MS fault, right?
If we're counting days from launch that the game was functional online, 343 managed to get the Master Chief collection out of post-launch-pre-alpha status just around 100 days after launch. Halo Online was rendered playable online by the community a negative number of days after launch.
I know that that's totally not how that logic works, but I find it hilarious. Some guys managed to leak the game, make a loader for it and then get the game they loaded to function over the internet in multiplayer faster than 343 patched stable multiplayer functionality in to their supposedly finished title post-launch.
Like, 18 days from leaked announcement to having a playable build with online multiplayer functionality. The Halo community is nothing if not proactive...
Because this doesn't have any of the other new weapons, perks, armor or abilities.
That's how they are making their money and all that is absent in the current nodded version.
So if anyone wants to play that they can play the Russian version, but you also have to pay for that stuff too.
So right now no one is taking money away because all the stuff you have to pay for isn't even there.
brotkasten
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I know nothing about this project. Will this be the only version that is getting released or are newer versions planned, once Microsoft releases the updates to the official version?
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