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[AzureSkies]

I'd love it a lot. I've always enjoyed playing Halo splitscreen with my bro and I *might* just end up picking up another Xbox One next year, but I'd really like to be able to play Halo 5 with him before that.

A 2016 splitscreen patch would be great.

 

[BokehKing]

That's not how it works.

Split screen was dying a slow death. Every Halo game was squeezing more and more out of the hardware and even now, it has just stopped becoming worth it. I played every halo campaign and countless hours of multiplayer splitscreen and by 4 the experience was so lacklustre. It was evident that there were significant cuts made to cater for it. The experience became so diluted.

Rip

The problem is COD and Battlefront, the main competitors of Halo offers split screen, hell, COD might even offer 4 person split screen for offline campaign

It's not dying it never went anywhere

 

[TheDanger]

And it was god awful because of it. Guests in matchmaking have always sucked whether it be the team with the guests were terrible or because you got stuck with the 2/3 main team on the same TV with 1 afk, 1 who doesn't understand how analog sticks work and 1 who's just their to kill you for the sniper.

that's why guests couldn't play ranked playlists, also *there jesus christ are we on GameFAQs?

 

[op_ivy]

Halo 5 should have more varied mp maps at launch. It should have more maps period. It should be 1080p. It should be twice as long. It should have btb at launch. It should have theater. It should have forge at launch. It should have 60 fps split screen. It should have data center selection. It should have join in progress. It should have mc as a main character. It should be more like halo 2. It should have a metacritic of 90+.

It's nice to want. This is the game 343 made. Take it or leave it.

 

[Battlechili]

Forgive me, but I'm confused. What does the framerate have to do with a splitscreen feature?

 

[TheYanger]

why wouldn't you have 60 FPS fullscreen single player just because there is 30 FPS splitscreen support?

I'd prefer they not waste a ton of their technical effort on that, given that they broke their backs just getting 60 working at all it's ridiculous to assume they can just flip a switch or throw one guy at it for a week and get split screen working at 30.

I have been playing Halo, and have played the campaigns split screen co op, since the very first game on launch day. That said, I'm 33 now, and the one time I might play the game split screen with a friend, rarely due to scheduling issues at that, is definitely not worth a huge sacrifice in other ways. Given that 343 has stated that very few people bother with it anymore, I'm going to GUESS that I'm in the vast majority here. Yeah, it'd be cool, but every feature has an opportunity cost and it's got a very low impact on what people actually do with the game.

At the end of the day, VERY few games support split screen anymore, the fact that Halo was one of the last major holdouts is commendable and it's ridiculous that people are now throwing a fit over it rather than complaining that every other game under the sun doesn't do it either.

 

[Garcia el Gringo]

I see myself playing more TMCC 2-player splitscreen competitive multiplayer than Halo 5 Arena in the future if no splitscreen support of any kind is patched into Halo 5. I'd take splitscreen with just about any technical/game type reductions at this point.

Having two Xbox One consoles in the home to play Halo with my SO isn't realistic. At the very least, I hope it's something that comes back with the next installment in the series. I'm definitely not getting my hopes up for that though.

 

[Goldenhen]

Forgive me, but I'm confused. What does the framerate have to do with a splitscreen feature?

I think it's because the Xbox One has to render twice for having two different camera view.

 

[Solid Samus]

Given that 343 has stated that very few people bother with it anymore, I'm going to GUESS that I'm in the vast majority here.

I'm gonna have to see the receipts. All I can remember is a post by Stinkles some time ago conceding that there was in fact a fair portion of the userbase playing splitscreen.

 

[chidrock]

So I was standing at Best Buy debating if I should take the plunge on a second console (co-op with my kid is really important to me), but then it hit me. If I were to get a second console, would I then have to also get my kid a gold membership so I could together with him?

Right now he is on the same console as me, so we only need one Live membership. But if I am playing on the other console, does that mean he won't be able to go online anymore - even if my profile is still saved on the system?

 

[GamerSoul]

Ive been playing Halo multiplayer with friends and family for over a decade now, Since Halo 2, so this was a real surprised to me. It's really the main reason i play Halo and it has always been our comfort shooter game. Welp, an era has ended, imo.

 

[Palette Swap]

So I was standing at Best Buy debating if I should take the plunge on a second console (co-op with my kid is really important to me), but then it hit me. If I were to get a second console, would I then have to also get my kid a gold membership so I could together with him?

That's my understanding, yes.

I guess LAN play made 60fps impossible too.

 

[ethomaz]

Yes it should.

But looking at reviews saying about the campaign it fells like they rushed a little and get this mode underdeveloped/unpolished... clearly they needed some more time to reach Halo's level of campaign.

So unless you expected the game to be released in 2016 the splitscreen was not a option for the game schedule.

Forgive me, but I'm confused. What does the framerate have to do with a splitscreen feature?

2-players splitcreen needs close to twice the processing power to render the game... it is like two Halo games being rendered at the same time... so you need to drop quality or the framerate... it is easy to drop to 30fps each screen and have the needed processing power for that.

Other option can be drop the resolution and assets to reach a level that can hold 60fps in splitscreen but it is a lot more hard to implement.

 

[Wasp]

"Built from the ground up with co-op in mind."

Removes local co-op.

 

[Blackthorn]

I would have bought an Xbox One with Halo 5 if it supported splitscreen. Playing Halo online with my girlfriend is one of my fondest memories.

Waiting to see how Gears turns out now instead.