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Halo: Master Chief Collection Master Thread | This is it, baby. Hold me.
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Oh man, I can't wait to see how that level looks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hduJ62FgpR0
So damn good.
User 73706
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Happy Bungie Day, everyone!
still no luck.PanicFreak
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Yeah that's the level. The double scarab part is definitely of my most memorable gaming moments.
PooBone
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Oh yeah.... this could potentiallymake Halo 1 co-op super playable over the net
SenjutsuSage
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You should watch the RTX panel. They have playlists that literally separate all the different multiplayers into their own sections: Halo CE MP, Halo 2 MP, Halo 3 MP, Halo 4 MP, Halo 2 Anniversary MP. Then, for example, they had a section on just Team Slayer, which spans every MP map from all the games among others. They've really thought this entire thing through.
ProvenDeadly
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You can do a variety of things. Let's say you want to play Slayer but don't care what game you play. You can than load up a playlist that has each Halo engine and all of the maps. At a voting screen you will get the option, for example purposes, for Halo 1, 2 , 3, etc. It is basically like the old system of voting for a map but this time around its voting for the engine and the map you play on. Now there's also playlist specifically for each game that will only give you maps from that game.
Garrett 2U
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I'm assuming this is sarcasm
But if not, No
PanicFreak
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Yeah. I can't wait to play through that part either. I remember turning the corner in my Hornet and, bam, double bam, two Scarabs!!!
I cannot wait to play through all of these campaigns again.
Trunchisholm
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Ugh. I love Halo 3. Best Halo campaign by far, drones and flood ranged forms notwithstanding. Yet, as bad as the aliasing is in that game, the texture filtering is even worse. Truly hideous. I hope Ruffian manage to implement a decent level of AF. That'd do wonders to the more open (and best) levels in Halo 3: Tsavo Highway, The Ark and The Covenant.
squidhands
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Let's not get ridiculous.
Yeah seriously. The game needs more than one playlist for each game and split social/ranked. I don't care about Halo 1, 2, or 4. I just want to play H3 Team, btb, snipers, and doubles.
NullPointer
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You can only divide the playerbase so far before matchmaking becomes a bad experience. Its the nature of the beast.
I wonder what they're projecting internally in terms of audience and breakdown across the launch playlists. Regardless, if they keep watch over them and change them to account for popularity this could all still work out.
Maybe.
Yes. The multiplayer achievements in Halo 3 specifically were annoying as hell. Even more so now because lone wolves is dead and it is really hard to get a full lobby.
Couldn't you always do this on Halo 2, 3 and 4? I'm pretty sure you could do 4 separate gamertags or even have one gamertag and 3 guests playing. Halo CE you obviously couldn't because there was no online multiplayer but you could have 4 players on one XBox.So, I was re-watching the panel again. And ... Wait ...
We did not know this yet, no? This also means I can play with 4 people online!? In all four games? MEGATON if so!
Yes, you are right now I am thinking about it.
Man, some features that are "standard" in Halo are missing in so many other shooters. Especially everything regarding split-screen play.
So, I was re-watching the panel again. And ... Wait ...
We did not know this yet, no? This also means I can play with 4 people online!? In all four games? MEGATON if so!
Nice catch!
Good to know this is here, I hope/assume it supports LAN play like this?
KnightHero117
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TheFurizzlyBear
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Nothing yet, but the timing of this game does lineup with ntknrl's rumor of a limited edition 1TB box in November. So if that comes to fruition then who knows. I kinda hope they wait for Halo 5 cus I don't want to have to buy another Xbox One so soon lol
videogamer3
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So, I was re-watching the panel again. And ... Wait ...
We did not know this yet, no? This also means I can play with 4 people online!? In all four games? MEGATON if so!
That max party size scares me... You can't have the max party size be equal to the total number of players in the game unless it is social. Social is fine, but there needs to be ranked too.
User 73706
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It's BTB.
but guests are the easiest to kill!
ProvenDeadly
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Hoping the dedicated servers fix campaign and SP-OPS infamous lag fest. Halo CEA Co-Op was a nightmare.
Zeyphersan
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Thanks guys. Right after I posted that I started watching the panel, which essentially made my question answered, but I appreciate you two taking the time. Cheers!
Photolysis
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It won't. The lag you see in campaign is caused by latency to your friend or (most often and more destructively) someone's connection being utter shit and losing packets. Dedicated servers will not save you when Comcast loses that information and the game grinds to a halt. And unlike MP where as long as the host has a good connection, everyone else is fine, a single bad connection in co-op fucks it up for everyone else.
squidhands
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I'm almost more interested in how 343 is going to properly curate these playlists than I am in actually playing them. Seems like a massive undertaking to do something that, in all honesty, has never been done well even before Bungie gave up the mantle.
Expect the worst, hope for the best.
K
kittens
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They need to have a custom games browser. Then playlist division wouldn't even matter.
soulassssns
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I'm celebrating 343 day.
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Protagonist Jake
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BTB has never been ranked
Pfhunkie
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Speaking of netcode, have they said anything about Halo: Combat Evolved's netcode? Just hoping they're not taking Halo PC's.
User 73706
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K
kittens
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I don't know what you're talking aboutconor alt confirmed
mate
videogamer3
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There was ranked BTB in Halo 3. I think it was only 6v6 though. They removed it once Reach launched.
Ranked BTB died well before Reach's release. It was around for a bit, then had double exp, then Shishka took it out back and executed it for having terrible population.
It was actually the playlist that caused the policy change of "we're no longer trying to salvage playlists by giving them double exp", because they had tried it before with 1v1 and that didn't save it either.
There was also the entirely redundant Mythic BTB for a bit that was eventually also killed due to low population.
It was actually the playlist that caused the policy change of "we're no longer trying to salvage playlists by giving them double exp", because they had tried it before with 1v1 and that didn't save it either.
There was also the entirely redundant Mythic BTB for a bit that was eventually also killed due to low population.
MrGreencastle
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Master Chief Collection master menu -> Custom Games -> Make Public
Release it as a cross-platform app so you can browse with smartglass/mobile.
Kind of like the browser in the system-link tunnel in the Xbox Connect days.
BeforeU
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MrGreencastle
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I know his will never happen. They've never made finding customs a more seamless experience a priority. Maybe because it could "cut" into matchmaking population? (though, if both were in, and more people played customs than mm, wouldn't that be justification for the feature in the first place?)
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