Like I just don’t get it. Halo Spartan Assault was developed and sold on Xbox, PC, and mobile devices. But it’s sequel, Spartan Strike, is only available on PC and mobile.
What’s up with that?
Who knows, it’s silly that’s for sure, especially because the fixed control scheme on PC is just awkward to work with.
I think it came down to not being able to dedicate enough resources for a port to Xbox. I would have loved to see Spartan Strike make it to console.
god i want it on console. The PC version doesnt even have Xbox achievements
Vanguard Games, the company that made them, merged with a VR company and shifted focus to making AR/VR games. I would guess by that point that 343 didn’t have the resources to put towards finding another company to take over. Round about then they would have been closing out Halo 5 and moving to sustain, releasing Halo Wars 2, working on the restructure of MCC and developing Infinite. Dedicating resources to something like this likely wouldn’t have been a priority
Makes sense I guess.
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> Vanguard Games, the company that made them, merged with a VR company and shifted focus to making AR/VR games. I would guess by that point that 343 didn’t have the resources to put towards finding another company to take over. Round about then they would have been closing out Halo 5 and moving to sustain, releasing Halo Wars 2, working on the restructure of MCC and developing Infinite. Dedicating resources to something like this likely wouldn’t have been a priority
Wow didn’t know that. Explains why the 5 achievements for Spartan Assault (ios) haven’t been fixed.
I would have liked to play on xbox
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> Wow didn’t know that. Explains why the 5 achievements for Spartan Assault (ios) haven’t been fixed.
That still, and forever will, breaks my heart. So close to a true 100%, same with the 4 MCC CN achievements.
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> That still, and forever will, breaks my heart. So close to a true 100%, same with the 4 MCC CN achievements.
Yup. I feel you
Wish i would have known that when i bought it in an Xbox Store digitally…
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…what?
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Spartan strike is sold in the xbox store even if it is not playable on xbox
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WEEEEEIIIIIRRRD… hopefully that means there is SOME plan to port it on console?
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I don’t know unfortunatly
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It’s sold on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 PC - not the Xbox Store.
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> Wow didn’t know that. Explains why the 5 achievements for Spartan Assault (ios) haven’t been fixed.
I think iOS compatibility and Apple Store issues made this a particularly difficult proposition as well. As I recall there was one iOS version it wasn’t fully compatible with and iOS uptake certainly wasn’t particularly high
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Yup, just spartan assault (ios) for those 5 achievements. Such a shame because like you said if it wasn’t for vanguard being out of the picture getting past the apple store compatibility issues was still a pretty tall ask by itself so the chances of them getting patched are much closer to 0% than to 1% (although I will keep hoping till the day I die!).
There are less than 2,000 players who even tried spartan assault ios, on TA at least, so yea that is indeed a pretty abysmal uptake. Although to be fair the Windows phone edition had even less players just under 900 and never had any issues with the achievement. Heck even with WP now discontinued I was still able to get the achievements no problem after resurrecting an old model from death and frankensteining my way back to linking my xbox account…yet with the ever abundant iPhone there’s just no way to get it done and something about the irony of that situation really get to me lol.