A majority of the content that 343 has added to the game have been assets that were either already completed or mostly finished. Things that were added like ODST Firefight templates, Flood FF, Custom Games browser, and mod tools are things that ONLY 343 can really add. Something as trivial as a grapple shot although cool would require a decent amount of QA. That development time could’ve been spent on something that no one else but 343 can add to the collection. Modders have already added a grapple shot to the old CE PC port, I’m sure they can add it to every other title once the mod tools get better support.
Again that’s not what I’m asking, mod support is for PC only, I’m asking for an official version that could be run on Xbox. I also said Grappleshot SHOULDN’T be prioritized over the rest of the custom browser being finished or the cut content. Personally I feel should 343 add the grappleshot, it should be in the FINAL update, go out with a bang.
Then what are you asking for? So many items are low priority on the list I am skeptical they will all make it to the release build before the end of 2022. Mod tools are the current focus for the team, and by the time 343 reaches this priority I bet modders would’ve implemented this feature across every title in the collection. If this is something you are dead set on for console than you are SOL. The best hope is mod support to come Xbox.
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I understand but I can’t really see the grappleshot being added officially as that would require a lot of tweaking, testing, and thorough design that would compliment the sandbox. Imo it’s pretty pointless because Infinite does it well because it’s balanced around it. I understand that Infinite is in a pretty terrible situation right now and I can see why people would rather bring it’s mechanics into MCC instead.
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Are you telling me Infinite’s teeny tiny maps would do the Grappleshot more justice than say Forge World, Tempest, Foundry, Sand Trap, or even Ragnarok?
Again, H3 and Reach weren’t made with those in mind. It would need a lot of tweaking and rebalancing for a new gameplay gimmick as big as that. They would also need to make a heap of first person and third person animations for it and the speed and velocity accounting to the physics too. This is something that would be better to mod in from the missing community.
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Yeah this is mainly what I was referring to with my original post, it just wouldn’t really make sense to go in and actively develop specific new assets in an old game to account for a feature in the new game,