MCC Season 8 Feedback

Games Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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Hello Team,

Halo CE- Bug- Deadzones and Look Acceleration no longer work.

I do not understand why 343 has a habit of taking something that works somewhat well (can’t say great because 343 is not a great company)

Season 8 update was fine.

Then the update yesterday broke the control mechanisms for aiming in the game.

Thanks again for going 1 step forward and 3 steps back! Seems to be 343’s M.O.

Hey on a positive note: thanks for more skins. Last time I checked the mechanisms and technical details of a game don’t matter!

Please MORE AND MORE SKINS to make us happy LOL.

Your a bunch of clowns and straight amateur when it comes to game coding.

THUMBS UP!

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Weekly Challenges, in general, are very lackluster for the rewards they offer. In around the amount of time it would take to get enough season points through challenges to unlock every tier in a single season, the next season will already be out. 12 season points per week + 27 maximum from Seasonal Challenges is not enough to keep up with the amount of seasonal content being added, especially when there are currently 700 total reward tiers across each season. This doesn’t even account for the cost of items featured in The Exchange, where a mere cosmetic can cost 3-5 season points. That’s practically 25-50% of an entire week’s worth of season points earned from weekly challenges!

Everything in The Exchange is too expensive. Buying everything currently available from The Exchange can cost up to 9 season points. Yes, we can just opt to not buy anything from The Exchange, but then what’s the point of it? Items are too expensive to buy, and players have to decide between saving their points for seasonal reward tiers or buying something from the shop. I’m thinking that items in the Weekly Exchange need to have their cost reduced by at least 60% unless we start earning more season points per week.

Make some of the Weekly Challenges that offer season points repeatable. For example, if you already completed “Cuddle Up”, then you could complete it again in the same week up to 4 more times for a total of 5 season points. This is probably the easiest way to help players catch up with the game’s seasonal content while also making it simpler for the devs to just tweak the number of completions for each challenge. It would also be nice to limit this to challenges that can be completed more easily than others. (I would rather have to get 50 Style medals than win more than 2 competitive matchmade games.)

Peoples vs Peoples and VS CPU should offer season points. As it stands, less than half of the Weekly Challenges in PvE and PvP offer season points. If players were rewarded for going above and completing 10 weekly challenges in each category, they should be rewarded in season points for it. This would make other “0 season point” challenges more relevant, similarly to how 3 of the Seasonal Challenges offer a cosmetic after completing the 2 prerequisite challenges.

All Seasonal Challenges should offer season points, including the ones that reward cosmetics. I say this because all that work that goes into completing 2 of the Seasonal Challenges for just one cosmetic that I might not even use is extremely unrewarding. Sure, we get 7 season points from the prerequisite challenges, but that still doesn’t feel like a lot. Maybe give us an extra 3 season points for these cosmetics challenges.

Sweat Equity* and Friendly Fire should be altered to reward match performance. Requiring players to WIN matches every week for season points can be cumbersome with the lack of SBMM in the game. I’ve had times where it takes me 10+ competitive matches to actually complete Sweat Equity because I get paired with teammates who don’t complete the objective and can’t even kill other players. Completing these challenges is basically like relying on RNG to pick your teammates and opponents-- or rather a full 6-stack, which is extremely unfair for a challenge. I’d rather be rewarded for my contribution to the team than by victories, since victories require a team effort. I’d even be happy with at least making those two challenges non-static, so they may or may not have a chance to show up every week.

* Alternatively: Remove Sweat Equity from Weekly PvP challenges. Competitive games are insufferable with the number of issues the mode has, ranging from AFK players to long matchmaking queues and rage-quitters. Also, the extended “quit” timer that applies to people who didn’t make it past the initial loading screen and got disconnected from the match because the game— for some reason— has frequent connection issues. I don’t think I need to mention that competitive is also the most toxic game mode in PvP. For a mode that has so many experimental flaws, it seems unsuitable for a Weekly PvP challenge.

I’d like to add that I’m glad 343 addressed one of my previous requests (removing/altering Firefight Fodder) and I hope they do the same for the rest of these as well!

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> General Improvements - Split-screen on PC! - The Achievements Menu should be revamped for better readability - Buttons should be colored in menus for better readability - When the beautiful Season 8 flight Captions are implemented in a future update, please allow per-game color customization - Completion past 100% should be overlayed with gold in the Careers menu - More map variants should be displayed in map selection - Remove map variant maximum - Let current in-game score be viewed in pause menu - Add a “Set for all games” button for offset configuration_Control Improvements_ - Vehicles Controller sensitivity should have a slider (otherwise, Steam controller can’t function in vehicles) - The Duke control scheme for CE is inaccurate to the original Xbox control scheme, and should be implemented across all titles. - Grant Jumper Jumper to Mouse and Keyboard - Allow players optionally to use left stick/WASD input for turret input - Add Infinite’s Assist Steering Option__General Cosmetic Improvements__ - Avatars and Nameplates should unlock for Halo Waypoint - Avatars should display in the Match Completed Screen - Add more cosmetic differences for infection: Unique techsuit for 3, shattered visor for Reach, and left shoulder for 4 - Add female model to Halo 2A and feminine voice clip options to Halo CE and Halo 2 - Allow Light color customization across all games - Allow a forced armor effect in gametype options if unlocked by the player (IE: Pestilence in infection games for zombies) - Allow forced species choice in gametypes with specific species traits - Add Unlockable backgrounds to the Exchange - Add cross promotional content (nameplates and avatars from Spartan Strike, Halo Wars, etc.) and unobtainable avatars (Mister Chief 1*,* Mister Chief 2, and Beamish) to the Exchange - Allow LASO completion to unlock Master Chief 9*, and obtaining all achievements to* unlock Gold Master Chief - Expand visor color to Elite eyes_Weapon Skin Improvements_ - Have Weapons maintain previous weapon skin if dropped by another player (akin to Halo 4) - Let the warthog driver affect the vehicle’s skin while the warthog gunner affects the turret’s skin only - Differentiate skins between the standard Hornet and the Transport Hornet - Focus development on objective items (flags, bombs, skulls), games, and weapons without skins (please no more Halo 3 Battle Rifle skins) - Allow weapon skin application in Forge settings (akin to how Reach allows players to change object color)Matchmaking Improvements - Add multiple game sizes in matchmaking - Allow anyone to change team mid-game when a game is unbalanced - Remove Lobby Maximum in matchmaking, but randomize team assignments whenever Lobby exceeds team size - Alternatively, only exceed Lobby Maximum if it makes a full game - Allow players to join games or lobbies mid-match - Add Invasion to social matchmaking - Update the “Leave Multiplayer Game” description to include exceptions - Create Match Composer for RankedEnhancing Season Points for New Players - Use Season points as a Steam inventory item for Steam trading - Allow season points to unlock beyond rank 100 - Add a season point unlock per first playlist completion - Add a season point unlock per first medal achieved - Have VS. CPU and Peoples vs. Peoples challenges grant a season point - Twenty Grand and Forza Firefight should unlock on beating par score and par time as an alternative to their base times__Skull Improvements__ - Add skull collectables to any game lacking them (ODST, Reach, 4, classic CE) - Cross over each game’s Skull when possible - When in a campaign multiplayer lobby, non-leader players should be able to customize their own scoring options, skin cosmetics, and skulls that only affect said player but not the environment (IE: I wouldn’t be able to turn on famine, but I’d be able to turn on Recession, my score would neither increase nor decrease) - Add each skull as multiplayer options when possible - Change the Bonded Pair and Envy skull multipliers to .5, so they don’t nullify challenges nor achievements, while increasing Malfunction and Ghost skull multipliers to 1.05. - Specify in the menu when skulls affect both allies and foes (IE: Catch applies to all NPCs, but doesn’t specify it in the description)Firefight - Increase to 6 players - Spartan Ops added to matchmaking - Alter Firefight Fodder to be based on score minimum instead of kill minimum - Add further vehicle customization options across both games - Escalation Firefight gametype, where player weapons change per-wave, - 1/4096 chance of an Elite or Brute having a BOB coloring, granting each player in the round a season point on kill with the victor unlocking a Seek and Destroy medal__Game Specific__ - Halo CE Anniversary: - Restore lost scanning functionality - Halo 2: - Restore official support for Zombies - Add cosmetic differences to Anniversary Gold Sentinel Beam as it’s identical to the standard Sentinel Beam - Anniversary team color behavior should mimic classic team colors - Anniversary Fuel Rod model should use the Halo 3 design (using high res assets from the Unreal menu) - Halo 3: - Add all Halo Online armor pieces and original maps - Add props from the final level as Forge items in addition to Halo 3: ODST’s Gauss Turret - Add gametype options to customize individual grenade or equipment start independent of map - Add ODST firefight maps as multiplayer maps with enhanced Forge options - Add Security Antenna as back option - Fix Season 7 Elite cosmetics: Implement tertiary colors, use the legacy head model which supports animations, and add techsuit options to restore the lost Halo 3 legacy techsuit and Halo Online techsuit. - Halo 3: ODST: - Allow players to customize ODST soldier by Gear, Chest, Helmet, Right Shoulder, Character, Visor Color, and Weapon Skin inherited from Halo 3, - Add support for Firefight Versus and Generator Defense (with Engineers rather than generators) - Halo Reach: - Add Diamondback - Add Lone Wolf as a Firefight Map - Add the space combat arena from Long Night of Solace as a Forge template for players - Add unused Firefight enemy types (Drones, Guta, hostile Moa, Zealot teams, other heretic variants) - Add customizable Generator traits in game options: Swap generators for Wolf Spider turrets, or allow Generators to modify player or generator traits in a certain area when locked. - Halo 4: - Port playable elites from Halo 2: Anniversary using Halo 4 campaign cosmetics, - Add Techsuit color customization - Add player trait support and game options to Spartan Ops - Add Spartan Ops cutscenes as episode missions akin to campaign cutscenes - Add Spartan Ops playlists_Allow players to manually install or uninstall the following: (in preparation for Halo Infinite’s large filesize):_ - Halo: CE - Campaign - Anniversary Campaign - Multiplayer - Halo: CE Anniversary Terminals - Halo: CE New Cosmetics - Halo 2 - Campaign - Anniversary Campaign - Anniversary Campaign Cutscenes - Halo 2 Anniversary Terminals - Multiplayer - Anniversary Multiplayer - Halo 3 - Halo 3 Campaign - Halo 3 Multiplayer - Halo 3: ODST Campaign & Firefight - Halo 3 New Cosmetics - Halo: Reach - Campaign - Multiplayer - Firefight - Halo 4 - Campaign - Multiplayer - Spartan Ops - Campaign/Spartan Ops Cutscenes - Halo 4 Terminals

You should probably update your Firefight Fodder suggestion since it’s no longer in the game. Also, I’d rather not have this game in the same situation as PUBG and other games that have gear or currency linked to our Steam inventories.

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I just want to say that I’m very happy with how MCC has turned out and the efforts made to get nitty gritty with fixes and updates. Adding back the classic HUD in Halo CE made me more excited than I’d like to admit. Here are some minor issues that persist:

Halo Combat Evolved
The radial blur for scope zooms has broken and no longer shows. This seems to be a new issue as I remember it working properly in prior seasons. Here are screenshots that show the scope effect as it appears in the original game, followed by how it currently appears in MCC: zoom blur - Album on Imgur

In the classic HUD, the crosshairs for the sniper rifle and Warthog driver are opaque and don’t have the proper transparency effect that all other crosshairs have: opaque crosshairs - Album on Imgur

The compass on the assault rifle will bug out briefly when passing north. Here’s a video showing it in the original game, followed by how it appears in MCC: broken compass

Halo 2 Classic
Water surfaces break when viewed at higher FOVs. Here you can see the water disappearing on the edge while using 105 FOV: high fov broken water - Album on Imgur

Halo Reach
Using the visor zoom with the centered crosshair option causes the view to jump upward, this was fixed for the other games but persists in Reach: broken zoom

Misc/Other Feedback
Under the controls settings, set the “Gamepad” category above “Gamepad Controls”, and likewise “Mouse” above “Mouse & Keyboard Controls” as sensitivity and deadzone settings are more likely to be repeatedly tweaked. It’ll be a huge QOL benefit for making changes mid-match.

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> You should probably update your Firefight Fodder suggestion since it’s no longer in the game. Also, I’d rather not have this game in the same situation as PUBG and other games that have gear or currency linked to our Steam inventories.

I didn’t actually know that, just figured it wasn’t in the current cycle. Thanks for letting me know!
That’s fair. I’d like it because I have more points than I need and would love to share with my friends, but I don’t think that’s a popular opinion.

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I also think the Roadkill Rampage and Rock and Coil Hit Back should have their game specific requirements removed, and be applicable to all games, potentially even without a matchmaking requirement. Splatter and Environmentalist medals in Halo 2: Anniversary’s matchmaking aren’t very accessible, and, unlike most Halo 2: Anniversary achievements, these two don’t mimic or parallel Halo 2 Vista achievements.

Please, for the love of god make these achievements obtainable in other games, 343i! Getting any H2A games is nearly impossible, not to mention getting games on the maps you need, not to mention having good enough RNG to actually be able to execute a splatter or environmental kill in any given games. Not sure how anyone is supposed to finish these achievements when simply getting an H2A match is an impossible task on its own.

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I really need the Samurai and EOD armour from Halo Online. PLEASE.

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P.S. Please return the original hand models. Adding Reach’s hands/undersuit Spartan would be nice too. And please make Hands - and if possible Feet too - their own armour sections. I really want Mark VI hand armour while using my Mirage arms.

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Is there a problem with that? I only used EA as a frame of reference for their offline bot support in Battlefield.

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It literally only discusses Frostbite and Battlefront in the context of adding bots to the most recent Battlefield. There is no mention of MCC or 343 industries (and their subsidiaries), alongside no acknowledgement of the multiple iterations of the Blam engine operating under the unified UE4 menu’s (which will most likely require a case by case update to netcode and other necessary systems, on top of it being map by map with new accommodations for Forge in the later games cases )

if you had a revised letter, its possible you may have accidentally posted the original letter under the assumption that it was the revised letter, but this one is most definitely not revised.

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(sigh) I very clearly stated in the post that the company was different, but the same core concepts and points I make in the letter still apply to 343 and the absence of offline bots in the Master Chief Collection. It is an exhortation for 343 to enable full offline bot support for the Master Chief Collection. I have seen several mods which were able to, in varying capacities, successfully implement bots into, at the very least, Halo Combat Evolved, Halo 3, and Halo Reach; thus it is evident to me it is not outside the realm of possibility to modify the Blam! engine to accommodate for offline bot support.

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You stated it was a revised letter, implying that said revisions were made to change the letters context from Battlefield to Halo; and yet all you changed was the start and the end like a plagiarist would, while leaving the entire body of the work unaltered. If the revisions were purely in regards to the discussion of Battlefield (i/e punctuation and grammer fixes), then once again the letter is not relevant to Halo and thusly shouldn’t have been posted 8 times in a row; just because you feel the concepts apply to Halo does not mean your letter reflects that.

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How does my letter not apply to Halo? Halo and Battlefield are both first-person shooters, are they not? They both rely on online multiplayer, do they not? A game with online multiplayer needs offline bots to be preserved, does it not?

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Them sharing a genre and having online is about the only relevant similarities they have.

Your letter is literally addressing EA and Dice and only discusses Frostbite and Battlefront in the context of adding bots to the most recent Battlefield. These are completely different studios and publishers from 343 and Microsoft, who made an entirely different FPS game from Halo that runs on a completely different engine from Blam. As I already said; just because you feel the concepts apply to Halo, does not mean your letter reflects that. Claiming its revised to apply to Halo when all the revisions did was clean up the same talking points discussing an unrelated game is not revising it for Halo.

That said, I don’t disagree with the point being made, even if I think it’s unfeasible with the current unfinished workload the devs are getting through.

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Whatever you say, fam. Agree to disagree.