It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, because I pretty much gave up on these forums. But it’s really hard for me to ever want to completely give up on Halo!
I love the new H1 content that’s coming down the pipeline. But I cannot stress enough that there are still QoL improvements I have been asking for since Halo: Reach dropped that have still yet to be done…
Splitscreen for all Halo games needs to be made WIDESCREEN!
Spartan Ops Matchmaking needs to be restored!
Cross-Game Playlists don’t feature any H3 ODST missions even though H3 ODST is in its slideshow -_-
“Guilty Pleasure” and “Welcome to the Jungle” cross-game playlists STILL have incorrect campaign levels! (“H1 Two Betrayals” does NOT feature Guilty Spark as an ally – “H1 The Library” is the mission that did that! “H2 Gravemind” is NOT a jungle level – “H2 Delta Halo” is that game’s jungle level! Please fix it!)
The Spartan ID letter cap needs to be increased from 3 letters to 4 letters! (Halo 3 is the only game that was limited to 3 characters. Every other game did up to 4 or 5. Why make every other game’s letter cap shorter when you can just make Halo 3’s longer! The naming possibilities are so limited now! I can’t even make my Spartan ID say “John” or “Halo”. Why even bother if I can’t have that? It ruins the feature! Please change it!)
Halo 3: ODST achievements need to be separated from Halo 3! (They’re not the same game! So please separate their achievements! Don’t bloat all their achievements together just to have Halo 3’s picture neatly nestled next to Halo 4’s! No one cares about that! What we care about is not having to scroll through a MESS!)
And while I’m at it, here are some other minor issues I’d love to see addressed…
Add the steam achievement medals in-game! (One of you did all that graphics design work on achievement medals just to have them not be in the actual game? Really?)
Somehow, when Firefight Voice Previews got added back for Halo: Reach customization, their iconic descriptions were removed as a tradeoff! Please restore those! (For example: “The sound of a hyper lethal vector.” Yes, in the current build, that’s gone!)
At a certain point, the titles of the “Remember Reach” and “From the Beginning” nameplates got incorrectly reversed. That’s an easy fix!
Bring back the H3 ODST Firefight Character bios from the original game! The ones that had actual lore! If they’re too long, you could just make them pop-ups!
Last but not least, bring back the view model emblem toggle! Every classic Halo game with customization had this feature! Why not MCC? It gave a more accurate impression of what your Spartan would actually look like – emblem and all.
Fixes and restoration are important so I agree with all of the above, except don’t bother with Spartan Ops matchmaking - it sucks, most people think so.
spartan ops matchmaking would be nice but as the guy above said… not a lot of people use it… so pretty low on the priority list if i had to guess.
i think 343 is full force focused on infinite rn… some real cool stuff was posted about the cutting room floor stuff they may add… in terms of any sort of overhaul i think mcc will stay the same until something big is released for it…
and while halo 5 isnt the best halo by far it is still a part of the story… if they were to put halo 5 in mcc… i could see that being a basis for an overhaul of the games system… sadley if no halo 5 we will likely be given cool content and modding tools… but the massive changes will remain elusive
My dude the cutting room floor was like 90% of what should have been in the game from the start and the other 100% was stuff they probably didnt know how to code into the game and thats just for infinite.
As for mcc i love what that skeleton team has been pulling off its outrageous theyve put out more regular content and kept mcc alive this entire time. Where the bigger team is absolutely struggling.
I will say i agree with most of those improvements as name inconsistencies should get checked so we dont have another bears issue on our hands where people are naming off the wrong halo level
Other than that top notch game these days
talkin about mcc there man… sorry for the mix up
crf for mcc in other words
oh i see the mix up…
no i ment halo ce cutting room floor with boats and wasps and stuff… looks insane and they might add them
Oh with the absolute cluster that is mcc i wouldnt doubt it theyve been adding cuttuing room floor content for ages along with the new content these. 7 games are outrageous in how much cutting room content to pick and choose from
i shared my thoughts on what quality of life updates i wanted in another thread, a highlight being the ability to listen to any music from the games from the menu and change menu music. another quality of life update is like is to see all of the terminals and data pads as well as all the cutscenes through the extras menu, instead of just h2a, cea, and h4 terminals and h2a’s cutscenes being viewable.
I would like to see the mission descriptions corrected. for example, Assault on the control room says the following “Defend the control room against wave after wave of covenant troops”
I would also like to see the missing achievements from halo CE: A, Halo 2 Vista, Halo 3, Halo 4 and Halo Reach restored to the MCC.
Sorry, thats what I get for being involved in software development for many years.
QoL improvements are specifically about making things easier for your users.
Implementing offline bots has nothing to do with making things easier - hence, not a QoL improvement.
A lot of whats described in this thread are just updates people want. Thats fine, but doesnt fit the initial topic.
What I would like to see as a QoL patch would be an option to return to the main menu in a post-game campaign screen, rather than having to load the next mission and back out that way.
Thats a new feature, not a QoL improvement. It would be a cool addition, but I imagine creating proper ai + pathing routes in every possible map, for every specific game-type, in 5 seperate games isnt just a quick afternoon worth of work.
