Update Suggestions?

Games Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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What are your suggestions for the next MCC updates? Do you wish to see more maps being added? More customisation options for particular games?

I would personnally love to see a third person skull to be added to the titles, i think it would really be a great addition as a non-scoring skull. Maybe an audio fix for H2C? The sounds and soundtracks seems broken when compared to the original Xbox version.

Feel free to add your suggestions and thoughts.
Cheers,

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More Halo Online maps for Halo 3. Would love to see some more Halo 2 maps remade for Anniversary multiplayer. I think H2A MP is very underrated and deserves some support.

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I would add a toggle for Reach´s Bloom and blur effects.

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Couldn’t agree more with this.

I would also like all of the cut halo mcc armour to make it into the game as well as the halo 4 cut weapon skins and the spartan stances from the xbox 360 halo 4

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Ability to customize the menu music.

Bringing back the community map slayer playlist

Gears of War style party restrictions in social

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ODST

  • The unused Stealth Elite enemy type finished for ODST’s Firefight (in the files, just missing the Commando Harness iirc)
  • The unused Spec-Ops Grunts added to Floodfight Spec-Ops Elite Boons (in the files iirc, was also used as a reference model for an official figurine around 09)
  • Brute Tracker enemies added to ODST Firefight (in the files and unused, potentially meant for Brute Sniper class instead of the Brute Ultra rank)
  • Third Person Skull Restored (possibly in the files for legacy, unused)

Halo 3

  • ODST Chest and Shoulders (worn by ODST’s on the missions “The Ark” and “The Covenant”) Upscaled and added to Legacy customization as was done with the ODST Helmet by Bungie
  • Pilot Helmet (worn by Hornet pilots) upscaled and added to Legacy customization as was done with the ODST Helmet by Bungie
  • Pilot Chest (worn by Hornet pilots) upscaled and added to Legacy customization as was done with the ODST Helmet by Bungie
  • Assassin Skull restored (in files partially restored already)
  • the 7 remaining Halo Online armor sets added
  • the Elite Cleric armor Added to fix the Halo Online Elite leg armor
  • Stationary Gauss Turret from ODST backported to Halo 3

Halo Reach

  • Drones Restored to Firefight
  • Release of the ‘Preserve’ chest
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Off the top of my head, some straightforward changes:

Press X to Party Up.
Pregame Lobby.
Dont default text/voice chat to off.

Make the game social again!

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being able to have a universal way of skipping cutscenes would be nice. also, now that they added the opportunity to change backgrounds, i really hope they’ll add a way to at least listen to each song of each games soundtrack. it would be cool to customize what songs play during each menu, ie halo 2’s guitar halo theme as the main menu music

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I’d really like if 343 put some time into fixing co-op on Halo 2. It’s almost impossible to get through a campaign mission without some kind of error happening while playing co-op online.

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When Halo 4 Mod tools come along with H2A mod tools, hopefully Spartan Ops gets matchmaking, it got moved in the previous Floodfight update back in April this year to the Firefight menu but since then nothing has happened with it.

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yea but there’s kind of a problem with that being spartan ops isn’t crossplay

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A hub for file share, so you can search, browse, and download game modes/maps/etc people upload.
PC HDR support.
Remaining Halo Online maps
Vote to surrender/press X to party up.

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Be able to put the menu background of each game. It would be awesome to see the H3 menu or the CE one

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My top 5 requests:

  1. Removeable boundaries in Forge and Custom Games, making maps like Forge World, Tempest, Ridgeline, Forge Island any of the H2A canvases even bigger.

  2. Rest of the Halo 4 campaign assets brought to H4 Forge, where’s the target locator? We could mod this in on the 360 but it can’t be added as an official weapon despite it being in Reach as well?

  3. ODST Armor for H2A. H2 is the game that introduced ODSTs to the franchise, feels a little disrespectful to not include at least ONE ODST armor set for H2A.

  4. Bandanna for Halo 4. If any game actually needs this skull, it’s Halo 4. The campaign has always had a serious lack of ammo, this would be greatly appreciated.

  5. The rest of the body armor pieces for Halo Reach for the mideval armor sets.

Edit: Forgot one REALLY important one:

  1. Cross-Game CGB
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I like your suggestions but just on the following 2 points;

I feel like a bigger issue needs to be addressed with client-based toggles to facilitate this stuff.

A lot of people loved Halo for its unique Military Sci-Fi inspired image. People have a specific image in their head when they think of Halo and Spartans. So, I feel like with the newer stuff, this core identity is diluted a lot.

This means that anything added which does add to this core visual identity of Halo, like this suggestion for ODST armour, doesn’t really matter for a section of the playerbase. Since, in order to appreciate it in-game you have to also tolerate the other things which detract from that.

Overall, there is a big stylistic clash in Halo with the new “fracture” type armour they have added and I feel like they’ve boxed themselves into a corner. As now they have to appease people that like Halo for sticking to its core visual identity and people that are less stringent on that and just like cosmetics because they’re “cool”.

The current approach only really appeases the latter which means they don’t have much reason to even try and appease the former at all.

Side note on Reach request
Obviously, Halo 3 and Reach have different Bipeds, and thus different proportions. So, it would take considerable effort to scale all those armours to the Reach Biped

All in all though, it doesn’t really matter since with 343i winding down development on MCC these sorts of requests, whilst nice to think about, aren’t that realistic since they’re done with cosmetics now.

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I’d love to have an option to play maps between different games, for example Death Island from Halo CE in Halo 3’s engine with Halo 3’s sandbox. Coagulation from Halo 2 in Halo Reach with Halo Reach’s sandbox.

I’m not sure maps could be back ported to Halo CE or 2 from Halo 3-4 but I’m pretty sure maps from Halo 3, Reach and Halo 4 could be interchangeable between themselves due to the engines all being launched on the same hardware originally.

I honestly think that Containment from Halo 2 would play great in Halo 3’s engine with Halo 3’s sandbox!

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Except they aren’t. This most recent update wasn’t the FINAL update. Hell I’d be willing to bet they’ll decide to continue support for MCC now that Infinite is essentially a “No mans land”.

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The big one: Split-screen on PC
that’s the only thing that I really want and think is necessary for the Master Chief Collection to be in a complete state.

Past that, most of what I have are small and don’t matter much. I really want legacy content to return, existing functions to be fleshed out, Beta content preserved, and each game to be on-par with one-another.

  • First time Playlist completion should grant a season point,
  • Firefight weekly playlists,
  • As many skulls should cross over when possible and be added to Firefight,
  • The exchange should have a wider weekly selection,
  • Nameplates, skins, and Avatars that aren’t readily available (only available for a limited time, only in system files but not obtainable, dependent on playing another game) should be added to the Exchange,
  • Games without expanded visor color options or weapons and vehicles that lack skin options should gain them,
  • Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary’s scan function should return,
  • Halo 2: Anniversary should use campaign cosmetics (ODST, Marine, Pilot, Honor Guard, Flight, Heretic and Council armor sets should be added),
  • The Halo Online maps brought in,
  • Halo Reach including Lone Wolf as a Firefight map with extra structures to better serve for Firefight,
  • Halo Reach Firefight settings to be on par with ODST

There are dozens of others, but those are my top few.

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It’s not the final update. Just the final delivery of armours that they were working on before. They only said they’re working on delivering leftover planned content for the duration of 2022. After that it will be much smaller fixes just focusing on restoring parity with legacy games, where possible

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You should know better by now than to take 343’s word at face value.

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