Back when Modern Warfare 2 was getting big. I had a bunch of friends that wanted me to give up Halo for it. I liked Call of Duty, but it didn’t have any coop and Halo did at the time, which kept me loyal to Halo. Oddly Halo 5 didn’t have it, but Black Ops did have split screen coop and I honestly would have said bye to Halo then and there, and dove into CoD, but I’m older now and CoD is just too violent to play with my kids. So now I’m stuck hoping Halo gets their act together so I can actually play the game with my kids.
Unfortunately I don’t see MCC ever getting split screen for PC but I would love to be proven wrong, with the support being way less active than it used to be it just doesn’t seem likely we will get something like that.
I’m not really sure how split screen works for a PC. Wouldn’t it just be easier for your friend to bring over their own laptop or something and get couch coop that way instead?
It would work the same way as consoles you can connect multiple controllers to the same rig and steam recognizes the multiple inputs
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I think the only difference would be profiles, as Windows computers don’t currently support multiple Xbox profiles on one game console. However, if only one player on an Xbox system has Xbox Live Gold and is playing the Master Chief Collection online, their account is duplicated as guest profiles: NaviLicious(1) NaviLicious(2), and so on. This could be the way its handled for Steam users, as many popular local multiplayer games (Battletoads, another game that syncs with your Xbox account) do the same.
If they wanted to go the extra mile, they could have locally saved profiles, akin to how Halo 2 and Combat Evolved pulled it off (I don’t think any Master Chief Collection data is saved locally, I believe most of it is stored online so that’d be a challenge), but just duplicating a temporary profile is pretty much the standard on PC so it doesn’t matter too much.
Yeah that’s how I was thinking it would work with guest profiles, for splitscreen campaign that doesn’t really matter but splitscreen MP I could see why some would want to splitscreen with their own accounts, but I mean also how many people would really care if they were splitscreening and had to use guest accounts that percentage would be very small I imagine?
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I’d argue it’d matter for campaign just for the sake of controller preferences and not wanting to change them each time, but your point still stands.
Every once in a while I’ll find guest profiles online of Xbox players using split-screen for matchmaking in Halo, so I imagine people don’t mind.
For what it’s worth both Reach and ODST are on sale on Xbox for $7 USD total. If you are on console you have 2 player split-screen support on all campaigns as well as 4 player split-screen in multiplayer modes.
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