re: Halo MC collection details

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What's the difference between the 6 maps getting the anniversary treatment and all of the rest? All of the maps are going to have updated 1080 and 60 fps graphics correct?

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Every Map is getting the 1080 60fps jump. CE-4.

The anniversary maps are completely rebuilt on a Xb1 engine. So if you really wanted to stretch it its a new game. Mostly just updated but you get my point. They had added some small things here and there to the new maps. They say its things the designers said they wished theyd put in after the fact or just didnt have the raw computing power to do.

CE 2 3 4 campaign gameplay



A small amount of multiplayer in there but not much

I happen to be not that busy today so I was on top of it

I want to see more multiplayer

HALO 2 ANNIVERSARY’S CAMPAIGN ISN’T 1080P

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A few months ago, 343 Industries commented saying they were having difficulties gettingHalo 2 Anniversary’s Campaign running at 1080p. This is because the game is not only running the original graphics engine from 2004, but also running on a newly created engine by Sabre Interactive for the 2014 remaster.

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In an interview with IGN, Dan Ayoub – Executive Producer at 343 Industries confirmed that when Halo: The Master Chief Collectionlaunches on November 11th, the Halo 2 Anniversary Campaign will run at a 1328×1080 resolution.

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“During development we were really pleased with the way the engine and buffer allowed us to switch instantly between classic and Anniversary engines that are running simultaneously – however that, as you might expect, put a hit on resolution. The campaign of Halo 2: Anniversary looked fantastic at 720p with the level of detail and clarity it gave us, but like every other aspect of the game and tech, we wanted to push it further.  So in the last weeks of development, our teams were able to meet a stretch goal and the campaign of Halo 2: Anniversary now runs 60 fps at a crisp resolution of 1328×1080, which is a significant and meaningful boost in image quality we think fans are really going to appreciate. All of the other games across the entire package of The Master Chief Collection run 60 fps at 1920×1080 native.”

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NEW MEDALS COMING TO HALO 1 & HALO 2

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Today IGN announced new medals would be coming to Halo: CE and Halo 2 classic. Halo 2 famously started the medal trend for future Halo titles and now thanks to The Master Chief Collection we will be able to see them in Halo CE, and see more within Halo 2 as well.

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“New medals have been added to both Halo: CE and Halo 2 for campaign and multiplayer,” 343 told us. “There are nearly 100 unique medals in both Halo: CE and Halo 2. We felt this addition would make the multiplayer experience feel more modern and give players more ways to track their progress and style. For players who want a classic experience, medal display can be turned off for Halo: CE and can be toggled between off, classic medals, and modern medals for Halo 2 Classic. Campaign medals are awarded for enemy and style kills as part of the unified campaign scoring system, which is a new variation of the systems in Halo 3, ODST, and Reach.”

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It just didn't get remade. It will get a bump because of the 1080 60 fps.

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We asked and are awaiting confirmation on whether or not Master Chief Collection will support digital pre-ordering/pre-loading.

Halo 3 and Halo 4 make use of the Xbox One controller’s impulse triggers out of the box (we experienced it!), and Halo: CE and Halo 2 will have that functionality added in via a game update shortly after release.

The Scorpion tank still lives in the Coagulation Anniversary remake, but you have to turn it on in Forge (more on all of that later this month).

Halo 2 Anniversary runs at 1328 x 1080.

In classic Halo 2 multiplayer, the Ghost’s fuel tank could be shot, causing the Ghost to explode. This is one little detail that didn’t carry over to the Halo 2-emulating Xbox One engine that runs the six Anniversary maps.
It took a lot of work to make Halo 2 feel right. In fact, “We had to get Havok to recreate aspects of the original physics code used for Halo 2,” 343 told us.

Halo: CE Anniversary’s Kinect features are not supported in MCC.

Halo: CE’s version of Blood Gulch is the original Xbox version, not the Halo PC version that included the Banshee by default.

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H3 looks so nice

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Yessir! We're supposed to learn a lot about the "Halo Channel" today, and probably an extra thing or two.