Halo TMCC Master Race confirmed

[Ambrose Burnside]

Yeah I'll no doubt grab it on Steam at some point, will be nice to complete the series with ODST and Reach (I'm assuming they'll be charging Xbox peeps extra for Reach the way they do for ODST) but still, dick move.

[unfnknblvbl]

charging Xbox peeps extra for Reach the way they do for ODST

Do they? Mine was free.

[Ambrose Burnside]

They gave it away for free for a while as an apology for how shit MCC was when it launched, but I didn't get it until after that deal ended.

[unfnknblvbl]

Oh. Fuckers.

Not much of a collection if it doesn't contain all the games then, innit? I wonder if the PC version will include Halo 5 as well?

[lestat]

[unfnknblvbl]

So it's the Master Chief Collection, but you have to buy each game separately, and there's no way to buy them as some kind of, I dunno... "collection"

Right.

[Peppermint Lounge]

December 3 for Halo Reach via Steam or Microsoft (yes to Game Pass).

[lestat]

Can't wait, playing destiny lately on PC, it's so much better playing bungie games with kbam. Will be fun replaying these games at 144hz and kbam. My gamepass is ready.

[flipswitch]

Can you play against Xbox users? Would be handy if you could because of the larger player base.

[lestat]

They already have cross play in other games, I've been playing Gears 5 pvp a lot and you get matched against console players.

I'm assuming they've added it here too.

[unfnknblvbl]

I gotta admit, $50 for the whole collection on PC is a pretty alright bargain. I'm actually tempted to pre-order it so they don't bait-and-switch the pricing on us.

[Peppermint Lounge]

Halo Reach releasing 10am PST which is tomorrow (Dec 4) for us. I'm ready.

[lestat]

Shame that it won't have cross play between PC and Xbone, but still very excited to play this on PC.

[Rorschach]

Pumped for this. Been so long since I've played the Halo games. To play them in higher resolutions will be awesome.

[unfnknblvbl]

I am 110% waiting for reviews and user feedback this time. Fucking RDR2...

[t0mby]

Fucking RDR2...

[lestat]

Heh I go to load it up this morning, I get prompted with another 21Gb download, umm so much for that "preload".

Watching streams this morning, it looks great. I get this feeling this is going to be a very popular PC MP title going forward.

Look forward to trying some games tonight.

[Peppermint Lounge]

Yeah I noticed the 'preload' didn't download much other than adding program icons to my library.

[Peppermint Lounge]

Immediately more than 100k concurrent players on Steam. I'll be playing via XBox Windows.

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Halo has returned to PC. The long-awaited launch of Halo: Reach is here, and players on Steam are more than ready for it. Even if Reach might not have quite the same nostalgic reach as its predecessors, it managed to pull in over 100,000 concurrent players just one hour after launch, and it’s burning up all the relevant metrics. The future looks bright for Halo PC.

[flipswitch]

So is multiplayer available, and if so, dedicated servers?

[Peppermint Lounge]

Yes to both.

[flipswitch]

That’s great. My only complaint with Halo on Xbox was people rage quitting half way through a match, resulting in the game being stopped and finding a new host.

[lestat]

Thankfully the game has moved to azure instanced servers, so no host advantage and switching bs.

[lestat]

Played all last night, first thing the framerate is weird, you can run higher than 60fps but the game animation seems locked to 60fps so it never feels as smooth as 144hz should. Netcode is also jank, lots of weird things happening, double kills etc. It just feels dated and little annoying to play.

[Peppermint Lounge]

Agreed. I turned on a fps overlay because I thought I was getting sub-60fps slowdown. Nope, high fps all the way. I had Radeon Chill on to keep it at 144 so turned that off in case it was contributing to the roughness. No change. I played an hour of the campaign at Heroic difficulty and it feels pretty dated.

The audio is also shit. Sounds scratchy and compressed.

I can't launch it from the XBox beta Windows app either. Click play and nothing happens. It launches fine from Gog Galaxy 2.0 or the Windows start menu.