Thread 715882567

Is the MCC worth picking up?

The only thing it doesn't give you is the matchmaking experience of the late noughties because there's no pre-game lobby, map voting or post-game lobby.
Campaign is as good as ever and there's a server browser for all the whacky custom games halo's physics engine facilitates.
It's worth it for full price. It's DEFINITELY worth it on sale.

>>715882921
Couch co-op?

>>715882972
PC version? No. Hell I'm not even sure console has it. (It has to, right?)

https://youtu.be/_DVN3fHKGsA

There are various mods that add it back but I never personally tried them.

>>715882567 (OP)
For 10 bucks it's a no-brainer.

>>715882567 (OP)
Back in 2002, my brother sold my Xbox and Halo: CE for drugs. I've never forgiven him

>>715882567 (OP)
It's sad how horrible Microsoft is at managing just about everything. I would have loved to see firefight added in for CE and H2

>>715882972
On xbox, not pc

>>715883087
The mod isn't even doing a lot of work on PC. It just re-enables the split screen functionality they turned off because fuck you.

Nobody plays anything but competitive shit and mostly in halo 3 and reach
So many games have been ruined by zoomers having awful taste and millenials having to grow up and slave away for jews and women

>>715882921
I wish they'd added a classic mode to play the games at the original resolutions. You can technically do so, but all the effects have been adjusted to appear correctly on 1080p+ only and look fucking weird and wrong at 640x480.
That, and fix all the weird small glitches that make the games inaccurate to the original releases. Open sourcing the games would do wonders but that'll never happen.

>>715882567 (OP)
The single button switching between classic and remake gfx still blows my mind why isn't every remake like that

>>715884024
I hope they never update the game ever again. All the best mods are unplayable with online functionality because you have to play an outdated version of the game. That if anything is what killed the momentum the modding community had after workshop support was added.

>>715884191
The remake graphics are fucking terrible. Completely shit all over everything, absolutely zero coherence or vision, all it does is make the environment harder to look at and navigate due to unless low quality pointless details obscuring the overall form. And of course they just flat out change cold lighting to warm and all other shit just shitting all over the original vision for no reason other than attempt to beautify it while making it just look like overdesigned noisy crap

>>715884206
Even if they update the mod support to be better?
Alright, man. I just want the actual games to be as good as can be.

Yeah, it has more players than Infinite.

>>715884431
Halo 2 looked pretty good, but yeah, the Halo 1 remake graphics are total shit.

>>715884467
mods can do that
besides, the mod support has only gotten worse with updates with more crashing and bizarre glitches like odst's hub world not loading the modded version
it's still better to use the classic method of modding where you replace map and fmod files

>>715882567 (OP)
Wait for a sale. $10 is good for the campaigns, but the multiplayer and modding scene is barren.

>>715883087
man i wish this existed when i played trough MCC with a mate, at the time the only available tool was running two instances of the game and playing coop on a local network from the same machine
Such a bitch to set up and have it run with the controllers properly

>>715884467
You clearly don't know anything about all this but you're acting all smug regardless.
Every update did something to make modding worse.
Either breaking the mod tools or breaking the game itself.
Mods have to be reconstructed from scratch with the bigger updates that change the map files in ways you described.
Modders got sick of it.

>>715885051
I almost preferred Nucleus because I could run each instance on a different monitor. But it eventually broke my Windows sign-in to the point where I had to do a fresh install.

>>715885381
>Mods have to be reconstructed from scratch
Usually not. At worst, they recompile the maps(like 20 minutes if you have a shit PC), or simply change the version number in the mod uploader.

>>715885381
Yeah, you're right. I don't know a whole lot about the modding community. They did fix important bugs like the Halo 3 BR though so ultimately patching MCC has been a net positive as far as I'm concerned.
Have there even been any projects to act as comprehensive fixes or are they all a bunch of ODST SMG in Halo 3 tier wastes of time?

>>715885598
>They did fix important bugs like the Halo 3 BR though
no they did not
they merely increased the aim assist a little bit
all the network issues persist

>>715886329
I'm talking about the hitscan range being tied to frame rate. They fixed it.

>>715885569
The rest of the line you cherrypicked invalidates your entire post.

>>715882567 (OP)
one of the most enjoyable co-op games ever. i completed the entire base trilogy on legendary with a friend.

>>715886416
so am I
it's still broken in 3 and still broken in 2 despite their claims that it was fixed
the issue is server side but the 'fixes' were all client side
the advantage the 'fixes' provide is that you are more likely to hit your shots in red reticle range
you're so bad faith

On sale for sure but it will never quite capture the original experience

One of the only things 343i has done right. Don't know anything about the matchmaking experience though.

>>715886834
>You're so bad faith
Blow it out your ass.

>>715889037
i'll put it this way
you're defending 343 industries with the surface of your tongue

>>715886834
Halo 2 and 3 always had bad hit registration.

>>715884651
Yeah 2 was at least ok. I was mainly just thinking of 1. And the multi-player maps of 2 look kinda bad, lots of clipping into black

>>715889161
343 is fucking dead, you've already gotten your wish for no updates.
Now show me how is still broken because since this patch
https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/23707515298324-Halo-The-Master-Chief-Collection-MCC-Update-February-2024
it certainly seemed fixed to me.

If it's broken because of the multiplayer netcode that's a separate issue and I don't play Halo MP anyway because of controller fags, so I wouldn't know.
Let's see if you can respond like a civilized gentleman without acting like a fucking nigger again.

>>715889281
yeah if you shot or melee'd the host under certain circumstances it was noticeable but then you were fine against everyone else
in mcc everyone suffers because the servers are all dogshit
ping is really high in mcc compared to other games
>>715889693
you're not a nice person anon so i'm not going to keep talking with you
especially about something that doesn't even affect you
and something that is a claim made by notorious liars
hopefully i've given you some things to think about but frankly you don't seem like the thinking type

If I made a custom lobby would anyone be up for a little Halo 2 multiplayer

>>715890483
Sure. What are you planning to run?

>Worth?

What do you mean? You're the one paying for it, retard.

>>715890349
You seem like an overly emotional fella.
Are you one of those notorious liars?

>>715890772
I ran a quick game on 4th of July. It was just team slayer on a rotation of 7 maps. Had fun with it so I'll do that again.
I'll post when it's up.
Might throw in CTF on a couple maps.

"Casual Shooting" is up in the custom games browser. Halo 2.
3 maps Team Slayer, 3 maps Neutral Flag CTF, 1 map King of the Hill.
Will play as long as people are into it.

remade the lobby. Same name. Same games. Just lowered the score limit in Team Slayer to 25, since the default gametype has the score set to 50 for some reason

>play halo mcc big team battle
>rats nest
>longshore
>sandbox
>sandbox
>longshore
>sandbox
>longshore
>rats nest
>people with gay flag banners and nigger supremacy banners

>>715882567 (OP)
yes

>>715886471
O H B A N A N A

>>715882972
I played the whole package using Nucleuscoop, except I got two monitors so both me and my gf had a dedicated big screen.
It's basically running two instances and faking a lan connection, your PC must be able to handle it.