I always play Halo 1 on easy, haha.
Highest I got was Heroic until I got my shit handed to me in Truth and Reconciliation.
Never got into higher difficulty Halo until Halo 3.
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Halo: CEA is now available in The Master Chief Collection on PC
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Highest I got was Heroic until I got my shit handed to me in Truth and Reconciliation.
Never got into higher difficulty Halo until Halo 3.
MCC is the launcher. Everybody needs it.Really? It says this over on my end:
I will report back if it starts to kick my ass. Reach didn't take me too much longer. Only got stuck in the fucking spaceship mission.
So you want the graphical people, the engine people, and the gameplay people to just sit around and do nothing while the audio people fix the audio for one game? thats a complete waste of time
I want to be able to play the games in order of release on PC without issues the day they are released. Don't release titles until they are ready.
If you get the Microsoft Store app "Xbox Console Companion", you can change the Friends List view to "Recent Players" to find players, open their profile, and report them. Don't think there is a way to do it in-game on PC.
Check out Ruby's Rebalanced Halo Campaigns, the Reach version is already out on nexusmods. Ruby himself has long done the Halo 1 and 2 rebalances but they need to be ported to MCC.
I do believe it's the Gearbox version with heavy modifications. IIRC they used the Gearbox version cause it was the only one with network / online connectivity. As a result its not a 1:1 port of the better looking OG Xbox version.
Yes, this is a port of the Xbox One version of the game, which had all of the anniversary edition upgrades. There's a chance they used some of the gearbox version to develop it faster, but I'm not certain.
They have been trying to work in the Halo 1 Xbox version stuff back into the game. I think the game would technically be a halfway point between the original Xbox version and the original Gearbox PC version.
What are some of the main differences between the Xbox and Gearbox version? I only played the old PC version briefly and then Anniversary when it came out originally.
Glowing things like shields look different. Flashlight doesn't quite look as good.
Some of the graphical effects from the original Xbox aren't there or aren't done correctly. Some people have theorized that Gearbox was working off of an older build of the game.
Uh, how do I get it to download the update? I still see the Halo CE campaign greyed out in MCC. Gamepass version if it matters.
Man, CE: Anniversary's updated graphics look a lot uglier than I remember. The audio is at least much better than Reach's, even if I have noticed occasional stuttering/looping of BGM at certain parts of levels. Possibly when it gets confused with event triggers, tough to tell.
Also the performance seems quite bad for a game that looks this dated. Not unplayably bad, just slightly choppy.
Also the performance seems quite bad for a game that looks this dated. Not unplayably bad, just slightly choppy.
Steam version for me but you go into the game and install it in the menu.
You should be able to open up the Gamepass app, select the game and then click update.
Same for me too. When I then completed Halo, it unlocked the achievements for The Silent Cartographer.
Yeah. Matchmaking is done through your xbox account so steam requires it too
The Xbox/Gamepass app is finally showing an update for MCC, but the Update button doesn't want to do anything. Guess I'll try later.
Played up to Assault on the Control Room
- Audio in CEA overall is fine, during the first flight build I did hear muted sounds but that's gone now
- Had unlimited frame rate on, plus vsync off and no screen tearing like in Reach (haven't checked if Reach is also fixed in this regard).
- Zoom bug from flight is fixed. No noticeable input delay.
- There is an audio bug with the plasma pistol, if you fire without charging it makes the charging sound after a certain amount of shots.
- Pelicans in cutscenes stutter when flying, haven't noticed stuttering on anything else.
It's a port of the X1 MCC version, which is an enhanced port of the 360 CEA version, which is an enhanced version of the Gearbox CE PC port. IIRC, along the way they've fixed a couple of the Gearbox quirks, but 343i has talked multiple times about bringing the MCC versions to OG Xbox parity down the line.
From within the game? I didn't see any way to uninstall Reach campaign.
Played through the first couple levels and everything seems fine. My wait for all of the games to be released so I can binge them in co-op continues.
Gonna wait for a digital foundry video. Anniversary was inaccurate, and that was on top of the gearbox version which also was inaccurate, I've no clue how MCC handled it or is handling it on PC.
While cutscenes don't feel as smooth as the gameplay so far, 144Hz G-sync feels pretty darn great so far in this game with m+kb.
The graphics kinda make me wish that the game would get remastered again for XsX with ~50x more power than the hardware this game was originally made for.
The graphics kinda make me wish that the game would get remastered again for XsX with ~50x more power than the hardware this game was originally made for.
As far as I'm aware it has inherited most of the issues picked up along the way
It's definitely the gearbox version with all the graphical issues that come with it
Edit: Actually going back I did notice those shadows on my game as well and it shouldn't look like that.So am I the only one who's getting some pretty hideous shadows in the first mission? Lots of dithering and banding. I'm on the enhanced graphics setting and anniversary graphics.
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There's so much light in the second one lolBefore and after..
The idea that "devs" are some fungible resource and not groups of people with different skills, working in different teams, on different timeframes is one of the more common misconceptions gamers have.
That also looks sharpened? Have you got anything like Reshade, Geforce Freestyle filters etc running?So am I the only one who's getting some pretty hideous shadows in the first mission? Lots of dithering and banding. I'm on the enhanced graphics setting and anniversary graphics.
Okay so... Is it just me or does Halo CEA look a lot worse? Like yeah, I know, it's a 360 game, but when I tried it out on MCC on XBO I did not think it looked bad at all. Straight up incredibly low textures on the Autumn in the first cutscene and the text of the ship was floating well away from the ship itself. There was also some weird pop-in and clipping in the cutscene too.