Zumokumibonsu

Jesus that might as well be wednesday the 13th.

Im not angry or complaining. Totally forgot about the whole pandemic thing for just one second. Just clarifying that!

You can just pretend it comes out on the 13th?
Given the massive strains placed on the internet around the world - particularly in areas of Europe - many companies have been asked to or are willingly shifting large releases outside of peak windows to help alleviate strain. Trust me, normally we'd def prefer to not initiate a major release starting at 8PM PT.

PoppedCocaColaCan

It should yes

correct, you should be able to get just H2/H2A (together, it's one package) for $9.99 standalone. The $39.99 price is the complete collection - which is Reach/HCEA so far, H2A starting tomorrow, and the rest as they come out this year. It's a great deal, and they're cheaper if you get the bundle, but you still can't go wrong with H2/H2A for $9.99 IMO. (you can also get it all as part of Xbox Game Pass for PC)

OfficialTop1C9Fan

Pretty sure it was explicitly stated that there wouldnt be any Halo Infinite news

"Hey folks just FYI in case you haven't heard but this show today is just 3rd party, Halo and first party will be part of the July show..."

Internet: "He's lying! this is clearly a trick! It'll be a secret at the end!"

Show concludes.

Internet: "WTH no Halo!!! Thanks for teasing us and getting our hopes up!"

OfficialTop1C9Fan

The initial announcment said that there would only be 3rd party games today and that Xbox Game Studio games would be shown in July

ske7ch also said on twitter that there would be no Halo today

It's mentioned in the official Xbox Wire post announcing the show and Xbox 20/20 series, tons of media outlets have also covered it, and it's been all over Twitter. BUT, it is a good point that not everyone sees/seeks out these sources so we can't assume people just "know." (I always try to set realistic expectations when I'm allowed)

Where's the Halo Infinite gameplay! It's been years!

bordeauxse

Is there any chance we'll get server browser?

Without that multiplayer is hell with that slow and clunky old school matchmaking.

a custom game browser was something the team shared intentions for a long, long time ago. it's still on the list and I'm pretty hopeful we'll get there but it's going to take more time. As the whole project became more challenging and time consuming than originally anticipated, several quality of life improvements and community-requested-features had to get moved to the backlog until more time/resources can be devoted to it.

God_Damnit_Nappa

Seriously, it's been months since MCC was released on PC. Where's the file share too?

File share has regrettably been a pretty big challenge on numerous fronts. The April MCC Dev blog touches on it a bit. Without a File Share, Forge is incredibly limited thus hasn't been released yet. The good news is all the UI and PC control work is generally done now, so the team has made progress since Reach. Now just need a bit more time on File Share stuff. We'll share more info as soon as we have it.

user239043024

FWIW, I get really bad screen tearing even when capped at 60 fps with a GTX 1060 (6 GB) at 1440p. Not sure if this is something I should report on the Halo Support site. I do not have V-sync enabled, though, due to the input lag - but even in other games like CSGO, I get much less screen tearing with V-sync disabled. I don't know if there's a way to reduce the excessive screen tearing outside of enabling V-sync (in the case where the GPU can render >= the number of frames supported by the monitor).

If you'd be willing to file a support ticket, it would be helpful. The more tickets we get around and issue helps the team better assess the scope of impact. And often new tickets include new info and insights for the team as they work to investigate and resolve issues.

Saltcaller

So all this stuff saying that it was gonna come out today just happened to occur at the same time?

Damn forgot questions weren't allowed

Nothing said it was "going to come out today" that I'm aware of, minus the official launch trailer that briefly appeared on Steam a week early.

oGxSKiLZz117

Honestly though they should just fix all the issues with Reach and CE before continuing to release more. Piling bugs ontop of bugs just to "fix them later" is what caused the issues with MCC in the first place. What ever happened to "Its ready when its ready".

We'd love to do that - trust me, the team doesn't feel great or enjoy a growing backlog of issues/feedback areas. It's complicated - there are different workstreams and different partners doing different things. Not all things are equal in terms of time/resources/complexity. Based on player feedback early on, the decision was made to offer the 'bundle' so we now have many, many customers who have paid up front for products we promised this year. The team has to continue moving forward on the remaining four titles and unfortunately this has meant that some backlog items have ended up taking longer than hoped (particularly as the entire studio shifted to an indefinite work-from-home situation - which has had a real impact).
H2 will have 'issues' at launch - all games do. The team has done their best to attack critical issues raised during flighting and get to what they feel is a solid foundation for release. Most players will have a good experience w/ H2 come next week. We will publish...

PeenScreeker_psn

Wonder how many of the known issues from the flight will remain on the 12th. Playing with 500+ fps and having heavy input (buttons, not camera movement) delay felt awful.

There are definitely known issues at launch. Some of those are persisting from flighting (though some of the feedback areas from flighting were never validated / repro'd / deemed a true 'issue' outside of a one-off case). We'll hopefully get the known issues list posted before release.

CorkyCorc

Hell yea. I’m pumped. Haven’t plays MCC PC since reach. Did they fix the screen tearing?

VFR implementation in MCC on PC is still considered 'experimental' and is generally at parity w/ Reach and HCEA. I suspect some players who enabled uncapped will still encounter screen tearing in situations where framerates dont match up to their monitor refresh rate. The team wants to dig back into that down the road and has some ideas to make the experience better but it's going to take time.

albinogoron

Just a guess. i honestly think the game was originally to plan on releasing on May 5th but it received a delay a few weeks back. Probably was a communication error.

Reasoning for this is that the trailer that they uploaded originally said Available Now, which was a mistake and it was replaced. As well, a Mouse pad was released today to celebrate H2A PC release.

Link to Mousepad: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/halo-2-anniversary-mousepad/8w3whql533vp

The game was actually never going to release today - it was always May 12. Sorry folks got jebaited somewhat - I don't disagree that Twitter interaction was a little misleading (esp given that we did release HCEA out of the blue with little notice, so I don't blame folks for thinking that was the case again). As soon as I saw the tweets I knew what the outcome expectation would be (and I tried to course correct this AM). And that trailer wasn't actually meant to be published today - that trailer is for launch on 5/12. There was a brief issue where it went live on the Steam page, I believe it was rectified.

17760704

Basically none of the problems from the Reach flight were fixed before release, even after months of delays. Safe to say the game is going to release with a ton of bugs whether they do it today or in a week, so might as well just shove it out now.

That's just not true. Many "problems from the Reach flight" were indeed addressed by launch. Others were not - some were addressed in later updates, and still others are still in progress (audio, for example). The scope and severity of the current known issues vary and the team continues to do work and we do our best to provide transparency into status and expectations - while they also have to keep moving forward with four more games owed to customers who've purchased the bundle.

chipsnapper

You can actually see /u/ske7ch343 standing behind Jones at 1:00.

wow, this takes me waaaay back. not sure of this exact date but i was surely pretty new to the team. really striking how small this team was (and just really puts into perspective how much a small team was able to accomplish). and jason's pure creative drive, unwavering commitment to only do the best at anything, and reluctance to 'lead' in a corporate sense made him that much more authentic and inspiring

thothpethific92

I actually think 343 should host some type of annual meeting for the biggest halo youtubers or streamers or whatever. I just feel like a lot of those guys have a little bit more of an understanding of what fans want, as opposed to 343, as they interact with their audience on a regular basis. I mean, Act Man and HiddenXperia (and probably some others) both are constantly on top of Halo news on multiple platforms for disseminate, theorize, analyze and discuss with us.

I'm not as deep into 343 news as some other people, but I never hear about how they host a type of forum to have a real discussion with hardcore fans to get "street level" opinions about the biggest successes and failures of the IP. Idk, probably not gunna happen but it's clear Halo 4 and Halo 5 let a lot of people down. Especially using other media sources to dull out critical plot points (Like the fucking Didact).

We do have some various groups we tap into officially and unofficially. Sometimes they come to the studio, sometimes we reach out to them. We have flighting programs, we also have all sorts of surveys and marketing studies and user research programs. And our community team (and much of the studio) is comprised of fans. So, I feel pretty dang confident I/we know what "fans want." They want a lot of things. :) Sometimes the same things, often times very different things. We/community team in particular take our responsibility to represent our community and their needs and opportunities very seriously. Advocating for players is a huge part of our jobs. It's not always easy and there's generally healthy tension in both directions (which is how it also was back in my OG days at Bungie though honestly, at Bungie we did less overt work to try and listen/gather that feedback than is the norm today).

That was fun to watch, thanks! And oof that picture of me... I vividly remember that. Spike Game Awards. Red carpet. Pretty cringey but we just said hell with it and went all in. Then we heard about an after party at an LA club but naturally we weren't invited. Marty made plays and we had a limo pick us up from the Spike venue and just drive right up to the VIP/limo drop off line at this party and just got out and walked up like we owned the place (well, Marty did as I recall, I just followed his lead). We got inside and I remember Marty being pretty disappointed - it wasn't his scene. I was loving it ;) the whole upstairs of this club was blocked off with large bouncers and then I saw a who's who of rappers up there. Snoop, Ludacris, Little John, and others evidently got the whole upstairs blocked off so they could smoke blunts. A huge heavy smoke hung over the whole club. This was like many years before 'legalization' was remotely a thing. Things got.. fuzzy after that, but it's one...

Decisions decisions! FYI that MCC is currently on sale on Steam! But on Microsoft Store, you could opt to get MCC via Xbox Game Pass for PC (which is a great deal).

It's being extended - thanks for the flag on the Steam event, we'll need to update that.

blamite

I don't understand the change from emails to invite flight participants. I have absolutely no reason to ever log into the website so unless I get an email, I'm never going to know if I'm in a flight from this point on I guess.

Many people have had numerous issues receiving emails in prior flights. It's created a lot of confusion, frustration, and support tickets for players and the team. There's no silver bullet solution to send out hundreds of thousands of emails to dozens of different email clients that kind of all handle mass mails a bit differently. We also have internal systems that need to query the Insider database, pull the correct user group, merge in the correct platform key and info, etc..

We'll still get the word out when a flight is beginning (@Halo Support is probably a good account to follow), but Insiders who are interested in participating will need to expend a tiny bit of effort to visit Waypoint, log in, and get their key. We feel it's an acceptable thing to ask in return for more reliable and consistent communications (particularly as the flight groups have grown and exceed 100K active invites on average). But, as with everything, we'll continue to listen and monitor and find ways to co...