Welcome back to another monthly MCC Development Update. This month’s edition brings information on topics ranging from community contests, flights, design updates, HCS interviews, and an overall look at the status of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. There’s some juicy details in this one, so before your mouth starts to water too much, grab some snacks, cozy up in your most comfortable chair and let’s get this one rolling!
FORGE THE FIGHT
Earlier in the month some of our friends over at ForgeHub announced a contest for Halo 3 called “Forge the Fight.” The team over there is offering up some great prizes for map creators and have judges from the community and 343 Industries both past and present, including @Unyshek, @Naded, and @BlazeDillon. We are very excited to see what sort of creations the community comes up with during this contest. As a very important note, maps from this contest will also be considered for official integration into MCC multiplayer matchmaking if they are high enough quality. So, if you are into making maps, check this out and see if you have the chops to stack up with some of the best across the community! The submission date deadline is September 19th at 11:59 PM PST, so make sure to budget both your Forge pieces and your time wisely.
HALO 3: ODST FLIGHT
With Halo: The Master Chief Collection, flighting is a part of its DNA. It’s how we work with the community to make the games we release the best they can be. Over the course of MCC, the teams working on flighting have learned a lot and our mantra is flight early and flight often. Flighting for Halo 3: ODST began on July 17th to folks in Ring 1 & 2 and over the course of development these groups have seen a total of 12 build updates delivered to them. Folks in our preliminary Rings are the tip of the spear before it makes it to those participating in Ring 3, our public flight.
Over the course of the 2-week flight we have seen well over 2,000 unique tickets submitted by the community. Below are some of the top issues as well as their status at the time of writing this:
Halo Support flight feedback that has now been fixed:
- Detached turrets using lowered crosshair on PC while set to centered
- Subtitles missing during cutscenes
- Character models in Firefight use Romeo’s hands
- AA Wraith spawning upside down in “Lost Platoon”
- Players unable to use Health Packs
- Suicide Grunts not appearing to have Plasma Grenades in their hands in Firefight
- Phantom gun did not have a forward-facing gun/aim for players while in Firefight for clients
Halo Support flight feedback being tracked for future fixes (by launch or after):
- AI getting stuck when attempting to vault over objects or jump down ledges
- Phantom becomes stuck on environment in some Firefight matches
- Players are unable to operate or exit hijacked Ghosts
- Up/Down arrow keys always ping the waypoint, even when rebound
- Scope zoom SFX plays twice
We believe flighting is critical to the overall success and satisfaction of players with MCC. However, in this latest public flight, we had lower than average participation and we are looking to find out why. We are going to be sending out a survey to some of our Halo Insider invitees so we can learn more about why people chose not to join us this time around.
If you are sitting there saying, “Well, why wasn’t I invited? I would have totally participated!”, please make sure to head over to your Halo Insider program profile and make sure all items are up-to-date. If you haven’t registered and would like to have the opportunity to be part of the possible pool, please follow these steps:
- Register on aka.ms/HaloInsider
- Verify the email address you've provided for communication
- Opt-in to receive communications from us
- Opt-in to PC flights or Xbox One flights (no preference is available at this time)
- Link your Steam account
- Upload/update your DxDiag
Thank you to those who have expressed interest and have registered. Your help is invaluable, and the community reaps the rewards when everyone participates!
Be sure to head over to Halo Waypoint to read the rest of the update today!
If you want to catch up on past editions of the dev update, you can find the one you want here:
- MCC PC & Halo: Reach Announcement
- MCC Development Update – April 2019
- MCC Development Update – May 2019
- MCC Development Update – June 2019
- MCC Development Update – July 2019
- MCC Development Update – August 2019
- MCC Development Update – September 2019
- MCC Development Update – October 2019
- MCC Development Update – November 2019
- MCC Development Update – December 2019
- MCC Development Update – January 2020
- MCC Development Update – February 2020
- MCC Development Update – March 2020
- MCC Development Update – April 2020
- MCC Development Update – May 2020
- MCC Development Update – June 2020
- MCC Development Update – July 2020