Halo MCC Is Still Alive! New Update Fixes Many Things! 

They really need to fix halo 2 classic audio and music in the campaign

Before MCC officially stops being updated 343 needs to add in the original credit roll at the completion of any game. Developers deserve recognition for their work! And honestly you shouldn't have to be taken to an outside link to see the credits for those who worked on MCC at 343, they also deserve recognition.

Thank Christ they fixed the Halo 3 cutscene Cortana moments. That was THE major one that I was terrified was gonna be left alone for the rest of time.

If they would just fix H2 Classic campaign audio being too quiet I could die happy

Halo MCC deserves more content, there are still things 343I promised us and didn't deliver.

Microsoft should make a team dedicated to fixing and maintaining older games so they continue working as intended. That way 343 and other studios can make new content and products. Whilst the 'janitor' team maintains and fixes any issues with those games.

I still wish 343 would give Console players mod support and give Mcc more content and updates

My wish for the real final update: - H2 and HR weapon skins, even if they are just reused versions of ones found in CE and 3 - A co-op browser? Just so I can play Spartan Ops as intended, as well as get those Steam Achievements. - Toggleable multiplayer armor for campaign, much like how weapon skins and campaign scoring are handled in the mission configuration - Fixing still broken HR physics (tested it today on Oni Sword Base elevator with Kat. Still floating) - Turning off friendly fire for FF Classic/Floodfight in matchmaking so we get fewer griefers. I hate being Firebombed/Rocketed/Splattered just for touching a power weapon - Adding all past FOMO Exchange unlocks back into the shop. 343 isn't making money off of those skins anyway, so no need to keep them locked up.

I want the old UI so badly

I want MCC to add a Bump Possession Skull to all the Halos, officially

Played Firefight on MCC just some days ago. I'm surprised it didn't take as long to get a match in either. It's definitely alive indeed!

they need to fix weapon carryover from delta halo to regret

I’ve been watching your channel for years now. At this point your commentary and voice is comforting, it’s like hearing an old friend. I know that sounds weird, cause it is, but I appreciate your channel and the work you put into it. Thank you!

I have never been able to keep my menu backgrounds for more than a day, usually they’d reset if I even closed the game and immediately relaunched it. I’m hoping that they actually fixed that this time, because they’d made attempts before.

Cmon 343! Don’t give up on this game yet.

The way you checked the Exchange in the beginning to see if they fixed the broken item rotation 😭😩. Honestly that’s my biggest thing I’d like to see fixed. So many items I missed out on or just can’t get now. Glad they updated MCC and fixed some things though! Anyone who says any issue, no matter how small, isn’t worth them fixing is dead wrong. These are our games, MCC is our collection, and 343i has a duty to keep their word, preserve Halo history, and finish their fight.

YES Cortana flash moments are vital to Halo 3 story!

I don't care about big features (besides console mods for those people and a custom games browser for mods), but I welcome any bug fixes

Content wise MCC is fine, but we need the old social features back, pre and post game lobbies, proximity voice chat, map vetoing, a less crappy fileshare, stuff like that, fixes are very welcome though.

Definately still need some audio fixes for Halo 2 but also some mods are now broken because of this update (i.e. Cursed Halo).

I just need campaign crossplay across all the games

I had zero idea until now that you could change the menu backgrounds and holy shit do the menus look so much better after changing them lmao

The best FPS experience possible. No other game can you do what you can do in the OG Halo titles. Best franchise ever. Period.

They need to fix Halo 2 Anniversary co-op. I've had problems with it booting me out of the mission as well as the other person. I'm not the only one who's had this problem either. Also, on certain Arbiter missions, it would kick us out if we turned invisible sometimes. It's weird. I also think it'd be cool if they brought firefight into custom game and forge so that you could customize where the waves drop in. That's probably just a dream but I think it'd be awesome!

I actually reported the G key switching grenade bug, glad to see it fixed. I have reload bound to G, so I would both reload and switch grenades at the same time, even though I did not bind G to switching grenades, so sometimes I'd get caught off guard not throwing a certain grenade when I was certain I had that grenade equipped. It only affected Halo 3 and ODST, probably because those two games have more than two types of grenades, so you'd cycle through grenades rather than alternate between two.

Cross-platform for all campaigns Console mod support Further improvements to mod tools (mainly H4, I hear those are a bitch to work with. I'm not a modder myself by any means) Modded custom games browser Those are the 4 big things I wanna see come to fruition before 343 finally wraps up MCC support.

Something to note about the backgrounds reset bug, was that temporary files were reset along with the backgrounds, so theater clips, recently played gametypes or forge maps, im really glad this got fixed and hope they do more campaign/script fixes.

I'm relieved. MCC still lives. Somewhat, but it makes me happy.

Hopefully this is a sign of things to come

What I really want 343 to do for MCC is fix the issue to play with people using the steam deck, my parents and my brother wanted to all play Halo one time and I joined using the deck but didn't know it wasn't fully supported, so I couldn't play with them, big bummer but a fix would be perfect

I would LOVE to see a before and after comparison on the halo 2 projectile speed update if that's possible.

There's still a lot of fixes that are needed for MCC. Its far from over. The Bungie/Legacy chest still needs to be fixed, its using the incorrect model during gameplay. I showed this to 343 using my unlocked version of Halo 3 on my 360 dev kit via screenshots between the original game and MCC, so the development team is aware of it, but who knows if they'll ever actually fix it. It wasn't an issue before when MCC came to PC, but its an issue now.

So glad the main menu backgrounds and the bugged cortana cutscenes are functional now, those being broken was really annoying me cause I thought they were never going to get fixed lol Assuming this update didn’t break anything new, all we need now is the halo 2 audio fixes already, and a toggle to disable those annoying moa collectibles everywhere and I’ll be be 100% content

Thanks for explaining this update! Very excited MCC got some more love :) The Halo 2 netcode especially, sounds like a real useful upgrade

It's almost been 10 years. Let the train keep rolling.

I was so pleasantly surprised. There's still hope we can have the best preservation project for Halo.

TIL that you can change the background on halo MCC

The BIGGEST thing i want them to fix is the sound issues for music, specifically classic Halo 2, the music is so quiet and it really messes up the badass moments in the game(specifically quarantine zones first section)

Amazing news, game preservation is soooo important. It's our history, and it deserves to be kept alive

No small update for halo 3’s hit reg.

I'm glad 343i gave us another Halo MCC update and hopefully more in the future. Also Halo 4 Cutscenes Audio needs to be fixed. The IWHBYD Skull glitch needs to be fixed as well.

So glad they touched up the H2 netcode

To those who say mcc shouldn't receive anymore updates are idiots. Like i get mcc is old but you'd think you would want to preserve these games. Like the cortana glitch for halo 3, i didn't know that was bug till now! So either way its good mcc got an update and hopefully they could do a little more when they get the chance.

I'm very pleased with this update. Now they need to bring back the correct gamma for Halo 3 because its not accurate to legacy xbox 360. It was more vibrant and colorful on xbox 360. Come on people start playing MCC and get your friends to buy it! Support MCC! Send in those tickets!

Nice to have an update, but I still want to see... Dedicated server support, Workshop and mod support, and 4 player split screen. Those 3 are my wish list now for update.

One thing I'm wishing to see... is a fix to the most prominant bug H3:ODST's modding scene. Usually when you sub a campaign mod for this game and you finish a level, it throws you into the vanilla version of Mombasa Streets, meaning that you need to start the next level manually. Can be prevented by simply installing the mod to the files.... but that defeats the whole purpose of the workshop, plus it prohibits you from playing regular vanilla if you do it.

Did they fix the jetpack brute in Crows Nest?

I still want them to fix the sliding issue on moving objects in Reach, it's so annoying in things like Oni Sword bases elevator or whenever you're trying to Pelican/falcon ride for glitches.

My biggest request for an MCC update is to add back Halo 2's original Grunt Birthday Party effect. The new one is just visual and Grunt Funeral is not nearly as useful.

You deserve more subscribers and views, your videos are amazing

MCC is the definitive Halo experience, yes it is very much alive.

I’m hoping this is a sign MCC will be one of the games going multi plat. I’m not even sure I’d pick it up elsewhere I just want a bigger player base

1:05 you… freaking… I KNEW SOMETHING WAS GOING ON IN MY CONSOLE!!!

They need to replace the shit 343 warthog in H2 anniversary with a pretty H3/Reach warthog.

We still need Crossplay for Xbox/PC/Steam for all Campaigns!!!! Not just 3 and ODST, it's been almost 10 years since MCC came out and we still can't do crossplay for Halo 2, CE, Reach and 4

Love your videos still. Been watching since 2017. Love the excitement in your voice when u make vids like this. Just genuine love for halo

I’m glad they put in some fixes, the only way I’ll be completely content with MCC is if they finally add campaign cross play for the rest of the games, we only have cross play for 3 and ODST for some odd reason.

Console mod support is a must imo

“Any sign of the mcc team?” “Negative, I think we lost them” Mcc team: “not yet”

I wonder if anyone was well aware of the hit reg parity issue in Halo 2 and can confirm it's fixed. I knew about it but wasn't aware of it precisely what was off. I wanna take that issue off my list

MCC is basically supposed to be like the preservation of Halo, I'm glad they are still trying to fix bugs to make it true to the originals and hope they continue to do so.

I want full elite customization for Reach. 😮‍💨

I wish they showed Halo 2 Anniversary’s multiplayer some more love. Highly slept on MP in my opinion.

Thank goodness! We need more. Thank you 343 and keep it coming

I love MCC. Gonna be so upsetting the day it possibly dies. Hopefully that never happens. Obviously the campaigns will always exist, it’s just gonna suck if the multiplayer community dies.

One bug I’ve seen allot is halo 2. The arbiter and the oracle. Coop keeps crashing. Idk if this has been fixed but this one I’ve seen a lot along with first hand.

Did they fix halo 2s coop campaign? Theres a few missions me and a friend couldnt beat on legendary bc the missions kept crashing. Delta halo, the great journey and 2 more.

1:32 so in Halo CE and 2 by default the switch grenades button is G and the throw grenades button is right click so that's probably why, maybe some leftover code from Halo 2 Vista. I actually use a Halo 2 style key mapping on Classic Halo because of all the muscle memory

Good to see some level of bug fixes to MCC. I wish they'd still fix a bunch of the lighting bugs, like Halo 3's gamma and the H2A forge map Awash being so dark when you start before slowly fading up to a more normal brightness. Other bugs too, but those come to mind. Also I wish they'd add a couple little things to H2A's forge sandbox since it's already different from the classic H2 sandbox, and with H2A multiplayer being built off of Halo 4 that means we could get the Mantis or Gravity Hammer with just a little effort on 343's part.

Did they fix the exploit where hackers could change their gamertag to yours to ban you from matchmaking?

Wait whoever’s saying Halo MCC doesn’t deserve anymore updates isn’t a true halo fan I’m sorry to say, as I can’t see why you wouldn’t want to fix at least the things that weren’t wrong with the original games. I’m personally still waiting for them to fix the audio issues in Halo 2 classic campaign, it’s essentially unplayable really with audio and music cues missing, the music was to me at least half the game. I’m also hoping we’ll see a fix with Halo Reach’s lighting that got stuffed up in the update before last, I usually like taking a lot of screenshots in theatre but its ruined by the glare everything gives off now. Also I play Halo MCC on Xbox Series X so I have no idea if these issues are present on the PC version as well

I’m still sad we didn’t get the operator armor from Halo Online onto Halo 3 multiplayer. I’ve already unlocked all the weapon/vehicle skins, and armor for h3 so my grind has been over for a minute. They don’t have to add it but it’d be nice if they did

I've just wanted them to fix H2A Forge lighting since they introduced that 4k update that added absolutely hellish bloom, made performance worse, and generally goofed several H2A Forge things that seemingly NO ONE ELSE cares about. All I've ever gotten in response is "our team is looking into it". Yeah? I've found six different jobs in the time it's taken them to NOT fix bugs that they created. I'm gonna be dead before this game is patched to resemble the former release version. Halo won't die. Its fucking fanbase will.

glad to hear H2A is getting something fixed, i really believe its the best engine for modding but its tools are the least functional

I didn't know you could change the background

I just want daily challenges and I'll be happy. Maybe a private file limit increase and the ability to disable boundaries in Forge and Custom games, but mostly daily challenges.

1:30 Unfortunately I found a much more useful cycle and use grenade key, it's called Mouse4 and Mouse5

I wish the made the exchange better or got rid of it entirely. I really wanted that gundam halo 2 armor :(

One thing I’d like is if CE custom multiplayer had skulls options like Halo 2 does. That way you can but on the blind skull and any machinimators will have any easier time doing that in CE

I wonder if halo2 campaign is fixed from crashing every time i start a level

2022 was a rough year for MCC. It was the year I decided to 100% the game which took me 7 months (thanks to LASO mostly). Because I experienced the game so much during this time, I definitely can say 343 really messed the game up in so many small areas throughout each game around November 2022 I think when they added flood firefight. It's good to see them doing reverse damage and fixing other stuff. When will they fix the bloom they horribly added to Reach? Some new content would be nice but keeping these games in a modern playable state while still preserving the ORIGINALS is the upmost important.

Only took em years to put in the Project cartographer fix but I’ll take it. Finally

i hope they still continue to update MCC for along time to come but i honestly want like a toggle for the film grain for halo reach idk why but it honestly bugs my eyes if i play the game for to long like its not like you cant see this film grain either the film grain in reach is very noticeable compared to other games in general let alone the other halos. [i really dont know if the others even have film grain tbh but reach definitely does.]

Did they fix the awful performance in Halo 2 campaign when playing on anniversary graphics?

I absolutely agree General Heed that we need more updates, honestly if they wanted to do something to monetize a little extra content like dlc maps and etc and what not I would be done for that if it means more overall support

this is such a small complaint but god i wish they'd just fix the reach elevators making you float

The patch before this was in July, 7 months ago. Other games get patches every month. This game is not alive again by any means. If it gets more frequent patches, different story, but 1 patch every half a year is not good. Still anything is better than nothing. Or those Banners...

Years later still all I want is new armor for reach and weapon skins for reach

I'm hoping they'll fix the Frigate Autocannons on "Tip of the Spear". Previously they erroneously fired green or blue rounds. Now they don't fire anything at all. I loved it when they'd strafe the background battlefield after swooping in and firing at the Covenant bubble shield. But now that's gone.

Really hoping they'll do something to help fix input deley when playing co-op campaign.

Has 'If They Came To Hear Me Beg' been added back in for Reach yet? I haven't been keeping up with the updates

They may have decided to go back to updating it with it going to a new platform which hopefully means Halo 5. It would also be nice if they just got rid of qutting penalties in social since there isn't map voting anymore.

My idea is like forge campaign where like you summon weapons and vehicles during campaign I know something like this probably already exists on pc but I’m on Xbox and I think this would be cool

I told you we were still getting updates G. That plaque thing was a load of barnacles

There’s still hope for crossplay campaign on the other titles 🥺

I'll be honest, I actually preferred it when it was just Cortana's voice. The visual hallucinations feel really forced and over-the-top, not to mention being just plain intrusive instead of immersive 90% of the time. They only exist so that people who didn't play Halo 1 and 2 have a vague idea what is going on. Still, I'm really glad MCC is still getting attention and bugfixes, people who say that it shouldn't be updated are nuts. 343 isn't going to be ready to make a new Halo for a long, long time, so they may as well dedicate a few resources to improving the quality of life for the well-beloved original game collection.

I just hope they'll fix the issues with campaign co-op so I can play the games with my wife and show her why I love them so much

The lipsyncing in Halo 3’s cutscenes need to be fixed. In the 360 version the characters’ mouths match what they’re saying. In MCC their mouths just flap, the worst being when Johnson says “send me out with a bang”

I wish too much play Mods in my Console!! Don't let MCC die

Wish they would bring back map voting. Or make it actually random. I dont get certain maps