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Halo 3 makes its PC debut with limited testing next monthFinishing the fight.
Finishing the fight.
If you were an Xbox kid around my age,Halo 3might be the first game you remember arriving with deafening levels of hype. The sole reason most folks picked up Crackdown. The Return Of The King in John Halo’s ring-smashing quest, in fellowship with a squid-mouthed Keith David and that cigar-chewing lad from Aliens. Now, developers 343 Industries are preparing the trilogy closer’s PC debut inHalo: The Master Chief Collection, with select testing set to take place within the next few weeks.
343 have kept a staggering pace in porting the old Halos, with a briefsnapshot at Halo 3 and ODST running on PCcoming before evenHalo 2 Anniversary’s releaseearlier this month. So, while there’s no mention of the jazzy, Nathan Fillon-fronted spin-off in this week’s post, it’s not too shocking that there are already plans to roll out the trilogy’s closing act. Posting in adevelopment updatethis week, 343 laid out their plans forHalo 3flighting (testing) within the “first half” of June.
That test will include five campaign missions (Sierra 117, The Storm, The Ark, The Covenant, Halo), alongside Forge mode, Theatre, and a healthy dose of social and competitive multiplayer modes across 10 maps. Being Halo 3’s PC debut, 343 also want to test the game’s keyboard controls, accessibility options, and new graphical, audio and network settings.
For the time being, folks who’ve been sticking atHalo 2multiplayer should be relieved to hear that thoseghostly team-killing rocketsshould now be a thing of the past. The rest of 343’s post is dedicated to a surprisingly lengthy look at the studio’s bug-fixing methodologies. Long story cut incredibly (and reductively) short - explosives should now explode as expected.
Finally, a few suggestions have been added to MCC’s “design iteration” board - including a custom game browser, multiple key bindings (oh thank god) and crossplay between Xbox and PC. Design iteration basically means “we’re still figuring this out”, so don’t expect any of these to land for a good while yet.
