Halo Dev Tracker

It's coming. And yes, we probably did 'announce' it too early - but, we've been open and transparent about every facet of the MCC project. Often times transparency does unfortunately mean we talk about things that eventually shift or change given project progress, other priorities, etc.. It's a significant feature and just wasn't practical to finish in the middle of bringing all the titles over to PC. Thankfully, it's on the horizon and getting closer and if all goes well, we should be enjoying it by end of the year (but first it should roll out in a flight for testing and feedback).

We are working with the team on some kind of 'reward' for MCC players since we previously promised something for H5 152 players. That said, I don't believe it will be tied to MCC max level / quite as intense of a grind as H5 152 is. We'll clarify the specifics as soon as we can.

Wow just coming at me with the hard hitting questions! Now I'm actually very interested in taking a closer look at the Pilot's socks (does he have socks?). Maybe GrimBrother One needs to whip up a new Canon Fodder on the subject.

I see it and read it! Well that's like asking "which of your kids is your favorite?" Cop out answer: each Halo game holds a unique place in my heart for different reasons! (but if I were forced to pick, it's Halo 3 for both the game itself and what it meant to be professionally and personally during development/launch/sustain).

That probably happened, lol. At least you weren't in our big Warzone playdate back in the day with a bunch of folks from the core MP team and we got destroyed and farmed the entire match.

Hmm, very sorry to hear about the Monster issues you're experiencing. I can let some of the internal partnership folks know but I'm honestly not sure there's anything we/343 can do on that side. If it's an issue on the Halo Waypoint redemption site, then please do file a ticket at support.halowaypoint.com so we can help sort that out.

I haven't seen a Bean-weapon yet, but will keep a look out in future builds.

Interesting. I haven't heard that feedback - not sure what the story is there, but, I will relay it to the team. Also if you're willing, filing a bug ticket at support.halowaypoint.com will help get this to the right people for tracking and review.

I'm not 100% sure on that audio issue - have you by chance been able to file a support ticket at support.halowaypoint.com? That is the best and most effective way to capture and bring bugs and issues directly to the team. I'll also make a note of this and see if they're aware.

Thanks for the kind words! I 100% agree with you, the 343 publishing team and their partners really have been crushing it and have found their stride even during this very challenging period of working from home. I'll pass along your comments, it may sound cheesy but too often the devs don't hear much praise or thanks vs. the steady stream of complaints and requests for 'even more'.

And yes, I too saw the words "Halo 3" and "Anniversary" together and spit out my coffee. It was a fun little welcome ritual for Andy on our team to work through. Going forward I think he'll prefer 'birthday' now that he knows how much history and implications the word 'anniversary' carries. But truthfully, there's nothing happening on that front, it was just meant to celebrate 9/25, the day of Halo 3's launch.

Well, that's... something.

Sorry, no clue on that one. I haven't seen those (or any of the international cans come to think of it).

I'm sure it varies by person and team. This isn't a humblebrag but we can generally pull down a build and play it any time we want. We also have regular studio-wide "days of play" in addition to various daily playtests across different teams and disciplines.

Truth be told just a lot of work happening and a lot of pieces moving very quickly across the studio. Not to be a tease, but the team has been make huge progress even amidst these challenging times and we're certainly eager to jump back on the hype train as soon as we can. We just want to take the time needed and ensure the teams' best work is represented and we're able to showcase their vision for the game while also still working through updates and implications to our plans (both within 343 and across our partner teams at Xbox). Our goal is to get settled and re-aligned and then be able to pull back the curtain and maintain ongoing dialog and connection to launch. As soon as we feel all the pieces are in place, we'll jump back on the train.

Sure, that's fair and then it's our jobs along with all our partners to crank that back up to 11 as we march towards launch. We had to kind of start/stop obviously with our date shift, but the hype train will reload and return to the tracks in due time.

Thankfully I really enjoy the job, which is a good thing considering I've been working in Halo community management for something like 14+ years? Of course it's always MORE fun when we can tee up big reveals and share awesome information with the community - but we'll get back to that point eventually. Until then, MCC has been a great ride and I'm excited for H4 and upcoming features. I have certainly missed events though - traveling to HCS events or E3 or the like was always a chance to personally meet and interact with the community and I've found myself missing that connection and the invigoration that comes from that more and more. We always come back from in-person events rejuvinated and inspired by the passion and good peoples across the Halo community.

We've definitely heard the growing feedback around wanting H5 on PC. As I noted up above in a different reply, there are no current plans to do so but, who knows what the future may bring. Right now the studio is fully focused on existing MCC work and Halo Infinite.

For sure, I play all sorts of things. Lately I'd say my time outside of Halo has been largely spent on CoD/WZ, Fortnite, Avengers, THPS1&2, and I've recently gotten hooked on Hades. Pretty excited for Star Wars Squadrons!

I'm not aware of any talks yet regarding any crossovers between Halo and Zenimax properties but internally I know a lot of folks would love to see something at some point. Considering some of the past crossovers with Sea of Thieves, Minecraft, and Forza, I assume something will eventually materialize but no idea what/where/when.

Re: Mod support for MCC - more robust mod support is definitely on the team's list and something they've always had ambitions around but for now I believe that work is all a bit further out, once H4 is out the door and some of these other pending features are released.

And I'm not able to talk about Infinite right now.

Right! What a rollercoaster it's been. Basically a year of silence, intense build up, some toy "leaks", a Banished confirmation, first look at Campaign, the birth of Craig, confirmation of F2P MP, shifting our release to 2021, more collectibles, Monster Energy skins and 2xp promotions.... and now temporarily back into the shadows while teams are working through ramifications and updates to every plan and roadmap.