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Flighting Programs: These opt-in flights will start small and slowly expand out until release.Back in Black: Black undersuits will be in the game.Splitscreen: Splitscreen is up and running internally.When does it take place in the universe: It follows the Master Chief's story some time after Halo 5: Guardians' conclusion.

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Release date: Holiday 2020 release for the entire Xbox family of devices, including Project Scarlett and Windows PCs.

Now in a recent Halo community update, the studio re-iterates many of these features in a handy checklist: The Halo-makers are listening to fans and baking in core features and content everyone's wanted for a while now, including splitscreen co-op campaign and multiplayer gaming, LAN support to recreate those old-school OG Xbox Halo days of yore, and even adding black matte under armor for Spartan Mjolnir suits. Because right now, finishing the fight in co-op doesn't feel as climactic as it should, and I'd like to actually enjoy the Halo we have now while we wait for Infinite.Although 343i didn't represent Halo: Infinite (aka Halo 6) very well at E3 2019, the studio is taking the game quite seriously.

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My hope is that tomorrow's Series X upgrade patch will give us a better alternative. I don't really care? Stretch it a little? Make my FOV a little smaller? Give us a vertical split? Something, anything, would be better than what 343 did here. The Series X is a powerful console, and I'd hazard to guess it could run split-screen on a game from 2007 just fine. I understand this probably comes from a desire to preserve a certain aspect ratio and/or a certain framerate, but honestly, that still doesn't sit right with me.

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How is the 'definitive'' version of these games a marked downgrade in this department - especially when the included 1 and 2 remasters make full use of the screen? Even more baffling is that the splitscreen on the older consoles is actually better, albeit more muddy and jagged thanks to being on old hardware.

Games like Modern Warfare and Borderlands have offered split-screen without sacrificing much valuable screen real estate, and it's kind of wild that one of the industry's biggest marquee shooters can't say that. It's unsightly, especially considering how much work went into polishing up every other aspect of the game. Here, that shrink into widescreen happens within that tiny square, meaning that you're playing around in a petite rectangle for a few moments. This is even worse during chapter breaks, when the game would normally just go into widescreen and reveal the chapter title. That 'small box' is bookended on either side by jarring black pillarboxes, which look awful on a larger screen. I care about the game making the most of whatever screen it's on, which it certainly isn't here. Sure, that box is divided into rectangles that mirror the game's normal aspect ratio, but I'll be honest - I don't really care about that. Should you choose to play split-screen, you and your partner are confined to a small box in the middle of the screen. The main issue is that it's too damn small. Related: Halo 2: How Speedrunners Learned To Fly By Repeatedly Punching Enemies In The Butt A staple of the Halo series, split-screen co-op is handled very poorly in the MCC, and I really hope we get some kind of fix for it soon.

However, now that the day's come and gone, and we're playing Halo 3 together each night, something's really hampering our enjoyment: the split-screen. It was a simple plan, and one we finished our Halo 2 playthrough for ASAP.

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We'd get the shiny new system at launch, install the Master Chief Collection, and blast through 3 and 4 together. That's why we took the release of the Xbox Series X as the perfect chance to 'finish the fight,' as it were. When we were gaming, we wanted a nice escape like Animal Crossing, and weren't exactly jazzed about jumping back into a loud, explosive, stressful shooter. We weren't even through Halo 2 when COVID-19 came to America, and as we scrambled to move from her parents' place into our duplex as lockdown hit, Halo fell to the wayside. We picked up copies of the originals, then got to playing. We moved in together this past January, and bought a secondhand 360 within my first week of arriving. She'd never played much Halo beyond the first one, so I was excited to experience some of my favorite shooters again with her. When we started dating long-distance last year, we played through the entirety of Halo Reach on Legendary together.

The launch of the Xbox Series X meant one thing to me and my girlfriend: it was time to finish Halo.

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