'Halo: The Master Chief Collection' to Get Enhancements for Xbox One X
"Halo: The Master Chief Collection" came out in 2014 as an anthology that brings together the best of the "Halo" series to the Xbox One. Now, Microsoft is looking to do the same for the Xbox One X, and a few improvements are in order.
The collection will be getting a set of "enhancements" to make it suitable for the new Xbox One X, as game developer 343 Industries announced via their live-streamed panel during a "Halo" community event on Tuesday, Oct. 17.
It's been a couple of years since Microsoft has last released an update for "Halo: The Master Chief Collection," as Ars Technica noted. Their last set of patches were mostly meant to partially fix the matchmaking issues and bugs that marred its launch years ago.
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This was touched on by 343 Industries chief Bonnie Ross during her talk. She mentioned that the new version, which will be coming to Microsoft's newest console platform, will feature "amazing improvements to matchmaking, which we'll benefit from."
While the point of moving forward to the Xbox One X is the ability to play the game in 4K resolution, 343 Industries is looking beyond that. Players looking for an HDR experience might be disappointed, however, since the update will not add high dynamic range color, according to Polygon.
The update, they add, will install "fixes, improvements and upgrades to the core game to help bring it forward and modernize many of the game's systems to take advantage of Xbox platform advancements since its original launch."
The whole "Halo: The Master Chief Collection" is a tangled mass of "Halo" titles that span years of the franchise' history, and it will be a huge undertaking to update them all for the Xbox One X. As such, there's no specific release date yet, other than Spring of 2018.
"While we're incredibly excited by this opportunity to go back under the hood with MCC, it's not going to be easy nor is it going to happen overnight," 343 Industries noted.
