Halo: Master Chief Collection is an absolute broken mess

Last weekend, I picked up the Halo Master Chief Collection from the Steam sale with a friend. We wanted to play through Halo 1 again, but it was completely unplayable.

You can’t always join another player’s session.
Occasionally, nothing happens when starting a mission.
On certain missions the game just completely freezes.
At certain points the game locks up leaving you unable to move.

It’s just awful. Don’t buy

@gaming@beehaw.org @gaming@kbin.social @gaming@lemmy.ml

  • Crazytrixsta@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Consider reinstalling it. Delete all settings and what not. Possibly reset your entire system if need be.

    These are not common problems with this collection of games.

  • Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Halo 1 is the most buggy of all the Halo MCC games unfortunately.

    I know that disabling the enhanced graphics for it improves performance/bugs a lot for that specific game in the package.

  • Fell@ma.fellr.netOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    @gaming@beehaw.org @gaming@kbin.social @gaming@lemmy.ml

    Update: Most issues were fixed through updates, I guess we just wanted to play in a really unfortunate time.

    The locking up problem is related to a DLL mismatch when attempting #Windows / #Linux crossplay. In short: Copy your Windows friends’ ucrtbase.dll from both the System32 and the SysWOW64 folders to your Windows folder in #Steam’s compatdata folder and you’re good to go!

    We had a great time playing last night.

  • realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve had a generally pleasant experience with the game. All the issues I came across–friends not being able to join matches, lag while on multiplayer–was because of cross-platform issues, one of us was on the MCC version while another was in the original release version, or my own poor internet connection.