Halo 1 Pistol Spread Made Me Quit

I think people are underestimating how serious of an issue the pistol spread “glitch” is. I, along with everyone I know that was excited for MCC on PC, have stopped playing the game. It’s not worth it. It’s broken. Eventually the meta will force a completely different style of play, and it becomes a different game altogether. Not to mention the fact that gaming history has effectively been thrown away with changes like these, which was part of the point of bringing MCC to Steam.

You might read other comments on here and think that “hey we nailed the important parts!” No, you didn’t. It’s not worth playing. Notice how when you make minor changes to Halo 5, the gameplay and the maps all need to change to fit the new gameplay. Even tweaking one variable of the formula has massive changes, especially over time as players adjust and come up with new ways of playing.

I can’t believe that almost 6 years later, this project still has severe gameplay issues. If you work at 343, and you don’t think this is a serious issue, please quit. There are many places in this world for you to fit in and do an actual good job. This isn’t it.

UPDATE: Locking to 60 fps fixes it, apparently.

Shot placement is apparently accurate at 60fps.

Not a perfect fix. I'm aware. Lets not even get started on that. But it exists. Not that I've tested it yet.

xBx Austin xDx wrote:

The pistol works properly when the game is locked at 60FPS. It's an uncapped framerate/vsync issue. They just fixed it for 60fps last update I believe: https://youtu.be/LRv_IcnHcqc

Thanks for clearing that up. I'll have to cap my fps at 60 then for now.

Thanks for responding.

tdiesel3893 wrote:

This is really bothersome as the only reason for me to play Halo CE on MCC PC is for the 120fps gameplay. If I have to lock it to 60fps I might as well play it on my Xbox or the Gearbox port + chimera.

I agree.

It sucks we have to compromise in some way or another when we decide which version of Halo we want to play.

Oh you want proper animations for projectiles? You want the port issues fixed with CE? You want anti-aliasing? I guess you gotta play a modded CE setup.

But oh, you want co-op? An alive community? The option to use the anniversary graphics? Legal digital versions available?

It sucks for us all. I really hope they can fix the port issues.

Biccy Thiccy wrote:

tdiesel3893 wrote:

This is really bothersome as the only reason for me to play Halo CE on MCC PC is for the 120fps gameplay. If I have to lock it to 60fps I might as well play it on my Xbox or the Gearbox port + chimera.

I agree.

It sucks we have to compromise in some way or another when we decide which version of Halo we want to play.

Oh you want proper animations for projectiles? You want the port issues fixed with CE? You want anti-aliasing? I guess you gotta play a modded CE setup.

But oh, you want co-op? An alive community? The option to use the anniversary graphics? Legal digital versions available?

It sucks for us all. I really hope they can fix the port issues.

Not to mention the fact that I've spent $100 on MCC at this point.

Alan J T wrote:

tdiesel3893 wrote:

This is really bothersome as the only reason for me to play Halo CE on MCC PC is for the 120fps gameplay. If I have to lock it to 60fps I might as well play it on my Xbox or the Gearbox port + chimera.

Wow how spoiled the Gaming Community has become 10 years ago 60fps was like way fast now it is just not good enough.

Kind of makes a person wonder why gaming developers sped so much time in making games look awesome I like to run all my games at 1440 or 4K Ultra Settings as I want to see the beauty of the maps. To see all the work done by developers and and to marvel at how far gaming has come visual wise in the last 40 years.

Not just run at low res low visual settings just so I get more FPS but that is me. I like to explore the maps take my time in a game not rush through, taking no notice of all the wonderful work the designers have managed to do.

I like to do single player on high/ultra settings and multiplayer on low/medium settings. Plus, I think it makes a huge difference just in terms of eye comfort when you have 120hz or higher.

Alan J T wrote:

tdiesel3893 wrote:

This is really bothersome as the only reason for me to play Halo CE on MCC PC is for the 120fps gameplay. If I have to lock it to 60fps I might as well play it on my Xbox or the Gearbox port + chimera.

Wow how spoiled the Gaming Community has become 10 years ago 60fps was like way fast now it is just not good enough.

Kind of makes a person wonder why gaming developers sped so much time in making games look awesome I like to run all my games at 1440 or 4K Ultra Settings as I want to see the beauty of the maps. To see all the work done by developers and and to marvel at how far gaming has come visual wise in the last 40 years.

Not just run at low res low visual settings just so I get more FPS but that is me. I like to explore the maps take my time in a game not rush through, taking no notice of all the wonderful work the designers have managed to do.

Gee, it's almost like people enjoy different aspects of gaming than you.

Anyone that has a differing opinion than you is now considered a "spoiled gamer". Oh my...

bam9762 wrote:

Hilarious that a 2003 port of the same game by gearbox is so much better than this in 2020.

To be fair. They had an actual target for PC gamers.

Which makes it even more funny when you remember that 343 said they're focusing the MCC development for PC gamers. Gearbox, of all companies, actually stuck to the plan better then one that had such a big IP like this dropped on them.

The pistol is exactly the way I remember it from OG CE. Stop whining about every little stupid thing that you don't like about it. Good job 343i