Stopping short of sending a cease and desist, 343 Industries asked the modders to cancel the project, but it’s generally seen as being one of the catalysts for Halo: The Master Chief Collection being ported to PC in the first place.

The intention was to take Halo Online, make it playable again, and then modify the game to play more like Halo 3. The game was brought back into the public eye when a group of modders revived the game in the fan project ‘ElDewrito’ in 2018. However, that testing led to the decision to first send the game back to an earlier development phase, and then shut down the project.

The game was announced in 2015, with a Russia-exclusive closed alpha and closed beta testing. Halo Online was a multiplayer-only game in development by Saber Interactive and Innova Systems, built off the Halo 3 engine and intended to tap into emerging markets where lower-end PCs were dominant. Outside of the remakes, none of these have really been seen by Halo fans up until now. Halo Online had six original maps in development for it: Diamondback (admittedly a desert-based remake of the Halo 3 map Avalanche), Reactor, Icebox (a remake of Halo 2 map Turf), Edge, and Sky Bridge. This new map announcement blows a fascinating avenue wide open for more content to be added to MCC’s multiplayer through 2021, while the majority of 343 Industries is hard at work on Halo: Infinite for a Fall 2021 release. Last week, 343 Industries teased that Halo: The Master Chief Collection is getting “a new place and way to play” this month, leading to speculation that the collection could come to Epic Games Store, Nintendo Switch or (the most likely option in our opinion), to iOS via Xbox Game Pass Game Streaming with new touch controls.

FOV slider will no longer be locked when Xbox Series X|S devices are set to 120hz.

FOV slider support for all Xbox One consoles.

Custom Game Browser: a new way to play with each other in MCC.