Bug hunt. Updated on 24 May 2021
343 is finally updating Halo: Combat Evolved in The Master Chief Collection to match the original Xbox version s visuals.
Halo: CE came out on PC two years after Xbox.
The latest Insider Flight update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection came out last week, and with it an email to those in the programme detailing the under-the-radar improvements.
343 mentioned the patch includes a series of bug fixes to improve the classic visuals in H1 to better mirror the original Xbox version . This applies to both classic campaign and multiplayer, 343 added.
Halo: Combat Evolved came out on PC in September 2003, two years after it was released on the original Xbox as a launch title. The port was the work of Borderlands maker Gearbox, and included a raft of graphical bugs that caused visual discrepancies between the two versions. For years these issues went unaddressed, and because the version of Halo: CE that s in Halo
The first Halo packed inside the Master Chief Collection isn’t the original Xbox version. What you’re playing is the PC port developed by Gearbox that came out two years after the original’s release. And that port launched with a slew of graphical bugs that were never fixed. That is, until now.
Last week, the latest Insider Flight update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection included fixes to the graphics. 343 touched on the fixes in the patch, “a series of bug fixes to improve the classic visuals to better mirror the original Xbox version.” These fixes include campaign and multiplayer, according to 343.