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frontpage Posted by doublehelixx | Staff • Jun 26, 2025
Jun 26, 2025 5:17 PM
Halo: The Master Chief Collection (PC Digital Download)
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But a Microsoft Xbox Live account is free, right? It's good to know the requirement is there, but many developers and publishers do this already.
Not a dealbreaker for me, but might be if you're intending to play on a Steamdeck while traveling or otherwise offline.
In multiplayer, pvp, everything is crossplay. In coop mode, only reach and halo 4 are able to play coop using crossplay
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For example, my MS gaming stuff is linked to my 20 year old Hotmail account and sometimes I accidently redeem free games on my Outlook account I have never used on a Xbox console of any sort.
Regardless, if you have a Windows PC, you already share everything imaginable with the company, them knowing you also play Halo Reach is probably the least of your concerns
In 2022-2023 it was really rough, but they completely redid the game since then. Before there was some kind of internal launcher / install thingy that tried to link all the games together but it was a huge mess, each game had their own control config that would (somehow) still interfere with others, installing / uninstalling different Halo's was a mess, etc. Now they are all linked in one seamless platform.
In 2022-2023 it was really rough, but they completely redid the game since then. Before there was some kind of internal launcher / install thingy that tried to link all the games together but it was a huge mess, each game had their own control config that would (somehow) still interfere with others, installing / uninstalling different Halo's was a mess, etc. Now they are all linked in one seamless platform.
Thanks for the info.
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With the Master Chief Collection, does the same thing happen once you launch the game? What is in the initial ~30GB installation? That's obviously not all the games, that is around 150GB on Xbox. Do all the achievements dating back to 2015 just pop up on Steam? Lastly, because Microsoft saw fit to screw early purchasers, getting EVERY game on Steam costs $5 less than adding Halo Reach and Halo 3 ODST to the Xbox version (seriously, wtf?). At some point, when I decided to replay the campaigns on Heroic for no specific reason, would achievements earned in Halo Reach and Halo 3 ODST on Steam transfer back to the Xbox version? I've seen instances where this does happen (Warframe), and instances where it does not (Splitgate 2).
Lastly, they are obviously allowing you to pick and choose which games get installed based on the initial footprint (I would hope), do they also allow you to NOT install the multiplayer modes? I guess this would only be relevant to Halo Reach, since Halo 3 ODST just recycled Halo 3's multiplayer (for $59.99... what a company). I haven't played Reach in nearly fifteen years because the multiplayer was so bad that I took Amazon's offer of $30 trade in credit not long after launch to get the damn thing away from me. The campaign was one of the best, though. Funny stuff.
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