Halo Infinitemay have been delayed into 2021, but 343 Industries continues to toil onHalo: The Master Chief Collectionon PC. 343’s pace of releases has been furious, withHalo: Reach,Halo: ODST,Halo,Halo 2, andHalo 3all being released on PC over the past year. Now 343 is ready to close out strong withHalo 4. In a newly released trailer, 343 announces the release date forHalo 4on PC, with the game hitting PC on November 17.
To celebrate the announcement, 343’s put together a brand new cinematic trailer forHalo 4and the completion ofHalo: The Master Chief Collectionon PC. The trailer features Master Chief’s armor, which the camera swirls around, as well as some dramatic commentary from Cortana. Funnily enough, the actual release date is never mentioned in the trailer - it’s only mentioned in the video’s description. But regardless of where the release date was revealed, November 17 is still officially confirmed.
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The nearness ofHalo 4’s launchis no surprise. 343 has been testingHalo 4for some time, reporting in late October that it had invited 500,000 different PC gaming enthusiasts to test out the first-person shooter. Compared to previous games inTheMaster Chief Collection,Halo 4’s development took some extra time. Testing was unfortunately delayed in mid-October. But once testing started 343’s impressive development pace reestablished itself in time to getHalo 4out this November.
343 is also planning to add some new advanced graphical settings to theMaster Chief Collectionon PC in a patch alongside the release ofHalo 4. These include some meaningful options for details quality, shadow quality, and effects quality, as well as smaller settings like anisotropic filtering and gamma. The settings will at first apply to all games withinTheMaster Chief Collection, but343 Industriessays it plans to allow game-by-game settings changes further down the line.
The release ofHalo 4will also coincide with the start of 343’s Season 4 forTheMaster Chief Collection. AHalo 4Champions Bundle of weapon skins will be released forMCCplayers, unlockable through the Season 4 progression path. Players will also be able to customize individual armor pieces in Season 4. 343 then promises additionalHalo 4Champions bundle armors and pieces in the future.
With the release ofHalo 4on PC, 343’s work onTheMaster Chief Collectionisn’t complete. It’ll continue to be updated, iterated on, and expanded going forward. But as for full games, this is it. For now, there are no plans to bringHalo 5toTheMaster Chief Collection. Maybe that’ll change in time, though.Halo 5is, of course, available separately for those who want it. And there’s also the big game that Halo fans are looking forward to, withHalo Infinite’s releasestill planned for 2021.
Halo: The Master Chief Collectionis available now on PC and Xbox One, with Xbox Series X support planned.
