OFFICIAL Halo PC Thread

I did a search and didn't see the PC Halo version. So who's getting this? I have only played a snippet of Halo in Xbox and immediatley wanted to get an Xbox for the game. The only dissapointing thing was no online play. After a week of straight Unreal Tournament playing, I have come to the conclusion that no FPS should not be without onine play. From what I hear, this game is going to be an exact clone of the original Halo, except for the online part. The rest will remain intact. Although, I did hear that co-op will not be available from the get go. Whether thats co-op online, or co-op on one computer or both, I do not know. Is anyone who already has this on the Xbox going to get solely for the online play? I still have yet to get an Xbox, but now that this will hit PC's soon, I will probly not pick it up for the Xbox and just wait for 2.

Official anything PC threads go nowhere here for some reason.

Does anyone know if they will be releasing a demo of it at all?

i read the preview at ign and they kept saying "all of the features from the xbox are faithfully ported....graphics and all". i kept thinking "i certainly hope my pc can play a fucking xbox game". not enough extras for me (like 2 new weapons, cant play as covenant in multiplayer). ill prolly score an archival copy sometime. this fucking long and its pretty much a direct port.....pathetic really.

I played through the Xbox version back in fall 2001, so I am not exactly jumping for joy at the chance to play a game, which is not as pretty as games I already own and that offers little in the area of exclusive additions.

My FPS dollar is already earmarked for Deus Ex: IW, Half-Life 2, Doom III, and Tron 2.0. I don't foresee Halo knocking any of those off the list.

My video card cost twice what an Xbox does, so I expect more than a stale port for my $50.

i WAS getting it when it was coming out this summer...now it's got a release date in the midst of Half-Life2 and Doom III, so we will have to see...i really wanna play some lag-free bg-ctf though...

Someone told me that they didn't have co-op in the PC version or it was not implemeneted yet--anyone confirm this?

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Originally posted by soundwave
Someone told me that they didn't have co-op in the PC version or it was not implemeneted yet--anyone confirm this?

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strangely enough, i've heard the same thing.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/ha...w_6028228.html

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No first-person shooter can expect much success without good multiplayer support. Gearbox has put plenty of work into getting the competitive multiplayer options running smoothly for Internet matches, but unfortunately the cooperative mode that Halo was known for will likely be missing in action. Bungie's producer for the game told us that it might still happen, but it's looking less and less likely, as the team hasn't been able to meet the level of performance that we'd expect. The difference between the competitive and co-op modes is that co-op requires exact synchronization between the players' systems to keep the AI and scripting in lockstep--and that's prevented by the higher latency that Internet connections exhibit.

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