Complete Halo 3: ODST Single-Player Campaign Released on Halo: The Master Chief Collection May 30, 2015

If you were an early adopter of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, I would check your Xbox messages IMMEDIATLY.  You might find a special gift from Microsoft inside.  After the horrible ongoing issues with Halo: The Master Chief Collection have been plaguing users worldwide for months, 343 Industries decided to reward their customers with a special gift, the complete single player campaign for the fan favorite game Halo 3: ODST in native 1080p at 60 frames.

How’s it look?  Lets watch.

If you were not an early adopter of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, you can purchase the campaign soon from the Xbox Store for a price of $4.99 US.  You must have the most recent Content Update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection installed to play Halo 3: ODST.

Now, when do they plan to bring over Halo: Reach?

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is out now exclusively on Xbox One.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection Content Update 9 Patch Notes May 30, 2015

343 Industries keeps plugging away with more and more updates to Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and this morning, they released the game’s NINTH Content Update.

The new update functions more as a gift to the game’s owners than an actual content patch.  While it does include several bug fixes and other updates, this content update adds a brand new remastered Halo 2 multiplayer map, and support for the upcoming Halo 3: ODST campaign, which will be coming free to the game’s early adopters.

Here’s the full patch notes for the update:

New Features and Content

• Remnant [Remake of the Halo 2 Classic multiplayer map Relic] is now available for all users
• 100 New Achievements added for ODST and Remnant. To see the list, head here.
• Players can now search for Gamertags and access file share, by selecting their own Gamertag in the Active Roster. To learn how, head here.
• Enables DLC addition of Halo 3: ODST campaign (available separately via the Xbox Store). For more information on Halo 3: ODST campaign, go here.

Ranking

• Improved skill matchmaking for parties in ranked playlists
• Made an updated to ensure that parties are no longer separated onto different teams in ranked playlists
• Improved rank stability to prevent ranks from incorrectly resetting

Quit and loss Penalties

• Quit and loss penalties are now applied immediately in matchmaking

Halo: CE

• Resolved Assault Rifle and Shotgun registration issues
• Fixed an issue with vehicle audio in split-screen
• Reduced occurrences of players falling out of map
• Improved stability while title is in “suspend” mode
• Improved music playback for Campaign

Halo 2 Classic

• Fixed an issue where playlist scores posted to Leaderboards incorrectly
• Improved host migration handling in for peer-to-peer custom game matches

Halo 3

• Added UI support for Halo 3 voice chat in matchmaking
• Improved Campaign stability
• Fixed an issue where the scoring HUD would not display in Campaign
• Fixed an issue where some players could experience a delayed spawn into a matchmade game

Halo 4

• Fixed an issue where the scoring HUD would not display in Campaign

Parties & Roster

• Added support for displaying parties as a group in the roster
• Improved handling of dedicated servers
• Team colors are preserved after every match in custom games
• Fixed a host migration issue for Custom Games
• Improved handling of player joinability and leader promotions through Active Roster
• Improved stability of 16 player parties

Forge

• Improved Forge Stability with large number of players on high budget maps
• Added support for Infection within Halo 3 Forge maps
• Fixed an issue where “Place at Start” did not function correctly in Halo 3
• Fixed an issue where controller settings were not respected in Halo 2: Anniversary

Achievements

• Improvements to achievement unlocking throughout title
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Blast Can achievements from unlocking in matchmaking

UI, Stability, & Misc

• Made improvements to stat tracking for all titles
• Improved functionality of unlock notifications
• Improved voice chat functionality throughout all titles
• Improved PGCR stats/details and stat uploading reliability
• Fixed issues where local & shared files may not appear under “My Files”
• Improved Stability of Co-op play in Campaign Playlists
• UI now sorts achievements, nameplates, and avatars based on what you have unlocked
• Improved Scoring functionality during Co-Op Campaign sessions
• Improved Spartan Ops performance
• Improvements made to mission progression in Campaign Playlists
• Improved Rival functionality in Campaign Playlists
• Improved stability for Halo 2: Anniversary map loading in matchmaking
• Final scoreboard is now displayed during outro loading screen after a match

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is out now exclusively on the Xbox One.