Post by CaptainSlayer on Oct 20, 2014 14:40:16 GMT -5
Last week, we reported that Halo: The Master Chief Collection will have a 20 GB update in addition to the approximately 45 GB on the Blu-ray disc. Now we have a little bit more information about what that additional content represents and why this decision was made.
Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor took to NeoGAF to explain (yes, we confirmed with Microsoft and 343 that this is O’Connor).
“That's not a patch. It's content,” O’Connor writes. “The game is designed to run as a single, unified product, digital is seamless obviously, but we also wanted disc users to have the same experience, without swapping discs. Since the bulk of it is MP or MP related, the logic is sound. There will ALSO be a [title update] in there, but that in itself is a tiny fraction of the content.”
O’Connor reiterates that the campaign content is on the disc and will work without the content update. In other words, if you happen to be away from your internet connection, you’ll still be able to enjoy the offline portions of the game.
Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor took to NeoGAF to explain (yes, we confirmed with Microsoft and 343 that this is O’Connor).
“That's not a patch. It's content,” O’Connor writes. “The game is designed to run as a single, unified product, digital is seamless obviously, but we also wanted disc users to have the same experience, without swapping discs. Since the bulk of it is MP or MP related, the logic is sound. There will ALSO be a [title update] in there, but that in itself is a tiny fraction of the content.”
O’Connor reiterates that the campaign content is on the disc and will work without the content update. In other words, if you happen to be away from your internet connection, you’ll still be able to enjoy the offline portions of the game.
[SOURCE: www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/10/20/halo-the-master-chief-collection-20-gb-intended-to-keep-game-on-one-disc.aspx]
