Halo: Reach delayed for The Master Chief Collection

The successful Halo prequel Halo: Reach isn't releasing through Halo: The Master Chief Collection at the planned date.

As you likely know already, 343 Industries is adding Halo: Reach to Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which then will include all of Bungie's Halo games (including Halo 4) in one massive package. The plan was to release Halo: Reach sometime during 2019, but it seems like that might not be the case for the Xbox One.

In a long and candid letter, the team writes that they have faced memory problems in the porting process on Xbox One and that they don't know when they will be able to solve the issue: "As has been stated previously, making any game is hard, let alone where you're dealing with 11 game engines and 7 complete games under the roof of one title sharing the same hardware resources.

One key goal that has been a part of bringing Halo: Reach into MCC is that for Xbox One, the team has been attempting to bring UE4 online for new character customization options on Xbox. You can read more about the progression system in the May and June development updates. This, however, has proved to be quite challenging as MCC was already close to memory limits running on the original Xbox One consoles. Bringing the entire progression and customization system into MCC also requires memory to be used to run the additional UE4 engine. Currently, a lot of progress has been made in getting it up and running, but the title still is not within memory constraints to properly run on the Xbox One. In order to flight on Xbox One, we need to be within these limits, otherwise, instability will be an issue.

Until the team has an adequate solution for this unique issue, flighting on the Xbox One will continue to be delayed. That being said, the team is pushing hard on a solution as they want to flight the Xbox One build as soon as possible. Until then though flighting will continue to remain solely on the PC build."

Hopefully, 343 Industries can solve the issue sooner rather than later so we once again can experience the somewhat sad but wonderful story about the brave Spartan warriors of Noble Team and their early encounter with the Covenant.

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