Calling it a broken mess seems a bit… dramatic. I’ve owned the Master Chief Collection for years, and have played through each game multiple times on multiple consoles. While there are some quirks to it and some features that I wanted to see implemented, I really didn’t have that much trouble with the actual running of the game itself.

I’d recommend looking through the Steam Community for the game and seeing if anyone there has had a similar issue. Just at a glance I can see a post or two about freezing, so I’d check to see if your specs match theirs at all, or if anyone recommends any solutions

If you think it’s bad now you should have seen it 10 years ago.

Consider reinstalling it. Delete all settings and what not. Possibly reset your entire system if need be.

These are not common problems with this collection of games.

I’ve never had those issues and I have a couple hundred hours on the steam version. Are these issues only happening in co-op? What OS are you on?

Halo 1 is the most buggy of all the Halo MCC games unfortunately.

I know that disabling the enhanced graphics for it improves performance/bugs a lot for that specific game in the package.

That’s a shame you couldn’t enjoy it with your friend. Can I safely assume you’re playing on Windows?

I’ve played a fair bit into the first game on my Steam Deck, and it plays great! Sometimes the compatibility tools in Linux are better for playing older games than those in Windows.

You could try HoloISO (community edition of SteamOS) in order to get an environment that’s already setup for you. You don’t even have have to permanently install it. It should be able to boot up to it from an external drive and play the game from there.

It’s not no work to do that, but if you really want to play…

I play MCC all the time with my friends and it’s great.

We even recently played through Cursed Halo together and it still held together despite that mod being, well, cursed.

Sorry that happened, it plays flawlessly for me and all three friends I’ve done online co-op with on MCC. We played Halo 1 and Halo 2 but mostly H1. The whole campaign too and no issues that you’re describing. I might suggest troubleshooting your networks and game installations before blaming the game itself.

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That sucks. I know other people that have tons of issues with it too, but halo MCC has worked great for me the past few years.

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Update: Most issues were fixed through updates, I guess we just wanted to play in a really unfortunate time.

The locking up problem is related to a DLL mismatch when attempting #Windows/#Linux crossplay. In short: Copy your Windows friends’ ucrtbase.dll from both the System32 and the SysWOW64 folders to your Windows folder in #Steam’s compatdata folder and you’re good to go!

We had a great time playing last night.

I’ve had a generally pleasant experience with the game. All the issues I came across–friends not being able to join matches, lag while on multiplayer–was because of cross-platform issues, one of us was on the MCC version while another was in the original release version, or my own poor internet connection.