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SonicUnleashedXY Apr 15, 2024 @ 12:00am
Campaign Crossplay Steam & Xbox
It's been a while since I've tried it, any updates to this?

I've only seen that Halo 3 & Halo 3: ODST can only be played between Steam & Xbox.
Last edited by SonicUnleashedXY; Apr 15, 2024 @ 12:01am
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countgrey Apr 15, 2024 @ 12:24am 
There have been no updates to this.
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Blood Wolf Apr 15, 2024 @ 12:33am 
The population of Halo MCC would rise up a lot if crossplay was always possible. There is no reason for 343 not to have crossplay between Steam and Xbox as far as I know!
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SonicUnleashedXY Apr 15, 2024 @ 3:22am 
Originally posted by Blood Wolf:
The population of Halo MCC would rise up a lot if crossplay was always possible. There is no reason for 343 not to have crossplay between Steam and Xbox as far as I know!
It's annoying they locked the feature instead of just giving us a warning message if there's an issue in the mode between Steam & Xbox. From what I can tell although I'm not 100% sure, this issue doesn't exist between Windows Store & Xbox.
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Pyrocitor Apr 15, 2024 @ 12:05pm 
Originally posted by SonicUnleashedXY:
Originally posted by Blood Wolf:
The population of Halo MCC would rise up a lot if crossplay was always possible. There is no reason for 343 not to have crossplay between Steam and Xbox as far as I know!
It's annoying they locked the feature instead of just giving us a warning message if there's an issue in the mode between Steam & Xbox. From what I can tell although I'm not 100% sure, this issue doesn't exist between Windows Store & Xbox.
The steam and windows store versions are the same as one another, including for crossplay, including for cross play with console players.
Last edited by Pyrocitor; Apr 15, 2024 @ 12:05pm
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countgrey Apr 15, 2024 @ 7:46pm 
Originally posted by SonicUnleashedXY:
Originally posted by Blood Wolf:
The population of Halo MCC would rise up a lot if crossplay was always possible. There is no reason for 343 not to have crossplay between Steam and Xbox as far as I know!
It's annoying they locked the feature instead of just giving us a warning message if there's an issue in the mode between Steam & Xbox. From what I can tell although I'm not 100% sure, this issue doesn't exist between Windows Store & Xbox.
To be clear, they didn't "lock the feature." If it was as simple as an on/off switch then someone would have put together a very basic mod to resolve this.

It's really a technology problem. From what I recall, the simple explanation is that consoles and PCs load the levels differently (full map vs partial map, so to speak), so for Campaign Crossplay to work 343i has to redo how the games load for each title so that they load in sync. They already did that work for H3 and ODST, but Microsoft is reluctant to fund the MCC team to do this work for the other titles when instead they can focus on Infinite.
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