343 Industries decided to improve the graphics first Halo of The master chief collection, returning some of the lost effects – they disappeared when transferring the original from Xbox to PC.
Halo: Combat Evolved was released in 2001 on Xbox, and a couple of years later, thanks to the efforts Gearbox appeared on PC. However, then still young developers made a number of omissions, due to which a number of effects were absent on the PC. Among them:
- Captain Keyes’ model looked much worse
- energy shields did not turn red when damaged
- various effects on the Covenant looked noticeably worse
- the smoke is gone
- the detail of the maps is reduced.
One example of a downgrade – the ship’s field looked much worse
When creating the remake of Combat Evolved for the anniversary (where you can change the graphics to the original by pressing a button), they took the PC version from Gearbox as a basis, which is why a graphically simplified version of the first part got into The Master Chief Collection.
All of this is now being fixed in the studio – many improvements can already be tested in the new beta of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which was released last week.
See the video below for a look at a comparison between the original and the two versions in Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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