Halo: The Master Chief Collection
by 343 Industries · 3 Dec, 2019
329 downloads
Multiplayer · Cracked Only
Cracked Co-op Only
Online works only between cracked copies — you can't join official servers or players who bought the game.
ProtonDB: Gold
About the Game
The series that changed console gaming forever is on PC with six blockbuster games in one epic experience.
*Look to system requirements for guidance on hardware minimum specs to achieve performance metrics.
**Forge mode not available in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary or Halo 3: ODST.
PC Settings/Optimizations
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is now optimized for PC and looking better than ever at up to 4k UHD and at 60+ FPS.* Other setting options include customizable mouse and keyboard support, ultrawide support, FOV customization, and more.Campaign
Featuring Halo: Reach, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST Campaign, and Halo 4, The Master Chief Collection offers players their own exciting journey through the epic saga. Starting with the incredible bravery of Noble Six in Halo: Reach and ending with the rise of a new enemy in Halo 4, the Master Chief’s saga totals 67 campaign missions over six critically-acclaimed titles.Multiplayer
Each of the six games in The Master Chief Collection brings its own multiplayer maps, modes and game types. With more than 120 multiplayer maps and countless ways to play with community-created Forge content the Collection has the most diverse and expansive Halo multiplayer experience to date.Forge
Halo’s iconic map editor is improved, refreshed and better than ever. Build new maps with expanded functionality, increased budget, new objects and create new ways to play with custom game modes.***Look to system requirements for guidance on hardware minimum specs to achieve performance metrics.
**Forge mode not available in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary or Halo 3: ODST.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 19905945
Up to date
A small patch for MCC has been released today, February 28.
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This update includes maintenance for the Easy Anti-Cheat implementation in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Although Easy Anti-Cheat is primarily active in the PC release of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, the changes included in this update require a download on Xbox consoles as well.
With this update, the team has added a new issue to our Halo: Combat Evolved Known Issues list:
To view the full patch notes or submit tickets for any issues you encounter, please visit the Halo Support Site.
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Resolved Issues
This update includes maintenance for the Easy Anti-Cheat implementation in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Although Easy Anti-Cheat is primarily active in the PC release of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, the changes included in this update require a download on Xbox consoles as well.
Known Issues
With this update, the team has added a new issue to our Halo: Combat Evolved Known Issues list:
- When playing on Steam Deck with Easy Anti-Cheat enabled, players may experience Easy Anti-Cheat error messages when playing Halo: Combat Evolved campaign missions
- Click here for instructions on how to launch Halo: The Master Chief Collection with Easy Anti-Cheat disabled
To view the full patch notes or submit tickets for any issues you encounter, please visit the Halo Support Site.
A small patch for MCC has been released today, February 14.
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To view the full patch notes, please visit the Halo Support Site.
The primary goal of this update was to Improve Halo 2 Classic hit registration and projectile speed in online multiplayer matches.
Some developer notes:
Additional improvements include:
To see the full patch notes, please visit the Halo Support Site.
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To view the full patch notes, please visit the Halo Support Site.
The primary goal of this update was to Improve Halo 2 Classic hit registration and projectile speed in online multiplayer matches.
Some developer notes:
With this update, we’ve resolved an issue that halved the "hitscan range” of weapons in Halo 2 Classic multiplayer. In Halo games, the term “hitscan” refers to a projectile’s potential to instantly travel and impact its target. Several weapons in Halo 2 will use “hitscan” within given ranges, in other words they will only deal damage instantly when enemies are within a specific range. When enemies are outside of this range, the fired projectiles will need to travel over time to impact their target. This range can be referred to as a “hitscan range”.
To set the stage before diving into this fix further, it’s important to note how games update the “world state” or, in other words, how time progresses in a game. Framerate or frames per second measures how many times per second a game world is rendered, meaning how often a new image depicting the current world state is created and shown to players. Rendering is completed on a player’s console or PC and is therefore dependent on their hardware’s capabilities. Separate from the rendering of the game state, there is a “tick” that determines how often all game systems – including projectile movements – update every second. This tick functions identically for all players across all hardware configurations. For the original version of Halo 2, this tick occurred every 1/30th of a second.
When you fire a weapon in Halo 2, the next tick will capture both your weapon firing and however far the resulting projectile moved along its path within that 1/30th of a second. This is important because, in close range battles, a projectile can impact a target within its initial tick – this is the “hitscan range”. This allows your Xbox or PC to tell the game or server that it hit the target, rather than simply telling the game or server where it was aiming relative to the target. This is much more reliable at ensuring that projectiles which appear to hit on your device actually hit and deal damage in the server’s world state, and therefore deal damage on the other clients connected to the server.
How far a projectile can travel and hit an enemy within its initial tick is determined by its designer-configured projectile speed and how often the ticks occur. The faster the projectile, the longer the “hitscan range”. For example, the Battle Rifle projectile’s ‘Initial Velocity’ is 400 World Units (WU) per second so, when measured against the tick rate of 1/30th of a second, it has a “hitscan range” of 13.333 WU (133.33 feet).
To better align with framerate increases and provide a more consistent online experience, the Master Chief Collection (MCC) increased the tickrate from one tick every 1/30th of a second to one tick every 1/60th of a second. This intrinsically halves the distance a projectile travels in a single tick, which has the unintended consequence of cutting the “hitscan range” in half. Returning to the Battle Rifle example, the increased tick rate reduced the “hitscan range” from 13.333 WU (133.33 feet) to 6.667 WU (66.67 feet). In the multiplayer map Lockout, which has a length of roughly 13 WU (measured from the Sniper spawn to the Battle Rifle spawn), the legacy “hitscan range” for the Battle Rifle just barely fit but the MCC “hitscan range” was too short – until now. This update restored the Battle Rifle’s “hitscan range” to 13.333 WU, as well as restoring the “hitscan ranges” for all other affected weapons.
This difference in tickrates was also causing projectiles in the MCC version of Halo 2 to move slower overall as they were traveling only half the expected distance in each tick. This issue can be summarized as the original version of Halo 2 moving projectiles forward in time by 1/30th of a second whereas MCC moved them forward by 1/60th of a second.
Previously, some community mods have addressed this issue by increasing projectile speeds as a means of emulating the original “hitscan range”. Although this method corrects some of the issues outlined above, it may also introduce new behaviors that differ from the original release of Halo 2. The fix included in this update restores the legacy "hitscan range” and projectile speed without disrupting other sandbox behaviors.
An additional note here about this behavior across Halo titles: the “hitscan range” of the Battle Rifle has fluctuated over time. The values below illustrate the difference in “hitscan range” between each depiction of the Battle Rifle (and the DMR in Halo: Reach) in the Master Chief Collection.
- Halo 2: 13.333 WU (133.33 feet)
- Halo 3: 6 WU (60 feet)
- Halo: Reach’s DMR: 50 WU (500 feet)
- Halo 4: 50 WU (500 feet)
- Halo 2: Anniversary: 100 WU (1,000 feet)
Additional improvements include:
- The Phantom Hunter Achievement can now be unlocked consistently by destroying three Phantoms during the campaign mission The Covenant
- Cortana narrative sequences now play as intended in the campaign mission Arrival
To see the full patch notes, please visit the Halo Support Site.
Version 1.3272.0.0
Sep 19, 2023
A small patch for MCC has been released today, September 19.
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This patch includes updates to the localizations of several nameplate descriptions. Alongside this patch, there will be a few notable changes for mod creators:
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This patch includes updates to the localizations of several nameplate descriptions. Alongside this patch, there will be a few notable changes for mod creators:
- To ensure your Steam Workshop mods work on the latest build, use the Excession tool to update the Max Game Version to 1.3272.0.0
- Halo 2 Shared Map files now function appropriately for modding.
- The Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST mod tools will receive an update tomorrow to fix a crash that occurred when earning a multiplayer medal in Standalone
We've released an update to Halo: The Master Chief Collection to address some bugs as a result of community feedback.
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Some of the resolved issues in this update include:
For the full list of patch notes, known issues, or to submit tickets, please visit the Halo Support Site.
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Some of the resolved issues in this update include:
- MCC for PC no longer crashes on launch when installed to a drive using the exFAT file system
- The Fidelity FX Super Resolution setting has been moved to the Experimental Settings section of the Video settings menu
- Rebinding the "Scoreboard" function in Halo 2 Classic now works as expected on mouse and keyboard
- Rebinding the "Toggle Visuals" function in Halo 2: Anniversary now works as expected on mouse and keyboard
- Rebinding the "Toggle VISR Database" function in Halo3: ODST now works as expected on mouse and keyboard
- "Toggle VISR Database" function in Halo3: ODST can now be reassigned to another button on controller
- The Motion Tracker no longer appears in unintended locations when playing via Xbox Cloud Gaming
For the full list of patch notes, known issues, or to submit tickets, please visit the Halo Support Site.
Current Release
Build 19905945
Uploaded Aug 15, 2026
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 960T ; Intel i3550
RAM
N/A
GPU
AMD HD 6850 ; NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
How to Install
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Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
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Run mcc\binaries\win64\mcc-win64-shipping.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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