Halo The Master Chief Collection goes gold; Huge day one patch

Microsoft and 343 Industries have been hard at work to bring Halo 5: Guardians and Halo: The Master Chief Collection to our greasy, clammy or perhaps dry little hands (there's no in-between ok? It's one of those hands or none!).

Luckily for us, Halo: The Master Chief Collection is coming to us sooner than not – it's coming on November 11 and it's bringing four complete Halo games, every multiplayer map released across each game, a complete remaster of Halo 2, and a new 'revolutionary' user interface. Oh, and the game has gone Gold. It's done. Finito. Cue the waiting game.

That's a lot to look forward to, naturally, the pessimist in me says "Where's the catch?"

The catch is in a 20 GB day one update. Halo: The Master Chief Collection is so big that it takes up all of the room on a single Blu-Ray, so everything that 343 needed to add is coming in the form of an update.

Here's how Microsoft disclosed this tidbit of information:

"From the start, our philosophy has been to give Halo fans the best possible experience and not compromise the quality or features of the collection.  The result is that Halo: The Master Chief Collection will take up almost all of the usable space of a single Blu-ray (45 GB), and we will also issue a content update at launch that is estimated to be 20 GB.  You’ll be able to start playing Campaign and more as the content is installing, with some features and multiplayer content being added via the update. Yes, the update is large, but we weren’t about to cut corners to save disc space.  This ensures that you are getting every bit of Halo goodness we can fit in.  Our work is not done, however, as we continue to tune, tweak and optimize the online experience to ensure a smooth multiplayer launch. This will continue right up until launch day."

The last sentence of that excerpt certainly does promise that the day one update won't be the last update we see for The Master Chief Collection.

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