By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday 14 February 2021 13:40 GMT
343 Industries announced a new card is coming Halo 3 via Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and it will be the first new map since 2009’s Mythic II Map Pack.
In a blog post released on Halo Waypoint on Friday, developer 343 Industries announced that a new card is coming into play from the canceled Halo Online project developed by Saber Interactive. This is probably the ‘new place’ of the ‘new place and way of playing’ that teased 343 just last week.
If you are not aware, Halo Online was a free Halo multiplayer version that only appeared in Russia in 2015, built on a customized version of the Halo 3 engine. Halo fans have been curious about the game since its inception, and Microsoft has repeatedly tried to get the game (unofficially) online.
However, it’s eager to add more content to Halo: The Master Chief Collection, but it looks like 343 is finally trying to strip the Halo archives and bring some lost content to the active compilation game.
Some digging by the people at Kotaku suggest that the incoming card will be ‘Waterfall’, a canceled Halo Online card that was never launched in the short-lived F2P title. Curious.
You must be a member of the beta flight program of Halo: The Master Chief Collection if you want to get a taste of this new map as soon as possible. It looks like it could be added to beta flight as soon as February 18th.
As we already reported, this update next week will also add support for FOV slides on Xbox consoles.
This is also not the end of the series for The Master Chief Collection: 343 asked fans if they would like raytracing support for the Xbox Series X and Series S editions of The Master Chief Collection.