Halo six-player split-screen done in MCC after 343 Industries scrap it
Six player Halo split-screen has been achieved by a group of players in Halo: The Master Chief Collection, after 343 Industries cancelled local co-op in Halo Infinite earlier this month.
A recent Reddit post from ChickenMissile shows the six player split-screen play in action in the FPS game, as mods and an open source tool have been combined to pull off the impressive achievement on PC. The video even shows six people playing in the one room together, further cementing the legitimacy of the footage.
It should be noted that this isn’t Halo: The Master Chief Collection campaign footage, but instead what looks like a match of local multiplayer, as evidenced by the scoreboard showing on one of the six screen segments during the video.
In response to a comment on the Reddit thread, ChickenMissile said “It was actually quite easy. Nucleus coop does everything by itself, it recognises that I’ve got six controllers connected and it lets me split the screen six ways, then the mod does the rest.”
Halo MCC on PC in 6 way splitscreen using nucleus coop from halo
ChickenMissile also adds that “theoretically the mod can go up to 36 players”, but that their computer wouldn’t be able to handle it. This also meant that the group of split-screen players could only play Halo 3 or earlier due to how taxing it was on ChickenMissile’s PC as well.
A user also asked ChickenMissile why they didn’t just play with six laptops via a LAN setup, to which they responded: “Well firstly not everyone owns Halo, let alone has a laptop that can run it. I mean we could just play the older Halos in that case too. Other reason being we’re in a university residence so it’s a bit harder to set up LAN games through their network. And I guess the last reason is
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