What's your speed? Mine is 20Mbps hasn't improved in 6 years, shit Time Warner unstable bs. I have to move to get FIOS. They monoply block lines in Brooklyn. Up is total horse shit 1Mbps. And that was upgraded from .8Mbps, in 6 years. and GTA IV on PC takes 9 hours to download. And that's 14GB.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection takes up so much room on its 45GB Blu-ray disc that you'll need to download a 20GB day one patch.

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Writing in a new blog post on Halo Waypoint, developer 343 Industries acknowledged the "large" download size but explained that it had not wanted to "cut corners" to try and cram everything onto a single disc.

In happier news, the game will now launch on 11th November in the UK - the same date as North America and three days earlier than planned. Only France, Belgium and Japan will now see the game launch later that week.

"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," executive producer Dan Ayoub wrote.

"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.

Each of the campaigns will be playable while you're downloading the day one patch, 343 continued.

"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 optimise the online experience to ensure a smooth multiplayer launch. This will continue right up until launch day."

If you pre-order the game you'll be able to auto-download the patch pre-release, Ayoub confirmed via Twitter:


The Master Chief Collection contains Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, the newly-remastered Halo 2, plus Halo 3 and Halo 4, as well as every multiplayer map ever released for each game and a sneak peek at Halo 5.

The 10-episode Halo 4 co-op experience Spartan Ops will also be available - but now in December, 343 explained. Extra "technical enhancements" are required to get the content working "smoother and even better than before", but all episodes will be available at the same time.



Thats the reason

Why can they just put it on another disc instead of force peoples to download some that size?

That's kind of dumb. If they had that much data. Than why not put two games per, and make a two disc set. You don't run into space issues. This also means the full installation size is 70GB. It be interesting if they let you choose to install a game from the MC collection.

Mine is 20Mbps as well. Either yours is not, or they are lying to you. 

With 20Mbps it takes me an hour to download approximately 9GB (depending on my other downloads running at the time). 

It never can stay at 20. I'll usually bottom off on 1MB/s with nothing else going on. When 20 should give you around 2.5MB/s. So GTA IV ends up taking 7-9 hours. And if my net doesn't like fail 6 times a day. My net was down for 11 hrs last week. It connected to TWC. But nothing actually worked. And it kept trying to redirect me to a upgrade modem page from TWC. I'm like are they trying to get me to replace my 6 year old modem? Had to wait it out till it stopped. That's how shit they are. Not to mention the whole black out TWC. No apology, no peep on wtf it happend. Just dead, wait 22hrs.

I am honestly always shocked again at the poor internet in the US. It is the one of the most advanced countries in the world, yet stuff like that happens.

I live in a marginal EU country on the brink of bankruptcy, but no way would it be acceptable for the internet speed to drop at all. I'd be on the phone instantly, and if my net failed me repeatedly, I'd switch to another provider instantly. Internet is the basis of civilization today, it should be available at all times to everyone.

Yeah. It's all BS. The reason why this shit happens is all the "internet" wires TWC use were installed during the early 80's for Cable TV. Nothing was actually upgraded for 30 years. So Shit fails all the time. ANd intill I move. I can't get FIOS, or any other service that isn't owned my TWC. You should see the cable wire mess behind my building. All of it was strung up on a make shift telepone pole. See that amazing vine. That is my Internet wire going to the switch box.

Just a shame they didnt put any on the disc LOL

Will all the games be playable without the update?