343 Industries is quite confident in its upcoming game

May 9, 2015 07:39 GMT  ·  By

Halo developer 343 Industries confirms that the sheer complexity of the Halo: The Master Chief Collection ultimately led to its many issues, but it also emphasizes that the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians is a simpler product that shouldn't have any problems.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection launched last November on the Xbox One platform, bringing forth Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4, all remastered for the more powerful console.

Unfortunately for the millions of fans who got the new experience, its multiplayer was plagued by many different problems and errors, and only after a huge amount of patches did developer 343 Industries make things right.

As you can imagine, this is bringing into question the studio's ability to ensure that the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians won't repeat those mistakes.

Halo: MCC's complexity caused problems but Halo 5 is simpler

Fans shouldn't be worried about such a thing, according to 343 Industries boss Frank O'Connor, who talks with XboxAchievements about the challenges presented by Halo: MCC and Halo 5.

According to the developer, Halo: The Master Chief Collection was a hugely complex project that entailed taking lots of older games and making sure that they work on the Xbox One. Meanwhile, Halo 5 is an all-new experience custom-built for the new console. As such, there shouldn't be any errors, hopefully.

"Halo: The Master Chief Collection is definitely a black eye for us," he says. "We’re not going to rest on our laurels or hide from the mistakes we made. However, Halo 5 is being made by a completely different team. It’s a singular product. It was built from the ground up for this new technology, rather than being sort of dragged kicking and screaming from 2001 and forced and shoehorned into a 2014 console."

What's more, the recent beta stage for the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer has also helped 343 Industries ensure that everything is operating as intended, so fans should rest easy.

Halo 5 is coming to Xbox One on October 27, worldwide.