: You should really just wait until the MCC patch launches.

So, I actually considered all of the Halo games for this joke.

Halo 5 was a candidate. Unfortunately, it does not support changing an objective boundary in real time via scripting, which would have let me do a random shrinking circle like the actual Battle Royale games. So this put it in the same position as Reach and 4 and MCC. Otherwise it would have been the automatic go-to for this joke/project.

I also considered Halo 4 - especially with the MCC version, which would have let it be 60fps. However, the MCC's current state considered, and the fact that they're JUST about to get a do-over patch out there means it would be poor timing because everyone is waiting for that patch now before re-installing MCC. It would have also taken a lot longer to make the map, as I obviously would use Forge Island, and I didn't have time to prototype out how many objects I could get away with on that and have it still be playable.

H2A Forge is the same thing - MCC update timing.

Reach fit the bill - it has Forge World, which saved a lot of time Forging to make a playable map. I still know how to forge Reach at a decent level (it was weird feeling all the muscle memory come back to me). Reach does not have a split playerbase - it's the same game on both the 360 and One, unlike 3 and 4 that are both split across MCC/360, and is fairly stable. The downsides to this release are my capture rig died in the middle of all of it so I couldn't make an actual trailer so I went with the joke edit of the Reach beta trailer, and they killed the Reach webstats JUST before this came out, so I had to cancel the leaderboards and stat tracker that were planned to release alongside it so people could compete for points/score. On the upside, once that was canned I was able to open the map up a bit more since there was no point in preventing leaderboard shenanigans.

Depending on where things sit, I'll likely do this in MCC next year, or if 5 picks up the ability to change a hill in real time, Halo 5.