And then, the frame rate stuttered.
Today, Alex still has Halo Wars 2 installed. The SSD it lives on is old, and the game takes nearly two minutes to load a skirmish map. He doesn’t play competitively anymore. Instead, he boots up “Terminus Firefight”—the endless wave defense mode—and builds massive, impractical bases full of nothing but tech 3 vehicles. He watches the Banished AI throw wave after wave into his killzone. It’s therapeutic. halo wars 2 for pc
Years passed. The Master Chief Collection came and went, riddled with bugs. Halo 5: Guardians ignored PC entirely. Alex grew older, his mechanical keyboard gathering dust between bouts of Total War . Then, at E3 2016, the announcement hit like a MAC round: Halo Wars 2 . Developed by Creative Assembly (the Total War legends) and published by Microsoft. And there, in the fine print: And then, the frame rate stuttered
Alex gritted his teeth. He was a PC gamer. He’d modded .ini files for Fallout: New Vegas until it ran on duct tape and prayers. He could fix this. He doesn’t play competitively anymore