343 Industries influence Halo: Master Chief Collection, ODST campaign added for free

The ODST campaign provides exclusive new content to the game.

Good news comes the way of all the players who have played Halo: The Master Chief Collection between its launch date and today as 343 Industries has decided to add the ODST campaign to the game thus upgrading the Halo 3: ODST campaign and giving it away for free.

Last we heard 343 Industries were fixing a new update for the game to resolve the Matchmaking issues, Roster and Party issues and seemingly every glitch that has marred the performance of the game since its launch(for more details click here) . Hence, this news certainly comes as a surprise since we expect them to have their hands full with the work required in fixing the glitches in the game.

Studio head Bonnie Ross thanks fans

The news was announced in a blog post, "A Thank You to Our Fans from Bonnie Ross," written by the studio head at 343. "This has been a humbling experience and highlighted how we as a studio can – and need – to do better for Xbox fans around the world. We are so grateful to our fans who have stood by our side and we appreciate all of your patience as we worked through these issues. As a token of our appreciation and to thank fans for the continued support and understanding, we will be offering the following items..."

To view the free content, the user must be an “online-player” who played Halo: The Master Chief Collection between launch date (November 11, 2014) and today, December 19. The exception is for the newly remastered Halo 2 map, which will be made available to everyone. The new content in the game is as follows

• Halo 3: ODST Campaign: The original Xbox 360 game campaign will be upgraded to run at 1080p and 60 FPS. Development on this "just started," but 343 says we can expect to see it in Spring 2015. It has no plans to include the co-op Firefight mode. The campaign will be delivered through a free download token, and you'll launch it through MCC.
• One month of Xbox Live Gold: This will be delivered as early as mid-January 2015. 343 will either apply one month of Gold directly to your account or send a redeemable token through the Xbox One message center.
• Exclusive In-Game Nameplate and Avatar: These will be delivered before 2015 in an upcoming content update. As a thank you to early adopters, they will not be available anywhere else.
• Remastered Halo 2 "Relic" Map: The re-imagined version of the Halo 2 map Relic will be available in Spring 2015 as part of a free update for all players in Halo 2 Anniversary