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The Sprint – Making Halo 5: Guardians Beta Now On YouTube

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The entire 6 episode series of “The Sprint”, previously only available on the Halo Channel Xbox One App, is now available on YouTube.

343 Industries presents an unprecedented and exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the development of the Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta. The Sprint lets viewers step into the lives and meeting rooms of the team that makes Halo 5: Guardians happen

Halo 5: Guardians Post-Beta Changes

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343 Industries released detail stats from the Halo 5 Beta and a list of post-beta changes and improvements to Halo 5’s Spartan Abilities, Sprint, Weapons, Presentation, CSR, and Matchmaking

Halo 5 Beta StatsSPARTAN ABILITIES AND MOBILITY

  • The results from the HCFP surveys showed that nearly 11% of HCFP participants felt that Halo should not have sprint. 77% of participants agreed/strongly agreed that Halo should have sprint.
  • Toggle Sprint and Spartan Abilities on/off in custom games
  • Increase base speed (faster base movement)
  • Increase strafe acceleration (faster, more responsive strafing)
  • Reduce top sprint speed (narrow the delta between base movement and sprint)
  • Modify Ground Pound controls to prevent conflicts w/ crouch jumping
  • General tuning & bug fixes for all Spartan Abilities (Thrusters, Clamber, Ground Pound, etc.)

WEAPONS

  • The Hydra will be buffed to make it more effective out of zoom and ensure that it feels like a true power weapon.
  • Sniper Rifle: improve scope experience to making it less “clunky” and faster to scope
  • DMR: adjust position of the scope to improve visibility
  • Bring back the SPNKr Rocket Launcher as a legendary version of the weaponHalo 5 SPNKr Rocket Launcher
  • Reduce bonuses for automatic weapons in Smart-Link & w/ headshots
  • Remove grenade detonation in mid-air based on weapon fire
  • Ability to turn on/off vibration feedback for weapons
  • General tuning and bug fixing for all weapons

PRESENTATION

  • The intro and a victory sequences will feature considerably fewer chest bumps and high fives.
  • Post-death replay: this will become an opt-in feature. After death, players will see a traditional follow-cam and have the option to view a replay of their death from the killer’s perspective (as long as the feature is enabled within the playlist)
  • Medals: decrease frequency and number of medals displayed in the medal feed
  • Spartan chatter: players will have the option to turn this on or off in the settings menu
  • Adding highlights to placed/dropped weapons to make them easier to see
  • General tuning for announcer and Spartan chatter to reduce the frequency of events and focus on the information that matters most to players

COMPETITIVE SKILL RANK (CSR)

  • Improved skill detection during placement phase
  • Improved skill matching
  • Improved team balancing
  • Prevent skill boosting
  • General bug fixing & tuning

MATCHMAKING

  • Much faster matches
  • Better skill matching
  • Better feedback to players in the lobby and matchmaking experiences
  • Allow players to set desired datacenter for matchmaking (may impact matchmaking speed and skill balance)
  • Improved party vs party matchmaking
  • Hide CSR ranks until in match to de-incentivize quitting
  • Punish quitters with CSR penalties and matchmaking bans

Source: HaloWaypont

New Halo 5 Forge Map “Pegasus”, Hydra MLRS, Rocket Launcher

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343 Industries released footage of the Rocket Launcher and Hydra MLRS power weapons for Halo 5 Guardians. A new image for a possible Forge map “Pegasus” was also revealed.

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Vote for either Hydra or the Rocket Launcher for Phase 2 of the Halo 5 Beta https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/bulletins/the-bulletin-episode-6

Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta Schedule

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Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta starts December 29th and lasts for 3 weeks. Each week will feature different maps, game types, and weapons!

Week 1:

  • Game type: Slayer – Assault Rifle starts
  • Maps: Truth and Empire

Week 2:

  • Game type: Slayer – Battle Rifle starts
  • Maps: Regret and Eden.
  • Game type: Breakout – SMG starts
  • Maps: Crossfire and Trench

Week 3:

  • Game type: Strongholds
  • Maps: to be voted on

Halo 5: Guardians Beta – Spectator Mode (How To Spectate Players Live)

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A look at the live Spectator Mode for Halo 5: Guardians. The Spectator mode allows you to watch anyone on your Xbox One friends list play Halo 5 live – and I show you how in this video.

Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta Reveal

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At Halo Fest 2014 they revealed gameplay for Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta! The Halo 5 Beta will be available to those who pick up a copy of Halo: The Master Chief Collection and will run from Dec. 29, 2014 through Jan. 18, 2015.

Here’s a Halo 5: Guardians Multilayer Beta ViDoc they aired

Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta Gameplay

Slayer on the map Truth, the remastered Midship for Halo 5: Guardians

Slayer on the map Empire

Breakdown on the map Crossfire. Breakout is new gametype where 2 teams play best of 9 rounds where you have 1 life – first to 5 rounds wins

 

 

Halo 5 Guardians Beta Armor Unlocks – Master Chief Collection

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4 Unlockable Armor Sets for Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta were revealed. You can unlock these by earning achievements in Halo: The Master Chief Collection

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Nightfall
Watch the Halo: Nightfall Episode 1 Second Story (Unlocks Helmet)
Watch all 5 episodes of Halo: Nightfall (Unlocks Armor) mark-vi-gen1png-8e9ac2_610w

Mark VI
Earn the “Your Journey Begins” Achievement in MCC
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Mark VI Scarred
Earn the “Cairo Station” Achievement in MCC
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Helioskrill
Earn the “Legend” Achievement in MCC by completing all 4 campaigns on Legendary

Source: IGN

Halo 5: Guardians – Evolution of Midship

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Midship will be remastered in Halo 5: Guardians. Here’s the evolution of the map since Halo 2 as we compare the screenshots from Midship, Heretic (Halo 3), and Halo 5: Guardians

Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta Trailer Breakdown – Midship, Weapons, Armor, Dates!

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A breakdown of the Halo: 5 Guardians Multiplayer Beta First Look trailer from Gamescom 2014. The Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta will have:

  • 7 maps, one of them is Midship from Halo 2
  • 3 Game types
  • 4v4 Arena focus
  • No loadouts, “fair start”
  • 7 armor sets
    • Aviator-like
    • Defender-like
    • Armor resembling that of Fred Spartan-104
    • A blurry blue spartan with an EVA-like helmet
  • 11 sandbox weapons
    • Energy Sword (seen on Midship map)
    • SMG
    • Assault Rifle
    • Battle Rifle
    • DMR
    • Rocket Launcher like weapon
    • Sniper
    • 4 Unknown
  • Unlockable item(s) that will carry over to Halo 5: Guardians

Halo: The Master Chief Collection arrives November 11th, 2014.

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E3 2014: Halo Master Chief Collection, Halo 5 Beta, & Halo 2 Anniversary Details!

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343 Industries announces Halo: The Master Chief Collection for Xbox One this November with Halo 5 Multiplayer Beta in December. Included in this collection are re-vamped versions of Halo 1-4 with Halo 2 getting the anniversary treatment.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection Includes:

  • Halo CE Anniversary
  • Halo 2 Anniversary
  • Halo 3
  • Halo 4
  • Halo Nightfall (Digital Series by Ridley Scott)
  • Access to Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta (December 27th, 2014 – January 22)

The collection features a single unified interfaced, to give you seamless access to all 4 games, everything will be unlocked from the start, Spartan ops is included, forge will be available for Halo 2, 3 and 4. Yes bringing forge to Halo 2 for the first time. There will also be a feature for custom playlists so you can pick and choose campaign missions from all 4 games and play them in the order you choose.

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Halo 2 will be getting the full anniversary treatment, featuring the ability to revert back to its original graphics by a touch of a button.

In Halo 2 Anniversary We’ll be able to uncover Halo 5 Guardians story elements with extended cut scenes, hidden terminal videos, and utilize all new skulls to experience the campaign in a whole new way.

All of the original 25 multiplayer maps from Halo 2 are included. Play on fan favorites including Ivory Tower, Ascension, and Lockout, plus 6 completely re-imagined maps.

The collection will have over 100 multiplayer maps, every map from Halo 1 through 4 – only excluding the extra PC maps Edit: PC exlcusive maps for Halo CE and Halo 2 have now been included. Each game will run at 1080p, 60 frames per second, and have dedicated servers. And each game will have its original multiplayer engine – including Halo 2 just as it shipped 10 years ago – button glitches and all.

And for you achievement hunters, the collection will have 4000 gamescore for you to unlock!