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New Halo 3: ODST Xbox One and Halo 2 Anniversary Relic Screenshots

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First look at Halo 3: ODST on Xbox One for Halo: The Master Chief Collection & more Halo 2 Anniversary Relic Screenshots!

Halo 3: ODST’s Campaign will be free for those who played Halo MCC before December 19th 2014. The remastered map Relic for Halo 2 Anniversary will be free for all players. Both are set to release sometime this Spring 2015 – date TBA.

No word at this time if Halo 3: ODST’s Campaign will be available for purchase for those who didn’t play during the compensation eligibility period.

Halo 3 ODST on Xbox One

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New Halo 5: Guardians Trailer Tease! (Xbox One Trailer)

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A new, short, shot of Halo 5: Guardians teased in an Xbox One Trailer. Agent Locke appears to be dropping out of a pelican.

Halo 5 Guardians Xbox One Teaser Agent Locke

Source: Xbox YouTube

Halo: The Master Chief Collection Content Update – 3.3.15

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343 Industries has released the long awaited content update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Multiplayer is working better than ever! It’s 690MB in size and focuses on matchmaking, party stability, and title-specific improvements. Essentially, this CU is targeting to the core system and how multiplayer functions.

The content update notes are as follows

MATCHMAKING

  • Made a variety of updates to improve matchmaking performance and success rates
  • Improved matchmaking search times/time to match
  • Improved stability throughout the matchmaking process across all titles

PARTIES

  • Improved party stability

For HALO 2

  • Made improvements to multiplayer shot registration
  • Improved campaign stability across a variety of levels
  • Addressed stability issues for matchmaking and custom games
  • Fixed issues around resuming H2A Campaign from “remastered” mode
  • Improved medal display consistency

HALO: CE

  • Fixed issues regarding aim assist which resulted in the reticle being pushed away from an enemy
  • Improved shot registration consistency between host / client in peer-to-peer custom game matches
  • Resolved a variety of UI inconsistencies, including team color randomization, medals, and in-game scoreboard display

They’ve also added motion backgrounds that show of moments from the 4 campaigns while you briefly search for a match – Which is a really cool touch!

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Source:  HaloWaypoint

Halo 5: Guardians Toys – New York Toy Fair 2015

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At New York Toy Fair 2015 MEGA Bloks, Kotobukiya, McFarlane Toys, and BOOMco unveiled some of their new toys coming this fall 2015. Many of these are inspired by Halo 5 and according to James Monosmith, Marketing Manager for Halo Consumer Products at 343 Industries, “…some of the MEGA Bloks toys feature sneak peeks into the plot of Halo 5: Guardians.”

Halo 5 Mega Bloks Promethean Phaeton Gunship

New line of Halo 5: Guardians Mega Bloks sets revealed at New York Toy Fair 2015. The line features:

  • Promethean Phaeton Gunship
  • UNSC Gauss Warthog, with the black and yellow look from Halo: CE rocket hog for the PC.
  • UNSC Scorpion Tank
  • Covenant Ghost
  • Covenant Banshee

According to James Monosmith, Marketing Manager for Halo Consumer Products at 343 Industries “…some of the Mega Bloks toys feature sneak peeks into the plot of Halo 5: Guardians.”

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Here are the other toys shown off, featuring BOOMco nerf Halo weapons, McFarlane Halo 5: Guardians 10 inch Master Chief and Agent Locke figures, and more!

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 2 Anniversary Relic DLC Multiplayer Map

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343 Industries announced that Certain Affinity has begun development on the multiplayer map Relic for Halo 2 Anniversary. Along with this announcement they release concept art for the remastered map. Relic will be the 7th remastered map for Halo 2 Anniversary and is set to arrive “Spring 2015” and will be free for all players.

Halo 2 Anniversary Relic Concept Art

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Halo 2 Anniversary Relic Concept Art

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In the same community update 343 Industries announced that the Content Update Beta for Halo: The Master Chief Collection (which was only open for Xbox One Preview Members) has been cancelled. The beta would have delayed the public release of the content update and now testing will be done internally.

Source: HaloWaypoint

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

Halo 5 Limited and Limited Collector’s Editions Announced!

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The Halo 5: Guardians Collector’s Edition and Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition have been announced! Also Pre-Order Poster.

Halo 5 Pre Order Poster

Source: http://news.xbox.com/2014/12/games-halo-5-preorder-and-beta

 

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