Halo 5: Guardian’s Forge mode is going to be bigger than ever, giving fan access to new features, tools, and over 1600 objects to play with… when the feature launches. Forge won’t be available when Halo 5: Guardians launches October 27th, the feature will arrive sometime in December.
Xbox and 343 Industries are offering an exchange program for those who want to trade in their digital code from the Halo 5: Guardians Limited Collector’s Edition for physical copy!
PLEASE DO NOT REDEEM YOUR CODE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SWAPPING YOUR CODE FOR A DISC.
This offer is good from October 20 through November 1, 2015.
If you’ve purchased the Limited Collector’s Edition of Halo 5: Guardians, you’ll receive the digital version of the game via a redeemable code. This gives you the opportunity to pre-download Halo 5: Guardians the week prior to launch, so that you’re ready to play on launch day in your region (Note This does not grant early access to the game). Remember to keep your console settings to “Automatic Update” so that your console downloads the Day 1 content update in advance of launch, ensuring you’re ready to play on October 27.
Xbox Support and 343 Industries are offering customers the opportunity to exchange digital codes for physical versions of the game. This offer is available in the following markets: North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Mexico. In order to be eligible, the following must be true:
You have received your Limited Collector’s Edition of Halo 5: Guardians.
You have not redeemed the code for the digital version of Halo 5: Guardians.
How to exchange your code for the digital version of Halo 5: Guardians for a physical disc copy
Here’s how you exchange your digital code for a physical disc.
Note This offer is good from October 20 through November 1, 2015.
Select “Chat with Microsoft Support” to chat with a support agent.
Once you’re connected, inform them that you want to exchange your unredeemed digital code for Halo 5: Guardians for a physical disc.
You’ll need to provide the agent with the following information:
Your Xbox gamertag
Your email address
The token’s 25-character code
Your address for shipment
Once the order has been placed, you should receive your disc, along with a code for you to redeem the additional LCE content (Warzone REQ Bundle and Halo: The Fall of Reach), within 3-5 business days.
Note If you’ve already redeemed your code for the digital copy of Halo 5: Guardians, you won’t be eligible to swap it for a physical disc.
Spartans never die! Here’s a new Halo 5: Guardians Live Action Trailer featuring Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris! This commercial was set to air Sunday night during Fear The Walking dead, however the trailer appeared to have been released early via the Xbox One Marketplace today. It was promptly removed, but now official released… most likely due to the mistake.
Lots of exclusive Halo 5: Guardians Campaign footage has been revealed today by many media outlets and YouTube channels. I’ll be updating this post with some of the best footage to share for you!
Warning, since this is campaign footage this does contain spoilers. So be warned. Although many outlets have removed serious spoilers. Continue at your own risk.
Halo 5: Guardians will feature a dynamic 1080p resolution system to allow the game to run at 60 frames-per-second at all times as announced on a recent blog post on HaloWaypoint by Josh Holmes, the Studio Head for Halo 5: Guardians.
The big take away from the blog post is that we now have our answer if Halo 5: Guardians will run at 1080p and 60fps. The answer is yes… most of the time. Halo 5 Guardians will always run at 60 fps and this is supported by a new progressive resolution system that allows them to render the resolution up to 1080p based on the current scene you’re playing or experiencing.
So what does this mean? Well the gameplay will always run at 60fps and during much of the campaign you may be playing at 1080p, but this all depends on what’s currently going on in the game. If the situation gets really crazy with vehicles, visual effects, and combat – the resolution will dip lower than 1080p to maintain 60fps. As of right now we don’t know how low the resolution will go.
If they didn’t have this progressive resolution system, they would have to reduce the scale of the most intense combat encounters or lower the quality across the game to maintain the goal of 60fps at all times.
This isn’t a new system, most recent example of a game to use this system is Witcher 3 on Xbox One. – Which floated from 900p to 1080p when necessary and has received some praise in doing so.
Halo 5 “ViDoc”** being shown in theaters showing an inside look at the process and passion that has gone into the development of Halo 5: Guardians, and experience an intimate glimpse into the next great adventure in the Halo universe.
**Now without the fight scene we saw from the leak.
Gamestop updated the image for the Spartan Locke HUNTER-Class Armor Set. Halo 5: Guardians Pre-Order Bonus content is not exclusive. You can earn Pre-Order bonus content in-game through the REQ System.