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Halo 5 Will be Getting Server Fixes

Halo 5 Will be Getting Server Fixes

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In an official blog post on Halowaypoint.com, 343 Industries went over a number of improvements and changes that will be coming to Halo 5: Guardians. Specifically, some certain server issues that have been significantly affecting players are going to be fixed. Per the blog post from 343 Industries: “As a commitment to sustaining a fun and enjoyable online experience along with a consistent and fair competitive landscape, the team is actively investigating these reports. In fact, I’m told there will be a very small update pushed out tentatively as early as next week that’s strictly under-the-hood work to further assist in identifying the root causes of reported instances of higher-than-usual latency, disconnects as well as melee registration to help facilitate a fix.” Interestingly enough, the blog post also indicated that a “classic” playlist would be coming soon to the game. However, no other details were revealed. This would certainly be a welcome addition to fans of the game. 343 also addresses the issues that have been plaguing Halo: The Master

Halo 5: Guardians Review

Halo 5: Guardians Review

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343 Industries had something of a difficult task in redeeming their reputation and persuading millions of players that they were up to the task of taking over the Halo franchise. When the original creators, Bungie, left to go and create their very own shooter in the form of Destiny, the studio was put together by Microsoft specifically to carry on developing future games in the series. While they certainly didn’t cause too much harm with the release of Halo 4, their first attempt didn’t exactly set the world on fire either. Meanwhile a disastrous launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection raised many questions about whether the developer was capable of handling such responsibility. It is partly due to the fiasco that surrounded the online multiplayer portion of The Master Chief Collection that this review has been delayed until now, so that we could ensure that the title did not suffer from any of the same problems. On that front at least, 343 Industries has definitely learned from their mistakes.

No Halo 5 Campaign DLC Planned

No Halo 5 Campaign DLC Planned

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Halo 5: Guardians won’t be receiving any sort of campaign downloadable content, as developer 343 Industries wants to focus on other aspects of the game for expansions. Studio head Josh Holmes has explained in an interview with Red Bull that although the team is interested in finding new ways to get players involved in the world of Halo, they don’t have any plans to do that with further story content for the newly released shooter. “While we’re always looking for new ways to expand the Halo universe, we do not currently have any plans to release future campaign content for Halo 5: Guardians,” said Holmes. This makes sense as Halo has traditionally stayed away from expansion packs and story DLC, instead having more content added to the online multiplayer portion of the game via map packs. It would seem that 343 Industries intend to carry this on, with the release of 15 brand new maps released by June 16. As revealed in June of this year, these maps will also

Halo 5: Guardians Needs 60 GB To Install

Halo 5: Guardians Needs 60 GB To Install

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While it’s not uncommon for games to take up huge amounts of storage pace when they are installed on next generation consoles, they usually don’t come anywhere near the size that Halo 5: Guardians will reportedly be. According to images found off the official box art by NeoGAF users the title will require 60 GB of hard drive space to be installed, meaning you may have to delete some content from your Xbox One hard drive if you want to play the highly anticipated game. The official Xbox store does list the game at 46.19 GB, which suggests that the extra space may be for a day-one patch to fix any issues or add extra content to Halo 5 that wasn’t included on the disc. Of course, it could also mean that the box art is fake, but with the game having recently gone gold it seems likely that some copies will have leaked. Halo 5: Guardians is due to launch worldwide on October 27 exclusively for the Xbox One.

Halo: The Fall of Reach Launch Trailer Showcases Master Chief’s Origin

Halo: The Fall of Reach Launch Trailer Showcases Master Chief’s Origin

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October not only sees the long-awaited release of Halo 5: Guardians, but also a new CG animated Halo movie. This one is particular is an animated adaptation of Eric Nylund’s Halo: The Fall of Reach novel. You can check out the new launch trailer for the film that was recently released by Microsoft and 343 Industries below. The animated feature is included with the upcoming Limited Edition release of Halo 5: Guardians. The story features the origin of the Spartan program and the origin of the legendary hero of the franchise, Master Chief. As a child, he’s conscripted into a brutal military training and augmentation program. The Spartans are designed to be the ultimate weapon against chaos and insurgency. However, the alien alliance called The Covenant soon declares war on humanity, and the Spartans may be mankind’s only hope. The book was previously published in 2001, but it’s nice to see a film that will provide a visual narrative for Master Chief’s origin. This is especially since it seems that

Halo 5: New Blue Team Cinematic Features Master Chief

Halo 5: New Blue Team Cinematic Features Master Chief

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Xbox and 343 Industries have released a brand new cinematic for Halo 5: Guardians. While the last cinematic featured Jameson Locke, this new video delves deeper into the story of Master Chief and the Blue Team. You can check out the opening cinematic for Halo 5: Guardians’ second mission, “Blue Team,” in the player below. In the new video, Master Chief leads Blue Team aboard a derelict Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) research facility in order to ensure its contents don’t fall into the hands of a renegade faction of Covenant zealots. One of his team members suspects if Chief is pushing himself too hard and is going on too many missions. Chief reaches the facility, and the team makes a daring jump through space to the facility to attack the Covenant renegades. They blast through the airlock, and the Covenant are sucked out into the vacuum of space. The team has landed successfully so far. It will be interesting to see what exactly triggers the journey into Chief becoming

Halo 5: New Video Featurettes Released

Halo 5: New Video Featurettes Released

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Later this year, Microsoft and 343 Industries will release the next main game in the Halo franchise with Halo 5: Guardians. Shortly after E3, 343 Industries released a series of behind-the-scenes video featurettes for the game showing the Road to E3. The new videos are available in the player below. The 343 Industries staff was working diligently to prepare the Halo 5: Guardians reveal for E3 2015, hence the “Road to E3.” These include features such as the new multiplayer mode, Warzone. There is also a look at the development process for the game, including the motion capture stage. “Halo 5: Guardians continues the story of the Master Chief, and introduces a brand new central character to the Halo universe – Spartan Locke (as seen in the liveaction series “Halo: Nightfall”). Peace is shattered when colony worlds are unexpectedly attacked. And when humanity’s greatest hero goes missing, Spartan Locke is tasked with hunting the Master Chief and solving a mystery that threatens the entire galaxy. Play as the Master Chief

Halo 5 Will Have Microtransactions

Halo 5 Will Have Microtransactions

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Microtransactions are common amongst free-to-play games as a way for developers to earn money from a product that doesn’t have an initial fee. However, in recent times they have started to become more and more prevalent in fully-fledged titles that are available at retail. So not only are some developers asking you to pay around $60 to play their game but they also want to encourage you to part with more money for bonuses. While the practice is still relatively rare it is becoming more frequent and 343 Industries is the latest studio to jump on the bandwagon with Halo 5: Guardians. Speaking on a new post on the Halo Waypoint site, Halo 5 development lead Josh Holmes has explained that players will be able to spend real-world money on unlocking REQ packs. These packs are part of the new Requisition System that has been introduced in Halo 5. REQ points are earned during matches and by completing commendations and can then be used to unlock extra content. This content

343 Industries Tries To Reassure Fans That Halo Is In The Right Hands

343 Industries Tries To Reassure Fans That Halo Is In The Right Hands

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Halo is arguably Microsoft’s biggest showpiece in terms of gaming. It effectively launched the original Xbox console back in 2001 and became one of the major gaming franchises with the release of Halo 2 in 2004. So when Microsoft and Halo developer 343 Industries announced that they were set to release a remastered compilation of all of Master Chief’s adventures for the Xbox One, fans were naturally delighted that they would get to play some of their favorite games on the console with upgraded graphics and audio. Unfortunately for everyone, Halo: The Master Chief Collection wasn’t the brilliant game that it was supposed to be. Bugs and glitches plagued the game, while online multiplayer was almost entirely broken thanks to connectivity issues that prevented the vast majority of players from getting into games over Xbox Live. 343 Industries released several patches to try to fix these problems, and while most of them have been fixed some issues still persist. Microsoft tried to make amends to disappointed fans by releasing a

Halo 5 Guardians Gets 2 Live-Action Trailers, Release Date Confirmed

Halo 5 Guardians Gets 2 Live-Action Trailers, Release Date Confirmed

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Halo 5 Guardians is shaping up to be one of the more interesting games in the Halo lineup. A teaser stated that Agent Locke may view Master Chief as a traitor, and his mission might be to kill him During the Walking Dead season finale tonight, that seemed to be confirmed. As we got to see this live-action trailer… https://youtu.be/tHQiYPiNVEE A wounded Master Chief? A destroyed world that he caused? A vengeful (and preachy) Spartan Locke ready to make the kill blow? Say it ain’t so! But…as they say, there are two sides to every story. Where one might say “traitor”, the other man may say “hero” or something of the like. And when your mission is to hunt down someone, if you don’t know the truth, you may be paying a big cost. Which is what we saw in the next trailer, which showed Master Chief laying down the lay for Spartan Locke. https://youtu.be/9rd8FWUCCZk “Was it worth it?” Yeah that might be a good question depending on how things

Halo 5: Guardians Beta Impressions

Halo 5: Guardians Beta Impressions

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Over the past couple of weeks, players who bought Halo: The Master Chief Collection have been able to try out some of the multiplayer offerings from the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians. The game will be the second Halo sequel developed by 343 Studios following the split of Bungie from Microsoft. They were last responsible for Halo 4, a game that divided fans somewhat for the dramatic departure from some of the traditional gameplay mechanics of the series. That didn’t stop it from receiving a strong positive reception and break sales records for the franchise though. Now that 343 Studios have had plenty of time to map out what they want the series to evolve into and enough experience in working on Halo games, Halo 5 should be a significant improvement on their last effort. Especially when you consider that they have far more powerful hardware available to utilize in the form of the Xbox One. While details on Halo 5: Guardians (we still don’t particularly like the subtitle) have been

Master Chief not the main character in Halo 5

Master Chief not the main character in Halo 5

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An interview posted in X-One magazine with actor Mike Colter reveals that, which has since been posted online through Reddit, reveals that Master Chief is not the main protagonist in the upcoming first-person shooter Halo 5: Guardians. Colter plays Agent Locke in the live-action series Halo: Nightfall that connects the story between Halo 4 and Halo 5. Previous information given out by Microsoft had pointed towards Agent Locke being a major character in Halo 5 but until now it was widely assumed that Master Chief would still be the main character that players would control throughout the game. That looks set to change though with Colter telling the magazine: “Yeah, I’m a playable character in Halo 5. Once Halo: The Master Chief Collection is released, and then Halo 5 comes out shortly thereafter, you’re basically going to be playing a game with me as the primary character.” While Halo games have experimented with different protagonists in past games, such as with the Arbiter in Halo 2 and a squad of