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[BraXzy]

THE UPDATE IS LIVE!

3.8GB people. Go go go!!!

Forge OT: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1157981

OFFICIAL Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxbCtx3a0Fo

News: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/cartographer-s-gift-sneak-peek

Halo 5: Guardians is expanding! New details about the next free update coming to Halo 5: Guardians later this month – The Cartographer’s Gift – were revealed at The Game Awards. The Cartographer’s Gift will add the biggest and most improved Forge mode ever to Halo 5: Guardians, in addition to brand-new Warzone (Battle of Noctus), Arena (Overgrowth) and Big Team Battle (Antifreeze and Burial Mounds) maps, and more than 25 new REQs for armors, weapons, emblems and more.

Additionally, the Halo World Championship 2016 begins Sunday, Dec. 6 with the launch of online tournament ladders around the world. The biggest Halo eSports competition in franchise history is centered on the ultra-competitive Arena multiplayer mode of Halo 5: Guardians, with a prize pool that has now reached $2 million dollars and growing. Starting today, in celebration of the Halo World Championship, a special Halo Championship Series (HCS) Premium REQ Pack – including HCS themed weapon skins, armor, and emblem – will be available for purchase. Fans will need to act fast though as this will only be available through Sunday at 12pm PST. As with all REQ Packs a portion of each purchase will go directly to the Halo World Championship prize pool.

Also announced, the Halo World Championship prize pool has hit $2,000,000 and is continuing to grow.

 

[jem0208]

Need a link for that trailer, I missed it :/

 

[Poodlestrike]

Doubling the HCS pool is sweet, and a new Warzone map is excellent, but the important bits of this update are gonna be

-Forge
-Gametypes

The second is especially important. We're dying out here.

 

[Twilight Gap]

fooooooorge

 

[jem0208]

Doubling the HCS pool is sweet, and a new Warzone map is excellent, but the important bits of this update are gonna be

-Forge
-Gametypes

The second is especially important. We're dying out here.

The lack of a single mention of new game types worries me considerably.

Frankie, give us something man!

 

[DagnastyEp]

Nice update, that warzone looks sweet!

 

[link1201]

Overgrowth...I hope it has a lot of vegetation.


Kinda looks like a alt. Plaza.

 

[Haines]

No date tho right. Darn.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

New Warzone map looks cool.

 

[Linkin112]

Great, new Arena map looks exactly like Plaza, just with some moss and shit everywhere

 

[Strider]

I'm sure all of this and more will be highlighted in their next blog post. Especially curious about any ui changes and controller settings. Also giff me that juicy season 1 info.

I don't even like using forge myself but I love playing stuff other members create. Hoping file share launches with it or is just around the corner

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As far as new game types for arena are concerned j want them too. Badly. But I don't want them half assed. I want the game type along with medals and anything else needed to make it feel special. For that it'll probably take a little longer for them to add stuff like oddball and koth.

 

[matthieuC]

Aayyyyy hopefully it's a few arena maps but either way I am hyped!

 

[User 73706]

The lack of a single mention of new game types worries me considerably.

Frankie, give us something man!

in the February update, Oddball, Ricochet, Regicide and Extraction return

Spoiler

combined together for a hectic new Warzone game mode

 

[joseph]

Never thought I'd be tempted to buy an Xbox, but there it is...

:/ <3

 

[BraXzy]

No date tho right. Darn.

Nothing more specific than December 2015. But we are due a community update tomorrow which hopefully gives us more.

 

[JackHerer]

The lack of a single mention of new game types worries me considerably.

Frankie, give us something man!

The silence is definitely fueling my pessimism that's for sure. New maps will be much appreciated though. From what I could see that Warzone map looked promising. I hope that we get more than one for Arena. That would be really nice.

 

[WordsintheWater]

Great, new Arena map looks exactly like Plaza, just with some moss and shit everywhere

Will give them the benefit of the doubt until I see more, but yeah that small snippet looked like that exactly. It's probably the counterpart to Plaza, just like Truth is to Regret.

 

[blamite]

Oddball when?

Ah, who am I kidding, it won't get a permanent dedicated playlist anyway.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

Will try the new arena map. Probably just called spaza. Edited plaza map or something

 

[Haines]

Nothing more specific than December 2015. But we are due a community update tomorrow which hopefully gives us more.

Oh right on

 

[TheXbox]

baller af

This game is like meth to me. Had to leave at home before finals. Can't wait to jump back in and play with some gaffers.

 

[Ryde3]

Was there a date announced?

 

[Jack The Nipper]

Oddball when?

Ah, who am I kidding, it won't get a permanent dedicated playlist anyway.

Why would it?

You mean objectives play list?

 

[matthieuC]

Great, new Arena map looks exactly like Plaza, just with some moss and shit everywhere

Uh what? They gave us like 5 seconds of footage of it lol...

Also, I can't wait to read some negative jack the nipper comments. Sure love those.

 

[JackHerer]

Will give them the benefit of the doubt until I see more, but yeah that small snippet looked like that exactly. It's probably the counterpart to Plaza, just like Truth is to Regret.

When they first talked about the remix concept I was extremely excited because I assumed it would mean more maps in the game at launch, perhaps close to twice as many because this method allowed them to reuse most of the assets.

It definitely looked a lot like Plaza.

 

[Strider]

Never thought I'd be tempted to buy an Xbox, but there it is...

:/ <3

Doit.gif

 

[User 73706]

Which Arena maps don't have remixes yet? So far we have:

Regret / Truth
Empire / Eden
Fathom / Fathom feat. Pitbull (mentioned in The Sprint or something iirc)
Plaza / Overgrowth
Coliseum / ???
The Rig / ???

Canvases:
Glacier
Space
Alpine (Pegasus / Orion)

I think it's safe to assume that before we get any OC maps we'll be getting those remixes of Fathom, Coliseum and The Rig.

 

[BraXzy]

One thing that did catch my eye in the trailer, the small text at the bottom.

"Free content every month"

Spoiler

Through June 2016.

 

[Glass]

New arena map is called Overgrowth.

 

[UKUMI0]

Only version of the trailer I could find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WmK_DxEfu0&feature=youtu.be&a

 

[blamite]

Why would it?

You mean objectives play list?

Halo 4 launched with dedicated playlists for each objective gametype and it was awesome. I mostly stopped playing the game when that went away and they condensed them all into a single objective playlist.

Plus there's only like 5 playlists at the moment anyway, not like letting people actually choose what gametype they want instead of going into a grab-bag of modes is gonna hurt anything.

 

[Linkin112]

Uh what? They gave us like 5 seconds of footage of it lol...

Also, I can't wait to read some negative jack the nipper comments. Sure love those.

Not hard to see the similarities in a few seconds

 

[Glass]

I think I spy Locust armour.

 

[UKUMI0]

One thing that did catch my eye in the trailer, the small text at the bottom.

"Free content every month"

Spoiler

Through June 2016.

Just in time for E3...do they have announcement then or is that just the end of the content in order to concentrate on Halo 6/promotion for Halo Wars 2?

 

[Arby 'n' the Chief]

yessss, can't wait to mess around in forge

 

[Magwik]

Which Arena maps don't have remixes yet? So far we have:

Regret / Truth
Empire / Eden
Fathom / Fathom feat. Pitbull (mentioned in The Sprint or something iirc)
Plaza / Overgrowth
Coliseum / ???
The Rig / ???

Canvases:
Glacier
Space
Alpine (Pegasus / Orion)

I think it's safe to assume that before we get any OC maps we'll be getting those remixes of Fathom, Coliseum and The Rig.

They were working on a remix of The Rig in the last The Sprint episode

 

[Jack The Nipper]

Not being negative impact being realistic. New arena map could just be a forge or edit of an existing map. It seems like a joke for me to say that but I've lost all faith in 343

 

[BraXzy]

Overgrowth is a remix? Interesting. I hope it's unique enough if it's the only new one. Nice to see a dev made Arena map though.

 

[JackHerer]

Not being negative impact being realistic. New arena map could just be a forge or edit of an existing map. It seems like a joke for me to say that but I've lost all faith in 343

Did you watch the video? It's not Forge at least. It seems likely that it IS a remix though.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

They were working on a remix of The Rig in the last The Sprint episode

And there we go my joke has truth. Not surprisimg.

Can I get a refund for this game?

Jesus 343...

 

[minx]

How about instead of adding 1 million to the HCS prize pool they hire some more people or whatever they have to do to get

- social playlist
- campaign matchmaking with scoring earning RP
- firefight
- req packs for only cosmetics
- req packs for only warzone weapons
- More game modes
- the 6 warzone maps we were promised at launch (warzone assault maps that are exactly the same don't count)
- the other BTB Forge made maps that we know are already done since the cartographers made them months ago

All that would far increase whatever they think adding 1 million to a prize pool would do.

 

[wwm0nkey]

Not being negative impact being realistic. New arena map could just be a forge or edit of an existing map. It seems like a joke for me to say that but I've lost all faith in 343

Dude you are always super negative in any Halo 5 thread lol

Just wait till more info comes out and then make judgments

 

[UKUMI0]

Not being negative impact being realistic. New arena map could just be a forge or edit of an existing map. It seems like a joke for me to say that but I've lost all faith in 343

They showed footage for it, its definitely not a forge map. It's pretty easy to tell.

 

[Glass]

On the forge bit

Build and Share Battlegrounds

Lets get that sexy Fire share 2015 edition back.

 

[biosnake20]

Plaza remix

 

[matthieuC]

And there we go my joke has truth. Not surprisimg.

Can I get a refund for this game?

Jesus 343...

Your posts infuriate me. Just stop posting in halo threads.

 

[DedValve]

why are they making remixed stages over new ones? I want to fight in sanghelli!

Halo 5 campaign is so beautiful but the MP maps are SO UGLY

 

[Fata1moose]

Plaze is probably my least favorite Arena map and I like all the others. That doesn't mean the remix will play badly though, it has no where to go but up.

The city map for Warzone is looking great, I knew we'd be getting that soonish since they showed it pre-release.

Mk IV will hold me over until Mk V. And the CE Magnum hype!

 

[Strider]

Plaza remix

It's really hard to make out the text for me on my phone... But the bottom right below the scoreboard what does that say? It looks like it's 4-3 in a CTF game too. I know it could just be a custom but interesting...
1 flag CTF?

 

[Mechazawa]

Holy shit, they made 1,000,000 off REQs?

That's gotta be some accounting fuckery right?