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Halo 5: Guardians |OT3| Ball Dropped
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sir_dany12
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Yeah, you stole my key...
Phil Spencer on Halo on PC
Kind of what I expected. The amount of tech that went into making Halo 5 specifically for Xbox One hardware is a feat that I don't think would be an easy task to port to PCs of multiple hardware capabilities. Wouldn't be surprised for future Halo titles though, may depend on how these initial UWP games sell though. They seem to be getting better as the platform matures, the KI port seems really great outside the monitor refresh rate issue.
Kind of what I expected. The amount of tech that went into making Halo 5 specifically for Xbox One hardware is a feat that I don't think would be an easy task to port to PCs of multiple hardware capabilities. Wouldn't be surprised for future Halo titles though, may depend on how these initial UWP games sell though. They seem to be getting better as the platform matures, the KI port seems really great outside the monitor refresh rate issue.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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H5 dev cycle would have been in parallel or too early to make use of the current day strategy for unified games/apps. 343 already had enough to handle with Azure, studio and new X1 hardware let alone designing and developing with win10 in the mix too.
Moving forward things are A LOT easier to develop with multiple targets in mind, given the maturity of the platforms, experience and tools now.
TLDR - what Phil said.
Deputy Moonman
Member
I'm not gonna lie. I love getting thrown into a game where we lose immediately after joining. I'm like freeeeeeeeeee req points woohooooooo! I got thrown into a losing game of assault the other day with like 30 seconds left. I challenged myself with the task of getting 1 kill before the game ended. I died... hahaha
needs to be a way where friends can donate req points for prestige points lol. 343 can release armor that's unlocked specifically by giving away points to friends. Call it the benevolent armor lol. gimme gimme gimme!
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Yeah I especially don't mind more points as the game started giving away stuff all the time as I have gotten closer to finishing commons. Now I have 10 left. Of course, I finally decided to use my rare boost and it disconnected... or something... I don't really know, it just exited to main menu without an error message.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Finders KEEPERS, losers weepers!
jk
Just lurk that thread, people are just giving them out. That's how i got mine via PM.
jfoul
Member
Oh, you naughty tease.
Welfare
Member
Hype
Welfare
Member
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/next-halo-5-free-dlc-maps-revealed-see-them-here/1100-6436142/
New maps are Skirmish at Darkstar and Tyrant.
Tyrant is Arena, and a small-scale symmetrical map that was made for Capture the Flag and Assault game types
Skirmish at Darkstar has a different intro. Starts you off in the middle of the map and it is the smallest, but most dense Warzone map.
New maps are Skirmish at Darkstar and Tyrant.
Tyrant is Arena, and a small-scale symmetrical map that was made for Capture the Flag and Assault game types
Skirmish at Darkstar has a different intro. Starts you off in the middle of the map and it is the smallest, but most dense Warzone map.
YES Tyrant is an Arena map!
Both maps look pretty cool, following the same orange-yellow sun basking on the map
Pretty substantial update, probably the largest so far (don't think we ever got an Arena and a Warzone map in the same update). Makes sense it took some extra time to cook.
link1201
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SmartWaffles
Member
Finally a non-UNSC themed map.
Fata1moose
Banned
Is that the fortress on Skirmish at Darkstar? Hopefully it's not an actual capture point.
Samurai G0SU
Member
Yo 343i.. I fckin love it.
And a taste of firefight, right!?!!!!
how spooky, hope this is just a tease of what we can expect within the next games
And a taste of firefight, right!?!!!!
how spooky
, hope this is just a tease of what we can expect within the next gamesAny word on the whole Spartan Armoury pack issues yet? Having had to buy 8 due to them unlocking 2 at a time and the sharkhead ones been missing at first still annoys me (and has me about 400,000 reqs down).
Good to see more arena maps, and more arena maps that are not human-themed
Honestly going back and replaying H4 maps in SWAT, I'd really love a remake of Solace. Just make the bases symmetrical and clean out the clutter on the side paths, and I think it'd play great. The map is gorgeous too.
Honestly going back and replaying H4 maps in SWAT, I'd really love a remake of Solace. Just make the bases symmetrical and clean out the clutter on the side paths, and I think it'd play great. The map is gorgeous too.
Totally understand the frustration, I'll get some more info from the team.
Many thanks!
Deputy Moonman
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I sell all my victory boosts and sometimes will sell the common quality xp boosts. I only use gambit assist boosts in wz assault and the gambit kill boosts in regular wz. And I use all my RP boosts.
Deputy Moonman
Member
I like the forerunner look, but we still have only one covenant themed map.
Nollemaster
Member
Tyrant reminds me of Monolith from Halo 4.
SmartWaffles
Member
Two, Regret is convi themed too.
Yeah, Monolith and Solace come to mind.
Samurai G0SU
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Samurai G0SU
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Oh shit lol, didn't see you updated your post
i'm jk, hehe just like posting here and annoying the shit out of everyone.
not really
Deputy Moonman
Member
Regret doesn't feel like a covenant map to me. Maybe it's just because it's not purple enough lol. Also, that map disorients me worse than any of the current maps in halo 5.
I think I should do this too. Don't play as much but want to finally finish off silver and every update brings me back down adding more common and uncommon and rare. So I'm thinking to clean house once and then just buy silver and start the req hoarding again.
Deputy Moonman
Member
I think the decision to keep adding common to uncommon reqs, even rare ones, is a bad one. Unless you're going to make them something legitimately interesting/useful, it just screws over all the people who haven't finished their reqs yet. I'm not saying i don't like new content. In fact, I don't know what I'm saying, so I'll stop now.
Ricky Ricardo
Member
Part of me wants to do this, but the hoarder inside demands I hold on.
Besides, I'll need all the weapons I can get for Firefight.
Right guys? Right?
Please validate my pack rat tendencies.
Another H4 map I really want back. H4 DLC had lots of good maps that are forgotten because no one played them.
Forerunner
Member
I like how everyone was saying the other map as just going to be the WZA variant and it turns out to be an Arena map. Good stuff.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
LOOOOOOL
Just lost to the thirstiest team I've ever seen. We had a pretty good lead over them but they kept the fortress and our team wasn't very organized, so eventually they got all their shit together and went desperate full-force on one thing at a time and managed to get all 3 bases and from there they went SO HARD, straight up cranked it to 11. They pulled out a banshee, mantis, like 5 tanks, countless ghosts and warthogs, lots of rocket launchers and snipers, camo w/ sword guys sneaking in, etc. We successfully kept them off our core but under that assault couldn't get out to bosses that spawned a couple of them were running those. We certainly made them work and spend the REQs for it.
Just lost to the thirstiest team I've ever seen. We had a pretty good lead over them but they kept the fortress and our team wasn't very organized, so eventually they got all their shit together and went desperate full-force on one thing at a time and managed to get all 3 bases and from there they went SO HARD, straight up cranked it to 11. They pulled out a banshee, mantis, like 5 tanks, countless ghosts and warthogs, lots of rocket launchers and snipers, camo w/ sword guys sneaking in, etc. We successfully kept them off our core but under that assault couldn't get out to bosses that spawned a couple of them were running those. We certainly made them work and spend the REQs for it.
People said that? I thought it was the remix of The Rig.
My eyeballs weren't ready, I didn't see this in time!
Loving the look of both maps, it is indeed nice to see a non-UNSC map.
I really really want maps set in the various gorgeous areas of the campaign though, or inspired by them at least. Keep it coming!
Is there a stream tomorrow?
I bit the bullet recently on all my REQs and sold the majority but anything worthwhile I kept5 of. So ultra ghosts, beam rifles etc. I kept all my snipers but other things like basic Needlers I sold all of. Hoard in doses
Has not been confirmed yet, but since we will get more info today (according to Gamespot), it could happen tomorrow.
Hell ya! I've been playing gears a bunch trying to get my seriously achievement, but I will be back to play the new maps