Halo 5: Guardians Discussion | New ViDoc
Very cool Dante thank you. We get a sweet look at the new armor/helmets Halo 5 will offer.
.....the image should be complete..... there's nothing more to be revealed..... is there?
Game Informer cover of the month, they'll be covering Halo 5 in depth all month long. Here's what they posted today with the announcement.
You've played the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta. Now it's time to uncover the mysteries behind the story.
We went to 343 Industries to get the first hands-on with Master Chief's campaign. As you can see from the cover imagery, the Chief is now accompanied by the legendary Blue Team in both single-player and four-player co-op. Linda, Fred, and Kelly were abducted when they were six years old alongside John to be turned into Spartan-II super soldiers. This tight-knit squad grew up together and battled through many adventures in the expanded fiction, but this will mark their first significant role in a core Halo game. With the loss of Cortana in Halo 4, Blue Team steps up to interact with Chief, appear in cutscenes, and accept commands from him in single-player. In co-op play, everyone takes on a specific member, each with a different loadout unique to their specialty.
We played an early mission set before Master Chief and Blue Team are declared AWOL by the very military that made them. The flipside of the campaign follows Spartan Jameson Locke, seen in the Halo: NightfallTV series, as he tracks down Halo's signature hero to bring him in or take him down. Locke recruits a team of his own, Fireteam Osiris, to do the job. This mix of familiar and new faces rounds out the team of high-tech Spartan-IVs, who all come from elite military backgrounds. See if you can spot a returning fan favorite in our coverage trailer below.
Our lengthy hands-on sessions also included plenty of time in the revamped competitive Arena multiplayer. In the cover story, we break down specific changes to the Empire map from last winter's beta and we debut a never-before-seen map called Fathom. This undersea base looks gorgeous and is loaded with all kinds of hidden tricks for experienced players to dig in and discover. 343 also teases a new multiplayer mode never seen in a Halo game before. Read about all this and more in the latest issue of Game Informer.
Halo 5: Guardians is set to release on October 27 on Xbox One.
It's Buck.
Bullet points on what's in this issue of GameInformer via NeoGaf:
- Whether playing as Chief or Locke, you're accompanied by a fireteam of 3 A.I. which you can command/issue orders to in the campaign
- Highlighting an enemy and hitting up on the D-Pad orders your team to assault an enemy
- Other commands include picking up certain weapons, using turrets, driving warthog, etc
- AI teammates can revive you as well
- Confirmed: Linda, Kelly, and Fred join the Chief
- Game starts out before Chief is on the run
- Audio has been heavily reworked from the ground up for Xbox One (bullet sounds, debris, etc)
- 8 months after Halo 4 ends, cataclysmic events are tearing apart star systems, these are tied to the Guardians (Forerunner entities shown in the first teaser trailer)
- Game Informer played the second mission, taking command of Chief and Blue Team to take back an ONI research vessel abandoned for 2 years
- Team banter replaces interactions with Cortana to flesh out the characters
- There are multiple routes to take in levels
- The zealous religions Covenant are slowly abandoning Jul M'dama's leadership in Halo 4
- Spoilers: Cortana's silhouette is seen by the Chief after he's separated from Blue Team, she says: "John, the domain is open. Meridian is next. You only have 3 days, John. The Reclamation is about to begin."
- XBL Gold is not required for online co-op.
- Halo 5 will launch with over 20 multiplayer maps
- 15 DLC maps by June 2016
- All maps will be free
- Teases a "completely new, epic multiplayer experience" they'll reveal at E3. Incorporates "all aspects of the Halo sandbox for the first time ever"
- This MP experience is described as a "dream of ours and all our fans to build something like this"
Oh and the creative director for Halo 5 is the same guy who did Republic Commando, Tim Longo. So all the squad commands and things of that nature in the campaign are sure to be good.
I had heard a rumor of Longo hopping on board, along with the Starcraft dude.
Republic Commando is one of my all time favorite games. So underrated, so slept on.
Oh and the creative director for Halo 5 is the same guy who did Republic Commando, Tim Longo. So all the squad commands and things of that nature in the campaign are sure to be good.I had heard a rumor of Longo hopping on board, along with the Starcraft dude.
Republic Commando is one of my all time favorite games. So underrated, so slept on.
I need take a moment to make an important correction on something we miscommunicated in the story. I misspoke during the interview when stating that online co-op campaign would be supported with an Xbox Live Silver account. Co-op campaign will require Xbox Live Gold to play. I want to extend my sincere apologies to our fans, and to Game Informer, for this error and any confusion it has caused.
That said, it is important to us that fans have the opportunity to play the full co-op campaign experience and we are doing this by providing a 14-day Xbox Live Gold trial withHalo 5: Guardians.
Thank you all for your support. We can’t wait to show you all more of the game next week at E3.
Some more stuff from GI, this time character profiles of Locke's team. I'll only post the two new characters, read the whole thing here:
Holly Tanaka: Halo fans were introduced to Tanaka in Dark Horse’s ongoing comic series, Halo Escalation. One of only 10 survivors after her home world of Minab was glassed during the Covenant war, Tanaka endured a three-year nuclear winter on Minab’s barren surface before being rescued and joining the UNSC Army. Later she volunteered for augmentation and training as a Spartan-IV soldier. Tanaka comes from African and East Asian descent, and her time surviving on Minab has given her a will to fight and survive no matter the cost.
Olympia Vale: At the end of the war with the Covenant, the Navy needed specialists to help bridge the gap between Humanity and the Covenant. One of the most important players in this political game was Olympia Vale. A post-war political liaison with the Sangheili, Vale was a child prodigy who is very skilled in language, and has learned to speak many of the Covenant’s dialects. Vale is a fairly new character for the Halo universe, so little is known about her currently. She will be a key player in the upcoming Halo: Hunters in the Dark novel, so fans will learn a lot more about her when the book releases on June 16.