Re: Dedicated Halo 5 Thread

[DreuxPhoenix]

[quote="RockMetal&Time"]

Did Halo 5 get an armory update? Look at the gold Spartan. His chestpiece and legs don't seem to be part of a matching set. Can we now customize our armors like we could in Halo 4?

[Stevedoggen]

It's probably the brand new Jumpmaster (?) armour set varient. They would stick all the new stuff in the photos because promotion.

[RockMetal&Time]

Did Halo 5 get an armory update? Look at the gold Spartan. His chestpiece and legs don't seem to be part of a matching set. Can we now customize our armors like we could in Halo 4?

No not really that's just the new Mark VII Successor [DECIMATOR ARMOR]

How dark is the CE Black? Is it more like steel grey?

For reference the DECIMATOR screenshot I posted is the original black pre-update

[Stevedoggen]

oh whoops lol didn't read 'gold' and only half the image is in the browser on my resolution.

[deadofmind]

Dreux, Halo 4 Contoured forearm and leg armor. Super curvy. Quite a lot of Halo 4 armor was curvy, it's nearly all shit. Also I'm pretty sure that the visors are more aesthetic than function. Don't the helmets all have cameras connected directly through the Spartan link in their head? I may be wrong though.

[DreuxPhoenix]

I'm still kinda salty about the fact that the armory is expanded yet downgraded. Now I kinda wish I was a spy for 343. Then I could at least get them to listen to what would sell Halo 5 and the upcoming Halo 6 better.

[RockMetal&Time]

Dreux, Halo 4 Contoured forearm and leg armor. Super curvy. Quite a lot of Halo 4 armor was curvy, it's nearly all shit. Also I'm pretty sure that the visors are more aesthetic than function. Don't the helmets all have cameras connected directly through the Spartan link in their head? I may be wrong though.

The VISRs are the cameras they are projecting an image to the spartans so yeah

I'm still kinda salty about the fact that the armory is expanded yet downgraded. Now I kinda wish I was a spy for 343. Then I could at least get them to listen to what would sell Halo 5 and the upcoming Halo 6 better.

Yeah kinda sad about that too But I can totally understand the reasons why they made the armory like that one being the Uniformity of armors now and how they really can't be mix n matched without clipping, and the other is of course the simplicity just for the sake of REQs and unlocking

[RockMetal&Time]

Watch in 1080p 60FPS

The Full trailer for the Arbiter in Killing Instinct S3 has arrived! Check it out!
(Sad note Keith David is not voicing him due to unavailability and budget stuff)
The voice isn't that bad tho for a fighting game spinoff it's understandable IMO.

[TheAandZ]

I've never played that series. Still don't think I will, looks meh.

[RockMetal&Time]

HERE WE FUCKING GO! HAMMER STORM IS OUT!



The rest of the updates for this season have been roadmapped!

And yes WARZONE FUCKING FIREFIGHT all because the community yelled like crazy for it
I think I just changed history...

I don't keep it loaded son you'll have to find ammo as you go


Also in the livestream which was Yesterday 343 showed us tons of cool stuff, Some cool faces showed up talked really interesting things especially on Feedback from the community
the future.etc

Anyways this is cool here is the Content Update notes for Hammer storm good stuff!
Multiplayer:

CONTENT UPDATE NOTES:

Also... https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/spartans-never-walk-alone
Who the hell is cutting onions I swear!

[Heatguts]

Wait, so we're getting firefight?

[Mootjuh]

A variant of it in warzone I guess.

[Stevedoggen]

Fixed an issue with kill feed not showing weapon icon and Perfect Kill medal for the Halo 2 Battle Rifle

Finally, that was odd how the SPNKR often didn't show up in the feed.

Fixed an issue where the Mantis Destroyed medal was not being awarded for destroying a Mantis

I noticed that happening too, I hope they address that lack of assist claims when fighting Warzone bosses soon as well, I do a lot of work sometimes and actually get nothing at all on occasion.

Made handling improvements to the Ghost, Mongoose, and Warthog to reduce their proneness to flipping over

Are they drivable now?

To improve consistency, Railgun projectile speed has been increased and is now hitscan

FINALLY NOW DO THE FUCKING SAME WITH THE SPLASER, IT'S JUST AS BAD.

The projectile speed of Gauss Cannon has been increased, and is now hitscan

Yay, I actually couldn't use it, it was so bad outside customs.

Fixed an issue where players could not perform a Ground Pound after jumping off of a ledge while performing a melee

This bug gets me killed more than most, glad that's gone.

Fixed delay and message prompt when attempting to leave a lobby

It often took so long to leave, it joined another game before it completed the command. Good.

Improved performance during the processing and opening of REQ packs

I've had issues selling since it could take like 10 seconds sometimes, or just error out.

Fixed an issue that caused previously bookmarked films to not be viewable after the Cartographer’s Gift update

I thought that was just me. Alright then.

(Theater) Fixed an issue with players not appearing in scoreboard and player cycle list if they’ve joined the match in progress

Huh... Have they fixed the glitch where it names you someone else as well?

Fixed an issue where Spartan models were not rendered when skipping forward or backward

It liked to lock up the camera and the leaderboard not show as well, maybe this fixes all of them by extension?

[Abdul Fatir]

Now this this is why i love 343. UltraSuperMegafreeContentFTWawesomecoolfun!
I'm not drunk!

[Heatguts]

Yeah? Let's play I spy. I spy a game with...

- Halo Sandbox
- Gravity Hammer
- BTB
- Forge
- H2 br
- HCE pistol
- Splitscreen

The real kicker is that it had these when it came out.
It was Half Life 3

[RockMetal&Time]

Yeah Bravo has confirmed that the Splaser is going to get a BUFF it's just they couldn't finalize it into this update so we might see it later in a  mid month bug fix or something

Also in other news look at this freaking insane Intro sequence this guy made with the New Forge Items
https://i.imgur.com/30WBTnf.gifv GIF LINK



Oddly enough 343i has been constantly responding to questions over at Reddit Halo and Twitter, for example last month they where awfully silent but now they are becoming more and more transparent

Also for that BTB post Bravo commented this!

Redditor Big team battle is kind of a joke. It aint big, the maps are small and dumb. I want sandtrap and terminal in BTB, along with other great community maps. Surely that doesnt require much work?

Hey everyone - happy to chime in with an update and a little bit of context and transparency into process. Up front, I don't have an exact ETA just yet, but will work to provide one in future blogs. We're working with the multiplayer team on getting these in as fast a humanly possible - and Community BTB is next up - but it's also worth noting that the teams that do this exact work (Multiplayer, Test, Services, and Forge) have all been going non-stop to deliver their respective components of the Hammer Storm update. We've got a good size team, but it takes everyone moving at 110% to deliver things like new game modes, Forge updates, service improvements, etc. (Which we hope you're enjoying!)
Surely that doesn't require much work?
When making games, "things" take quite a bit of work from a variety of teams. This will vary depending on engine and platform. To use BTB maps as the example here, once these are collected, they are first playtested with community members to ensure that basic things function correctly, map is playing well, nothing obviously broken, etc. If things need to be changed, we'll work directly with the Forgers on changes, and start again. Breakout was a relatively quick process as Forgers didn't need to worry about spawning. However with BTB, we've found that while many of the maps look incredible, they need a heavy amount of respawn work and adjustments - which means we can't yet bring them into our internal environments for test passes, and they have to be tweaked and tested a bit more.
Once they're ready, they're brought into our internal pipeline and reviewed / playtested by the multiplayer team for quality, map flow, etc. If there are any changes that need to happen at this point, we'll once again revisit with Forgers. The goal at this point, however, is to have brought in a map that is essentially MM ready so that we're not spending man hours playtesting content that isn't 100% ready.
After this, actual testing will begin, which means the H5 test team performs the full test passes that all Halo maps get before they're released into matchmaking. This is a long checklist, but it ensures that everything works.
If these pass, the work will begin to actually build these into playlists, and once completed, the updated playlist then goes through playlist testing as well in the internal environments - things like matching, map / game type combos loading, playlist parameters, etc are tested here.
If everything passes, the updates will be slotted into future matchmaking updates and ready to be sent out the door.
This is a paraphrased version of the entire process, and I am no doubt missing many granular details. Once everything is brought inside, there are still weeks of work required to make sure that we're delivering quality experiences in matchmaking. On top of that, the same guys and gals who bring you anything else related to multiplayer are the ones who do this work, so things like new game modes that are being requested have to be prioritized with playlist updates.
We love the BTB maps we've seen so far, and I'll be sure to continue to provide updates on the maps and where we are in the process.
tl;dr: These things take a bit of time, but the team is working as fast as possible to ensure we're getting you awesome stuff that plays and works well.


Finally heres what Brav had to say about Fiesta being it's own mode AND NOT being an option in custom games aka no CTF fiesta.etc

Redditor This is a big deal to me. We were fooling around yesterday on some customs and wanted to play some Fiesta Assault, but we couldn't. Let's make some noise about this and hopefully get it fixed!

Brav-Hey all - we expected to see you here!
We knew we wanted to get you a Fiesta mode in the next release (this one!), but it turned out with the size of the Hammer Storm update, the engineering time just wasn't there to build the custom game options into the mode. I'm told that this requires a bit more time, so this alternative was the fastest way to still get something in your hands for this release, rather than holding it entirely. The team is well aware of the desire to be able to use these options across all game types, however.
Oh! And per edit #2, you should be able to create Fiesta FFA by using this game type. Just select the game type, -> Settings -> Slayer -> Teams [Off]. I just fired this up to make sure it works, but let me know if you have any issues.
Lastly, I just wanna play some Husky Raid too. That's all we really want.

[Stevedoggen]

Nice sword kill, RMT

[RockMetal&Time]

Nice sword kill, RMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iRGP5zZ2DQ
Brah at least link the video so I can get me some views ;)

[RockMetal&Time]

HELL YEAH I FINALLY GOT MARK IV HELMET! WOOOOOOO

Good stuff

[R93_Sniper]

"Meme"

The cringe is real

[RockMetal&Time]

"Meme"

The cringe is real

I concur,That's the joke

[Neesy]

That's the joke

Yeah sure... cool dude

[RockMetal&Time]

That's the joke

Yeah sure... cool dude

Lol it was just a one time thing me and my other buddies all rocked it with the skeleton emblem and we went on arena fuking shit up
I forgot to change it

[RockMetal&Time]

Today I learned...


The musical piece playing in the Halo 5 prologue is C. Debussy - Prelude No.4: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir [ by Krystian Zimerman



I'ts one of Dr.Halsey's favorite songs. She plays the song in page 148 of Ghosts of Onyx
AND if I recall correctly she also plays it in the Fall of Reach when she and Keyes venture to Eridanus ll in order to analyze potential candidates for the Spartan ll program.


Now whats more interesting is that Cortana Humms the tune of this piece in the Legendary ending of Halo 5, Of course since she is built with a cloned matrix of Halsey's mind she does have many many similarities including the will of doing everything all in the name of the Greater good *Cough cough Spartans, *Cough Cough Guardians.


Anyways just a cool little interesting detail I found ;)

[RockMetal&Time]

Reddit user /HugoCornellier

Has compiled a list of future Forge objects as hinted by Tom French the UGC Lead at 343i in his twitter he has stated many cool things and well here they are!

New Objects
Infection-themed object set!

https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704824070991286272
New Forerunner & Covenant pieces

https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704839408713728000
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704808864831549440

New Vehicle Props - SPIRITS & PHANTOMS
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704836556016627712

New Tech pieces: keyboards, terminals, etc
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704827642424348673

45 degree pipe corners, elbows
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704798831720812544

TRUE primitives (without details)
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704803942484455426
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704806693721415681

New objects, pieces from Warzone maps
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704833644771176453

New sizes for cylinders and rings
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704845116662370304
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704837297330499584
Possibility of Sound Objects that play Halo songs
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704817108039774208

Trigger Volumes coming (real pressure plate system)
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704827876265177088
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704828064862072833

Landmines (new object/prop)
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704828973797105664
New curved ramps & curved staircases are coming
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704809125608165376
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704843974561787904

New city pieces
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704811581863923712

Warzone REQ Consoles might be coming to forge -
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704805643811618817
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704832115523760128

New Canvases
Additional Forge Canvases
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704816064346124289
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704816539518644224
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704831051961466880

Probably no Forge World
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704816716539232256
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704846257877970944

All water forge canvas
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704831051961466880

Other
Affecting score through scripting
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704803511892971520
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704803580268576768
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704840230499536897

Change object physics through scripting
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704811326816653312
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704811457154711553

Campaign Building is a possibility for Halo 6
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704804665163063296
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704804815369428992

Possibility of testing map with specific games modes without leaving forge
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704813904245841920

Possibility of HALO AI in forge, but not in the near future
https://twitter.com/pardontomfrench/status/704806146138177536

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