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New Halo 5 Coverage! (expect spoilers)
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Monocle
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Dynasty8
Member
Yeah, loving all the Live action trailers, Hunt the Truth, the Sprint videos, Music samples, and just Frankie. Marketing has been spot on.
Everything about this game is so god damn good.
shinobi602
Member
ViewtifulJC
Banned
duel wielding in Halo is one of them ideas that sound really cool for a minute(I'm holding two guns! I'm like Chow Yun Fat in Hard Boiled!). Then you think about how Halo work about a trio of Shoot/Melee/Grenade, and you just cut out 2/3rds of that for primarily close-range combat. God forbid you have to reload, either. Or get in a vehicle.
Just not a good fit for the series.
Just not a good fit for the series.
Starting from 3:10, it is amazing.
Wat? you could reload guns independently and then slo mo doves would come. In short shut your whore mouth.
So will Blue Team be the only Spartan-IIs in the game, or does anyone reckon there will be references to other members of John's generation still active in the UNSC in some capacity (Fhajad, Maria, Naomi, Gray Team)?
It says on Halo Waypoint that some Spartan-IIs are known to have taken part in the training of Spartan-IV personnel, so dunno if that means anything for Halo 5's overall arc.
It says on Halo Waypoint that some Spartan-IIs are known to have taken part in the training of Spartan-IV personnel, so dunno if that means anything for Halo 5's overall arc.
Triscuitable
Member
To be fair, I think giving the doves active camo was a poor decision from a design standpoint.
Bornstellar
Member
Would be cool if Jun showed up in a cameo.
It would be, and I suspect he was directly involved with the Spartan-IVs training. But he's a Spartan-III, younger and from a different generation than John and Blue Team.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Dual wielding could work, it just didn't. Bungie should have balanced the weapons to make them more useful with one hand. That's the main issue I had with it. They could have, for example, made the pistol scope-able with one hand or just made it more powerful. That reminds me...ugh, the pistol. They really haven't done justice to it since CE have they. It was serviceable in 4 but should have at least had like 5 more rounds per mag, especially after people realized the power of the Boltshot, aka the BS.
Fata1moose
Banned
ODST pistol was good, as was the Halo 4 pistol, I wrecked bad kids when I ran out of ammo with my carbine and had to switch to the pistol in Halo 4.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
SmartWaffles
Member
Spoilers from Halo 4 and post-Halo 4:
Serin Osman (Serin-019), a Spartan II washout is now the head of ONI, considering the events of Spartan Ops, Escalation and Hunt for Truth, we may or may not see her.
shinobi602
Member
Quick question, is there no where online where I can find summarized versions of each of the issues in Escalation? I feel like there's so much that happened between the end of Spartan Ops (H4) and the beginning of Halo 5.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Crazy to think we are only three weeks out.
Captain Zyrain
Member
http://www.halopedia.org/Escalation
Each issue has a plot synopsis. Great website. Escalation seems like it'll be important.
shinobi602
Member
Yea I looked through those, honestly most of them are pretty useless. You get things like:
"What happened to the Master Chief immediately following the events of Halo 4, and what do those events mean for the future of the crew on the UNSC Infinity? Halo lead writer Brian Reed (Amazing Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel) and Ricardo Sánchez reveal all in the thrilling conclusion to this Halo event!"
...doesn't really tell me anything :-/
There's so much that seems to happen in Escalation that so many players have absolutely no idea about. I feel like I'm in the dark, even though I've played through Halo 4 and Spartan Ops.
You could go to Halo Canons channel. He has reviews of each issue but also goes over what happens in them among other things lore related.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Did you click the full article?
http://www.halopedia.org/Halo:_Escalation_Issue_8
Seems to cover most the relevant points of the issue.
shinobi602
Member
Ahh, didn't click the full article. Should have known since I use Wiki a lot. Good stuff, thanks.
Fata1moose
Banned
I don't think it was that seriously an issue in principle... It was a balanced action. The user CHOSE to cut out his ability to throw grenades in exchange for increased close ranged fire power. It was give n take...
My only issue with it was that the single handed guns were so weak individually... that wasn't fun.
So, I'm frantically trying to catch up on all of the extended universe stuff before Halo 5 launches, and I'm having a hard time making it through the Forerunner saga... It just seems like a lot of words, but so much time in between interesting events taking place...
I'm about halfway through the second book and I'm pretty bored... In comparison the Nylund and Traviss books kept me on the edge of my seat... Does it get any better?
I wanna know as much about the forerunners as possible after being lost in Halo4, but I don't know if I can take this!
I'm about halfway through the second book and I'm pretty bored... In comparison the Nylund and Traviss books kept me on the edge of my seat... Does it get any better?
I wanna know as much about the forerunners as possible after being lost in Halo4, but I don't know if I can take this!
draughn101
Member
Watched the first 2 Sprint episodes, great stuff. Was super bummed to see at the end that the next episodes aren't until launch basically.
I'm watching two minutes a day until launch. You can't take it all in at once Augustus Gloop, that's how people get hurt.
Amazing read. The part about space dog getting high on butt hurt precursor powder had me laughing out loud.
VincentMatts
Member
It's probably selfish of me to sort of hope the Dauntless visor that comes with it is exclusive to those with the controller. D:
That controller looks rad. But with no splitscreen why would I need a second controller? :-/
For other games that have splitscreen? :O
therealminime
Member
I really hope 5 has a good in game summary or briefing on what has been going on between 4 and 5. 4 definitely suffered a bit from having lots of story stuff happen in other mediums outside the game, or at least it felt that way.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Chief is being called a traitor because he is waking up the Guardians which in turn are flat out leveling cities and killing tons of civilians in the wake so he can find Cortana on the dark net, right?
We don't quite know why he would be waking the Guardians or if he's doing it purposefully. We just know that he apparently ends up in the places they have appeared.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Yeah, I'd imagine it's a case of 'wrong place wrong time' or he's actually trying to stop them. But I guess you never know..
He's told, "Meridian is next" so I feel like that implies that the Guardians are waking up regardless of whether Chief is around or not.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
And Warden Eternal is composed Didact from the end of Halo 4, right?
The fact that Warden Eternal shows up in Warzone makes me think its more of a title then one particular character. I could be way off though.
Warzone bosses are bosses that only appear once. Like the one Sangheili from Halo Wars that was with the Arbiter, he's a boss. Obviously there's not more than one of him. xD