Halo 5 Guardians reveals from gameinformer’s July issue SPOILERS!!!

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I can’t post any images, but I will pass along the info that I read in the article. You’ll just have to trust me that this is legit. I most definitely would NOT deliberately steer you wrong. If any of this were to change, between now and when the printed edition comes out, I’d be HIGHLY surprised.

There is much discussed about the campaign. I do not want to spoil that part for you. So I’m not putting it in the article. If you reply either here or to my e-mail: [email protected], that you want to know, I will post it.

The following contains MANY spoilers. Do NOT continue reading, unless you don’t mind knowing. You have been warned!!

Campaign
• The article states there is a trade-off of control between Chief and Locke when you play in campaign. This means you will play as both characters at some point in the campaign. (Similar to how it was done in Halo 2 between Chief and the Arbiter)
• You will have 3 other members as part of your fireteam (FT).
• If you play solo, those FT members will be A.I.
• If you play co-op, the FT members will be the other players
• Co-op mode is now drop-in / drop-out! YES! Now if someone lags out, I won’t lose progress!!!!
• Chief and Blue team: Fred, Linda, and Kelly are considered AWOL by ONI. Locke and his FT are tasked with tracking them down.
• The construct we saw in the E3 2013 video is indeed a Forerunner Guardian.
• Spartan IIs now permanently have jet pack-like thrusters
• YEA!!!!! Grunts, Jackals and Elites are speaking English again!!!!
• All spartan abilities in multiplayer are also available for campaign.
• New Fireteam order system. Think similar to Mass Effect’s commands for the team.
• No respawns! Instead it’s revive. You can heal downed teammates and they can heal you. Same if either solo or co-op.
• CORTANA IS BACK!!!! YES!!!! Hell’s YEAH!!!!! (unless it’s another A.I. posing as Cortana, but I don’t think so) Though Frank O’Conner calls it the ‘ghost of Cortana’.
• Co-op spartans have their own special loadouts. For example, Linda always has a sniper rifle.
• All the HUDs have a unique look to them. (That will be fun to try out!)
• There are alternate routes you can take during missions. Blue team has to find them. FT Osiris has tech (Artemis Tracking System or ATS for short) built into their armor that points these alternate pathways out for them.
• There are things to collect in the campaign.
• More ways to finish objectives than to just kill all the enemies
• No split screen co-op (bummer)
• No XBOX Gold need to play co-op (AWESOME!)

Multiplayer
• 20 maps at launch (some may be Forge maps)
• More than 15 additional downloadable maps by June 2016
• ALL of the maps will be FREE!!!
• Emipre (one of the Beta maps) has seen some changes to it.
• Underwater map! First ever!! (We won’t be IN the water. We’ll be inside a downed spaceship, in the water)
• Some interactive map elements
• A new multiplayer mode will be revealed at E3.

MISC
• All new sounds for Halo 5 Guardians
• Joseph Staten is returning to write another Halo novel: ‘Halo: Shadow of Intent’ This releases December 7 this year (YES!!)

That is an awesome list of things to come. And there is a LOT more that has yet to be revealed. We will see more of these reveals during the summer conventions, leading up to the Halo 5 Guardians release.

-Sal

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I’ve got tons of experience with Halo gaming and collecting. I feel I have something to offer to the greater Halo fan community. Posts along the way will be about tips and tricks in the games as well as collecting and many more Halo related things. I’ll also repost interesting articles from the official site, Halowaypoint.com, or from fellow Halo fan sites. As I continue this blog, I hope to help gamers who want advice on the games, as well as any collectors with regards to where to find collectibles as well as deals, coupons and so on. You can also follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/HaloFanForLife or Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/halofanforlife11. Welcome to my blog and I hope you’ll come back again and again. -Sal

20 thoughts on “Halo 5 Guardians reveals from gameinformer’s July issue SPOILERS!!!”

  1. I call dibs on Linda when we do our legendary co-op run 😀

  2. Sooooo happy to hear Cortana is there, at least in some capacity. I’m really hoping my local Chapters has Game Informer, unfortunately where I am those magazines are hit and miss. I want to know about the campaign, but I won’t ask. I will just hope really hard to be able to get this.

  3. I like many of the things here, however I strongly dislike how aliens are talking in English. They are aliens, why would they speak that language?

    I’m very much interested in the Campaign part you know, please!

    Thanks 😉

    • They have talked English in precious games. Undoubtedly, for other countries, the aliens will speak that language. I like it as we can understand them better. Besides, many of the old grunt lines were SO FUNNY. You can’t really get that if they speak their language.

      • Also with the software in the Spartan’s armor, or even the ODST’s helmets, the covenant languages could easily be translated and fed into the soldiers neural interface making the aliens “speak” English.

  4. Awesome! I love the idea of commands. Republic Commando had an awesome command system! I love about all of these new editions!

    I’m on the fence about spoilers. I was gonna play it with a buddy on their Xbox One, but now there is not Co-op. *Sigh* So I probably won’t be playing it around the time it comes out. I’ll probably have to watch some playthroughs on Youtube.

    So, I think that I would like to hear the spoilers that are not listed…….

    • There IS Co-op. Perhaps you mean split screen?? Yeah that kind of stinks for some. Though the number of people that play split screen has greatly decreased. In that respect, I can see why 343 made that decision. Makes it easier for them to design the rest of the game.

  5. Hi Sal, i want to read the other things about campaign, if you could sent me a mail i will be very happy. I am so excited, you are awesome.

    • I’m on the fence about this. Not too many people have asked. If I can get a few more to ask me for the info, I’ll post an article on it.

      • I’d also be up for hearing the rest, as I likely won’t be getting the game for quite some time after it is out, let alone an Xbox one.

  6. Awesome news today! Xbox Gold is NOT required for campaign co-op!!!

  7. The DLC maps better be free. 343i really messed up with their handling of Halo 4 DLC maps.

    • They are. 343 doesn’t want take that risk with Halo 5. They want as many people playing the full game as possible.

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