This is a reblog form XBOX Wire:
Since it was first announced last month that Player vs. Environment (PvE) combat would return to the Halo franchise in the form of Warzone Firefight, fans have been eagerly waiting to get a glimpse of how the all-new experience would look in Halo 5: Guardians. The wait is finally over as the world premiere of Warzone Firefight gameplay made its debut during the Halo World Championship 2016 Finals!
Warzone Firefight is an ambitious new multiplayer experience that takes the initial promise of Halo 5’s Warzone multiplayer – the epic battles, incredible scale and huge maps – and applies that to create the biggest Halo cooperative experience ever in franchise history. In Warzone Firefight, up to eight players will work together to complete five rounds of increasingly difficult, dynamic objectives set against a timer to emerge victorious.
HFFL: I bolded that last part as this is the first time we have an official player count as well as rounds mention. We already knew the player count would be more than ODST’s or Reach’s 4 player. We saw in the previous Warzone Firefight vid at least 5 spartans. Now that we know you can have up to 8, that’s going to be pretty awesome when you want to run large squads!
Warzone Firefight will feature more enemies than ever – including a brand new tier of “Mythic” enemy bosses. Thought the Warden Eternal was menacing? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Warzone Firefight features the most on-screen enemies in the history of the franchise, making for frantic and exhilarating matches.
HFFL: Ohhhh Myyy…Mythic bosses? Bigger and/or stronger that the Warden Eternal? Um…Guardians anyone? Okay, maybe that’s a bit TOO big. However, what about Forerunner War Sphinx!
Of course, it wouldn’t be Warzone without the REQ System, and fans will be happy to hear that you’ll have full access to all of your weapons, vehicles, power-ups, armor mods and more in Warzone Firefight. Standard Assault Rifle not doing its job against a swarm of shielded Jackals? Why not deploy your Scourge of Fire Plasma Caster and melt your opponents? Having trouble against an enemy Banshee? Take to the skies in your own Phaeton! In Warzone Firefight, it won’t be enemy players that give you pause – it’ll be the hordes of angry Grunts.
HFFL: Now the only problem for me in this is, I have all the AI enemy kills with exception to Warden (which I’m on the last tier of). If your weapons REQs counted toward AI kills instead of just Spartans, THAT would be AWESOME!!! We will have to wait on an official answer for that one. I’ve been asking…
Warzone Firefight is sure to be a fan favorite and we can’t wait to team up and try it out ourselves. With dynamic objectives making each game different, you can play thousands of matches before seeing the same objective combination. The prospect of teaming up with seven other players to take on a plethora of enemies using the REQ System has us all eagerly awaiting the release of Warzone Firefight this summer.
HFFL: Okay, cool! Great to know that it won’t be the same wash, rinse, repeat Objectives in every game! That is a BIG step forward!
I should add that HFFL is working on something HUGE in relation to Warzone Firefight. So PLEASE stay tuned for that!
I saw a comment and the pointed out that there is a brute plasma rifle at 46 seconds. It’s on the bottom left corner
Yeah, I saw that too. Forgot to mention it. I need to go over this a few more times. Watched it maybe half down times??
I have missed Firefight and can’t wait for this to come back. I do wish there were some of the older Firefight maps being brought back (Outpost from Reach being one that I loved) but I can understand that they don’t fit well in with Warzone.
One thing I wonder about is in the past you could play Firefight defensively and win. With this being on the Warzone maps is that still an option or will then force you to play offensively more by having things spawn across the map and not move to engage you. Should be pretty interesting to see.