Special Holiday Promo Pack for Halo 5 Guardians given today!

Next time you play Halo 5 or check your Halo 5 career on Waypoint, you will find a new REQ pack waiting for you. It’s a Christmas themed pack! Check it!!

I opened up mine via Halo Waypoint:

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This is what I got:

Holiday Promo Pack contents H5G

The first two items are standard. Not sure about the others.

Here’s a closer look:

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Awesome! I’ll be sporting both of these at some point over the course of this month.

Halo Champion Series skins coming in December!

Be on the lookout for a content update that should include the following HCS skins:

imageimageThe official word hasn’t been given as to exactly when. Also, near in mind that these may be handed out to HCS participants first, then added to the REQ system in Halo 5.

Once I get definitive info on this, I’ll let you know.

-Sal

 

NEW REQ cards coming next week!

Lots of new REQs are dropping next week. This set 343 is calling the Battle of Shadow and Light. This set introduces a new armor/helmet set called Shinobi. As well there are 7 new variants of existing armor.

In addition to this, two new paint schemes for vehicles makes their debut. Woodland and Tundra.

New weapons skins and a great new visor called Slaugh (I think it’s pronounced slaw, as in coleslaw). One new assassination called Shove It is called both brutal and hilarious. Continue reading

Halo 5 REQ cards: Armor

Here are all of the “at launch” REQ cards for Spartan Armor (including variant paint schemes). There are actually about 90 different armors, with the rest accounted for as variant paint schemes.

The ranges of rarity are from Common, Uncommon, Rare, Ultra Rare, and Legendary.

Text under each entry is what 343 added in. When you click on the cards at HaloWaypoint you will get a pop-up window that shows that additional text. I’ve saved you that step by including it here.

As there are 175 Armor REQ CARDS, I’ve broken them up into the respective rarity category.

Which one is your favorite that you currently have and which is your favorite of all 175??? Continue reading

Halo 5: Guardians Smashes Record with Biggest Halo Launch in History

This is a reblog from XBOX.com: 

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One week after launching worldwide, Halo 5: Guardians has made history as the biggest Halo launch and fastest-selling Xbox One exclusive game to-date, with more than $400 million in global sales of Halo 5: Guardians games and hardware, pushing the franchise to over $5 billion lifetime. With the highest week one attach rate for a Microsoft first party title on Xbox One, the game was the most played of any game on Xbox One, as well as the most played on Xbox Live.

Fans have logged more than 21 million hours of total gameplay, including 12 million hours in campaign mode alone. The widely praised multiplayer modes have also led to nine million total hours played with nearly seven million multiplayer matches played across Arena and the all-new Warzone mode.  In addition, Halo fans are taking to the new Requisition System in a big way, with over 45 million REQ Packs acquired, totaling more than 568 million REQ Cards. Continue reading