{"id":22717,"date":"2015-08-26T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=22717"},"modified":"2015-08-26T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:38:20","slug":"halo-community-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=22717","title":{"rendered":"Halo Community Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a reblog form Halo Waypoint:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

BY\u00a0B IS FOR BRAVO\u00a0–\u00a0

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With less than 10 weeks until the launch of Halo 5: Guardians, teams across the studio are working hard to put the final polish on maps, levels, animations, UI, and plenty more. Final decisions are being made on game settings, sandbox balance, and more. Personally, I walk around the studio (appearing as if I\u2019m searching for something or someone very important), peeking over desks, and getting way too excited about things like new armor, Forge tools, and more yet-to-be-revealed goodness. To keep said goodness going, our beloved admin team hosted a studio-wide dinner featuring the rare but ever-popular\u00a0breakfast for dinner<\/em>\u00a0offering, which lead to smiles, copious amounts of peanut-butter-Nutella-bacon pancakes, and (unsurprisingly) full stomachs all around. Only later did we realize that this effort was a ploy to confuse the studio about the time of day. Said ploy was successful. Thinking it was morning, some of us went back to work. Most of us passed out with food comas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Breakfast. It’s what’s for dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n

This week, we\u2019ll talk about PAX Prime, MCC, new UNSC special-issue gear, and more. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

PAX PRIME<\/h2>\n

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Ah, PAX Prime. Once a year, the party comes to our town. It\u2019s a good feeling, knowing that a ton of our friends (you) are coming into town, and that we\u2019ll all be able to enjoy some good company, conversation, and Halo gameplay, and that we\u2019ll be able to sleep in our own beds each night. This is a rare luxury.<\/p>\n

While different contingents of the Halo 5 team are traveling around the world to showcase Warzone, one brave company has stayed home to set up shop in the Xbox booth on the PAX Prime showfloor, where we\u2019ll have 24 stations of Warzone multiplayer, ready for your enjoyment. Additionally, members of the Halo 5 development team will be hanging at the booth, and myself, bsangel, and others will be (unsuccessfully) trying to cut the Warzone line after each game so that we can play with you.<\/p>\n

Also, for those of you who are local to the Pacific NW, or are arriving for PAX a bit early, our friends over at Xbox are hosting the ID@Xbox Pre-PAX Open House, and it\u2019s open to all \u2013 no PAX badge required. The event will feature more than 50 upcoming ID@Xbox titles, including eight new announces and several first playables. It\u2019s also free. To learn more about the event at Microsoft main campus, head\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To those of you ascending upon Seattle next weekend, safe travels, and we\u2019ll see you soon.<\/p>\n

HALO: THE MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION<\/h2>\n

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On the other side of the studio, the Halo: The Master Chief Collection team continues to work on the next content update, which will target top community items, and we\u2019ll be sharing details once we\u2019re closer to release, and final testing has been completed. Also, the playlist and matchmaking teams continue to make tweaks based on your feedback.\u00a0For starters, there are a few changes incoming when the next playlist update drops, which is currently targeted for next week. Let\u2019s start with Infection.<\/p>\n

Thanks to popular demand, Infection will be the next featured playlist in MCC. The playlist will include the following game types:<\/p>\n