gerrythedon

A pair of new rides have recently been added to Forza Motorsport 6 to celebrate the launch of Halo 5: Guardians for Xbox One. Designed as part of a collaboration between 343 Industries and Turn 10, there's a Spartan Locke 2015 Mustang GT and Master Chief 2016 Ford Shelby GT350R.

Both are available at no additional cost, although the Master Chief 2016 Ford Shelby GT350R is available only to Forza Motorsport 6 VIP members. The Spartan Locke 2015 Mustang GT will be available to all players for free, which is nice.

You'll find the new Halo 5: Guardians Ford muscle cars tucked away for download in Forza Motorsport 6's message centre. Go get 'em, if you haven't already.



http://www.xboxachievements.com/news...n-Forza-6.html

gerrythedon

HALO 5: GUARDIANS SEES BIGGEST LAUNCH IN FRANCHISE HISTORY

Halo 5: Guardians is now the fastest-selling Xbox One exclusive, making Halo history with the biggest launch the franchise has ever seen.

According to Microsoft's announcement, 343 Industries' new shooter has raked in over $400 million worldwide across Halo 5 game and hardware sales, elevating lifetime earnings for the entire series to over $5 billion. Additionally, Guardians was Xbox One's most played game during its opening week, with the highest attach rate of any first-party title on the platform.

"The success of Halo 5: Guardians is a testament to the innovative work from the entire team at 343 Industries to bring this installment to Xbox One and the incredible community of fans who have come to love the story, characters and gameplay central to the franchise," Head of Xbox Phil Spencer said. "The game represents all the possibilities of Xbox One and has earned its place as the anchor title in the greatest holiday games lineup in Xbox history."

Over 21 million hours of Halo 5: Guardians has already been played, with 12 million of those being spent solely on its campaign. The game's new Requisition System has proven to be quite popular as well, with over 45 million REQ Packs having already been acquired.


http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/11/...paign=Blogroll

maxfisher

I wonder how many it sold. Reading between the lines of that release makes it sound like the numbers are pretty bad.

mattysemo247

Finished the campaign on Heroic last night. Overall I thought it was pretty disappointing. Only playing through about 1/3 of the game as Master Chief didn't help either. The game is very polished, but it's been missing something ever since 343 took over the franchise. I'll check out some of the multiplayer stuff next, hopefully that's a little better.

stingermck

I feel like no one is talking about this game, despite it being Halo. IDK, maybe it's just me.

Adam Tyner

I found myself thinking the same thing as well.

gerrythedon

48 REQ packs will also be made available as part of the update, as a number of new armor options, weapons, vehicles and assassinations are added to the pool of REQ acquisitions. Check out the infographic below for the full list:




http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/11/...ig-team-battle

Decker

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100% Agree with this one.

mattysemo247

Maybe I'm crazy, but does anyone else remember anything like this ending up in the game? I get that it's an announcement trailer and all, but at that point they had to be well into the game. Just seems like it's very misleading.

gerrythedon

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/12/...paign=Blogroll

gerrythedon

full article http://www.xboxachievements.com/news...Available.html

The Cartographer's Gift is out now for Halo 5: Guardians and weighs in at 3.8GB.

New Features and Content:

• Forge is now available!
• Added a basic implementation of File Browser. Players can now bookmark and share custom maps and modes through Active Roster, by following (or become friends with) a player.
• Over 30 new REQs including weapons, armor, emblems, and more have been added.
• Battle of Noctus map added to Warzone.
• Overgrowth map added to Arena.
• Entombed and Antifreeze maps added to Big Team Battle.
• Commendations and Service Record for Spartan Companies have been added, and can be tracked on Halo Channel and HaloWaypoint.com.
• Social playlists have been added (Big Team Battle and Holiday Social).
• Holiday Doubles playlist added (ranked).
• Advanced controller setting options have been added, including controls for aim acceleration as well as deadzone controls. These settings are automatically set to the previous defaults you've been playing on. Full details here.
• Seasons for ranked playlists have been added; The January 2016 Season begins today.
• Enabled the ability to purchase multiple gold REQ Packs in one single purchase, several of which include free bonus packs. (These will be coming online within the next few days).

Multiplayer:

• FFA playlist reduced to 6 players from 8 players.
• Replaced Scorpion on Recurve with Gauss Warthog.
• Removed Mantis from Guillotine and added a Warthog for each team.
• Fixed spawning bug that sometimes spawned a player on Red team in the Blue base on Deadlock at the start of a match.
• Fixed an issue where players could escape Gambol’s normal play boundaries.
• Added interactive switches to Deadlock to control window shutters and doors for each base.
• Fixed a bug in Breakout that awarded kills after the flag has been captured.
• Add Flag Grabs statistic to the post-game carnage report.
• Fixed a Free-For-All bug where kills were shown in scoreboard rather than score.
• Added medal for melee’s performed to an enemy’s back.
• Added in-game text for Flag Driver medal.

Campaign:

• Improved stability when joining a Fireteam’s Campaign mission in progress.
• Joining a Fireteam’s Campaign mission in progress will no long force all Fireteam members back to the character select screen.
• Fixed a bug on Guardians that hindered a player’s movement if they’ve died and were unable to complete the mission

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Ranking:

• Adjusted CSR placements for SWAT and FFA playlists.
• Fixed bugs surrounding players being placed too high across all playlists.
• User Interface:

Lobby:

• Amount of REQ Points and number of unopened REQ packs will be visible during intermission and in Lobby.
• Fixed bug around Fireteam sorting - The Fireteam Leader will now be displayed at the top followed by his or her team in alphabetical order by Gamertag. For Custom Games, all other teams will be grouped together and then sorted alphabetically as well.

Active Roster:

• Friend Status will now be visible from the Friends list so you can see what your friends are doing in Halo 5: Guardians.
• Fixed bug around Friend sorting so it sorts online and offline friends alphabetically.

Spartan Hub / REQs:

• REQ Rarity and Description will be visible for all REQs when opening a REQ pack or browsing your Collection whether you own it or not.
• REQ Energy Cost will also be displayed for all REQs when opening a REQ pack or browsing your REQ Collection

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Spectate / Theater:

• Added hidden controls to change player POV for up to 8 players in the match. Holding left trigger will enable the use of the d-pad and ABXY face buttons to change player POV on the fly. Players are mapped to buttons alphabetically.
• Added ability to change player POV from the Scoreboard. Press the View button to bring up the Scoreboard; use d-pad to navigate and A-button to select a POV.
• Fixed bug aroundPlayer POV Selector sorting. It will now sort by team, and then alphabetically by Gamertag.
• Fixed bug around controls for Zooming while in Free Cam.
• Fixed bug around not being able to hide the Player POV Selector in some cases when toggling UI visibility.
• Fixed a bug where ending a theater film placed players into a solo campaign lobby
• Added ability to play and pause film while UI is hidden using the A button.

HUD:

• The location callout will now appear when dead, spectating, in Smart-Link, etc.
• The Highest Score per Column in the in-game Scoreboard will have a visual callout allowing you to see very quickly which player has the most kills, most assists, and least deaths.

Controls:

• Added advanced controller options. Full details here.
• Networking:
  
• Improved ping times to dedicated servers in matchmaking.
• Improved gameplay quality under network conditions with high packet loss.

Rival11

So how is the multiplayer in this game? Wanted to ask as this game is on the third page while Destiny is always on the first.

edstein

Best in the series.

gerrythedon

yup it's almost near damn perfect.

Michael Corvin

Damn, if it's that good 343 must have royally fucked up the brand with Halo 4 and the Master Chief Collection. It should have far more buzz (any buzz) than it' garnered.

Rival11

I was mainly just asking because I don't ever hear anything about this game and I literally completely forgot about it - I still might check it out, just surprised there isn't more discussion on it.

gerrythedon

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/g...finitys-armory


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Rival11

I know this is going to upset some people but....this is honestly one of the worst games I've played in quite some time.

I got very lucky that gamestop refunded me the FULL price for this garbage when I brought it back the next day.

Decker

That doesn't upset me at all. I thought the game was a HUGE disappointment. I haven't played it since the first week, I think. What a waste of a great (albeit over-rated) franchise

OldBoy

I'm almost scared to start this for fear of being disappointed. I'm slogging through 4 now. Boy is that a chore, sadly...

Decker

Halo 4 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Halo 5

OldBoy

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

mattysemo247

Fuck this game

OldBoy

Did anybody here like it?

edstein

You guys are being too hard on this game. There's much worst out there.