At this year's E3, Halo 5 came out shooting with a brief campaign demo in Microsoft's press conference. That said, the meat of developer 343's presence was Warzone, a brand new mode to Halo that integrates campaign style spaces, Firefight-influenced enemy wave systems, and the PVP of Halo's competitive multiplayer into a cohesive yet frantic mode. In Multiplayer design director Kevin Franklin's words, "we just wanted to go as epic and as large as possible."
Halo 5: Guardians and several other Xbox One exclusives will become playable on PC thanks to a new Xbox One translation layer
yep ... hope Fable II, Uncharted Trilogy and Gears Trilogy gets the same treatment
Isn't this the foundation for your next Xbox?
This is exactly what some of us have been talking about...a way to bridge existing console users into a Xbox branded PC
I mean.... It would be the end of Xbox.
But at least you'll have a way to play the games you've paid for on new hardware
It's been talked about by industry insiders that the next Xbox will not be a Xbox as we know it (traditional closed ecosystem) but more in line with the steamdeck and would allow multiple marketplaces and such as steam to run on it like how the ru has forced iOS to adopt outside marketplaces.
In short think of the nextbox to be more like a steamdeck and less like a xbox
I am just astonished that MS wants to make as much money as Xbox as possible yet so many of their older games aren’t on PC
He said it's the only one he didn't play, so he played all the games that are on MCC
Campaign was trash but the MP is arguably the best in the series. Refreshing combat while staying true to the Halo vibe.
Obviously I needed a snicker as I can't read when I'm hungry lol. My apologies.
343 Industries is hiring a Generative AI Lead to integrate AI into future projects, pushing the boundaries of innovation in game development.
Go join that team and be the part of launching a massive disappointment. Now you can help lol with AI to make it even more generic, apply now!
Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries has moved to explain a recent microtransactions price hike following a community backlash.
This smell like passing down the cost of acquisitions down to the consumer at all cost in any way shape or form 🤷🏿
@1Victor:
Given that under best conditions - i.e. no more such spending, it'll take decades, what do you expect?
Hell, they just tried to revoke GP for their employees.
And you can always count on the Xbox fans defending them and the price hike. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed Halo Infinite multiplayer
Yeah, no excuse for this garbage 343i... I haven't played Infinite's multi-player in a long while. Downloaded it again on PC only to find that the PC port is absolutely broken right now with like 3-5 minute load-in times just for the main menu. Now hearing this, I went ahead and uninstalled it lol. Wish they'd stop shooting themselves in the foot with this title.
so they made several changes how the helmets etc work, however, ive never seen anyone raising prices in a shop due to changes THEY made.
The store price hike is stupid but halo infinite mp is currently at its best. Nobody has to buy the cosmetics as they offer alot of free content.
Fuck that stupid argument. If you pay full price for a game you should get everything the game has to offer.
Last I checked the game released at full price. I know MP is free but then that makes the release highly overpriced.
@Crows
It totally was. I got suckered by Halo Infinite. All i got was a data disc and a half assed campaign.
@Crows90
Does the single-player portion of the game (what ppl bought) offer Microtransaction?
As far I recall the answer is no.
So ppl got what they paid for meaning a complete campaign that is comparable to a lot of AAA games like Resident Evil, Wolfenstein, Doom, Mortal Kombat, etc.
Now regarding the FREE multiplayer part, I agree it's a stupid move that will probably do more harm than good since the game is (despite what several N4G members would like you to believe) in good health, and like Gaming4Life pointed out no one is forcing ppl to buy theses items.
Any person who thinks that any game content created and released after launch should be free... go ahead a justify that... I'll be waiting.
I can see the argument for them selling shit immediately at launch, but even still that is weak.
You buy a game knowing exactly what is included when you pay it. You should expect nothing else for free.
@ripper
Insomniac released some free costumes for free for Spiderman
Capcom released free next gen upgrades for their Resident Evil games
No Man’s Sky became a new game from all the free DLC
Minecraft has a good amount of free dlc content.
Witcher 3 had some free cosmetics and a mission.
Overwatch has new characters that were free
Arkham Knight had some free costumes and a Batmobile skin
Some people expect free DLC because some companies actually gave free DLC.
@Petebloodyonion they were already charging for items and then they raised the prices on top of that. It wasn’t free to begin with and now they want more $$
@JZRNPG
"@Petebloodyonion they were already charging for items and then they raised the prices on top of that. It wasn’t free to begin with and now they want more $$"
And I said that raising the price was a stupid move and even made an earlier post about how it's the best way to antagonize your customers but it still doesn't change the fact that the multiplayer portion of the game is a FREE to Play game.
In this regard, Gaming4life comments stand correct and Crows comments stand wrong since Nobody paid a dime to play the game (the MP part) and no one is forcing you to buy cosmetics.
And again I totally agree with the sentiment and don't defend MS or 343I on this crappy move.
There is absolutely no reason for ever raising the price of cosmetics. They are some of the quickest assets to create but charge silly prices for them. Its greed. There's no other way to spin it no matter what the game is.
Halo 5 - Best mp I have ever played in my life.