Halo - In this week's Community Update we talk about an upcoming Halo 5 balance update, #MicrosoftStoreHalo and more!


In this week's Community Update we talk about an upcoming Halo 5 balance update, #MicrosoftStoreHalo and more!

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 05:25 PM PDT

I beat Halo 5 on Legendary without using a gun!

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 06:28 AM PDT

(sorry if this has been done before) Just a whole lot of Melee-ing, grenades, and telling my team to shoot at things (I also did not use the Energy Sword of Vehicles as I felt this was cheating).

I realise that I don't actually have a way to TRULY prove that I did this since I did not record any of it (realised this about halfway through). But I DO have this compiled picture of my Campaign stats which hopefully gets the point across (primarily the playtime and amount of melee kills - 39.1% as I have beaten Halo 5 3 times).

http://imgur.com/a/e5ahY

I noticed that the game doesn't actually provide you with the ability to see stats of individual campaign runs. This is unfortunate since this was done on my third run and makes proving this a little difficult. My first run was a regular Heroic run, and my second was a Legendary Pistol-Only run. The stats fail at some points to reflect the fact that Ive played through each level 3 times, but you'll see with Swords of Sanghelios that it's recorded only my latest (no-gun) run which took me 16 hours cause holy sh*t jackal snipers suck when you can't shoot back at them.

Anyway let me know what you think! I had a lot of fun (and anger) but mostly fun :)

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Podracing, Poke' Battles, BlackFlags, Whiterun, Hogwarts, Moby D, Indiana Jones... it's been a wild couple of years.

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 12:22 PM PDT

Valiant Map Pack (Community Made) - Halo 5

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 09:30 AM PDT

This is the most difficult achievement to get on the MCC (imo). 3+ hours for some levels. Pinned to my xbox profile and everything, I'm a bit proud of this one ��

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 02:22 PM PDT

It may have been in Husky Raid against people with no thumbs, but I finally got my first Halo 5 killionaire

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 03:50 PM PDT

Breaking the Sound Barrier in Halo 3

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 05:39 AM PDT

All you greenhorns who wanted to play Halo on PC, this is gonna be your lucky day.

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 10:57 AM PDT

For years, we've had a few Halo staples on the PC:

  • H:CE2 (Combat Evolved/Custom Edition)
  • Halo 2 Vista (for all its failings, it's still a decent way to play the story mode and even get the same achievements/gamerscore all over again)
  • Halo Online (though not officially supported, has taken on a life of its own and now become a fantastic experience thanks to modders)
  • Halo 5 Forge (not a stellar experience on PC, but you can still play custom games for free and Forge to your heart's content)
  • Halo Wars 1 and 2, Spartan Assault, and Spartan Strike (though they're not FPS games, I feel it's obligatory to mention them)

In addition to these great options, there are some more exciting developments coming our way:

  • The full release of SPV3, a complete remaster and reimagining of Halo CE's campaign mode, is coming August 19th. It is an extremely polished mod for CE that feels like a AAA remaster, and I highly recommend downloading it.
  • A fan-built Halo game that looks to be making some headway, Installation 01. It will be a free, multi-platform game built in Unity that aims to be an "artistic tribute to Halo that recreates the multiplayer experience of the Bungie-era games". Still relatively early in development.
  • Another fan-made Halo game, Project Contingency, being built on Unreal Engine 4. Also seems to be aimed at a "classic" gameplay experience.

And perhaps the most exciting development of all — Halo 6 will almost certainly be playable on both Xbox and PC, possibly with cross-play enabled.

Here's the thing: at least for the time being, 343 Industries has made it abundantly clear that they're not doing anything with MCC, so it's extremely unlikely that we'll see an official Halo 3 or MCC port. But even though many of these games are either unofficial, in development, or both, it seems to me that even without Halo 3, we Halo fans have a gold mine when it comes to PC presence.

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I wish they would port halo 3 to the PC.

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 09:42 PM PDT

Modern laptops would even be able to run it

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We captured this Halo Reach hacker on theater mode as he ruined our capture the flag game

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 07:38 PM PDT

Hey guys,

So apparently hacking in Halo Reach is still a problem. We noticed some unusual behavior online with this one particular player who was able to jetpack across the map, walk through walls, and pretty much ruin our game as he hid the flag in unreachable places while holding it. This video does not break the rules, because the gamertag displayed on Halo Reach's servers, "As Seen On TV" is not actually the guys Gamertag, he just changed it to appear different in Halo's lobbies and game (therefore it does not target a specific person). I was able to capture the beginning of the match, but a few seconds into the game, theater mode encounters an error that prevents me from seeing the rest of the game. Anyway, did you guys know that this is possible?

https://youtu.be/LI8c1yIezxs

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Out of all the things wrong with MCC

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 02:11 PM PDT

What's up with the main menu choice? It's just a bunch of rocks floating about in space, and every time I open MCC it just baffles me why they didn't just put all the halo menus on shuffle.

Or you know just a halo ring...

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Sometimes you need to make hard decisions :'(

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 03:08 PM PDT

"PSA: The Team Skirmish playlist will be retired from Halo 5 in approx. one hour. If you love to skirmish, get your final games in now."

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 09:02 AM PDT

HALO VOL. 2 - Guardians of the Galaxy Style!

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 04:14 AM PDT

Different idea for a Halo movie?

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 04:52 PM PDT

I'm not sure if this has been discussed much or at all on this sub so getting it out there.

Instead of a Halo movie revolving around Chief right off the bat, I think the first movie should be about Contact Harvest. It's a more militarized story that would advertise to a much larger demographic making it worth a studios while and getting new people interested the Halo universe.

I think it would be an excellent action and emotional movie coming in contact with an unknown enemy, then being attacked and the further evacuation and survival of the planet. Could be some great action in the scenes with the space elevator and civilian shuttles being blown up etc. And also giving AI point of view for the sad moments at the end and giving new audience members an idea of what Cortana is before they introduce her in the next possible sequel.

I'm honestly a huge fan of the in game cinematics and I don't believe a 2 hour movie could capture and execute the understanding of who and what chief/Cortana/covenant/forerunners and include a meaningful action pack movie in that small of a time frame.

Thoughts?

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What is your ideal Open World/Sandbox Halo game?

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 04:37 PM PDT

What would the gameplay be like? What factions could you join? What planets could you go to and explore? Which ships could you own or be a crew member of? How many weapons? Noncombat professions? Settlement/Colony management and building? How large would cities be? Action combat, or classical RPG combat? First and/or third person? What type of character progression would be available for your character to take? Online options, or singeplayer only?

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Living With Chief Ep. 23: Lester's Revenge

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 05:09 PM PDT

Trying to find the data on how long Halo 3 (and other Halos) were in the top 10 most played on XBL charts. Can anyone help?

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 11:49 PM PDT

Reach's Noble Map Pack not free?

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 11:39 PM PDT

It's listed as 9.99 for me

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Summer of Halo?

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 06:09 PM PDT

So when is this "summer of Halo" gonna start? It's August and the backwards compatibility halo games are still slotted for "later this year". It's seemed very misleading that we could have played them in the summer. Also we are still waiting for the halo 5 classic playlist.

Do you guys think they will be out soon so we can enjoy them? I know I won't have nearly as much time when I head back to college next month.

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Did Reach have the best enemy ai?

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 09:28 PM PDT

Besides the teammate ai where they are useless, the covenant, especially the elites are really intelligent. They are fast, strategic, and sometimes they can stick you with a plasma grenade. Hunters are the weakest but practically every enemy is at it's peak.

Halo 2, 3, 4, and 5 had dumb teammate ai in my opinion. In 4 and 5, they were way too slow and defeat is all they are good at. In Halo 2, they were bullet sponges but didn't use their brain. Halo 3 brought the sorriest excuse of brutes. Absoluetely disappointing.

Reach on the other hand is fun. Enemies really know how to attack in groups. Elited are the aggressors and will even advance towards you when your shields are down. To this day, none of the games do this. This makes gun fights against them unique in this regard.

It is also why I haven't beaten Reach on legendary to this day. Don't laugh, I can't beat it. I beaten H2 on legendary with very little troubles. CE and 3 are easy. ODST was a joke. Didn't bother with 4 and 5 because they are easy.

Reach will never get old for me. The campaign kind of sucks but the gun fights and firefight are fantastic, the pinnacle of the series. CE is a close second for enemy ai since elites had such awkward movements and responses. Only edge where Reach wins is that they are fearless, unpredictable, and strong.

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H2A and Scarab Gun

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 05:39 PM PDT

Does the scarab skull for sure disable legendary completion achievement for all 4 games? I've beaten CE, 3, ODST, and 4 and am on H2A. I just don't have the time or patience for this campaign anymore with college semester on the horizon.

I know it's lazy but I've read that some people have used the scarab gun and gotten the achievement, but I would just like some more solid evidence either way before I decide to redo the campaign

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Warzone Firefight loading problems?

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 08:38 PM PDT

Sometimes Warzone Firefight gets stuck in black loading screen. It happens every other game, and I have to restart the game to continue. Is there are workaround or patch for this? It's been happening for a while now.

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