Halo 5 will have only 2 player splitscreen in the final gamer!
Source: https://twitter.com/JoshingtonState/status/545000766969114625
This information comes from 343 's Josh Holmes via Twitter. A fan asked if it will go to play split screen in Halo 5 : Guardians - beta to which he replied that unfortunately it will not go. When the inevitable follow-up question about whether there will be support for split-screen in the final product or not said Holmes like this:
"We’ll definatley local split-screen for 2 players in the final. "
Is this somthing we should accept? HALO have always had 4 player split screen. Even the bad HALOS! Don’t let them take away this HALO tradition. Because next time 343i will probably take away split screen from HALO forever if we won’t stop them. Share this as much as you can if you agree that HALO should have 4 player split screen as it always have had so 343i won’t take away 4 player split screen!
This is not 343’s fault. It’s the Suitcasebox Waun’s fault. It’s a horribly weak console, and H5 is probably using 90% of the proccessing power. Split-screen copies the game, and runs it twice. So 4 player would crash the console.
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campaign will most likely be 4 players, josh refers to MP which imo really doesn’t need 4p split. it just don’t seem a huge necessity to me.
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Campaign will most likely not be 4 players split-screen if the MP won’t be it.
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And how was your experience? Terrible, right? Frame rate always dropping, hey?
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Well HALO Reach could have ben better but HALO 4 was good and all the previous halos (except for Reach)
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Chief is with blue team, makes 4 characters, Locke is with 3 spartan IV’s makes another 4. It makes no sense to me to assume everyone is gonna play campaign with friends over the internet when some people don’t have a connection to stay online regularly. Who knows perhaps it will change, anything can happen in a year.
I play 4 player split screen with my friends all the time. It worked on the OG xbox and the 360, I see no reason why it can’t work on the xone. 4 player split screen is a must for halo. If I’m not mistaken, halo is the only game that still supports 4 player split screen. 343 make this work.
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We can only hope that 343 bring 4 player split-screen back to MP and campaign. But we can not just sit here and hope whitout making this message going to 343i so thay can see that we want this.
Nobody cares if its 1080p 60 fps for 4 players 343!
We understand limitations.
720 30fps WILL DO if it need be lower than do it. So as long as i can have a halo night with my budies and can see what is going on its fine. Your goal is to please the fan base not win awards. A huge portion of the fan base does this. You win awards for having pleased your fan base. Doing that brings people back and draws in new people.
Honestly i doubt anyone will notice and those who care need ask them “do they want 4p local or not?”
Still dont know why developers for current gen titles seam to hate the idea of people being able to play with the person sitting next to them.
They still haven’t confirmed whether that is for sure. I tweeted him a couple days ago and he was clearly referring to the campaign when he tweeted me back. And he said more would be said later.
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That’s why they should make it better instead of scrapping entire thing. I played Halo 4 with 4 player split screen few times (probably less than 10), but it’s the same situation as with having backseat in a car: it’s better be there because when it’s needed, it’s needed!
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Developers do this becaus to save money and get more copies sold. And thay want us to be social through the webb and not in the living room. And we have to stop this trend.
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Meh. They do it because they’re lazy and optimalisation of split screen is taking more time than just scrapping whole thing and telling us to find some “online” friends. Both FIFA 15 and Diablo 3 have 4 players local, so both EA and Activision (= Blizzard) don’t expect selling more copies by not letting us play with household members.
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Actually the option should have been included as a standard feature. It’s been in every Halo game before so doesn’t make any sense to take it out. Also MP is famous for 4 player splitscreen in both local, online so be kind of annoying if wanting to play with friends online at home.