We can expect to see a lot of things in halo 5 guardians with the new arena styled gameplay mechanics brought to the table. Right now im gonna go through a lot of them and see how you guys like it.
First off lets start with regular team slayer.
We can expect to see ALL spartan abilities to be activated in Regular Matchmaking Team Slayer for the sake of these abilities being new and 343 wanting to showcase them.
Here is the settings i think team slayer will provide
Team Slayer BR
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Primary Weapon - BR- Secondary Weapon - AR- Grenade - Frag- Sprint - ON- Ground Pound - ON- Thrust Pack - ON- Slide - ON- Charge - ON- Radar - ON- Score to win - 50- Time Limit - 12 min
Classic Team Slayer
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Primary Weapon - AR- Secondary Weapon - Magnum- Grenade - Frag- Sprint - ON- Ground Pound - ON- Thrust Pack - ON- Slide - ON- Charge - ON- Radar - ON- Score to win - 50- Time Limit - 12 min
Team Slayer
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Primary Weapon - SMG- Secondary Weapon - Magnum- Grenade - Frag- Sprint - ON- Ground Pound - ON- Thrust Pack - ON- Slide - ON- Charge - ON- Radar - ON- Score to win - 50- Time Limit - 12 min
Then we can expect to see competitive settings probably be this
Halo Championship Series
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Primary Weapon - BR- Secondary Weapon - None- Grenade - Frag- Sprint - ON- Ground Pound - OFF- Thrust Pack - ON- Slide - OFF- Charge - OFF- Radar - OFF- Score to win - 50- Time Limit - 12 min
(This would be for all OBJ and Slayer Gametypes in HCS)
BTB might be a bit different, possibly could be something like this.
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Primary Weapon - BR- Secondary Weapon - Magnum- Grenade - Frag- Sprint - ON- Ground Pound - OFF- Thrust Pack - ON- Slide - ON- Charge - ON- Radar - ON- Score to win - 100- Time Limit 15 min
All OBJ gametypes for BTB and 5v5’s probably will always be BR starts or maybe DMR starts.
We can expect to see Infection come back into Halo 5 but this time the Alpha Zombie will be carrying the prophets bane. It just makes more sense to have the Alpha have a more powerful sword because hes the Alpha and he is more powerful.
When we think of the new game mode Strong Hold in the beta they had AR starts but i think like i said all OBJ gametypes will be BR starts or DMR starts in the game. We can expect to be a new mode other than Strong Hold, we have no clue what this could be but 343 is very clever in thinking of new game modes to implement such as Dominion and Stronghold but Stronghold basically is dominion but expect something entirely new. (besides what we already know)
ok i believe its called Breakout? Its the new arena gamemode and it works off 4v4, one life only and is in rounds. Now this could be interesting considering Call of Duty has something similar with they’re SnD and how Battlefield Hardline has they’re Hostage playlist. So could halo be joining in on the fun with continuous rounded modes with one life? only this time no OBJ? its very interesting because halo has always been a game of 4v4 slayer or OBJ with respawns and nothing else and now maybe we could be getting something entirely new for HCS.
If it has sprint the competitive community will not latch on to it and if it doesn’t have sprint it will be too far removed from default to draw newer players into the competitive community.
aka, the competitive scene for H5 is already DOA.
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> If it has sprint the competitive community will not latch on to it and if it doesn’t have sprint it will be too far removed from default to draw newer players into the competitive community.
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> aka, the competitive scene mfor H5 is already DOA.
If you actually believe this, then I feel sorry for you. Tell me why CoD has such a strong competitive scene with sprint then?
To OP, I think for BTB ground pound will be on. Josh Holmes has tweeted about how ground pound will be used against vehicles in BTB.
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> > If it has sprint the competitive community will not latch on to it and if it doesn’t have sprint it will be too far removed from default to draw newer players into the competitive community.
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> > aka, the competitive scene mfor H5 is already DOA.
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> If you actually believe this, then I feel sorry for you. Tell me why CoD has such a strong competitive scene with sprint then?
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> To OP, I think for BTB ground pound will be on. Josh Holmes has tweeted about how ground pound will be used against vehicles in BTB.
Sprint works fine in COD because the kill times are so fast.
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> > If it has sprint the competitive community will not latch on to it and if it doesn’t have sprint it will be too far removed from default to draw newer players into the competitive community.
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> > aka, the competitive scene mfor H5 is already DOA.
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> If you actually believe this, then I feel sorry for you. Tell me why CoD has such a strong competitive scene with sprint then?
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> To OP, I think for BTB ground pound will be on. Josh Holmes has tweeted about how ground pound will be used against vehicles in BTB.
Because Call of Duty and Halo are fundamentally different games. Something working in one does not mean it’ll work in the other.
You haven’t mentioned other base traits. What about damage, base speed, et cetera? One thing I’d like to see is health (not shields) buffed to reward headshots/teamshooting.
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> You haven’t mentioned other base traits. What about damage, base speed, et cetera? One thing I’d like to see is health (not shields) buffed to reward headshots/teamshooting.
You can expect to see shields and other things you have just listed as normal or unchanged basically 100%
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> > If it has sprint the competitive community will not latch on to it and if it doesn’t have sprint it will be too far removed from default to draw newer players into the competitive community.
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> > aka, the competitive scene mfor H5 is already DOA.
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> If you actually believe this, then I feel sorry for you. Tell me why CoD has such a strong competitive scene with sprint then?
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> To OP, I think for BTB ground pound will be on. Josh Holmes has tweeted about how ground pound will be used against vehicles in BTB.
Sprint does work for halo 5. Map sizes are bigger and also with the new sprint mechanic where you are unable to recharge shields when sprinting it makes sprinting used less.