for me it was the best halo game until they started changing everything eventually i had nothing left to keep me playing everything got watered down at that point i might aswell just play halo 3
in the beta even when i was dying i was having fun cus i never lost hope in matches i always had a chance to win every fight was a challenge getting 4 kills felt super rewarding
it wasn’t call of duty or even classic halo it was better ill never stop missing it
I certainly look forward to that time myself. I want to play the entire series. On PC.
Halo 5: Guardians as a standalone game on the PC would probably sell hundreds of thousands if not millions of copies on Steam
If it comes to steam stand alone I’d hope they would take the opportunity to rework it and retcon the story to actually be good
Reworking Warzone and reqs to be separate from customisation yet still intact
The visuals would need tuning back to how they were in the beta with the option to down grade them in your options so if you want the game to look bad so you can see you can
Weapons and abilites also back to how they were in the beta
Armor customisation having the options of H4 and reach with stuff like undersuit and back pack options from MCC
PC options being able to tweek the game
Campaign reworked - you play as your own multiplayer spartan hunting for the truth with your goals constantly changing
First you finish what you started in H4s spartan ops finding and capturing kathren
Your tasked with finding chief after he goes missing
You find chief and to finish his task he sets off a guardian on a moon base everyone on the base dies due to the EMP knocking out the artifical atmosphere you see them die chief doesn’t yet know what he did because he teleported away just before the EMP
You find a dormant guardian and with help from the arditer you access it
You find chief and have to fight blue team 1 by 1 in boss fights as you try to reach chief
As you reach him things change…
… His task was to reunite cortana rampant fragments to see her again, she was guiding him to do this
When we reach him we show him what his done and he then realises the wrong that his done but its too late this cortana isn’t actually cortana
This red cortana needs chief for what the librarian did to his body it actually makes him immune to the flood and the cortana/mendican bias wants to use him and starts to
This almost fully destroys chiefs suit you save him and escape
As this “cortana” retreats to a new halo you reunite chief with kathren and the arditer this setting up for halo infinite
Chiefs change from MK2 to MK3 now has a reason behind it cortana would basically be H4 cortana untie she shows who she really is the real cortana is gone
This was a brief summary the story and gameplay would be Alot more in depth the goal being fun and reason to use stuff like your spartan abilities the campaign becomes a sandbox for you to play in with the story adding to that
I don’t see them retconing the campaign tho least not in a H5 port that would most likely happen in infinite
I’d like to see small things addressed like chief waking up in H4 wearing his H3 armor and getting his new armor when he finds the infinity and the H5 campaign actually being accurate to the promotional material
The way reach nailed its main character roll is by focusing on the world instead of the player that way you have room to express yourself in that world vs your character doing things you would never do
Noble 6 was barely a character and yet people are attached to them because they are invested in 6 as they go through the setting so you have to make the setting the focus
Small stuff like character development for characters like buck would be welcomed fan service like buck expressing to you that you remind him Alot of the rookie from H3 ODST with the whole not talking thing you got going on
Team osiris already knows each other your the new member so you act as a mirror for them to show who they are
Also palmer is actually a good character now being driven an honourable actually making her likeable.
Worst part is we have no idea what happened between 4 and infinite as we don’t see what happens with the Didact after 4 and we don’t do anything with the Guardians after 5. hahaha!
I’d like them to take the opportunity to retcon the story maybe with a PC remaster
With back undersuits and boosted graphics like what we had in the beta
Sadly the story is a mess anyway. I guess people can look up the story on Youtube and the connections between Halo 4 and 5 are poor due to them shoving them into the comics instead and it’s just as confusing with Infinite.
Halo 5 is currently trending on Twitter, and I got excited till I found there was no actual news about it, sometimes twitter is just evil.
https://imgur.com/a/gRSgZDd
I’d say don’t expect to hear anything about a Halo 5 PC port until 343 announces officially ending MCC support. That’s just my guess anyway.
XCloud and Halo 5 Forge solve the issue. 343 needs to focus 1000% on making Infinite shine.
Only a console gamer would say something so wildly inaccurate about a game without a native PC port. While I enjoyed Infinite for a while, it is missing so many core Halo things, that is makes Halo 5 look like the best game 343 has delivered to date. I really do hope for this franchises sake though that 343 pulls their head out of it and turns multiplayer into the experience and the content/mode rich playground we all expected, and also fixes the bad campaign with quality campaign DLCs.
I’m gonna have to disagree. Xcloud and H5 forge PC solve nothing. From the latency on game streaming, to all the limitations that the forge release and game streaming have, there is so much missing that would be present in a legitimate PC release.
I understand that you want them to focus on infinite, and I can respect that. Honestly, the team seems to be spread pretty thin on resources.
What I would propose is that Microsoft hire more people to 343, and give more resources to Infinite, as well as sufficient resources to MCC, and a Halo 5 port team. (maybe the MCC team, and H5 port team could be one in the same, I dunno, I’m just thinking out loud here.)
Unfortunately, I don’t think we can trust Microsoft to actually do anything like that. MS really likes to look at data points on a chart, miss 60% of the context, and ultimately screw over 343 and other studios quite a bit.
I wish people would stop mentioning xcloud and h5 forge because as you say, they are less than ideal options on pc.
h5 forge is missing;
campaign / co-op
warzone
warzone firefight
and all the other mp stuff that is not in h5 forge.
all it has is forge and custom games and is online only.
i do wonder why they haven’t done a proper port yet as they are sitting on untapped profits they could use on infinite.
If they don’t want to port H5 to PC, then leave it to the fans to do it.
I’m so sick of 343 overcorrecting from Halo 5.
Yo whats the competitve discord server for Halo 5 PC
The page here www .instant-gaming .com/en/9598-buy-halo-5-guardians-pc-game-steam/
has been updated and now lists Vanguard Games as one of the developers.
does instant gaming know something we don’t?
I’d like it to come to PC for the new players it’ll bring in; inspiring new updates.
Only problem is m&k, one thing I like about Halo 5 so much is that everyone uses a controller. I don’t like the concept of dividing ranked into 2 or 3 variations (controller)(m&k)(both). If it comes to PC it should only have controller support.
Other than that all 343 would have to nail is PC optimization. Cause they did a real bang up job with that on Infinite -_-
I just saw this too, this might be fake, but this looks suspicious (and the Geforce leak could be correct). I really hope this is true and finally were getting Halo 5 on PC in full this time around so that all Halo games are cross platform, crossplay. Update to Halo 5 Forge on Microsoft Store with latest enhancements for PC (and port this to Steam as well). I mean honestly the amount of work that has to be done on this isn’t as much as the MCC in the end of all things. Maybe they are waiting to bring this to PC to improve Infinite on PC first, then backport it to Halo 5 Guardians with the Infinite Optimizations. Anyway its anyone’s guess at this point.
well they denied mcc was coming to pc right up till it did, so i see them doing exactly the same with halo 5 and halo wars 2 which also needs a steam release.
two games away from having a complete halo game collection on pc. can almost taste it…