So I find something interesting in the new Community Update. Well first off we got a new Community Manager named Ske7ch. Bravo left to transition to a new role on the 343 team so he passed the torch to Ske7ch. Bye Bravo. We’ll miss you. Good luck to you in your new role.
Anyway when Ske7ch was answering questions, someone asked him if classic Firefight would return. You know what I’ll just post the question and response so you guys and gals can see this for yourself.
SPROCKET42 asks “will there ever be a solo Firefight mode in Halo 5 (like in Halo Reach), if not, will there be one in Halo 6?”
There are currently no plans to add a new “Reach-style” Firefight mode to Halo 5. As for the future, who knows, I haven’t been here long enough to rank up my security clearance to know all the cool things the team is working on…. Yet.
Are you freaking kidding me? So 343 really has no plans to bring back the heavily requested Classic Firefight mode? Ohhhhhh no. No man thats a bad move. You have got to be kidding me. This is so easy too. You already have WZ Firefight. All you gotta do now is just make endless rounds with stronger waves of enemies and 5 lives each round. Jesus Christ!
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> If you want to play reach style firefight why don’t you play reach? its even backwards compatible so you can play from Xbox one.
I can’t earn REQ points for the ever present microtransaction grind playing Reach.
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> If you want to play reach style firefight why don’t you play reach? its even backwards compatible so you can play from Xbox one.
Trust me I would. But for some reason it won’t let me play it online even though I have Xbox Live. Plus there’s also the fact that everyone wants Classic Firefight to return in Halo 5.
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> If you want to play reach style firefight why don’t you play reach? its even backwards compatible so you can play from Xbox one.
Because Halo 5 firefight is a joke, it’s not firefight, it’s boss endurance borderlands style. We want a TRUE successor to firefight not some botched, mangled abomination that has the gaul to even think it’s half as good as it’s predecessors.
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> If you want to play reach style firefight why don’t you play reach? its even backwards compatible so you can play from Xbox one.
Because Reach is an old game and people want to play Firefight on a new game?
Besides, why would 343 WANT to send players back to Reach? Reach doesn’t have micro transactions. They would literally be turning money away if they told people to go play Reach for classic Firefight.
WZFF is already a great template for a classic Firefight. All they have to do is rebalance it for solo play. They could still even allow people to use their precious REQ system. Having trouble on a round? Call in a Scorpion from your collection to help out!
Honestly, as much as I would love a classic Firefight mode over Warzone Firefight, I think that it’s for the best that we don’t get it in Halo 5. After a year, most of the future updates will probably be a bit smaller in nature (as in, no new huge gamemodes), and that’s what it should be. 343i should focus their efforts on the next game, and make sure that Halo 6 has a classic Firefight mode.
Halo 5 isn’t worth the time and effort required to implement this. Not anymore.
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> Honestly, as much as I would love a classic Firefight mode over Warzone Firefight, I think that it’s for the best that we don’t get it in Halo 5. After a year, most of the future updates will probably be a bit smaller in nature (as in, no new huge gamemodes), and that’s what it should be. 343i should focus their efforts on the next game, and make sure that Halo 6 has a classic Firefight mode.
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> Halo 5 isn’t worth the time and effort required to implement this. Not anymore.
You might be right. I just want Halo 5 to live up to all its potential. If it had all the game modes Halo Reach had at launch, fixed bugs/theater, better UI and other things, halo 5 would be amazing.
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> > If you want to play reach style firefight why don’t you play reach? its even backwards compatible so you can play from Xbox one.
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> I can’t earn REQ points for the ever present microtransaction grind playing Reach.
If they made a classic style odds are it would be a score attack style and you wouldn’t earn req points I bet.
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> > If you want to play reach style firefight why don’t you play reach? its even backwards compatible so you can play from Xbox one.
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> Because Reach is an old game and people want to play Firefight on a new game?
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> Besides, why would 343 WANT to send players back to Reach? Reach doesn’t have micro transactions. They would literally be turning money away if they told people to go play Reach for classic Firefight.
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> WZFF is already a great template for a classic Firefight. All they have to do is rebalance it for solo play. They could still even allow people to use their precious REQ system. Having trouble on a round? Call in a Scorpion from your collection to help out!
That is what I want to see. just give us customizable options for what we have. party size, enemy type, maybe difficulty level(award less req points and xp for lower difficulty).
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> > Honestly, as much as I would love a classic Firefight mode over Warzone Firefight, I think that it’s for the best that we don’t get it in Halo 5. After a year, most of the future updates will probably be a bit smaller in nature (as in, no new huge gamemodes), and that’s what it should be. 343i should focus their efforts on the next game, and make sure that Halo 6 has a classic Firefight mode.
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> You might be right. I just want Halo 5 to live up to all its potential. If it had all the game modes Halo Reach had at launch, fixed bugs/theater, better UI and other things, halo 5 would be amazing.
Don’t worry, I’m in the same boat as you. If Halo 5 launched with the same amount of content as in Reach, it would be an absolutely incredible game. In fact, Reach is my most played Halo game (asides from Halo PC/Custom Edition) by far, simply because there was so much variety in terms of content.
The best we can do is hope that Halo 6 has Reach levels of content as well as excellent gameplay and a good story. 343i has a lot of pressure on them after the disappointments with Halo 5. Even though things like enjoying Halo 5’s story or gameplay are subjective, I think we can all agree on the fact that Halo 5 simply does not live up to its potential, and 343i knows it.
They should have done it instead of WZFF wich is unfairly unbalanced and built around the REQ system. There is no time for this now, I prefer them to focus on Halo 6 and make Classic Firefight there.