Yeah, that's what the thread's about. I believe this is how forums are supposed to work.

The gameplay footage I watched seemed much better than halo 4's IMO. But than again I haven't played halo 4 in a year so I have pretty much forgotten. The art style put me off halo for a bit too.

Aside from that, the biggest problem I had with halo 4 was armor ability balance where players could choose jet pack and sprint etc, at the same time. This really changed the game in a bad way for me.

Though looking at the footage I watched halo 5 seems to have a much better pace and balance like halo 1, though I am unsure about how ADS is gonna play out now that you have a much bigger view and its gonna be easier to kill people at close range.

From the gameplay footage I watched the only things I didn't like was the thruster pack and the frikkin annoying announcer that talks way to much and sounds like a hyped-up idiot. Seriously what is wrong with just simply saying 'Slayer'.

I feel as if the game is giving to much to you like "10 Seconds to Sniper Rifle","you have the sniper". It's just ridiculous imo. Halo was great because it didn't baby us, and made us count on research to figure out weapon spawns and gain the advantage. This really NEEDS to go away. What is wrong with the old simple halo 1&2 commentator? Why couldn't they just re-use that?

Overall the game seems to have a good balance, the guns sound great, the lighting and graphics are nice + 60FPS! Now i just hope the campaign is just as great as h4's campaign.

^ I agree, that announcer really needs to fk off.

Seems like no one likes the announcer, i agree he is to chatty. I do like the Spartans talking to each other though. I liked how titanfall did it and this seems to be helpful in games where no one has mics or are always in party chat.

The art style I don't really like at all, even though I liked most of H4's art. Only had a problem with the BR, Shotgun, and armorless elites in that game.

I noticed that the SMG is no longer a spray-and-pray weapon and in turn it received an instantly negative reaction. .-.

They seem to be making things look a bit more consistent with how they were portrayed in the original trilogy. They also seem like they might be moving away from the Power Ranger-style armor permutations introduced in Halo 4, which is a relief, although they have thrown in the new Spartan "Helioskrill" permutation, which is as ridiculous a concept as issuing US soldiers with Nazi SS uniforms following World War II.


This may be because the SMG was originally designed to be dual-wielded, and there wasn't much incentive to use it unless you were using it in conjunction with another weapon. Without dual-wielding, it seems sensible that they'd rebalance it into something that can stand on its own.
Edited by Echo77 on Dec 3, 2014 at 05:44 PM

Hmm br looks pretty much identical to h4.


The shotgun looks vastly similar with the exception of the iron sights


Cant wait for the 4 tone assault rifle.

I believe the Halo 5 battle rifle has a darker color scheme than the H4 iteration, and the scope has been replaced by a red dot sight.

The third image seems to be a grenade rifle of sorts, which I'm looking forward to seeing in greater detail.

Possible plasma launcher?

It's a grenade launcher that fires tracking projectiles, so basically it is a recreation of the plasma launcher.

H5 Covenant Halo reach RIPZ CONFIRMED.

It's called the Hydra if anybody didn't know.

Get back on the short bus and leave the site. We'll all be happier without you.

Didn't know.

343s grass always looks broken.

Get some AA or higher resolution guys