Halo 5 - Rumours and Reality

Halo fans have talked about nothing else since 343 released the teaser trailer for Halo 5 during E3 2013.

 The Master Chief seems a live and well, but not much is known about the next instalment of the Halo series.

 On this page I will try and split the rumours from the reality and keep you guys informed of any new developments - Watch this space!

 <----- Teaser Trailer for the uninitiated amongst you.

 REALITY: (May change as game is still in development)
  • Halo 5 will be released on the Xbox One
  • It will run at 60FPS
  • Deferred Shading will finally be implemented, Halo 4 was really sparse on terms of dynamic lights, a drawback of having to use a traditional forward renderer. G-Buffer will consist of 4 MRTs. The entire pipeline is HDR and linear space. Those Render Targets will probably be stored in the eSRAM or split between the two pools, depending on performance.
  • Some form of SSAO will also be implemented, Halo 4 only had static and baked AO which looked great in pictures.
  • PRTs will be used, current tests with eSRAM and the results are amazing. Thanks to 5GB of ram (soon 6GB ;) ) the textures will look amazing and the models will have plenty detail
Cloud:
  • Dedicated Server - One of the first titles to showcase true power of cloud processing. Massive battles with 100s of AI (calculated by the cloud); massive worlds with dynamic weather and global lighting (all done in cloud).
Game:
  • Campaign is planned to be 3-5 times longer than Halo 4. Going open world rather than linear story line.
  • Core game play is still Halo (2 weapons, grenades, melee; "30 seconds of fun"; several different enemies) but there are RPG elements added to it: character progression (items like forerunner relicts you will find that make Master Chief stronger or will give him more abilities). Weapons are stored in the armoury on the ship and chief can choose his load out, which he will use on the mission start. He can still pickup and use the weapons he finds in the different missions. Load out weapons are basically the same you have in Halo 4 Multiplayer (you can't start with a rocket launcher, but you can call in those "super weapons" on a mission like in Infinity Multiplayer; difference is this is a limited ability, at "low level" you can call one time, this can be upgraded over time)
  • There will be more weapons in campaign than in Halo 4 (more "alien" weapons)
  • Enemies:
  • Elites, Grunts, Jackals, Hunter, Brutes, Drones
  • Promethean (heavily redesigned, more types like Promethean Warlords)
  • Humans (not UNSC, those are Insurrectionists)

Vehicles:
  • Biggest number of vehicles ever.
  • Warthog (classic, rocket, gauss), Scorpion, Grizzly, Mammoth, upgraded Mantis, more Halo Wars vehicles like rhino, wolverine, cobra, hornets, falcons, vultures
  • Chiefs ship can store a limited amount of vehicles (similar to weapons)
  • Forerunner War Sphinx are in, very powerful enemy "vehicles"
Multiplayer:
  • Split between two categories.
  • Halo War arena (Halo 2 reloaded). No load outs, no armour abilities and perks.
  • Player Count 8-16, game types are Slayer, CTF, King of the Hill, Assault, Oddball....
  • Static weapon spawns, more weapons on map which means more ammo, weapons wont re spawn as quick as in Halo 4
  • The seconds multiplayer categories is titles Halo Battlefield - Which will be large teams battles with 32-64 players. Game play is more in line with Invasion from Halo Reach.
  • Custom Load outs, "armour abilities", Vehicles, Infinity like call ins

 RUMOURS:
  • Master Chief has gone rogue, has own ship and can visit different planets (6-8 planned). Each planet has several regions with main objectives and several side missions. 
  • The large machine that comes out of the sand at the end of the Halo 5 trailer is thought to be a War Sphinx - These are Forerunner fighting suits that were used during the Forerunner human wars. These are powerful war machines that drop out of high orbit to destroy cities and entire continents. From the trailer Master Chief does not like frightened of the machine, or like he is going to fight it, but more like he has found what he has been looking for - but why he wanted to find it is any body's guess.
  • Mega Bloks are releasing toys of the supposed new Halo 5 vehicles
  • Release date - Late 2014

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