Halo 5

[LBzrule]

Re: Halo 5

Going digital. Will pre-order on Monday.

[Flawless]

Re: Halo 5

Enter The Arena

Arena is our pure competitive experience in Halo 5, celebrating the legacy of Halo multiplayer. Arena allows players to go head-to-head in a game of skill where everyone starts on a level playing field. Each player begins with the same weapons and abilities and vies for possession of power weapons and power-ups by maintaining map control throughout the match. Last December, we held a beta for Arena almost a year from launch to get the game into the hands of Halo fans everywhere. Since then we’ve worked tirelessly to address player feedback and refine the game with the goal of delivering the ultimate competitive multiplayer shooter when we launch on October 27.

COMPETITIVE SKILL RATING

The Competitive Skill Rating (CSR) system in Halo 5 is designed to ensure high quality matches between players of equal skill, on a per-playlist basis. When you first hop into any of the Arena playlists, you will play a series of placement matches before earning your CSR. After you complete 10 games, you will be placed into one of 7 CSR ranks based on your performance.

Coming out of the Arena beta, we’ve renamed the ranks based on community feedback to provide a more familiar and easily understood sense of progression between ranks. The final CSR ranks for Halo 5: Guardians are Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Onyx, and Champion.

As you win, you will progress through the 6 tiers of your rank. If you are skilled enough to continue winning at tier 6, you will advance to the next rank (yay!). Losing games will cause your progress within a rank to decrease, but you will never drop down a whole rank from losing. For example, if you spend all month working your way into Silver, losing won’t drop you back to Bronze

SEASONS

Seasons are a new competitive feature for Arena that gives you a chance to continuously challenge yourself while having the opportunity to earn monthly rewards. When Seasons debut later this year, your CSR in certain playlists will be reset and you will play your placement matches again. You get a fresh start each month to try to prove yourself in select Seasonal Arena playlists. This gives you a chance to top your performance from last season, and see how high of a rank you can achieve. Seasons will last for a month, and anybody who earns a CSR in a Seasonal Playlist will earn cosmetic rewards to commemorate the Season.

Season boundaries will also be an important milestone for when we make changes to the Arena experience based on community feedback. Once we launch, we will be listening for all types of feedback regarding Arena: favorite maps, mode settings, playlists, etc...We plan to implement all of these changes at season boundaries.

Since joining a match in progress is disabled for Arena matchmaking (still available in Custom Games and in Warzone), quitting out of a match damages the quality and experience for the other seven players in that match. Leaving your teammates high and dry is not cool. If you quit out of games, not only will you suffer a loss and forfeit any REQ points or XP but you’ll also receive a temporary cooldown penalty (ban) preventing you from matchmaking in Arena.

THE BANHAMMER STRIKES!

It’s important to us that everyone enjoys their experiences in Arena play. To maintain the quality of the Arena experience and sanctity of competition, a number of rules are in place for all Arena playlists. Halo 5: Guardians is engineered to detect and track the following behavior:

• Quitting matches
• Betrayals or team killing
• Idling (AFK)
• Intentional suicides
• Excessive disconnects

If you repeatedly engage in negative behaviors such as the ones listed above, you will receive a ban and be prevented from entering matchmaking. The duration of each ban is dependent on the offense and becomes more severe with each successive infraction, so continually killing your teammates to steal the Sniper Rifle will quickly lead to long timeouts from matchmade play.

[Methlab]

Re: Halo 5

I love everything about this. Can't wait.

Is there a recommended mode we can do before arena to get familiar with the maps before playing skill rank matches?

[Candyman5]

Re: Halo 5

Yep, last month. I miss Halo and next years lineup is exciting.

Its going to be fun going old school again. I think it was you, SandmanOS and I that played Halo 3 a lot together. I remember, "Sniper is up, give it to Flawless" Lol.

I love everything about this. Can't wait.

Is there a recommended mode we can do before arena to get familiar with the maps before playing skill rank matches?

Could just do private games and learn them that way.

Also good chance I will have the game next week sometime.

[Flawless]

Re: Halo 5

Its going to be fun going old school again. I think it was you, SandmanOS and I that played Halo 3 a lot together. I remember, "Sniper is up, give it to Flawless" Lol.

It's been so long I don't even remember and Reach 5 years ago was the last time I played any Halo. I like to go through the campaign first, but I'm really excited to jump back into the multiplayer.

It sounds like there might be some sort of clan system announced next week.

[Candyman5]

Re: Halo 5

It's been so long I don't even remember and Reach 5 years ago was the last time I played any Halo. I like to go through the campaign first, but I'm really excited to jump back into the multiplayer.

It sounds like there might be some sort of clan system announced next week.

Yeah I'm legendary soloing first thing. Can't wait until breakpoint. I'm going to love that mode.

[Flawless]

Re: Halo 5

So, who wants to create an Operation Sports company?

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/spartan-companies

With Spartan Companies in Halo 5: Guardians, you can now create your own group of legendary warriors and forge a new legacy in your Halo experience.

Spartan Companies are designed to unite players under a common banner, and take team play to a whole new level as you rise up the ranks.

Join an active Spartan Company or create your own, and receive a free REQ Pack guaranteed to contain a customization item. Once you’ve got your shiny new piece of Mjolnir, you can customize your Spartan right here on Halo Waypoint.

Make your Spartan Company stand out from the crowd with unique emblems, banners, colors, and more. Recruit up to 100 of your friends and fellow combatants to fill out your ranks and ready your company for battle in the Wargames.

[Gerg04]

Re: Halo 5

Man this game is so close. Can't believe we're not more active here!

Finally convinced my one buddy whom I game with to pick up a One (he gave his ps4 to his son) just for Halo. So. Freaking. Pumped.

[TecmoZack]

Re: Halo 5

Love me some Halo. It really hits the 80's kid nerd in my heart. Can't wait.


Sports Gaming Maniac. Follow me on the interweb TecmZack - @VanMetra16

GT - TecmoZach

[Flawless]

Re: Halo 5

Going to create a Spartan Company. I'm going to mention we're members of the Operation Sports Forum and link the site, but are there any name suggestions or just go with Operation Sports?

[Candyman5]

Re: Halo 5

Going to create a Spartan Company. I'm going to mention we're members of the Operation Sports Forum and link the site, but are there any name suggestions or just go with Operation Sports?

Is there a emblem creator? Would love to make one.

Also we should make a group name like they have Blue Team, Red Team, Etc. However Operation Sports is cool. Operation Spartans. Lol.

[Flawless]

Re: Halo 5

Is there a emblem creator? Would love to make one.

Also we should make a group name like they have Blue Team, Red Team, Etc. However Operation Sports is cool. Operation Spartans. Lol.

Instead of Spartans, Sportans. Operation Sportans.

Fireteam Operation Sports is one character to long. Fireteam OS? OS Spartans?

I will probably just keep it basic with Operation Sports, but would like to see what others think.

This functionality has only been live for a day and there's already over 2100 Spartan Companies.

[Flightwhite24]

Re: Halo 5

Hype meter is starting to rise. Glad to finally see this game get here.


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[Flawless]

Re: Halo 5

Here's the Spartan Company. You should see a request to join on the page when signed into your account.

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/spartan-companies/operation%20sports

The emblem creator is very basic and you can't use custom banners.

If there's a motto, mission statement, or anything else to add to the bio, let me know.

[Flightwhite24]

Re: Halo 5

I will be leaving work early tomorrow. Good day


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