The next free update for Halo 5: Guardians will release sometime early in May, and surprisingly it’s called Memories of Reach. For those who don’t know Reach was one of the first planets to be visited by the Covenant, the events that followed were highlighting many times throughout the Halo lore. The most notorious examples being the popular novel Halo: The Fall of Reach and Bungie’s final installment in the Halo franchise Halo: Reach.
The update will add more controller options, UI updates, new armor, skins, weapons, a new Arena battleground, extra matchmaking preference options, medals, Forge updates, new game modes, and REQ pack additions.
343 Industries went the extra mile for those wanting the metric to measure weapon effectiveness. This information allows the developer to get a better understanding of how deadly a weapon is beyond headcount. It’s these detail analysis that the developer uses in order to rebalance weapons to ensure a fair playing field.
The biggest new addition comes in the game mode Infection, which will include:
- Total player count: 12
- Number of rounds: 4
- Round time limit: 3 minutes each
- New Custom Game option: “Last Squad Standing”
- Spartans have all Spartan abilities (naturally!)
- Infected have Thrust, Smart Scope, Stabilize
- New medals
Here’s the full balance notes coming to Memories of Reach:
Plasma Caster: Default
- Reduced non-charged timer from 0.5 to 0.3 (less overshooting of enemies)
- Sticky grenade has less arc (to be able to place it on the map more reliably)
- Sticky grenade detonation is now more damaging vs. vehicles, but less damaging vs bipeds (will still kill bipeds in one shot when stuck)
- Increased sticky grenade submunition damage values from 43 to 75 (indirect fire from a sticky shot can now actually kill!)
- Sticky submunition grenade inner AOE increased from 0.65 to 1.0
Plasma Caster: White Scar
- Needles have improved aim toward nearby targets
Plasma Caster: Scourge of Fire
- Sticky shot now has 7 submunitions instead of 5
Hydra Launcher: Default
- Reduced recoil in hip
- Increased inner AOE radius from 0.4 to 0.8
- Increased impact damage to make it more effective against vehicles (still two rockets to kill Spartan)
Hydra Launcher: Typhon
- Enabled multi lock on for up to 3 targets
- Increased impact damage (still two rockets to kill Spartan)
Scattershot: Loathsome Thing
- Increased number of hardlight projectiles to be same as normal scattershot (5 -> 8)
Rocket Launcher: High Five
- Increased AOE radius on cluster rockets
Binary Rifle: Twin Jewels of Maethrillian
- Reduced recoil
- Placed twin projectiles a bit closer together for easier biped targeting
Covenant Carbine: Rain of Oblivion
- Reduced recoil
- Increased zoom magnification a bit (closer to default Carbine)
- Incineration Cannon: River of Light
- Added slight homing to charge shot to hit multiple bipeds easier
Incineration Cannon: Heartseeker
- Added proximity detonation to charge shot (like the normal Inc. Cannon has) to make it more effective against airborne targets or targets behind cover
Fuel Rod Cannon: Pool of Radiance
- Fixed a damage bug (was not causing AOE damage on initial explosion)
- Made projectile thicker
Needler: Talon of the Lost
- Reduced supercombine count to be same as normal Needler
- Needles have longer lifetime to more easily supercombines against difficult to hit targets (8s instead of 4s)
Spartan Laser: Selene’s Lance
- Reduced recoil
- Made beam thicker
Halo 5: Guardians is now available for Xbox One. If you need help completing the campaign on Legendary by yourself check out our guide here.
Adam Siddiqui, NoobFeed
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| Platform(s): | Xbox One |
| Publisher(s): | Microsoft Studios |
| Developer(s): | 343 Industries |
| Genres: | First-Person Shooter |
| Themes: | Action |
| Release Date: | 2015-10-27 |
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