This week, we’ve got a quick blog showcasing the full suite of Hog Wild REQs, and a bit more. Onwards!

Teams across the studio are preparing for the upcoming Hog Wild REQ Drop, the Warzone Firefight release, and even goodness that lies beyond. The Halo Wars 2 team is anxiously gearing up for E3, where the game will indeed be playable. There’s also – well, I can’t talk about more just yet. To stay out of trouble, let’s get right into the Hog Wild REQ Drop.

Just in case you missed it last week, a few of the bigger items that were slated for the Hog Wild update have been given a bit more time for finishing touches and polish. As a result, much of the contents of the Hog Wild release have moved to the Warzone Firefight release, which is currently scheduled to be Halo 5’s largest release to date, and to drop at the end of June.

That said, as we announced last week, we’re still dropping the Hogs into the LZ, and as you might expect, it is indeed gonna be hot. Hit it, graphics guys and gals.

Presenting all REQs in the Hog Wild Drop, which will be available this coming Tuesday, May 31:

Right here is a fully closer look at some of the reqs:

Vespin Rocket Warthog
Advanced and deadly Rocket Hog with high-acceleration Rocket and faster reload time:




Rally Warthog
Advanced and durable high-speed ‘Hog, with greatly increased speed and heavy armor (I like that design though):




hybrid scope
Sangheli-sourced and based on the Carbine’s holoscope, the Hybrid scope uses holographic target acquisition and can retrofit your BR, DMR, SMG, or AR.



Stinger Armor (I loathe the egg helmet):




Interceptor Rictus Armor:




Aurum DMR (The Aurum skin applies to all of the loadout weapons):



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ARENA MULTIPLAYER SUMMER UPDATE:

After several weeks of internal testing, your feedback from the Team Arena Summer Preview playlist, and multiple rounds of feedback with HCS Pro League teams, the multiplayer team has locked on final map layouts as well as map and game type combinations for Team Arena and the HCS Pro League, as well as new map layouts for additional playlists. To see the full details, head here.

As of today, the Team Arena playlist has been updated with new map layouts and game types. They are as follows.

SLAYER
1. Truth
2. The Rig
3. Coliseum
4. Regret
5. Eden
6. Plaza

CTF
7. Fathom
8. Coliseum
9. Stasis
10. Truth

STRONGHOLDS
11. The Rig
12. Eden
13. Empire
14. Plaza

We’ll see you in the playlist, and remember: Pro League starts next Thursday, June 2nd on Twitch.tv/Halo.

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WARZONE BOSS REFRESH (Sounds a little unique to see):

The Warzone Firefight release has a few items we haven’t talked about just yet. One of these is a Warzone Boss Refresh, which the Character and Warzone teams have been working on for quite some time. This week, we’re giving you a sneak peek into what’s on the way:

We had a few major goals when it came to refreshing our bosses for Warzone. One is to create more dynamic matches. One way of doing that was adding dynamic bosses, and by using some foundational systems created for Warzone Firefight, we’ve been able to introduce these to Warzone for the first time. One example: on Apex 7, at the 2-minute mark, you could either have a Zealot Assassin Boss in the Caves, or a Ranger Commander and his squad dropped off at the beaches. Each Warzone match should be a bit different instead of the same encounters game after game.

Another goal for updating Warzone was to give Legendary bosses better identities and a bigger payoff. We worked with Chris Proctor and now our Legendary Bosses have unique names, visual identity, and a unique REQ weapon. Players who defeat these bosses will have a chance of collecting and using these unique weapons sans REQ card.

The Warzone Boss Refresh is exciting and we can’t wait for people to play it. There is so much more to talk about with new minion types, reinforcements, roaming bosses, complex encounters and more, which I’m told I can’t talk about just yet;

On the Character team, we’ve been building new enemies for the Warzone Boss Refresh, with the goal of hitting all of the following points:

*A new tier of bosses that are challenging enough to justify the “Mythic” title, with some twists on their gameplay. For example, the Mythic Hunter moves quicker and fires more dangerous, homing cannon rounds.

*Boss variants to allow for randomization of bosses (we know players are eager for something other than the Warden).

*A hierarchy of characters with a clear color progression, used across bosses and minions, so that players can identify tougher enemies at a glance, and provide more gameplay variety through character durability tuning and weapon selection. We always use custom character tuning for bosses, with regular, Legendary, and Mythic variants. For minions, we generally use campaign tuning for the bottom tier, and then two tiers of Warzone-specific tuning above that.

*Covenant progression: Campaign colors, Red, White

*Forerunner progression: Campaign colors, Orange, Red

*Boss difficulty progression within a match and round to round in Firefight – no more identical-looking but variable-toughness enemies.

*Have enemies fire interesting weapons at you, and then drop those weapons when they die so that you can try out some of the REQ weapons – for example the Mythic Knight Battlewagon will use and drop Didact’s Signet, the Scattershot weapon variant.

*Allow players to fight against powerful new foes.

We'll be bringing you more on the Warzone Boss Refresh as we get closer to release.

Judging from the reqs, we can't expect a lot from Hog Wild, which is said to be the smallest CU in H5 history. However, most its initial reqs were pushed back to work on. They will be in the Warzone FF update, which will basically be a CU now. In fact, it will be the biggest CU update in H5 history. Weird....


Also, just wanted to make it clear that they didn't specify if they would do a livestream on Hog Wild or not.

This is pathetic. They've had >6 months to make this content and they still are managing to fuck up.

Really like those Hogs, and the new bosses might be nice to see.



Looks really nice, too

the weapon skins look nice

When's the game going to finish getting content that matters which should have been loaded from the start?

Can't wait to get that DMR skin before even getting my first DMR at level 80.

Can't wait to get that DMR skin before even getting my first DMR at level 80.

I what tier packs have you been opening?

Little annoyed this wasnt a BTB CU, too.

Halo 5 still doesn't have BTB?

FUCKING LOL
BRAVO 343

Quote from: 卐RIGHT WING DAS SQUAD卐 on May 29, 2016, 09:11:31 AM

Quote from: True Turquoise on May 28, 2016, 01:18:02 PM

Little annoyed this wasnt a BTB CU, too.

Halo 5 still doesn't have BTB?

FUCKING LOL
BRAVO 343

but it does though

oh

Quote from: 卐RIGHT WING DAS SQUAD卐 on May 29, 2016, 09:11:31 AM

Quote from: True Turquoise on May 28, 2016, 01:18:02 PM

Little annoyed this wasnt a BTB CU, too.

Halo 5 still doesn't have BTB?

FUCKING LOL
BRAVO 343

They do--

Base maps were from 'Community chosen' forgers and are terrible, with the actual community maps, we have some nice ones now. Its just, every map on BTB is Forge.

...I dont want that

That's gay... and lazy.

Quote from: True Turquoise on May 29, 2016, 09:17:57 AM

Quote from: 卐RIGHT WING DAS SQUAD卐 on May 29, 2016, 09:11:31 AM

Quote from: True Turquoise on May 28, 2016, 01:18:02 PM

Little annoyed this wasnt a BTB CU, too.

Halo 5 still doesn't have BTB?

FUCKING LOL
BRAVO 343

They do--

Base maps were from 'Community chosen' forgers and are terrible, with the actual community maps, we have some nice ones now. Its just, every map on BTB is Forge.

...I dont want that

That's gay... and lazy.

Honestly, I can see why.

But its just hard to say they're taking it slow, it feels lazy, but they know this is the only way to keep this game alive, drip content.


Arena is the only thing worth, really. Even then, I don't play it much because I dont want to let people down.

What do the hybrid weapons do

What do the hybrid weapons do

They have carbine scopes.