8. Armour Abilities Are Out! Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Mix Up
With a brand new Halo title comes a brand new multiplayer masterpiece, and Halo 5: Guardians looks to be no different. There will certainly be a lot of changes to the way multiplayer works in Halo 5, and perhaps some call backs to previous multiplayer endeavours from the Halo franchise? From Microsoft's 2014 E3 Media Briefing we have a brand new trailer for the upcoming multiplayer beta for Halo 5: Guardians which is packed with details for the keen eyed observer. The multiplayer beta will be coming with Halo: The Master Chief Collection arriving November 11th 2014, with the multiplayer beta running December 27th through to January 17th. So here are the changes we suspect to be hidden away within the Halo 5 multiplayer beta trailer. First off, the trailer is entirely computer generated, which means that not everything we see can be believed. However, we clearly see Spartans using what look to be Armour Abilities, but are in fact Spartan Abilities. Where as Armour Abilities could be applied to any Spartan Armour loadout in Halo 4, it looks to be that Spartan Abilities are inherent skills that all Spartans take onto the battlefield. When reached for comment on Twitter, 343's design director Bradford Welch said "Spartan abilities are player mechanics not loadout AAs." These abilities are "things that every player can do inherently with their Spartan." Extremely intriguing.
