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Halo Wars 2 Open Beta to take place next week - June 13 to 20 [Up: Screenshots Leak]

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Fata1moose

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Bishop89 said:
I don't see any flood in those pictures ��
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Probably because the Spirit of Fire is isolated and are going to run into Prometheans on the lesser Ark or some shit.

_woLf said:
There are no words to describe how excited I am for another Halo game that doesn't involve the stupid fucking prometheans.
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Prometheans are fun to fight in Halo 5, shooting the weak point off of the Knight and pulling off a head shot is satisfying.
 
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Obliterator

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Man everything about this is looking like a dream come true for me. After the way Halo Wars 1 went down I honestly thought this would never happen
 
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Tecnniqe

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Think that download image is bullshit cause my US store shows
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rrc1594

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Obliterator said:
Man everything about this is looking like a dream come true for me. After the way Halo Wars 1 went down I honestly thought this would never happen
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I knew this day would come the after Phantom Dust trailer. PD had to be sacrificed for Halo Wars to be reborn
 
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Nightmare452

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Please release for both PC and XB1, and make it cross buy like Quantum Break. Would preorder it digital the day of E3 if announced as such.

Gonna play the heck o8t of this. Screenshots look badass. Halo Wars was one of my favorite games last gen. HYPE!!
 
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Tecnniqe

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Kssio_Aug said:
Seems pretty awesome! I thougt the PC version was confirmed though.

Can't wait to play this!
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The full game is confirmed for Win10 too at the same time, but I truly want to test the game out on PC during the Beta phase so we can give feedback to get the best game possible.
 
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cartesian

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Poodlestrike said:
This isn't actually true, though. Glassing only happened to a relatively small handful of worlds, at least the complete version. The UNSC suffered massively, but many (maybe even most) worlds were relatively untouched; the Covenenant skipped a whole lotta planets when they hit Earth, and after Earth, the war was over. There was still plenty of infrastructure to build on. Take that, add in captured Covenant tech, and reverse engineered Forerunner tech, and you have a pretty solid setup for a boom.

I mean, everybody's free to dislike the aesthetic for aesthetic reasons, but it's backed by lore, at least.
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Actually I think the opposite is implied. The Nylund books repeatedly stress that humanity has taken severe losses and is verging on destruction.

The exact number of UNSC colonies has never really been clarified. It's said that the UNSC has hundreds of territories but that many of them are tiny farming outposts or space stations; the number of full-blown colony worlds has never been stated. Joseph Staten said that the "800+" number was made up by a non-Bungie employee and was repurposed to include space stations, habitats, remote farms, etc; the true number of fully-fledged colony worlds is much smaller.

Multiple sources do state or strongly imply, however, that a very substantial proportion of colony worlds have been pretty much destroyed. We do know that most of the Outer Colonies have been exterminated; The Fall of Reach, First Strike, and the Halo CE manual state this virtually explicitly, and describe the Covenant armadas then moving into the Inner Colonies and towards Earth. First Strike indicates that around 70 planets have been substantially glassed by the Covenant. The Fall of Reach makes it clear that Reach is the last major military base left and that humanity is now rapidly losing the war; that the UNSC leadership believe that only a few months remain until the Inner Colonies are overrun and Earth is found and destroyed; and that Operation Red Flag was conceived as a last-ditch effort to hold the Covenant to ransom and avert defeat. Ghosts of Onyx also implies that the humanity is on the verge of total defeat, although I can't remember any of Halsey's lines where she states this. Halo 3 states that Earth suffered "extreme" casualties and the population has been reduced to 200 million following Covenant bombardment, and that the what was left of the Home Fleet was all but wiped out in the process - this defeat coming only a few months after the UNSC fleets were severely damaged at the fall of Reach.

It's never stated word for word, but it seems very clear that humanity has been severely depleted by the war with the Covenant. Dozens and dozens of colonies have been glassed, most of the Outer Colonies are gone, an apparently scary number of Inner Colonies have fallen, and major parts of the UNSC Navy were destroyed at Earth and Reach, not to mention the numerous other defeats. The costs of mounting a war for several on this scale would be massive, and most of the economy that originally paid for it is gone now. Plus the Insurrection was never really dealt with, and before the war was resorting to nuclear terrorism, so that's not really a great problem to return to.

Yes, humanity has new Covenant and Forerunner technology but shiny gizmos can't replace the lost generations and barren planets overnight.
 
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Demoncarnotaur

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How do I find the game page for this on my Xbox?

You'd think they would learn to upload the files before announcements with with fake names/art in case it posts too soon like this. This is such an easy leak to avoid. :lol
 
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Tecnniqe

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Demoncarnotaur said:
How do I find the game page for this on my Xbox?

You'd think they would learn to upload the files before announcements with with fake names/art in case it posts too soon like this. This is such an easy leak to avoid. :lol
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Search my username and go to my following page, find it there and follow it yourself.
 
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Demoncarnotaur

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I'm with those that don't like the art style.

It just reminds me of a high-end mobile game (visual punch aside), and doesn't quite capture Halo the way I expected. But this is a game where seeing it in motion may change everything.. I just hope it has a little more going for it than what these screens imply.
 
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Tecnniqe

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Looks like a upgrade to me in the visual art (reminder its beta and who knows what'll change).

If they keep the color and it feels great to play, I personally got no issue, as I found the first games art style to be a bit "dull".

R.I.P Ensemble
 
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