00:054 o'clock every day is playtest,
00:07which is basically like church.
00:104 o'clock is the true competitive time
00:12when everyone gets in and scrappy.
00:13They get the build and they play at their desks
00:15or here in the play lab, which we have behind me,
00:17and play Halo 5, and we just bang on it.
00:19It can definitely get heated at times.
00:23We have a lot of trash talkers on the team, of course.
00:26You know, I'm swearing and cursing and blinding.
00:28Halo kind of brings it out of you.
00:29And then it also escalates.
00:30This guy pulled a scumbag move, in my opinion.
00:34Don't take credit for the worst, Nate, that came before that.
00:36People get really pissed off and they just start yelling at each other,
00:39just having a great time.
00:40Let me grab the VR and run all the way over there
00:43and give them another one.
00:51To me, a Spartan is speed, power, agility.
00:55This vision, this myth of a Spartan as a superhero,
00:58completely wrapped in technology.
01:01That 1,000-pound jet fighter on legs or tank on legs, you know,
01:04it's this total destruction machine.
01:06You see Chief coming down out of orbit,
01:08hitting the ground and, you know, doing all of that stuff.
01:10We want to bring that into the gameplay itself.
01:17In typical Halo, you have the already awesome sandbox of the weapon,
01:21the melee, and the grenade.
01:22We wanted to add these Spartan abilities in as a fourth layer
01:25that everyone has, so it's equal footing.
01:27They're baseline traits.
01:28Every single person who wants them can have them.
01:30You sprint as fast as the other players,
01:32you jump as high as the other players,
01:33you clamber like they do.
01:38What might end up being one of the most sort of overarching abilities
01:41is this thruster pack ability.
01:45You have these little retro rockets built into your Spartan armor.
01:49It can give you a speed boost while you're running,
01:50but you can use it in midair.
01:52Jump up in the air and I turn my stabilizers on,
01:54these jets kick in,
01:54but you can go back forward all directions.
01:56We're not really limiting these things.
01:58We're actually allowing you to chain them.
02:02So for me, the thruster pack is awesome
02:04and allows you to do other new moves as well.
02:07It actually enhances the thing we call the ground pound,
02:09which is dashing down on the ground
02:11and creating this kind of shock wave splash effect.
02:18When you jump up,
02:19you actually can mount on top of edges throughout the world.
02:21There's really satisfying things like just about making a jump
02:24and hitting the clamber button at the last second
02:26and making it the way you felt like you should have made it.
02:33Once you reach terminal velocity with Sprint,
02:35you'll get an indication that if you hit crouch during that time,
02:38you'll launch into a slide.
02:40You can slide into cover more quickly.
02:43You can slide into a kill with a shotgun.
02:45You kind of really have to make an important decision on the battlefield.
02:48So once you gain that terminal velocity,
02:50you can use slide, but you also can choose to charge.
02:55You hit your melee button,
02:56you just bash through anyone.
03:03We know there are people that love Sprint,
03:05and there are people that just feel like Sprint has no place in Halo.
03:09And so for us, it was about how do we balance that?
03:11How do we counter that?
03:15We've connected it to your shield,
03:17so while you're sprinting, your shields don't recharge.
03:19If they keep running, their shields will never come back up,
03:22and somebody else is going to take them down.
03:23And I think that balance is really interesting.
03:33Smart Scope Fiction is actually,
03:35it's been built into the game since day one.
03:37You were doing it with a pistol.
03:38It was cybernetically linked to your helmet,
03:40and the Spartan would see what was ultimately just a zoom.
03:44Every weapon now has a zoom in.
03:46Holographic image comes up.
03:47It's all slick.
03:47It helps me with some types of weapons,
03:50especially rapid-fire weapons in my case,
03:52but otherwise I tend to just aim from the hip anyway.
03:54Hip-fire mode is accurate, the same as it ever was.
03:57If it becomes such that everybody feels like
04:00they have to be using Smart Scope in order to be competitive,
04:03then we've broken the game.
04:04You're going to use your Smart Scope and zoom in with any weapon,
04:07but you also can be de-scoped out of it by the enemy.
04:11There are so many different tactics that come into play,
04:14and that's something that we've tried to build into all of the abilities for Halo 5.
04:22Finding a balance between making the abilities accessible
04:25and making them meaningful is weirdly difficult,
04:29but we try to get as big a variety of players in as we possibly can,
04:32so we have our pro team playing, obviously.
04:34Pro team has been amazing to have.
04:36It's a resource I've never had on a team before
04:37where you have such a rabid, vocal community,
04:40and then you bring some of them in who are really good at the game.
04:43I'm under, I'm under, feel bumpy, feel bumpy, feel bumpy.
04:46They do things that you would never expect.
04:48They find any upper hand that they can find in the game,
04:52they're going to exploit, and that's good.
04:55That's what we want to see because then we can fill those holes.
04:57And so we knew that if we had those people on site,
04:59that would make our game so much better
05:01because we would have all that knowledge.
05:03It's a really good shortcut to good test data.
05:14In terms of playing the pro team,
05:17that is a horribly demoralizing experience.
05:21That does not end well, playing against pro team.
05:24Basically just getting pounded on, brutalized.
05:27You are this little baby mouse,
05:30and they are like this gigantic puma just batting you around
05:34and then finally putting you out of your misery.
05:36And that's not fun.
05:38We're in the Play Lab.
05:40It's pros versus devs.
05:42This isn't happening.
05:44I wouldn't say I'm nervous.
05:45This isn't happening.
05:47It's more so anxious, I think is the right word.
05:51Let's go.
05:58One shot, Pete, too.
06:02Got him.
06:03That one's Pete, too.
06:05Got him.
06:08Got him.
06:08Another one in the house.
06:09One shot, Josh.
06:10Charge him.
06:11We got him.
06:12They're all over the place.
06:14One minute left.
06:15Two of them charging you.
06:16They're both weak.
06:17How do you have to stop him?
06:19Oh, no.
06:20Damn it.
06:20Slay those guys.
06:21You've got to punish them if they push the crossbow.
06:25I'm pushing in.
06:26I'm pushing in.
06:26Let's go.
06:27I'm going out, Pete.
06:27Come on.
06:29Blank.
06:29Blank, guys.
06:30You're all alone.
06:31Tower, tower.
06:31Tower, tower, tower, tower, tower, tower, tower, 2.
06:33Yeah, yeah.
06:34Don't try to ground pound me, son.
06:37It's so bad.
06:40Are you going to try next time?
06:43Enemy Pete facing elimination.
06:47The cheapest.
06:48I'd probably be called the cheapest player.
06:52That would probably be me.
06:54I do a lot of what I call play to win.
07:01We're kind of the old school beta where it's like, here's our software that isn't finished yet.
07:06Honestly, we're nervous about it, right?
07:07Like, we think we've got it all figured out and then we're going to throw it out there and everyone's
07:12going to break it.
07:14So for us, we come in, we play the game every day, but there's only so many people here at
07:18343.
07:18There's only so much we can do.
07:19But now, this is about opening it up to the world.
07:23Tuning and balancing is the core of the arena experience and if we get that tuning wrong, then we want
07:28to hear about it.
07:29Taking that feedback and trying to make the game better, that's what the beta is all about.
07:33I mean, when you get a bunch of creatives, there's always disagreements.
07:37You might want to dial that back.
07:39You might want to turn it up.
07:40And that's what's great about this beta.
07:41We're getting this out there for people to really try.
07:43The second that the beta goes live, we're all going to be online playing with the fans.
07:48Yeah, my gamer tag is D's.
07:49You want some?
07:50Come get it.
07:50All right.
07:51For at least the first two or three hours, I expect to be very competitive with the world before they
07:59figure this game out.
08:02Good job.
08:04And I'm going to savor those two to three hours of glory where I am stomping everybody else at my
08:11own game.
08:11And then they're going to turn the tables on me and it's not going to be pretty.
08:18There's so much creativity.
08:19Everybody has the same moves.
08:22It's up to you.
08:23How do you employ them on the battlefield?
08:25Kind of chaotic, but at the same time, tactical decision making that everyone has at their disposal.
08:30And it is that chess match.
08:31Halo has got a new set of teams.
08:34I mean, this game has got some fangs on it.
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09:11Grazie a tutti.
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