Another week passes and yet another community update has been published. Halo Wars 2 is now nearly ready for public consumption, but if you’re not content with waiting another month, you can try it out now with the card-based Blitz beta. This beta is available on both Xbox and PC, and much like the popular Witcher spin-off game, Gwent, it focuses on strategic deck-building and fast-paced battles. Resource gathering and much of the basic pillars of Halo Wars are still present in Blitz, but there are no home-bases, and you must use energy wisely, finding suppliers on the map and through winning. Blitz does feature micro-transactions, but they are not essential to playing the game-mode. In other news, Halo Wars 2 has a new marketing campaign in sponsorship with Twitter, where you and either another player or the AI fight out mini-Blitz games over Twitter’s messaging service.
If you’d like more information on Halo Wars 2, such as new canon surrounding the Banished, or an in-depth guide on how to jump into Blitz, all of that information and more is available on HaloWaypoint.com.
The Halo Wars 2 Blitz Beta is here, offering another chance to get a taste of the next installment of the Halo franchise and the twist Blitz brings to classic RTS game play. We had a chance to get an early look at Blitz and the card system behind the game mode. It’s fast-paced nature makes it a great candidate for match-made games and thankfully doesn’t entail many woes the community has over Halo 5’s REQ system. We also had time on with the first few missions of the Halo Wars 2 campaign.
We have entered the home stretch of the Halo Wars 2 launch with the announcement of the upcoming Blitz multiplayer beta launching on Xbox One and Windows 10 on January 20th. This new game mode takes a twist off of an real-time strategy classic and adds a unique twist to gameplay and strategy with unit cards. While there’s some worry in the Halo community on the likeness to REQ cards from Halo 5: Guardians, this will give us the opportunity to try it for ourselves. Amongst the Halo Wars hype, Halo 5: Guardians continues to get better with community created content, the continuation of the Halo Championship Series and more matchmaking updates.
The Halo Bowl is back for it’s second tournament and this time we’re growing to six podcasts competing to be crowned the champion of Halo podcasts. While we’re looking forward to competing, we’re also pleased to partner with Gamers Outreach again to help raise money for another GO Kart. To find out more about the Halo Bowl and the changes made for this event, including giveaways, check out our fundraising page on Gamers Outreach by visiting. http://bit.ly/HaloBowl2.
It’s a new year bringing in a new Halo and building on the old. The latest content update for Halo 5 is still bringing life to a game that is over a year old, and Halo Wars 2 is coming out next month! There’s a lot to look forward to this year with the possible announcement of Halo 6 at E3 this year and what DLC Halo Wars 2 will receive over the year. For those who have pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition of the game, some are already getting re-acquainted to RTS Halo in the Halo Wars: Definitive Edition. We’re personally excited to see what the year brings us and look forward to making a few changes of our own.
Our last podcast of 2016 finds us looking at the delivery of the latest content update for Halo 5: Guardians, Monitor’s Bounty! This year has been an incredible and memorable year for the Halo franchise and looking back at what’s been accomplished by the studio and the community, it is a great time to be a Halo fan. We’re looking forward to what 2017 will bring us and hope to see you all in the new year!
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