Adds Big Team Battle, New REQs, and More

The money derived from the REQ system is at the moment set to offer a constant revenue stream for 343 Industries and also allows the studio to enhance the prize pool for the World Championships, which debut with a qualifying period in December.

Big Team Battle is now part of the Arena matchmaking in Halo 5 and includes Capture the Flag (3 captures to win), Strongholds (150 points to win), and Slayer (100 points to win) gametypes.

Merely load up Halo 5: Guardians, and you’ll find the ‘Battle of Shadow and Light’ content update waiting for you.

According to Attack of the Fan Boy, the Big Team Battle has been noticeably absent from the playlist after the initial release of “Halo 5: Guardians” last October. The second, is the addition of 48 new REQ, including armor, helmets, weapons skins, weapon and vehicle variants, a new visor, new emblems, and a brutal new assassination.

Next month Forge will be added to the ecosystem, allowing everyone to create and share their own maps.

The Warzone Assault mode also received a few tweaks following 343 Industries observing that the assaulting team was losing significantly more than winning.

Other changes contained within this Halo 5 update include tweaked aiming for gamers using certain controllers and a few broad changes to Warzone Assault. Anyone holding a flag is restricted to just the passenger seat in any given vehicle.

Not counting the recently reported 9GB day one patch for “Halo 5: Guardians”, the Xbox One-exclusive first person shooter title gets its very first expansion. In fact, the launch went so well that the Xbox One was able to ride the console to higher sales than the PS4.

Are you hyped for all of this extra free content?

To be clear, Microsoft is still planning to make money on the game despite giving away content updates.