New Halo 5 Hotfix Makes Warzone Firefight Adjustments

343i has released a new hotfix to improve Warzone Firefight. Its beta was held earlier this year. Warzone Firefight players generated plenty of data.

343i has released a new hotfix to improve Warzone Firefight. Its beta was held earlier this year. Warzone Firefight players generated plenty of data which allowed developers to make improvements accordingly.

The data gathered from the beta highlighted a few areas that needed work. Below is the complete list of adjustments.

Halo 5 Hotfix Changelog

URBAN

  • Moved “Defend the Garage” objective from Round 1 to Round 2
  • Moved “Defend the Forerunner Powercore” (Hill) objective to Round 3
  • Moved “Eliminate Knight Sublimis and the Phaeton Helmsmen” objective to Round 4
  • Moved “Eliminate the Banshee Raiders” objective to Round 4
  • Moved “Kill 35 Prometheans” objective to Round 3

MARCH ON STORMBREAK

  • Reduced target number for “Kill Soldiers” objective in Round 2 from 50 to 35
  • Reduced target number for “Kill Knights” objective in Round 4 from 25 to 20

RAID ON APEX 7

  • Moved “Kill 60 Grunts” objective to Round 3
  • Moved Solder Bandit boss objective to Round 3
  • Moved “Eliminate the Hunter Particulars” objective to round 4
  • Moved “Eliminate the Hunter Premiers” objective to round 3
  • Moved “Eliminate the Warden Eternal” objective to Round 4
  • Moved “Kill 25 Knights” objective to Round 4
  • Reduced number of knight waves that come in with Grunt Boss in Round 5

SKIRMISH AT DARKSTAR

  • Moved “Defend the Armory” (Promethean) to Round 2
  • Moved “Defend the Armory” (Covenant) to Round 1
  • Moved “Eliminate the Soldier Commandos” objective to Round 4
  • Moved “Eliminate the Phaeton Helmsmen” objective to Round 4
  • Moved “Eliminate the Warden Eternal” objective to Round 3

ESCAPE FROM A.R.C.

  • Moved “Defend the Garage” objective to round 4
  • Moved “Eliminate the Recon Pilots” objective to Round 3

FORGE

  • Fixed issues with “generating lighting” on Tidal.

The community helped make warzone a better place. Some of the changes are under the hood so they aren’t mentioned in the changelog above.

Halo 5: Guardians is now available on Xbox One.

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