A New Dawn | Halo Studios 

just get the physics right. I want to see a ghost go flying when I hit it with a gravity hammer. I want to see a blinding explosion followed by debris showering the battlefield when I shoot down a phantom. you have to nail the feel of halo before you do anything else.

Well, that's how 343 Industries left us and Halo Studios arrived.

All I ask is please bring the Halo Reach Menu UI.... literally perfect and never needed to be changed.

All I hope now, is that "the new recipe" includes a full campaign with splitscreen, different bioms etc. A full multiplayer with PROPER ranks/rankingsystem, a good sandbox with long forgotten weapons which we all missed in Infinite. And please... Not a store, no changes for the sake of chaning things in certain MP modes. Let us earn things (coatings, armor etc) in this new recipe. Like back in the days. Fans would love that chance to a good old classic halo type of game.

Ngl it’s hilarious knowing that they changed the studio name because they needed to specify “we are not THAT studio everybody hates anymore”

Let's all remember that the 2018 trailer was also a showcase of what the engine could do and we all know how that turned out. Just saying we should temper our expectations.

HiddenXperia is gonna eat the flood environments up 🔥

Oh my god, theyre doing something

Deliver Hope, Halo Studios... Deliver Hope

Forward Unto Dawn, Halo Studios!

Halo Studios and Unreal Engine is confirmed, wow

“Child of my Enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness, for a Fathers sins, passed to his Son.”

It's about time Halo goes back to its roots. Halo needs to be the goal post for other games to follow. Exactly as it used to be.

I'm optimistic. New Leadership, new engine, new mindset, multiple projects, and new branding for a new era. Let Halo Studios cook, I can't wait to play what y'all have in store the next couple years

I don't think players want better graphics? The graphics were the least of the problems with Infinite.

The graphics mean nothing if the gameplay is lacking. I am not necessarily hyped yet. Edit: the art direction is great however.

“Folks need hero’s chief, they give em hope. So smile would ya? Don’t we still got somethin to smile about”

I could only dream of working here. I wish I knew how game engines worked, I grew up with Halo, and its always had such a special place in my heart.

“Halo, it’s finished.” “No, I think we’re just getting started.” 💚

The potential is huge. Now.. deliver...

Somehow the grave mind survived

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Now, THAT is how a Halo game is supposed to look!

I'm sure UE5 will be a positive change, but nothing is going to have me optimistic towards Halo again until they actually release a game that's complete at launch and isn't terrible in some way.

My laptop crashing with this one💯💯💯

2:10 FLOOD SIGHTING CONFIRMED!!!

I hope it’s a return to the M rating!

For context: Chris Matthews has worked on some incredibly pretty Unreal Engine games, particularly, he did a ton for Gears of War’s Ultimate Edition, Gears 4 where The Coalition spent multiple months early on during development to nail the classic feel of the past games from Epic, Forza, Battlefront II, etc. are other worthy mentions, his curriculum is great and that’s why he’s leading the charge, he knows what it’s like to transport an old game’s feel to a new one, so, to move from Blam!/Slipspace to Unreal is logical. Other notable developers in this video: Marcellis Wentz, he’s been animating Halo’s games for quite a while, if you love a certain reload or boarding or assassination, chances are that he was behind it. The art seems to have been made mainly by the guys who did stuff for Halo Infinite (e.g. Glenn Israel, David Heidhoff, Ben Mauro, etc.), pretty much everyone agrees that Infinite’s aesthetic is amazing so that’s another great sign for what’s coming. Bryan Repka is behind the modeling work of a ton of pieces, he translates concepts into items for the game stunningly. Etc. I am very happy about this, we asked for variety in visuals and that’s what they’re mainly working on at the very start; the future is bright with Pierre as the lead and these other folks pouring everything they have into the projects.

Let’s hope they deliver on their promises this time, especially with the studio rebrand. Also, MK V Chief with an energy sword has me kinda excited.

Rebranding will not wash away the stain because we remember to never forget.

no one will care about how good the game looks on unreal. it needs to be fun. if its not fun, no one will care about all the cool capabilities of unreal

I appreciate the baby steps to earn back the communitys trust. What the old management did to 343 was beyond saving. Changing the name was the right call. Lets hope Unreal Engine is less development hell than Slipspace Engine was for Infinite. And hope Microsoft won't rely on temporary contractors through the whole process again.

Press X to doubt

I have no expectations. So i won't be disappointed for 343rd time . I won't believe anything till i see the final product. Not trailers not betas , THE FINAL PRODUCT

This is honestly the best thing for Halo and 343 studios(Halo Studios). The slip space engine/ Halo Infinite failed because of contractors constantly being brought in and leaving, with most contractors barely even learning the tools by the time their contract was up. Unreal Engine will help with this because it's a common platform developers know and is widely easy accessible to use.

Understand the vastness of Halo. Original Halo had vastness and room to move. Modern 343 Halo while having larger maps, funnels the player into canyons and boxed off areas removing player choice. I can help with level design.

Take your time and make something amazing, because the potential is immense

What I really want is old halo weapons and vehicles like plasma rifle, beam rifle, hornets, covenant carbine, and halo 2 and 3 shotgun

We still see you behind that mask 343.

Omg I almost forgot what it was like to be hyped by a Halo project, that look stunning on UE5 !

So beautiful I might cry 😭

High hopes, looking forward to the next chapter!

I think I speak for everyone when I say “this better be good”

2:11 Wow, I love that Flood takeover. And 3:19

Remember they did this with Halo Infinite. I won't trust anything until the game is out

SO EXCITED!!

I love what Unreal has become - it just looks so good and is so easy to work with. I've been teaching myself UE5 and it just looks...unreal. Nothing gets me hyped like Halo does, so I'm extremely eager to see what comes next. Long live the Chief. 💚💚

My expectations are completely rock bottom, so if the new Halo turns out to be more 343-like slop, I won't be disappointed anymore.

Be the future, not the past. Looking forward to Halo Studios!

It's about damn time

Halo was never just a graphics showcase. It was a passion project motivated by a desire to make something fun to play. Thats why even the original Halo: combat evolved still holds up today despite the outdated graphics. If this future unreal Halo isnt fun, the updated graphics and easier tools wont mean a thing

343 needed a complete and urgent restructuring, and this is a better restructuring than we all wanted. Good!

VIDOCS HAVE RETURNED! WE ARE SO BACK!

The graphics look amazing, very beautiful but without gameplay it is not Halo. Study Halo CE weapon sandbox and melee system. It is the best in the series. Watch Jarek's video on it*. Watch Vengeful Vadam's as well**. Watch 2v2 Halo CE tournaments. The weapons in every Halo games after CE felt terrible and melee system was gutted. So you have to get the multiplayer right for the next project. And for that you have to start at Halo CE. *Jarek's video - Analysis: Why The Halo CE Pistol Is Not Overpowered **Vengeful Vadam's video - You Got Halo: Combat Evolved's Sandbox All WRONG

Those shots made me actually want some halo CE remake

I still remember when Halo Infinite released and there wasn’t Team Slayer lmfao

The issue wasn't the engine. The issue was the people who working on it, actually the lack of.

Please be good 🙏 Please be good 🙏 Please be good 🙏 Please be good 🙏 Please be good 🙏 Please be good 🙏 Please be good 🙏 Please be good 🙏 Please be good 🙏 Please be good 🙏

4:11 the Magnum is back boys!

This is nothing against the devs, but Microsoft needs to stop forcing devs to record videos like this. I want every single person that is excited about this to watch "Halo 4 - Behind the Scenes Working at 343". These talk talk talk videos make me sick at this point. Why did you make this? What's the purpose? Do you want me to get excited about this game that will come out in 8 years when I am probably 40? Let's be real, it will probably get axed three separate times only to release without a single player campaign at launch but with a MTX store. And commenters are eating it up, of course. If this was a restaurant or a shoe store, you would have stopped buying from them at least 5 years ago.

Now this is something

Guys… you really gotta workshop that studio logo a bit more 🤣

I believe 0% until i see a finished working product launched successfully 343.

The fact that it's no longer 343 shows that things are changing. I'm exited to see Halo Studios take the lead and make more variety of games in the Halo universe.

Please remember that the heart and soul of the Halo games is the story and the community, not esports. The game should be as fun for 4 friends gaming on the couch at home as it is for sweatlords at a tournament. Fun for all of us.

bring back the music, bring back Marty.

Halo is my favorite game franchise

Remember guys, they always put their best foot forward for 12 years and underwhelmed us each time. Wait to get excited or disappointed until they actually deliver a product.

It seems like a lot of lessons have been take from the past decade and more, and I love the approach to the EU engine, getting used to it. Wishing everyone over at HALO Studios the best, I can't wait to see what comes next!

Ok, NOW I’M HYPED! Take your time guys! HELLJUMPER HELLJUMPER, WHERE U BEEN?!

"The original Halo Franchise was a graphics showcase... that's what Halo was" It had a good gameplay loop, entertaining vehicle physics, a fantastic art style, and an iconic soundtrack. Halo was _not_ about having the best graphics. It was about that "30 seconds of fun loop" and making a game the developers wanted to play themselves. Now Halo is a franchise, and it sounds like it's going to be mined for value rather than fun just like CoD. Not that the last few years of Halo were all that exciting anyway...

The fact 343 staff still has the Halo IP after so many failures is amazing.

*PLEASE HIRE OLD BUNGIE DESIGNERS THAT TRIED TO APPLY FOR 343 jobs but got impolitely rejected* This could be massive!!!!

2:15 a guy said: "The original Halo franchise was a graphics showcase. It was best in class. That's what Halo was when it was first released and that's what Halo needs to be again." Immediate red flag to me. Halo wasn't about the graphics, it was primarily about the story, the characters, the universe, not just graphics. Graphics was secondary, imo.

as someone who has grown up with halo since middle school and i still play it today and on my way to 40 yrs old, there are a few things the next halo game must have and not have to be good as CE for example: not to have: -online service -battle royal -season pass -to many micro transactions(even if cosmetics) -multiplayer focused as the main idea needs to have: -story mode just like the old games, and NOT as a DLC -ether another story in all ready existing canon or take place after halo infinite -we need more stories like ODST and Reach where we are NOT the Chief but someone else in the same universe,etc all in all idk if you guys even will read this comment so ill end it here.

when you first saw Halo Studios were you blinded by its majesty?

We might just be back, boys

This is the funniest thing I've seen all week. 😂 After nearly 15 years with the franchise they're like "Okay, NOW we know what to do. We totally have it now. Look, we're even changing our name!" It's like someone's ex going "Baby, take me back, I'm not that guy anymore!" 🤣

As someone who loves Halo, you just brought tears to my eyes. Please don’t mess this up.

let's go this

Honestly, my only issue with the engine switch announcement is gunplay. Gunplay is the defining feature of Halo (and Destiny, the game it shares an engine with). It's the reason why Halo (and Destiny) have survived so long despite so many missteps. And no one, no dev nor any modder, has ever been able to make Unreal not feel like Unreal. Unreal feels so much like Unreal that even when you completely switch genres to something like fighting games or JRPG, you can immediately tell by the feel of the controls "Yep, this is an Unreal game".

Take this slow gents, slow and steady wins the race.

Halo 5 soundtrack 😶‍🌫️

Remember "Halo Studios," as a lifelong fan of Halo- Even if it may be easier, this shouldn't become an excuse to rely on contract workers again. Changing of the Halo DNA shouldn't come at some half-baked attempt to capture from some nebulous "broader audience." If you try to capture everyone, then you'll capture no one. Halo was always a social sandbox game with a gritty, sci-fi military shooter theme in a rich, lore-filled world. Rated M, with playable elites, assassinations, custom colors, ODSTs, etc. I'm not going to hold my breath, but I'll be very appreciative if what you guys end up cooking can take it away.

please do more with the universe, flood marine horror game, darktide/helldivers coop game, theres so much potential.

Well well... I am speechless.

So basically what this means is we're never going back to linear story maps. The way forward seems to be a generic open world and Unreal Engine 5 will make it so much easier to copy-paste assets to fill the void.

Holy crap actual good news about halo? My god…

4:50 Multiple Projects 🤯

we don't want a realistic looking game, why do all gaming developers think that graphics must be top aspect of a game? specifically a halo game? we just want a fun game, with better physics and a interesting lore and narrative, graphics should be the least concern

New Leadership is making some huge, powerful moves. Rebranding the studio itself is crazy, as there are multiple projects going on and using the Unreal engine. If the next Halo game is good, we are so back, I hope they can pull it off but time will tell I'm excited for this new chapter of Halo since Infinite was a step in the right direction in a lot of ways for the most part. Also FYI that art was amazing-looking!

I'll believe it when I see it, no way in hell I'm trusting them right now.

Can we make the new halo M again? Thanks.

I'll believe it when I see it.

I thought the 2020 slipspace showcase was beautiful. This is a whole other level.

Oh so its official. Every game 343 made was less than or slightly under Bungies. Nice!

My main ask, as a fan of the franchise, is to go back to how the franchise was done during the Bungie era. What I mean by this is, Halo CE, Halo 2, and Halo 3 where a smooth story where each game easily lead into the next. You then had ODST to give a different perspective and Reach to add a bit more to the start. But from Halo Reach to Halo 3, everything story wise ran smooth. You then had the series of books that came out that built upon the universe and added stories that happened in between, or during, the events of the games. However during the 343 era, Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians, and Halo Infinite have felt like three separate stories that have been loosely connected by a few plot points. If you sat down and played these three games in order, and excluding Spartan Ops in Halo 4, it was a bumpy ride and you would have more than a few questions. One thing that did not help with this issue is some of the major plot points happening outside of the campaigns themselves, such as the Didacts conclusion being done in a comic series. This, for a lot of fans, disconnected them with the games as not every gamer wants to then buy the comics, and books …etc to understand the story. I hope that during the 'Halo Studios' era, the other media goes back to how it was during the Bungie era. Being an extension of the overall universe, not being the continuation and/or conclusion of an existing story that started within the games. Please note I am not hating on any of the books or comics, I love majority of the books/comics and have read them. But if you was just a gamer and loved the Halo series, you would sit down, play Halo CE- Reach and your main question would of been how Johnson survived after Halo CE. Then you get to Halo 4 - Halo Infinite and you would have multiple questions, like what happened to the Didact? Who is Blue Team? (I personally loved Blue Team got added to the games, but I think they needed some form of introduction for people who did not know who they were). Who is Roland? Why is Halsey with an Elite? What does Halsey only have 1 arm? What are the Banished? Who is Atriox? (I think Halo Wars 2 did a good job introducing them, but Infinite needed something as well), what happened to the created? …etc. I am looking forward to the future of Halo and glad the issues that the Slipstream engine caused will now be a thing of the past, allowing the studio to focus on making games/content.

So is 343 now Halo Studios?

Now we're talking. More of this energy Halo Studios. Let's get back to basics and back to what Halo really is. If that's what you guys are really about, then I'm all in.

I've come to accept that I might've experienced my last fun Halo session with the boys ... but somehow this gives me hope again.