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“You know when you have a gun and aliens shooting at you, it is kind of hard to digest a lot of story. “While we love our transmedia, sometimes I do think we tell a bit too much story in our games,” Ross said. Ross also said that 343 is adapting how it tells stories in the Halo universe, saying that the developer will rely more on media outside of its games to flesh out its narrative and world-building. Many of our ambitious goals for Halo 5 would be compromised in a split-screen setting and the time spent optimizing and addressing split-screen-specific issues would take focus from building other parts of the game.” With Halo 5 we are delivering massive scale environments, improved AI behavior, increased visual and gameplay fidelity… something that truly takes advantage of a new platform. “Our decision was driven by a desire for scale, fidelity and focus to ensure that we would deliver the best quality experience possible.

“To move Halo’s gameplay forward and deliver a true next-gen experience, tough choices had to be made,” Holmes said at the time. When it was gutted for Halo 5, then-creative director Josh Holmes called the decision to remove it “one of the most difficult ones we’ve ever had to make as a studio.” Split-screen cooperative and competitive multiplayer was part of the Halo franchise since the original game, 2001’s Halo: Combat Evolved. Depending on the story youll be in the shoes of one of 8 different characters with true drop-in and. lot of learnings from that, and I would say for any FPS going out forward we will always have split screen going forward.” Four player co-op gameplay through the entire campaign. It erodes trust with the community, as the community is part of our world building. Future Halo games will all have split-screen multiplayer modes, a longtime feature in the massively popular shooter franchise that was suddenly dropped in Halo 5: Guardians. I was kinda hoping they dropped it in stealth for launch, but no luck there. I think it's incredibly painful for the community and for us. It is doable - at this point I’m not sure they would. The removal of split-screen, a feature that has been around since the very first Halo game on the original Xbox, has caused a fairly large backlash against developer 343 Industries.

“You know when we fell down with the multiplayer launch of, or when we didn't put split screen in with Halo 5. Halo 5 could be the next great game in the Halo series, but one thing is causing quite a bit of uproar among the fanbase. “We've also had a lot of learnings along the way,” Ross said.