Syber Interactive Studio and publisher Innova revealed today a free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter based on the Halo franchise, called Halo Online. Halo Online will be coming exclusively on the PC, is powered by a reworked version of the Halo 3 Engine, and will be coming to Russia (though a European release is not excluded as of yet).
This information comes straight from the Russian website SHAZOO (who attended today’s Innova presentation).
Here is what SHAZOO revealed about Halo Online (via Google translate):
- The game will include special packages and abilities: fighting, safety and support.
- The system is similar to the perks Call of Duty.
- Characters have levels, but what is the maximum – not reported
- Maps are designed specifically for Halo Online, while designed for 16 people.
- During the entrance to the card players get a job: to kill the head, jump 10 times, and so.
- On the map you can find different weapons: Bazooka example, which replaces the pistol slot.
- During the spawn, you can change the class and weapons
- After the murder of cards with the player who killed you
- There are attacks from the back
- We continue to update the post
- Syber Interactive engaged in the development of Peter
- The game is focused on Russia and the CIS, is not excluded release in Europe
- For classes have 5 slots. Two is available immediately, and the rest are opened as pumping
- On the maps, there are two so-called powerfull-arms on the map: grenade, for example
- Weapons are purchased at a time, all armor
- The game has a lobby system, where you can gather with friends and fight with them
- The game runs on a reworked engine of Halo 3
- When the gun lying on the floor, it has an aura: green – accuracy, red – Done. This is done to ensure that the player is not standing and reading characteristics of the weapons – which is better or worse
- The game is currently melenkie card without technology, but in the future will be added to the large appliances.
- Each piece of armor has its own parameters: speed of movement on the shoes or gloves at the rate of recharge
- The plot and PVE mission has not been considered
- The game currently supports only one language – Russian. Will map where the battle will go on the territory of Russia
[UPDATE]
Here are some details about this Halo online game. This is the real deal, as Microsoft is co-distributing the game in Russia. There is also an official FAQ for Halo Online that can be read here.
-Game was presented by 343 themselves
-Closed Beta will start “very soon”
-Team Slayer and Assassinations modes confirmed
-Backstabbing confirmed
-There will be trials and missions like “kill 30 enemies today”. Typical f2p fashion.
-Microsoft is co-distributing the game in Russia
-One of the game locations is Russian city
[UPDATE 2]
Here is the first official artwork from Halo Online
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Cant wait to see what the Micro(soft)-transaction model is like.
Wtf is this crap ? Better be a HALO 3/4/5 on PC then another FTP title.
Prepare to be disappointed….
why would you be, are you russian?
To Russia? What?
Poorly translated.
Free2Play FPS’s designed for a specific “poor” market are usually garbage, it’s kinda sad that’s the kind of halo game we get…
its not a “poor” market. russia buys as much games as like half of europe combined which for 1 country it doesnt seem “poor”
I’d rather play the pre-alpha version of Unreal Tournament. I want Halo on PC, but not like this.
thats the point it’s not for all you lil entitled whiny brats it’s for russia
HALO online? Microsoft tarded? They best bring the entire catalogue of HALO instead of this.
Yeah right. There’s no way Microsoft would allow some third party publisher to release a Halo game. And only in Russia? Lol.
so there is not microsoft ? some random russian team just used the name “halo” and it’s engine and totaly unrelated to halo ?
Story updated, Microsoft is co-distributing it. It’s an official Halo game
what ? :O
thanks for the update john
OLO
I still despise Microsoft for there overly greedy schemes but coming back to the PC market is lessening the hate I have for them. Good job Microsoft for bringing another Halo game on the PC platform. Even though it isn’t Bungie……
I see so much love from Microsoft… “Sarcasm”
Is dx12 & free windows not enough?
I rather have gears 4 anyway.
Wha?? Halo:Online? I must be living under a rock or this was just announced..
Most PC players don’t really give a rats arso about Xbox One games or Microsoft games for the PC, too little too late, they can go down with the console causal crap they made, PC is fine without those dump games.
“Most PC players don’t really give a rats arso about Xbox One games or Microsoft games for the PC”
You don’t know this for certain. Please don’t speak on behalf of pc players.
I’ll speak for several I know, plus the loads who already said tweeted posted etc that they didn’t care at all when Microsoft anounced the Xbox one parity with PC games and the stream ability of Xbox One games on PC. Yeah there were plenty.
you speak for me, I have ZERO interest in console sh*t.
eh, if it comes to the west, i’ll play it. If I like it, I’ll spend some coins on it. I don’t really care who it’s from.
Most PC players beg for console ports.
most ? get lost kid
10000 ? 100000 ? those numbers …. are so f’ing insignificant to the vast and huge pc community.
don’t speak on behalf of pc players
And again you are incorrect, some PC players do ask and create petitions for some exclusives to come out on PC, much like Xbox One players and PS4 players ask for other exclusives to come out on their platform(Street Fight 5 for example).
Take Bloodborn for example, do you have any idea how many of those in the petition for it to come out on PC are actually Xbox One players too who also happen to have a crappy PC that can run a crappy console port anyway? A big chunck. Not to mention that any Souls game so far has been a terrible PC port.
Some ask for games who had already started as PC games before being bought by Sony or Microsoft as exclusives for consoles, but there aren’t that many like that, and PC as a platform does not need to do that to survive.
The fact is, anyone who begs for a PC port in most cases is already a fan of casual controller/gamepad console type of games anyway, and there is nothing wrong with that. You see more PC petitions than rival console petitions, because most console players are “at war” with the other console and would never go as far as asking for a game to come to their platform out of pride… kids. Grown ups on the PC don’t really care about it, if they would like to have a game on their PC, they just go and ask for it.
Now don’t even try to compare the amount of games that come out on PC compared to the consoles, there are way more PC players in the world than all console players put together, there are way more PC games coming out, and the triple A multiplatform games that come out all run at higher res fx and fps looking much better on a decent PC. Consoles have 5 year old medium cards in them for pittie’s sake.
The highest single game money makers are still PC games, like them or not, there isn’t a single game on one console that has made more money than a World of Warcraft or a League of Legends. Diablo 3 on PC for example made more money in the first week than the smash hit The Last of Us on PS3 for more than a year. The highest kickstarter ever is a PC exclusive that has made 76 million dollars and hasn’t even come out yet.
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You have made many claims but haven’t offered too much in the form of evidence.
I just love how you point out that the only PC Players that want Bloodborne on PC are actually console peasants in disguise. 🙂
Got any more non sequitur arguments? Why is it every PC guy feels he knows the pulse of the industry while claiming no source for their information?
PC Gaming got a boost from the long lifespan of the last Console Generation. I don’t see any reason why Consoles won’t over take PCs again.
dsogaming. com/news/pc-to-be-the-dominant-platform-according-to-latest-research-to-be-worth-35-billion-in-2018/
One of the studies, along with another study that led to DFC Intelligence owner David Cole saying:
“On a global basis PC games have surpassed console games but the new console systems means consoles should show an increase.
Among core gamers there is a heavy overlap with most console gamers also playing on a PC. The big difference is that consoles are now the luxury item and PCs are the necessity. Just a few years ago the reverse was true. This means PCs have the broader audience.”
In other words, the PC platform is profitable, something that is evident from all the latest indie titles we’ve been getting. Oh, and from the fact that a lot of companies like Konami, Tecmo and Namco are releasing their games on the PC too, because their studies show them alot of income from it.
As you’d expect, the most profitable PC genres are MOBAs, MMOs, strategy games, first person shooters and Free-To-Play titles.
“The MOBA games League of Legends and Dota 2 dominate everything else by an order of magnitude in terms of more usage than other products. In the first part of 2014 we saw some signs that may change with the introduction of new titles and some increased play of games outside the MOBA category.
But MOBA is dominant. Beyond that it is a nice mix of MMO, strategy and first person shooter.”
You can see the graphic, up to 2014, its fact, known stuff… but look it up, you’ll see that PC gaming software revenue has already surpassed the 3 console software revenue PUT TOGETHER, ever since 2012, and it’s still rising.
This is not what we meant when we say we want halo on pc, microsoft. ffs
Lol at people expecting MCC on pc.
Free2play? No play.
I never asked for this….
Firstly the Halo MMO was cancelled and then a few years later Russia gets a Halo PC game ?_?
Meh. Another F2P crap. When something isn’t good enough, M$ releases it on PC as after thought. No thanks.
SO WHAT?!!!!!!!
STILL not good enough and i don’t think it to be a big deal
somehow when i think that M$ can’t make me hate them any further they just surprise me
As a teen I remember Halo being on the cover of MacWorld Magazine… Bungie never should of Sold out to consoles… Now look at this garbage…
this is just troll… all this time people asking for halo on pc and they release a halo free to play, developed by second hands devs, and its russian only. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its a kick in the face for the pc community. the guy that made this decision should be fired and an formal apology should be stated
Half life 3 online: Saudi Arabia exclusive bam!!!
Would love to se the reaction from gamers lol
Also a lot of people would move to Saudi Arabia.
I think VPN services would just see a sudden cash injection from everyone….ever…
Wtf is this sh*t?
Man Microsoft are such scums.
Is this how spencer want to supp pc with pay to win games
just another f2p cash shop
Reads Call of Duty, stops reading.
How about all you tight a*s pc nerds go and buy a xbox if you want to play this. This a ftp for russia only, obviously microsoft isnt going to bring their biggest franchise to pc. Halo 5 GOTY
I did buy an XB1 to play the few XB1 exclusives like HaloMCC although I wish I hadn’t as it’s been sitting there unused now for 7 months after I was finished with Halo MCC. I even pulled the power supply lead out the back of it so it wasn’t draining power sitting on standby doing nothing.
In any case Microsoft is bending over backwards trying to get access to some of the 100 million active Steam gamers, even going as far as promising free online multiplayer and putting XB1 gamer’s noses out of joint because they stupidly pay to game online so with any chance they will bring all their XB1 exclusives to PC and I can get shot of the big ,slow box that sits unused under my TV. My XBOX Live ID is FMV GAMER, so you can see that it has gathered dust the whole 7 months I owned it. A weak, underpowered piece of shit, I only bought it because it was cheap and got carried away with the Halo hype, but it looks like Microsoft are going to port all their games to PC anyway as it doesn’t benefit them for PC gamers just to play a few exclusives on their console as they make all their profits from charging third party developers license fees and of course I don’t buy 720p pared back, gimped third party games on XB1 when I have my PC sitting there, who would.
Oh and this is a PC gaming website so you should run along as I think you have got lost.
Well halo 5 isn’t coming to pc but enjoy Fable dude I hope you make the most of it. Everyone has a console they don’t use much my ps4 has been turned off since last march just imagine how much of a waste of money I thought that was
Awesome, it’s a Halo game that plays like COD with maps limited to 16 players and F2P(P2W), I really hope I don’t get to play this garbage. I think I’ll just wait for Project Contingency to come out.
Exactly wut I was gonna say!
They are fu#ked up they know Americans have been waiting for a Pc halo for a while……
Usually these games need to be success over there first before it comes here. Just like Warface before launching here.
You can read my previous post showing the studies the numbers and the facts. Also I’m 34, though I do enjoy the kid calling thing, I have Peter Pan syndrome.
does microsoft not realize that if they made it only on pc and xbox they would still make sooo much money… selling more windows even a w10 exclusive just for multiplayer and campaign and all that jaz on xbox
Oh my god! I have completely unaware of this. It’s such a pleasant surprise. Waiting to get over to the game and earn some special packages. Maps however are going to be the key to game play… Good luck fellas.