Halo 5: Guardians: HuntTheTruth Mentioned in MCC’s Latest Update

343 Industries shared a brief update on the status of Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s next community update, while acknowledging the #HunttheTruth campaign promotingHalo 5 Guardians.

The content update is on track to release on time. There will be changes to ranking, titles, and more. They’re not sharing full details for now, but they are putting the finishing touches on it. There are also changes being planned in the future for quitting, betrayals, reputation, etc. This all sounds like an interesting way to gamify player behavior, so it should be interesting.

For the playlists, they just released Team Doubles, and promise Team Objective will be on the way soon. Team Doubles merits your attention this week, as it mixes up game types from Halo 2 Classic, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3, and Halo 4, They want to mix it up even further, so voting and weighing will get changed up in the near future. 343 also stated they are looking for ways to bring back SWAT.

Finally, 343 mentions the #HuntTheTruth campaign, which instantly grabbed attention, and recently flipped fan expectations with the reveal of the doctored Master Chief New Mombasa image. They unequivocally confirm Benjamin Giraud is the same journalist from the graphic novel story Second Sunrive over New Mombasa. The way they describe his investigation of the Chief hints at changes that happened after the Covenant War ended.

Halo 5: Guardians will be released exclusively to Xbox One on 2015.