IGN has posted a new preview for the upcoming Xbox Live update known as Halo Waypoint. Take a look:
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November 5. This portal seeks to bring together the entire Halo universe in one place and provide a sort of string that ties each game together. Included will be an assortment of screenshots and videos -- some official and some fan-made – a career system that links the achievements for all Halo games together, and the latest in Halo news. IGN spoke with Halo Waypoint's creative director Jason Pace to get the details on how the career will work and what the future of Waypoint holds.
"The career milestones are a little different from achievements," says Pace. "As you earn new [Halo] achievements... you will level up your career milestone." There will be 40 milestones, or levels, available at launch. With 3950 possible achievement points to unlock through three Halo titles on Xbox 360, there are plenty of ways to reach that level cap. It will take about 60% of the total achievement points unlocked to reach the highest milestone, a percentage that was chosen with care. "I really tried to focus on a model where any committed player could reach the level 40 cap by cherry picking achievements that you can generally earn by working really diligently towards them," said Pace.
Click here to watch a video walkthrough of Halo Waypoint.
And once you've reached that cap, everyone on your friend list will know it. These milestones can be compared with your friends for bragging rights.
The focus at launch was to get the system working and properly balanced. Some tweaking post-launch might need to happen, which is why you won't see bonuses like Avatar awards for reaching specific milestones. "We didn't want to pin anything material to it necessarily in this initial launch, but certainly that's the direction we're moving in. We want to bake career milestones into tangible awards you can get from gameplay," explained Pace.
"The career milestones are a little different from achievements," says Pace. "As you earn new [Halo] achievements... you will level up your career milestone." There will be 40 milestones, or levels, available at launch. With 3950 possible achievement points to unlock through three Halo titles on Xbox 360, there are plenty of ways to reach that level cap. It will take about 60% of the total achievement points unlocked to reach the highest milestone, a percentage that was chosen with care. "I really tried to focus on a model where any committed player could reach the level 40 cap by cherry picking achievements that you can generally earn by working really diligently towards them," said Pace.
Click here to watch a video walkthrough of Halo Waypoint.
And once you've reached that cap, everyone on your friend list will know it. These milestones can be compared with your friends for bragging rights.
The focus at launch was to get the system working and properly balanced. Some tweaking post-launch might need to happen, which is why you won't see bonuses like Avatar awards for reaching specific milestones. "We didn't want to pin anything material to it necessarily in this initial launch, but certainly that's the direction we're moving in. We want to bake career milestones into tangible awards you can get from gameplay," explained Pace.
You can check out the rest of this preview here.