With Halo 5: Guardians already gone gold , it's time to start planning how you want to spend your multiplayer time on Xbox Live. Developer 343 Industries has revealed the launch day matchmaking playlists for Halo 5. See them below, including insight from Halo 5 Arena multiplayer designer Quinn DelHoyo on several of the playlists. Also, don't miss what DelHoyo had to say about Big Team Battle maps and playlist

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Warzone - 24 players on massive maps with REQs and AI adversaries. Halo multiplayer has never been bigger.

Escape from A.R.C.

Raid on Apex 7

March on Stormbreak

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Warzone Assault - Destroy the Power Core or defend it in this asymmetrical Warzone mode variant.

Dispatch

Array

Summit

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Team Arena - Play on the very best modes and maps Halo 5 has to offer.

Breakout | Gambol

Breakout | Trident

Slayer | Coliseum

Slayer | Eden

Slayer | Plaza

Slayer | Empire

Slayer | The Rig

CTF | Coliseum

CTF | Truth

CTF | Fathom

Strongholds | The Rig

Strongholds | Eden

Strongholds | Empire

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Slayer - Work with a team, vanquish your opponents.

Coliseum

Plaza

The Rig

Regret

Fathom

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Breakout - Halo 5's premiere high lethality single-life elimination mode.

Gambol

Trident

Trench

Crossfire

Altitude

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Free-for-All - It’s you against everyone else. Slay your way to victory.

Eden

Regret

The Rig

Plaza

Orion

Pegasus

SWAT - No shields, no motion tracker. Aim for the head!

SWAT | Eden

SWAT | Regret

SWAT | The Rig

SWAT | Plaza

SWAT | Orion

SWAT | Pegasus

SWATnums | Eden

SWATnums | Regret

SWATnums | The Rig

SWATnums | Plaza

SWATnums | Orion

SWATnums | Pegasus

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Weekend Social - A weekly playlist that features a mode voted on by the community via Halo Waypoint/Channel.

Bonus XP/REQ points

Community engagement

Most popular modes have the potential for becoming their own playlist

Seeing as how Warzone matches can last upwards of 30 minutes (see video below), I asked DelHoyo if join-in-progress would be enabled: "It would be difficult to link up with your friends if we prevented you from joining while they are in the middle of an epic 30 minute Warzone match. With that in mind, Warzone will have join in progress enabled," he said.Mode | MapYou see below that "SWAT with Magnums" is part of this playlist. I asked DelHoyo if this meant that SWAT only featured the Battle Rifle and SWATnums only featured the Magnum. No, he said. "We went with two variants here because we wanted to maintain the classic feeling of SWAT with the Battle Rifle version but we also wanted to give a place for players to practice their headshot skills with the Magnum as it’s the primary utility weapon that players spawn with in all modes across Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer. That’s where SWATnums comes in."Game type | MapGame type | MapSo, does this mean we can expect old favorites such as Fiesta, Shotguns-n-Snipers, etc. to return in the Weekend Social playlist? "We’ll have a good assortment of modes that we’ll be bringing online. The Weekend Social playlist is going to be a great spot for us to engage the community and let them decide which modes get featured there. Some will be wacky just for the fun of it while others will be a bit more serious. We’re coming up with new ideas for modes every day. Once we feel like we have something cool, we’ll put it as one of the options for the community to vote on and the winner will get featured in the Weekend Social playlist."

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