This week’s update was delayed a bit since I was at the 2017 HCS Fall Finals in Denver --- which was an amazing event by the way.





New Skill System



One thing we get asked about a lot is timing on the new skill system. It is difficult to provide an ETA because since it is brand new, state-of-the-art technology, we are not going to rush. Instead, we will be thoroughly testing it internally before using it in any form in Halo 5. Once we have done the correctly amount of diligence internally, we will begin rolling it out slowly to the live game. I won’t have any updates on actual dates until we are a lot closer.





Team Balanced Matchmaking Rule



Our partners over on Live have integrated improvements to the team balanced matchmaking rule so we will be re-enabling that shortly. We will also mostly likely turn 12-player fireteam Warzone on when this goes live again.