Halo 5: Guardians Gets Additional Controller Options, REQ Cards via Cartographer's Gift

[RoadWarrior]

Video game developer 343 Industries and publisher Microsoft are planning to deliver a new update for Halo 5: Guardians, called Cartographer's Gift, during the week of December 15, and the community will get access to a range of new options for their controller.

The two companies are also ready to offer a fuller look at the new content that will be added to the Master Chief shooter, including maps for Arena and Warzone, social playlists, the new Season mode, and more REQ cards.

Gamers who want to improve the performance or the look of their Spartans will be able to get special weapons, more armor, and a range of emblems associated with the past of the Halo franchise.

Gold Standard weapon skins and the SPNKr Rocket Launcher are two of the highlights of the Cartographer's Gift update for Halo 5: Guardians.

When it comes to the controller, gamers will be able to tweak look acceleration as well as the inner and the outer dead zones, which offers them more ways to make their experience comfortable.

The first value is currently set to 3, and gamers who want the same experience as during the beta will need to bring it down to 2 or can choose a higher value if they want to reach max speed when pegging.

343 Industries is also encouraging gamers to test various settings for the inner and the outer dead zones to find a setting that they are comfortable with in the long term.

The studio explains, "note that the default values on these parameters are all identical to what we (and you) have been using previously. Therefore, you don’t need to worry about this update changing anything. If you don’t touch them, the game will play identically to how it has."

Halo 5: Guardians will get one year of maps for free

Cartographer's Gift is the second monthly content update for the shooter, and it's clear that 343 Industries has long-term plans to continue to support the community.

Fans will be able to create their environments and modes using the coming Forge set of tools and then share them with the community to add even more variety to Halo 5: Guardians.

All maps that will be launched for the game during its first year on the market will be free for all players to keep the community united.

343 Industries is currently getting revenue from Halo 5: Guardians via the REQ card system, which allows gamers to use real-world money to get access to packs and improve their performance in the Warzone mode.

The system has allowed the company to increase the prize pool of the coming World Championship to 2 million dollars (1.8 million Euro) as the qualifying process begins before the finals that will take place in Halo 5: March of next year.

Halo 5: Guardians managed to boost sales for the Xbox One during the month of October and also had a solid performance in November in the United States, although it failed to give Microsoft another win over Sony.