Everything you need to know about Halo 5: Memories of Reach

Modes, medals, matchmaking improvements and more.

Published 2016-05-10

We have previously reported on the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians expansion that is based on the fan favourite Halo: Reach, a game many consider the best in the series. One of the new things added is the zombie-like game mode called Infection, and below is the description on how to get all medals:

• Zombie Hunter - "Kill 5 Zombies without dying"
• Zombie Slayer - "Kill 10 Zombies without dying"
• Hell's Janitor - "Kill 15 Zombies without dying"
• Hell Jumper - "Kill 20 Zombies without dying"
• Zombicide - "Kill 25 Zombies without dying"
• The Cure - "Kill 30 Zombies without dying"
• Infector - "Infect 2 Survivors without dying"
• Carrier - "Infect 3 Survivors without dying"
• Ravager - "Infect 4 Survivors without dying"
• Plague Bearer - "Infect 5 Survivors without dying"
• Lord of the Flies - "Infect 6 Survivors without dying"
• Last Man Standing - "Be the last man standing in a game of Infection"
• Infected - "Infect a survivor"
• Ancient One - "Survive an entire round as a Zombie and convert at least one Survivor"
• Survived - "Live through the Zombie Apocolypse"
• Resourceful - "Kill a Zombie when all of your weapons are empty"
• Stalker - "Assassinate a Zombie"
• Flatline - "Kill the last man standing in a game of Infection"

Included in this expansion is also a new Arena called Stasis. Here is a piece of concept art as well as some screenshots from this frosty place.

Memories of Reach also adds better tools for Matchmaking, so you should be able to choose between finding other players fast or getting the best possible connection and the best possible skill match. Here are the three new options:

• Balanced (default): Search for a match based on your fireteam's skill and network connection quality.
• Expanded: Widen search parameters to find the first available match with reasonable skill matching and network connection quality.
• Focused: Narrow search to find the best match based on your fireteam's skill and connection. Search times may be longer than normal.

Another new feature is the Post Game Carnage Report; you know the screen after a finished game where the player can laugh at failed team members, talk about funny stuff that happened during the match, or just curse corpse humpers. This is how the new screen looks and works:

• All Medals earned from the match, including quantity, medal rarity, and description
• Tool of Destruction
• Killed Most (see who each player killed most, and how many times)
• Killed By (see who each player fell victim to the most, and how many times)
• Press LB or RB to view Commendations or Progress from your Recap
• Press LT or RT to view Recaps of other players from the match.

Finally, 343 Industries has posted an infographic showing all new REQs available in this expansion, and all members of the Noble Team are represented. Take a look below, and tomorrow night at 11:00pm BST (00:00 CET), there'll be a livestream on the Halo Twitch channel showing off Memories of Reach in action.

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