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Let's put this one on the "hmm" pile. It's a set of six pictures of what purports to be post-beta Halo 5 multiplayer, with returning weapons from Halo 4 (could be Photoshopped), posted by someone claiming to be a game tester (dangerous) on NeoGAF (nest of rumours and mistruths). All of that said, let's talk about them!

It would appear 343 is holding onto its contribution to the Halo-verse, with the likes of the Promethean Incineration Cannon and Boltshot reappearing in multiplayer. The leaker claims that they've been altered slightly, however - the former is now battery-based rather than ammo-based and uses a charge shot; the latter can't be used as a mini-shotgun any longer, instead firing two homing shots.

The screens come alongside some more general feedback. Chief among them is that the "Spartan Bro" celebrations at the end of multiplayer matches, where power armoured buffoons high five each other, have been dialled back to make them a little more serious. Here's the full list of observations:

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  • Overshield was present had some weird screen effect when you picked it up - looked like a bug
  • Boltshot is back but doesn't work like halo 4 - no shotgun fire mode. fires two shots at once and sort of tracks players
  • Suppressor is back and fires a lot slower
  • Blue outline on weapons was in the build
  • Killcams were disabled in the build, could spectate players while you were dead
  • BR spread was near-gone - fired so fast
  • Spartan chatter was reduced hugely, less pointless callouts
  • Spartan bro moments cut down. game ending segment is just your spartans walking towards the screen, no more highfives and shit
  • Killfeed modified to be like this: "PLAYER NAME" "WEAPON KILLED WITH" "PLAYER NAME"
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  • Overshield was bugged, my shields said i constantly had it even after death

We'll certainly be seeing more of Halo 5 at E3 2015, but the focus seems very much to be on a campaign reveal right now - whether this stuff will be proven is quite another matter.

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