"Scorpion, ready to sting!"

ATTENTION EVERYONE: BEFORE YOU COMMENT: IF YOU WERE GOING TO SAY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: "Where is (this and this vehicle / troop?", "Where is the scarab?", "the covenant looks bad", or anything along those lines... THIS IS A BETA WHERE WE JUST SAW 2 OUT OF MAN CHARACTERS, so we can expect not every single troop to be there. That would not be a real beta would it? Same goes for scarab. The covenant might look bad, because it's not the covenant. The title of the video says banished, bc that is what they are called. Also, they are LED BY THE GODDAMN BRUTES, so we can expect more metallic, mechy things and spikes and what have you. The covenant is gone, along with their shiny round vehicles. Get over it. Yours sincerely, Veteran Halo Wars player

14:34 that Shroud looks like a mini-Reaper from Mass Effect

Blisterback is legit the coolest vehicle. Also, RIP Scarab.

The odsts have a dumb animation, why not have them kick out their drop pod door and come out

I think I'm more hyped for Halo Wars 2 than I was for Halo 5! And thank you for making this video! Keep up the good work!

the Nightingale looks so much like a cross between the Pelican and the Falcon. Awesome

Local Units

kind of sad to see that a spin off game like halo wars 2 is looking better than the main flagship game of halo 5.

is there a grunt inside that locust??

I also love how Locusts are piloted by Grunts now. I hope they keep it that way.

@13:29 WAIT GRUNTS DRIVE LOCUSTS?!!!!!!!!

Thanks for making this.

So who at 343 thought it would be a good idea to give the jump pack brutes GRAVITY HAMMERS?! Depending at how you look at it, they're either going to be extremely useless or extremely terrifying...

I REALLY like the look of the banished; their style is reminiscent of the smooth and sleek covenant, which is their origins obviously, but rather than smooth curves they have really sturdy looking armor that's far more 'boxy', reflecting that this is a faction led by brutes rather than elites.

When will people learn! If you ONLY have 2 factions in an RTS it will die.. FAST! Why can't we get a Flood faction or something else?

So,we are missing the Elephant,the Grizzly,the Hawx,the Cobra,the Gremlyn and the almighty SCARAB.I hope they add them on the final release...

Is it just me or does the Shroud look a lot like the Reapers from Mass Effect.

8:10 brute:why do have to tell you twice?! grunt: yeah yeah we hear you

Am I the only one thinking it's funny that the classic Grunt is in the squad while the ugly new ones are suicide Grunts? X'D

I'm guessing that the banished have something against jackals.

Please tell me you can play Skirmish solo with an AI on local, I was addicted to it

4:10 That's some nice four wheel driving he's got there

Thanks for showing the units. One thing I really hope they improve, is the sound of each unit. Take this example, a Brute Chopper, is louder and has more presence than the UNSC Vulture... to me that was mind boggling. I'm taking the SFX as a placeholder though, I'm really looking forward to cutting things up again with Cutter.

I hope that some of these vehicles are in Halo 6

Unless they add the hawk, im definitely not buying HW2

Truly bringing the best of both artstyles. I just need the hawk

I love with the Reaver, if you look, you can see the driver momentarily snap into the T pose wheneber it comes to a stop.

13:15 Oh god, who let a grunt drive that thing?

Who let SpongeBob drive a locust?

Wonderful work! Thanks for doing this!

Bad ass!!! This looks so cool and awesome that they kept the same kind of game play as the first one, and just made it even better. I can't wait until it comes out in February, I give this game 10 out of 10!!! They did a awesome job.

Disappointed with the voices. Grunt voices seem fine but Elite and Brute sound horrible.

Why are all of the new covenant vehicles either so very human looking or very influenced by bugs. I think the devs went the wrong direction. It looked very believable for most of them to be human or vice-versa.

I understand the concept of this game, but theres so much to learn. thanks

Thanks for making this! :)

It HAD to be Brutes. Why.

Why did they change the name of the Cobra and the flamethrowers for the Codiak and the Hellbringers...?

I love seeing the old art style back

I still have the legendary edition with the neat little comic and a unsc magnet, I'm sure as hell am happy about having another halo wars game.

Where are the scarab, ghost, mongoose, wolverine, hawks, jackels, Also why is there no Rhino but replace by a fking Kodiak ;-; Plz 343 do not fk this game ;-; ;-; ;-;

The Shroud? More like rejected Reaper Leviathan.

nice video ❤ the shroud looks like a baby reaper from mass effect XD

the UNSC sure love their drones nowadays.

No ghost? Maybe we'll see one of the leaders of covenant, at least for multiplayer, have completely old designs.

Shame it's on console, RTS's belong on the PC.

All of these vehicles are so cool! The Locust has to be my favourite. I hope there's a future halo game where you actually get to drive all of these!

"Stealth tank... i mean Jack Rabbit reporting in sir". "For the brother hood of... I mean grunt squad reporting in". Im getting old lol.

I prefer the old look of the wolverine, this one just looks weird to me.

Female ODSTs! About time! 😄

DAMN IT!! I missed the beta for this!!

Oh my god, the Hellbringers are precisely the same as the Firebats from Starcraft! Even down to the barbeque/cookout jokes!

Not gonna lie im more disappointed now that i know the direction there taking the units. They really ruined the way each faction worked.

were is the scarab?

Also the Chopper is back!

So happy the hornets are in this game

OMG the brute chopper pilot sounds like classic G1 Optimus Prime "Rolling Out!"

15:05 The Blisterback a long ranged ground artillery piece that could cover any terrain and move at speeds via means of flight. Set up on the ground within a matter of moments and deliver artillery barrages on a enemy locations. Then take back to the skies as fast as it did to set up on the ground and re-position or retreat before the enemy could ever get a chance to retaliate. Realistically speaking that tactical concept for an artillery piece would have a lot of potential for a real life defense force. Its efficient and practicable in my opinion.

this game looks awesome! Graphics and animations are great.

I love the art-style of this game. It brings me back to Halo: Combat Evolved.

That artillery was damn cool

No elephant? not hawk? no scarab? no grizzly? vehicles that I have just mentioned will miss. And I hope he will not forget skirmish against the AI or I really not bought the game Sorry for bad english

when i found out halo wars was coming to pc i was so happy!

I like the SPARTAN and ODST the best. They are pretty cool.

The hell bringers accent took me by surprise haha more then the cyclops' did in the first game haha.

I love the new voices of the soldiers

HOLY shit looks like the spirit of fire got some upgrades!!

a wolverine rolls in wolverine driver: I'm out of here me: *laughing alot*

Holy shit... look at the size of those butterflies...

really hope they allow UNSC players to have 3 Spartans like HW-1. Like even if they decide to just spread red team across the three UNSC factions as hero units they could still allow you to build two other "generic" spartans that weren't as tough. having 3 spartans hold off entire armies was the funnest thing to do while screwing around with my friends on HW.

MY THOUGHTS ON THE NEW HALO WARS GAME IN COMPARISON TO THE FIRST HEALING UNITS AND INFANTRY Covenant's only means of healing units were the engineer. Had to spread them around them around for emergency healing but didn't cost anything and there is no cool down. UNSC had the heal area effect. Costed money and had a cool down time, but you could it anywhere without sacrificing pop. Marines had combat medics to heal the surviving MP. Cyclops could heal all but infantry. In Halo wars 2 old infantry units have different roles, but ET vs UNSC infantry archetypes are just about the exact same with only minor differences. UNSC has a all healing unit now and is a air unit just like the ET's healing unit. Covenant had ranged anti infantry units and infantry to fight armor. UNSC had short ranged AI and marines were the only infantry capable of effectively combating armor (only with rockets.) Hell now each faction gets one hero, but I'll talk about that later. BULDINGS The only similarity (in bases) between Covy and UNSC in halo wars are the supply buildings, unit buildings, and turret sockets. With the Covy building acted more like a hive: for one tech tier costed a lot less and the tech building could be moved to any socket without losing it's tier upgrades. Due to the teleporters you could bring uints from any base to the frontline immediately. Looking at this the covy would appear very centralized. As for the UNSC its much rigid structure the Tech tiers were expensive and then brought to another level of expensive due to some units and upgrades requiring a higher tech tier than covy. Even then it's brought into another level of expensiveness if you lose tech tier building since it's upgrades would be saved. A saving grace to this is that you could build tech plants as many times and anywhere you wanted. While you could build units at any base you had put some effort into rallying them with flags or the pelican tranport. The building in halo wars 2 beta is the exact same. Like mirror reflection same. ARMOR This is a plus mainly because each factions vehicles actually acted differently from one another, but only due to the UNSC artillery. However, the differences end there, hell you could even compare the artillery to ET's locust. Now that the ETs now have AA vehicles it's streamlined the whole faction archetype. In halo wars 1 only the UNSC had vehicles that were geared to specifically fight other unit types. The covies didn't, but what they had to counter that with their AV infantry. In this perspective the covy infantry were for the most part geard to counter other unit types. UBER UNITS AND AIR Once again this is different; the air between covy and UNSC was worlds apart. The covenant only anti air unit is an air unit itself, (but with an extremely useful ability which ill get to in a bit.) The uber units could move across all obstacles, however, the scarab could not walk down into huge indentions in the ground which I call void areas.. The vulture could fly over areas that were basically voids of space. The vulture even had an ability that had could output huge damage on one unit which had a very small cool down timer. The gripe in halo wars 2 is that the uber units are just about the same. They are both air and their attacks are pretty similar save the ET's lockdown ability. In halo wars 1 the covies could only have almost 2 uber units (the scarab.) If you centralized and managed the rest of your pop (with well thought units) around one scarab you would be number one on everyone's shit list. Who would be doing the shitting can be up to your imagination. For UNSC at most one could have 6. Vultures could totally change the flow of battle as well, but it can be totally shut down if the covies use the stasis drain on their AA air unit. This makes the vulture a support unit in contrast to the scarab's frontish nature. COMMAND POWER AND HEROES There is almost no difference between Atriox and Cutter's command structure. Im praying this is due to their commercialized rivalry and the command structure on the other leaders will be way different. As for the heroes... In halo wars 1 right off the bat you could tell the difference with how the covies have one hero unit. Their leaders made the whole faction more centralized than the UNSC. They could use command power at anytime at the cost of draining resources. The UNSC, however, could use their power any where on the map that was not fogged. As for the spartans... In their own right they are incredible units as they can effectively carry units in the beginning and are great as support later on. The command structure was totally different. The UNSC had a transport ability, leader specific power, the heal area effect, and the disruption bomb. These could used anywhere rather cheaply, but had cool down timer This gave them more value than just their price number. This makes the UNSC command power an effective team work tool. The only command power covies had were their heroes' ability, but it could be used indefinitely at the cost of constantly draining resources. AFTER THOUGHTS This whole argument is based the assumption that the beta shows exactly what direction the devs are taking the game in. IM PRAYING AND HOPING THE FINAL will go in a whole other direction. Everything has been so streamlined that now in halo wars 2 unit types (infantry armor air) will act the same. ON THE SURFACE HALO WARS 2 MAY SEEM MORE COMPLEX, BUT IT'S NOT. HALO WARS 1 WAS DEFINITELY MORE COMPLEX THAN THE BETA.

omg the locust is soooo cute

I like how they kept most of the animation like halo wars.😆

When people are forgetting it's a beta and not every unit will be on Halo wars 2 straight away. More units will most likely come on gameplay footage or launch day.

I guess some of the unit designs are not yet finished, Can't wait

I hope it will come on the market very soon.

the locus looks so dam cool!

I can't wait for it to come out

Here's hoping this Halo has a great and engaging storyline this time*Cough halo 5 cough*

locust is my instant favourite

They kept and armed the cyclops!?!? AWESOME

engineers still have the cutest noises

lol the brute in the reaver keeps T-posing lmao

I liked the elegance of the covenant machines, these just look clunky.

Covenant look a lot more like Cybran this time around, especially with the giant beetle shaped gunships

that Jackrabbit ... for a moment i thought it was the stealth tank from tiberium wars.

Nightingale is basically a new and improved version of the Falcon

Can Hunters fight in melee now? I remember in the first game that hunters could only used their ranged attack. Would be cool to see hunters toss a group of marines into the air lol.

YES! Suicide Grunts are still here! I can resume rushing them and annihilating my enemies early game! Please retain that DoT AoE upgrade... :C

i was so into ituntil the blisterback sounded like a cat purring lol

Hunters. One of the best units

yep, definitely getting this

This game is beautiful

i still remember the grunts when they say "eat dikos"

Halo was 2 beta is back NOW

The shroud looks like a flying locust

I have a feeling the engineer was put in the halo games to make us feel bad when killing them listen to the noises they make

There is one op unit in the game with the jump pack brutes.They can one shot bases if u get a population of 80 of em.I played the beta and no one could beat me lol

In the mega block series, grunt is pilot of locust.

Nice video