Halo 5: Guardians has been out for over a week now, and developer 343 Industries has already had to pull a map from the multiplayer playlists. As of November 6th, the Orion map in all playlists was taken out, in order for the devs to remove exploits and make improvements to it. They haven’t said when Orion will be brought back.
So what was the problem with Orion? Well, for starters you can ground pound and get outside the map without dying. This would be particularly advantageous if you’ve got a sniper rifle on you, and is probably among the exploits 343 is going to fix.
Orion isn’t the only feature with issues on Halo 5, as 343 said in a Halo Waypoint blog post that they’re also working on problems with Halo 5 spawn points in a future update.
343 have added 15 new gametype and map combinations in the multiplayer hopper; the full map rotations for each gamemode are listed below (new additions in bold).
Team Arena
BREAKOUT
- Altitude
- Trident
SLAYER
- Coliseum
- The Rig
- Plaza
- Eden
- Empire
- Regret
CAPTURE THE FLAG
- Coliseum
- Truth
- Fathom
- Empire
STRONGHOLDS
- The Rig
- Eden
- Empire
- Plaza
SLAYER
- Coliseum
- The Rig
- Plaza
- Regret
- Fathom
- Truth
- Empire
- Pegasus
SWAT
- Eden
- Pegasus
- The Rig
- Plaza
- Regret
- Empire
- Fathom
- Coliseum
- Truth
FREE FOR ALL
- Eden
- Pegasus
- The Rig
- Plaza
- Regret
- Empire
- Fathom
- Coliseum
- Truth
Finally, there is now a special Shotty Snipers weekend playlist on Halo 5. This is already live, and you still have time this weekend to get on and earn increased XP rewards – on all Arena maps except Breakout versions.