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 (nest of rumours⛄ and mistruths). All of that said, let'sꦚ 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 ꦫuses a charge shot; the latter can't be used as a mini-sho𒁃tgun any longer, instead firing two homing shots.

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

• Incineration Cannon is back and has changed compared to Halo 4. players can charge up a shot and the longer you charge, the more powerful it is. Battery based rather than ammo based.
• Railgun is back from Halo 4 and works almost identically - could hold up to 11 shots
• 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"
• Pistol RoF is modified to be slower but is a lot more powerful - competes with AR and BR
• Ground pound is harder to use, radius is tiny
• 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 st🧸uff will be proven is quite another matter.