Betan av Halo 5: Guardians kommer att vara en "riktig" sådan enligt Frank O'Conner, development director på Halo-serien vid utvecklaren 343 Industries. Han menar på att till skillnad från andra betor så kommer 343 Industries gå in på djupet och verkligen begrunda den feedback de kommer erhålla. Detta hade han att säga i en intervju med Eurogamer angående betan:
"We'll be adding a lot of new things in Halo 5, but we want to talk to classic Halo fans about what makes a great Halo experience, and we think we're going to get a lot of good data from them. And it's a real beta. Sometimes a beta is maybe a good way to test performance on your network. We'll be looking at every single aspect of how people play this, and we have a lot of time to actually take meaningful feedback"
"We're trying to mine it for all the data we can get, not just network data or performance data. It's like, how are people playing? How are they adapting to the new features? How are they dealing with new weapons? There will be a huge amount of data for us to look at"
Betan för Halo 5: Guardians kommer dyka upp den 27:e december iår och du kommer behöva inhandla Halo: The Master Chief Collection som släpps den 11:e november iår för att få tillgång till den.