Well, it ain't confirmed yet but HW2 does show that The Banished are in the same system as Reach and both HW2 and this new book are set after Halo 5. I doubt the Prometheans will take a step back unfortunately and it might be too early for The Flood if they introduce The Banished as a villain alongside Cortana.

There was new concept art for Halo 5 revealed recently which may have shown they had a entirely different idea for the story to begin with.

The Didact Halo 5 Concept Art, appears to be composed in a Promethean body, as he did get disintegrated at the end of Halo Escalation, I think it would be cool if Didact returns in Infinite and ultimately steals Cortana's Promethean army from her after she's done all the hard work assembling it. Warden Eternal would likely be more loyal to Didact than Cortana.

There was a Youtube video I watched the other day which basically theorises that Infinite will have Chief collecting fragments of Cortana, each Cortana fragment with a different personality, as we saw her split herself at the end of Halo 4, the Halo 5 Cortana isn't the Halo 4 Cortana, we save her by collecting all the Fragments of her and combining them together again but that leaves an entire Promethean army up for grabs which opens the doors for Didacts return.

Also there was this Concept Art, Elite's merged with Prometheans, honestly I'd rather fight those than actual Prometheans, have Cortana have her own little Covenant army which she is experimenting on combining AI with Organics, would make them different enough from The Banished if they were to return.

Every time I see that I scratch my head wondering how it can sell more than the Standard X1 controller and Dualshock 4.

Was watching the Digital Foundry video for Ori 2 just now. Definitely a technical mess. Framerate drops way below the 60 target on XB1 and XB1 S, as low as 28 fps. Even on XB1 X there are some pretty significant frame drops. Respawn load times are also way longer than they were in the first game. I’m honestly not sure how Moon went so wrong on this one. These performance issues were present in the E3 demo, they’ve had many months to fix them.

I’m honestly not convinced that their upcoming patches will be enough to fix the problem, especially on XB1 and XB1 S, the frame rate drops are just too large to overcome with patching. Optimizing in another 20-30 FPS will be nearly impossible. They may need to just lock XB1/XB1 S framerate at 30 fps to avoid the constant stuttering from uneven frame times.

Was watching the Digital Foundry video for Ori 2 just now. Definitely a technical mess. Framerate drops way below the 60 target on XB1 and XB1 S, as low as 28 fps. Even on XB1 X there are some pretty significant frame drops. Respawn load times are also way longer than they were in the first game. I’m honestly not sure how Moon went so wrong on this one. These performance issues were present in the E3 demo, they’ve had many months to fix them.

I’m honestly not convinced that their upcoming patches will be enough to fix the problem, especially on XB1 and XB1 S, the frame rate drops are just too large to overcome with patching. Optimizing in another 20-30 FPS will be nearly impossible. They may need to just lock XB1/XB1 S framerate at 30 fps to avoid the constant stuttering from uneven frame times.

As much as I am looking forward to playing Ori 2, I'm going to wait until it gets a patch and fixes most of the game breaking bugs. I have plenty of other games to keep me occupied in the meantime. 

Normal, my max energy is glitched and complete the game.

Beat the game on hard. Got none of the completion chievos. Also didn't pop the ones for maxing health and energy. And I'm missing one gorlek ore despite collecting all secrets on the map. Frustrating lol