Halo Infinite News

Fracture: Entrenched returns from August 16-22!

This marks week four out of six for the Entrenched event, which offers 30 tiers of unique cosmetics and rewards for your EAGLESTRIKE armor core.

Jump into the Land Grab event playlist and complete event-specific Challenges in order to earn Event Pass reward tiers. Complete all of your Challenges to unlock this week’s Ultimate Reward, the Kaolin Strand armor coating for the Mark VII armor core.

Head to the Shop for additional EAGLESTRIKE cosmetics. This week, you can grab the March of War armor FX as well as various coatings from the Frontier Outrider, Liberty Clad, and Grim Fortress sets.

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[h2]Progressing the Event Pass[/h2]

The Fracture: Entrenched Event Pass is 100% free and offers players themed, limited time rewards for playing multiplayer matches and completing event challenges while the event is live.

Progress on the Event Pass is made by completing Event Challenges, which you can find on your Challenges page marked with a red banner.



Completing an Event Challenge will unlock an Event Pass tier reward, progressing you through the Event Pass. You can progress up to ten tiers of your Event Pass in a given week.

Get ready to dig in and grab some land!

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[h2]STORY SHARD: THE LAST SKY MARSHAL, PART 3[/h2]

For the five recurrences of the Fracture: Entrenched event, we will be releasing a five-part tie-in story that is directed by the community—by you!



The Last Sky Marshal is the first Fracture Story Shard. Hosted on Halo Waypoint, Story Shards are a choose your own adventure-style story. Set in the Entrenched universe and told over five parts, Parts 1-4 of The Last Sky Marshal will feature a cliffhanger where a dilemma will be presented, and the community will vote on where the story goes next.

What choice will be made? How will it end? That’s up to you...

Read The Last Sky Marshal here and follow Commander Kolby as he leads an assault on Luna against the Covenant, who have discovered something that could turn the tide of the war against humanity.

You can cast your vote for the direction the next part of the story should go on Twitter, Waypoint, YouTube, Discord, Instagram, and the Official Halo Club on Xbox and PC. Voting is open for one week so choose wisely!

Spoils of war fit for a champion!



The Champion Armor Bundle includes the Halcyon Days armor coating for all armor cores, along with the Oddball Champion stance, UA/RENFRU shoulders, and Fastball emblem.

Pick up the set and look good on the podium today!

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D'you think the Covenant mind we're stealing their purple?



Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Knife Dancer visor.

A new Ultimate Reward will become available every week, so be sure to keep an eye on your Challenges and take advantage of these free rewards.

The August Drop Pod is here!



This update features numerous updates and fixes such as:

• Visors can be used across all armor cores
  
• Active Challenges being reflected on the pause menu
  
• Fourth Challenge slot always being available on a Premium Battle Pass
  
• ...and more!

Check out the full patch notes on the Halo Support site: aka.ms/HaloInfiniteUpdate

Arriving next Tuesday, August 9, our next Drop Pod will focus on improving the player experience on multiple fronts. This update is set to expand each player’s customization options, include QoL improvements, and will lay the groundwork for even more community-requested features.

Let’s take a look at what’s inside!

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[h3]LIVE[/h3]

VISORS WILL WORK ON ALL CORES

At present, there are a multitude of visors in the game split across the 5 armor cores. If you’ve wanted to use the shiny gold Noble visor (which has hitherto been locked to the Mark V armor core) to complete your look on any of your other cores, you’ll be able to make that happen when the August Drop Pod lands.

What this means is that all visors that are currently in the game, and all future visors to come, will work across all helmets from all armor cores.

EAGLESTRIKE’S Night Wisp visor on a Mark V [B] helmet

RAKSHASA’s Athena’s Mirror visor on a YOROI helmet

MARK VII HELMET ATTACHMENTS

Continuing with the theme of improving customization options, this Drop Pod will also allow for certain Mark VII helmet attachments to be worn across multiple Mark VII helmets.

This is a response to player feedback we’ve seen requesting an expansion of the compatibility of Mark VII helmet attachments. Naturally, this move came with some complexities because most helmet attachments for the Mark VII core are designed to fit a specific helmet, but some happen to also fit well on other Mark VII helmets.

The Live Team took some time with our Artists to find out which helmet attachments look best and fit without clipping awkwardly or having large holes. Since certain combinations could have clipping or large gaps, not every Mark VII helmet will be able to use every helmet attachment – but the total number of options has been greatly increased.

If you’ve already unlocked these helmets and helmet attachments, they will automatically be usable. If you unlock them in the future, all the possible combinations will be unlocked for you. There will not be a need to unlock them on a per-use basis.

A full list of the helmet and helmet attachment combinations will be included in the Drop Pod patch notes when it goes live.

Soldier helmet attachment on a Rampart helmet Mark V [B]’s Stalwart visor on a Mark VII helmet

Warmaster helmet attachment on Firefall helmet
RAKSHASA’s Sapphire Front visor on a Mark VII helmet

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[h3]MULTIPLAYER[/h3]

ADDITIONAL RANKED PLAYLISTS

On the multiplayer experience front, this update will make it easier for us to implement more Ranked playlists moving forward. Kicking things off will be Ranked Doubles, which is set to land two weeks after the Drop Pod’s release – along with a CSR reset. Additionally, a social Team Doubles playlist will be accompanying Ranked Doubles on its launch day, meaning Halo Infinite will be getting twice the 2v2 fun.

We’ll monitor the health of Ranked Doubles and all our playlists after its addition to the matchmaking lineup. If all playlists continue to perform as expected, we’ll keep these additions and continue experimenting with adding more Ranked playlists in the future.



REGION SELECT GROUNDWORK

In the opening of this blog, we mentioned that we were laying some groundwork for the future as well. While there is no player-facing change here just yet, this Drop Pod does contain a lot of the groundwork required to turn Region Select on in the future. This would allow players to select between all searching across all regions (faster search times) or their local region (better pings).

This feature is still some time away, but players may spot some of the backend work that has been done to start putting things in place. We’ll have more to share about Region Select as we get closer to its launch.
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[h3]PRESENTATION[/h3]

CHALLENGES ON THE PAUSE MENU

With this Drop Pod release, your active Challenges will be viewable while in a match on the pause menu. We know it’s helpful to be able to quickly glance at your active Challenges (as well as their descriptions) at any given time during a match, so we’re very happy to get this implemented.

Note: This placeholder text is not indicative of future Challenges

Please note: this screen will not show the exact numbers (remaining or total) for your Challenges just yet. Since Challenges currently update at the end of a match, we chose not to display the numbers intentionally to avoid any confusion around not seeing them update in real-time. We are working to make it so Challenges do tick during a match, but we wanted to get this helpful first step out to all of you since it was ready.

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As always, we’ll have the full patch notes available on the Halo Support site when the update is released.

Thank you for your continued feedback on the forums, Twitter, Reddit, and more as we keep pushing to make Halo Infinite the best experience it can be. We look forward to seeing you online when the Drop Pod lands next Tuesday, August 9!

Orange is the new black!



Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Tawney Prairie Rakshasa armor coating.

A new Ultimate Reward will become available every week, so be sure to keep an eye on your Challenges and take advantage of these free rewards.

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Give 'em a royal welcome, Spartan.



The Regal Strike Set includes the HIGHCOM Sentinel shoulder pads, Crystal gloves, Steppin' Razor stance, Violet Gunpowder coating, Heroic Intervention visor - all for your Mark VII armor. Also included is the Pioneer Group Zeta emblem for your Spartan, weapons, vehicles, and nameplate.

Head over to the Shop and pick up the set today!