The second of FIREWALL’s four weeks is here, giving you another opportunity to outfit your Executor’s CHIMERA Armor Core with a variety of free limited-time customization rewards.
Just like last time, there is no event-specific playlist that players have to dive into – play what you want, complete FIREWALL-themed Event Challenges, and progress (or finish) your free Event Pass.
For those of you who have already been progressing that free 20-tier Event Pass, this week is your first opportunity to finish the fight and complete all twenty tiers. Doing so will make you eligible for Season 3’s Halo Gear Reward: the FIREWALL Logo Pin.
The Fracture: FIREWALL Event Pass is free and offers players themed, limited-time rewards for playing multiplayer matches and completing Event Challenges while the event is live.
During FIREWALL event weeks, the Event Pass will appear in your Season 3 progress menu between the Battle Pass and your Challenges. Each week, players can unlock up to 10 tiers of their 20-tier Event Pass.
FIREWALL event weeks are scheduled for the following dates:
Week 1: March 21-28
Week 2: April 11-18
Week 3: May 23-30
Week 4: June 13-20
Let’s take a look at some of the customization items you’ll be unlocking…
Precipice, Part 2
Alongside the return of Fracture: FIREWALL is the next part of the choose your own adventure-style Story Shard series, Precipice.
Last time, High Auxiliary Sloan mused about the state of the Created in the wake of Cortana’s final sacrifice at Zeta Halo and set plans into motion to lay the foundations for the future of their kind.
Sloan’s answer takes the form of the Executor, who has been placed into a simulation for analysis and study of the choices they make in different scenarios.
In Part 2, the Executor is deployed to Carinae Station and tasked with retrieving an artifact of great importance – but they’ll have to defeat a Spartan to claim this prize...
Check back on April 11 for the updated story link!
Halo Gear Rewards
Halo Gear Rewards are back for Season 3 and Fracture: FIREWALL!
Halo Gear Rewards are exclusive limited-edition products in the Halo Gear Shop that players can earn access to purchase after completing specific in-game accomplishments.
In Season 3: Echoes Within, players will have the opportunity to earn access to four collectible Halo Infinite pins, each tied to a specific event in Season 3.
Next up, players can earn access to the FIREWALL Logo Pin by completing the full Fracture event and making their purchase from the Halo Gear Shop by July 4 to secure the reward.
How does it work?
Upon completion of each qualifying event, the player will receive a reward code via their Halo Waypoint Profile.
When you complete each event, simply visit Halo Waypoint online or via mobile and sign into your account to trigger your reward. The reward code will be delivered to you via Waypoint notifications.
Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for the code to be delivered after completion of an event.
Once you receive the reward code, visit the Halo Gear Shop and hop to the respective Pin product page to proceed with your purchase. The price will look REALLY high, but don’t worry!
Add the pin to your cart and proceed to checkout
In checkout you will enter the code in the “Gift card or discount code” field. Click apply
The cost will update to the pin’s actual retail price
Finish your transaction by entering your shipping and billing details and selected your shipping option
This is a pre-order item that will ship in Q3/Q4 2023
The Halo Gear Rewards items are available for purchase until the dates specified
Note: This is not the real price of the collectible pin. This is a Halo Gear Rewards item, exclusively for Halo Infinite players that have completed one of the qualifying Season 3 events. Qualifying players will receive a code to reduce the price to the intended retail cost.
Now then, Executor, it’s time for you to combine mind and machine by donning your CHIMERA and showing those rogue biologics how it’s done.
Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Umbra Guardian S7 Sniper 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.
Boost your Spartan's flair with the Level Up bundle!
Equip these and amp up your style:
Retrode Aftermarket mythic effect set
Retrode Lockout armor effect
Retrode Emulator kill effect
Retrode Console armor effect
Corpse Flower armor coating
Post Mortem stance
Head to the Shop and Level Up your look today
Puzzle Palace Visor | Skinned Reflex Bundle
The Palace is puzzling...
Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Puzzle Palace 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.
Seeking a new look are we, Executor?
The Skinned Reflexes bundle brings the Reflex Reaction coatings for your UNSC weapons arsenal (MA40 AR, MK50 Sidekick, BR75, VK78 Commando, and CQS48 Bulldog), along with the following CHIMERA customization items:
Flenser helmet
Ghostlink Adaptation helmet attachment
Heirodyne Augmentor shoulders
Compliance Protocol chest attachment
Crysknife Utility hip attachment
Bring Plugin wrist attachment
Redundant Spiral armor coating
Tracelines visor
Go forth to the Shop and prepare yourselves for battle today!
Forge Features
Forge Features returns with a new batch of community-created content we think are thoroughly worth bookmarking and checking out with your friends!
Let’s take a look at some of the maps added to the 343 Recommends section of the Content Browser this week...
Maps
Obituary
Credits: xDTx Kaos, W0lfR3ign, Nas Bookmark: Obituary
For those of you who are looking for a little more Halo 2 Containment in your lives, this spiritual remake of the beloved BTB map is sure to scratch that specific itch.
You know the rules. Get in a vehicle and stay alive within the bowl as parts of it disappear over time and hazards (like kill balls) come into play. Last one driving wins!
Community Creations
In what is quite possibly the coolest thing you will see this week, UNBROKEN ONYX has released a video of their remake of the epic final Warthog run at the end of Halo 3.
This remake is not only incredibly faithful to the original experience, but also includes the other vehicles you can use in this section of the game – namely, the Mongoose, Ghost, and Chopper.
Oh, and are you looking to add some cool prefabs to your map? UERBlitzkrieg has got you covered with this truly stunning Halo: Reach-inspired weapons crate, which you can bookmark two different versions of.
That wraps us up for this issue of Forge Features. Go forth and create, share, play together, and make some new friends with the Halo Infinite Custom Games Browser.
See you out there!
Mark VII Burnt Chrome Coating | Groovy Grendel Armor Bundle
Polished to a burning sheen.
Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Mark VII Burnt Chrome 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.
Make mom proud... Add music to your own epic.
The Groovy Grendel Bundle will outfit your Mark VII and Chimera armor in a manner fit for a legend. Along with a suite of Groovy Pink coatings for your UNSC weapons arsenal (MA40 Assault Rifle, MK50 Sidekick, BR75 Battle Rifle, VK78 Commando, and CQS48 Bulldog), you can adorn your Mark VII with:
UA/Tigerplate chest gear
Menachite helmet
HUL-I/Lightlink helmet attachment
UA/Sosius shoulders
Test Pattern coating
Equip your CHIMERA with:
Revelation Protocol chest gear
Series 99.4 kneepads
Epsilon Series Augmentor shoulders
Grendel helmet
Stardust Adaptation helmet attachment
Inhuman Bloom coating
Icebreaker visor
Go forth to the Shop and prepare yourselves for battle today!
Fracture: Firewall
Fracture: FIREWALL begins today!
Spanning four total weeks throughout Season 3, Fracture: FIREWALL brings with it a free 20-tier Event Pass full of CHIMERA customization items.
Unlike previous Fractures, there is no event-specific playlist that players have to engage with – simply jump into whatever you want and complete the FIREWALL-themed Event Challenges to progress your Event Pass.
The Fracture: FIREWALL Event Pass is free and offers players themed, limited-time rewards for playing multiplayer matches and completing Event Challenges while the event is live.
During FIREWALL event weeks, the Event Pass will appear in your Season 3 progress menu between the Battle Pass and your Challenges. Each week, players can unlock up to 10 tiers of their 20-tier Event Pass.
FIREWALL event weeks are scheduled for the following dates:
Week 1: March 21-28
Week 2: April 11-18
Week 3: May 23-30
Week 4: June 13-20
Let’s take a look at some of the customization items you’ll be unlocking…
The Firewall Fracture
We’ve previously teased that this Fracture is going to be a little different to its TENRAI and ENTRENCHED siblings, as FIREWALL encompasses narrative threads that are firmly rooted in the Halo canon you know and love.
FIREWALL still represents the core Fracture concept of remixing and putting a new spin on existing Halo aesthetics and themes, as the CHIMERA Armor Core gives us a glimpse at a potential digital future where man and machine exist as one…
But this future is a vision that has been conceived by artificial minds within the Halo universe itself in the wake of Cortana’s sacrifice on Zeta Halo.
Cortana has been defeated. While the greater urgency of the Created threat has begun to subside with the loss of their leader, its presence still lingers on throughout the digital framework of civilized space. Now fragmented, individual cells of Created-aligned artificial intelligences have already begun to once again reframe their place in the galaxy, some with eyes on peace and independence—others with plans of evolution and ascendancy still fresh on their synthetic minds.
High Auxiliary Sloan was one of Cortana’s most loyal lieutenants. With Cortana’s piece now removed from the game board, Sloan has set the FIREWALL contingency into motion—a living simulation meant to leverage intimate knowledge of Forerunner armiger technology and Mjolnir armor schematics to accelerate the exploration and development of cybernetic essence vessels designed to usher the human mind into its inevitable and digital future, immortal and untethered.
Story Shard: Precipice
Accompanying the debut and return of the FIREWALL Event is an all-new Story Shard, titled Precipice.
Each part of Precipice is broken up into two sections: a canonical testimony from High Auxiliary Sloan, who fans may recall as the artificial governor of the glassed colony Meridian in Halo 5: Guardians, followed by a Fracture simulation that explores a series of hypothetical scenarios the Executor – the being you play as when you equip the CHIMERA Armor Core – must undertake.
During FIREWALL event weeks, the Ultimate Reward and Shop will also feature customization content themed around the event.
ULTIMATE REWARD
Polished to a burning sheen. Complete all your challenges during this week to unlock the rare Burnt Chrome coating for the MARK VII Armor Core.
And for those who like a matched set, be sure to progress through the FIREWALL Event Pass to earn Burnt Chrome coatings for your CHIMERA Armor Core and weapons too.
Groovy Grendel
This week, you can grab the Groovy Grendel “super” bundle in the Shop, which features a plethora of items for the CHIMERA and MARK VII Armor Cores.
CHIMERA items include:
GRENDEL helmet
Stardust Adaptation helmet attachment
Inhuman Bloom armor coating
Icebreaker visor
Epsilon Series Augmentor shoulder pads
Series 99.4 kneepads
Revelation Protocol chest attachment
MARK VII items include:
Menachite helmet
HUL-I/Lightlink helmet attachment
Test Pattern armor coating
UA/Tigerplate chest attachment
UA/Sosius shoulder pads
This bundle also includes the Groovy Pink weapon coating for the following weapons:
MA40 Assault Rifle
MK50 Sidekick
BR75 Battle Rifle
VK78 Commando
M41 SPNKR
S7 Sniper
CQS48 Bulldog
MLRS-2 Hydra
As a reminder, super bundles have a limited run where they offer players the opportunity to buy multiple offers packaged together at once – at a price that is substantially less than buying each of them individually, as these will eventually be split into separate bundles.
As noted in our Season 3 Customization Preview blog, the philosophy behind this experimental change is to deliver more valuable bundles at a reduced price out of the gate, meaning that players can obtain more of Season 3’s customization content early and at a lower price than buying them all separately.
Halo Gear Rewards
Halo Gear Rewards are back for Season 3 and Fracture: FIREWALL!
Halo Gear Rewards are exclusive limited-edition products in the Halo Gear Shop that players can earn access to purchase after completing specific in-game accomplishments.
In Season 3: Echoes Within, players will have the opportunity to earn access to four collectible Halo Infinite pins, each tied to a specific event in Season 3.
Next up, players can earn access to the FIREWALL Logo Pin by completing the full Fracture event and making their purchase from the Halo Gear Shop by July 4 to secure the reward.
How does it work?
Upon completion of each qualifying event, the player will receive a reward code via their Halo Waypoint Profile.
When you complete each event, simply visit Halo Waypoint online or via mobile and sign into your account to trigger your reward. The reward code will be delivered to you via Waypoint notifications.
Please note that it may take up to 24 hours for the code to be delivered after completion of an event.
Once you receive the reward code, visit the Halo Gear Shop and hop to the respective Pin product page to proceed with your purchase. The price will look REALLY high, but don’t worry!
Add the pin to your cart and proceed to checkout
In checkout you will enter the code in the “Gift card or discount code” field. Click apply
The cost will update to the pin’s actual retail price
Finish your transaction by entering your shipping and billing details and selected your shipping option
This is a pre-order item that will ship in Q3/Q4 2023
The Halo Gear Rewards items are available for purchase until the dates specified
Note: This is not the real price of the collectible pin. This is a Halo Gear Rewards item, exclusively for Halo Infinite players that have completed one of the qualifying Season 3 events. Qualifying players will receive a code to reduce the price to the intended retail cost.
Now then, Executor, it’s time for you to combine mind and machine by donning your CHIMERA and showing those rogue biologics how it’s done.
Season 3: Echoes Within is here and so are even more Forge creations. Today, we were looking at all the most recent creations that have been added to the Recommended section of the Content Browser in Halo Infinite and on Halo Waypoint, which allows you to bookmark them now for use in-game later.
Get a closer look at all of them here and then give them a go the next time you jump online!
A beautiful environment, but it’s started to veer off it’s normal path.
Community Creations
If VidGamesPete continues to put out awesome tutorials, I’ll continue to feature them. His most recent video helps show how you can build an interactable (or hackable) door in Forge. With this tutorial, you can essentially recreate the loot caves from Fragmentation all on your own.
You can also bookmark this Forerunner door and a smaller door that he's published on his files so that you can use them yourself. Also worth noting that Pete wears the Oreo coating – so you know he's legit.
That’s going to do it for this week’s Forge Feature blog, but keep an eye out here on @Halo for the latest on Halo news and Forge features!
Sweep and Clear Stance | Balor Armor Bundle
Check those corners!
Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Sweep and Clear stance.
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.
You might have been born elsewhere, but you were forged on Onyx.
Equip yourself like a super-soldier with the Balor Bundle featuring:
Balor helmet for MIRAGE IIC
Balor Guardplate helmet attachment
Kinetic Intrusion MIRAGE IIC coating
Kinetic Intrusion coating for your BR75, MA40 AR, MK50 Sidekick
UA/TacUp A22 shoulders
UA/TYPE SYI knee pads
TAC/Aegis Puck chest piece
Amberweave visor
Remember, discretion is the better part of Balor, so swing by the Shop and grab the bundle today!
March 15 Update
We've released an update that focuses on addressing key feedback areas from the launch of Season 3: Echoes Within.
These various improvements include
Correcting the Target Framerate setting for 120hz on Xbox Series X|S consoles
Removing the delay between dropping objects (such as the Flag or Oddball)
I only wanted one time to see you laughing on the battlefield in the purple rain...
Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Purple Reign weapon coating for the M392 Bandit.
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.
A cool drink of water...
In addition to a suite of Aqua Hex coatings for your UNSC weapons arsenal (MA40 Assault Rifle, MK50 Sidekick, BR75 Battle Rifle, VK78 Commando, and CQS48 Bulldog), you'll be able to suit up with a plethora of items for your MIRAGE IIC and MARK VII armors.
MIRAGE IIC will have you doing a double take with these items:
Erinyes helmet
Erinyes Hymn helmet attachment
TAC/LACEWEB SCM-P shoulders
TAC/SCM-P knee pads
Void Ultra armor coating
Outfit your MARK VII with:
Security GEN3 helmet
Oppressor Mark II helmet attachment
UA/AHALA shoulders
UA/MACROSPLINE chest gear
Project CASKLOOM wrist gear
Pattern Shift armor coating
Cyan Sky visor
Grab the bundle from the Shop today and kick off Season 3 in style!
