Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the That One 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.
Why don't we take this fight out back?
Head to the Shop and grab the Outback Storm bundle to secure coatings for your EAGLESTRIKE armor core and MA40 Assault Rifle.
Let 'em know that, honey, you've got a big storm comin'!
Winter Update Overview
The Winter Update for Halo Infinite is just a few short weeks away, bringing with it a plethora of new content.
Campaign Network Co-Op will allow you and up to three of your friends to experience the Master Chief’s journey in Halo Infinite’s Campaign together—from the Warship Gbraakon to the Silent Auditorium, and the vast shattered landscapes of Zeta Halo itself. This will further be supported with the addition of Mission Replay, allowing you to hop between completed missions as you wish, and gives you a further 24 Achievements to unlock.
The Forge Beta will also arrive in the Winter Update. With thousands of new objects and countless new additions and improvements, many of which we explored in our Forge Fundamentals (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4) video series, the time has come for you to unleash your creativity as we put the most powerful tools of Halo’s map and mode creation in your hands at last.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. With a new 30-tier Battle Pass, new events, new modes, new maps, and more, our latest Overview showcases all the exciting new additions coming your way when the Winter Update launches on November 8.
Halo World Championship
The Halo World Championship kicks off on October 20!
Boasting a $1,000,000 prize pool, the Halo World Championship will feature the world's best teams as they throw down for all the glory.
In addition to the battle to be crowned Champion, don't miss out on some of the other weekend activities!
$25,000 FFA TOURNAMENT
As always, ASTROGaming is hooking up event attendees with a $25,000 FFA Tournament!
Registration will be open for up to 256 players and spectators
The FFA tournament checkin will begin at 11:00am for VIP and 11:30am for GA. The tournament will start at 2:00pm on Friday, October 21st. You must pre-register at hcs.ee.gg and then check in onsite to compete in the FFA Tournament
Must have a Spectator ticket to participate
$5,000 COSPLAY CONTEST
For the first time at an HCS event, we are hosting a Halo Cosplay Contest. With $5,000 at stake, cosplay enthusiasts will show off their amazing creations for all to see (and judge)!
This is a one day event split into two heats on Saturday October 22, 2022.
Heat 1 (3:00PM PT-3:45PM PT): All those in costume will be invited on stage in groups to show off costume to the audience and judges. The judges will score all participants based on execution, creativity, complexity and accuracy. Entrants with the top 10 scores will be invited to Heat 2.
Heat 2 (7:00PM - 7:45PM PT): Will be limited to the top 10 participants from Heat 1 and given 4 minutes to showcase each costume. Judges will present the top 3 winners.
Prizing as follows:
First place: $3,000
Second place: $1,500
Third place: $500
KEY INFO
Date: October 20-23 (NO SPECTATORS on Oct 20th Play-in Stage)
Venue: Seattle Convention Center (FKA Washington State Convention Center) - The Arch, Halls DEF, 705 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101
The first time I looked at Forge in Halo Infinite, I was like "Oh hey, cool that's... oh, holy-- you guys did what?!”
With November already on the horizon, in just a few short months the Forge Beta will be in your hands to unleash your creativity with, dare we say, infinite possibilities.
In this four-part video series, we’re going to explore the foundational elements of Forge to get you acquainted with its tools, showcase brand new features and improvements from previous games, and provide some direct developer insight into what’s coming.
Here are the topics we’ll be covering in each video of this series:
Scripting & Bots – what is scripting, how can I use it, and how can I test my map with bots?
Polish – what lighting, art, and audio tools can make my maps look and sound great?
Canvases & File Sharing – where can I build my maps and how can people discover them?
But first, of course, for those of you who may just be joining us on this great journey, or may need a refresher, let us take a moment to look back on what Forge represents as a pillar for Halo...
What is Forge?
Once upon a time, matches on Halo 2’s Colossus would begin with a frenetic rush to collect the various plasma pistols and battle rifles strewn across its lower end, and we would have to impose honor rules.
In those days, the placement of weapons, objectives, spawns, and other details of Halo’s multiplayer spaces were largely fixed – rooted in place, until they were picked up and spent, after which an invisible countdown would bring them back to be fought over once again.
But then, Halo 3 brought with it an exciting new feature. Forge began as an object layout editor, enabling players to rework weapons, vehicles, scenery, and spawns – and you could invite your friends to hop in and test out these changes live, or spend an hour trying to drop tanks on each other.
As with all creative tools, when put in the hands of the community, impossible things happened. You built Scarabs and Pelicans out of crates and scenery items. You used teleporter nodes to keep objects floating in the air. You discovered techniques that allowed blocks to intersect with each other and the environment, creating all-new maps on empty canvases.
From that point, Forge ceased to be a simple layout editor. It became a map maker, and a community of creative cartographers arose from its foundations.
Since then, Forge has been continually upgraded in successive Halo titles with new tools and capabilities to give Forgers more agency and options in what they seek to create. More objects, bigger budgets, new terrain pieces, color editing, magnets, baked lighting, scripting... Forge is your playground, and in Halo Infinite we’re giving you more toys to play with than ever before.
Read Part 2 – Scripting & Bots to explore new and improved features around scripting, node graphs, and Bot support on Forge maps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgIxew1x12s
Part 3 – Lighting & Audio
Check out Part 3 of our Forge Fundamentals to see how you can leverage new lighting and audio tools in the creation of your maps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyKLrBs6GDM&t=2s
Part 4 – File Sharing & Canvases
Our fourth and final Forge video details the canvases you’ll be building your maps on and the key to sharing your creations with your friends and other players.
The Halo Infinite Forge Beta will launch with six canvas maps, providing a range of environments—from arid desert to lush grasslands and marshes, to outer space and the underwater sea floor, and even a blank void—which are about double the size of Halo 5’s canvases.
Add collaborators to your map, giving your selected friends a range of options to co-Forge alongside you and list them in its credits; look at your map’s “version history” and track the major additions or changes you’ve made to then seamlessly jump between past and present versions of your maps; and head into the main menu’s Community tab to browse published maps, modes, and prefabs from other players.
Join John Junyszek, Senior Community Manager, and Michael Schorr, Forge Lord (that is, Forge Lead Designer!), one last time as they get you acquainted with the powerful options and tools at your disposal when Forge arrives with the Winter Update on November 8.
Ultimate Reward & Featured Shop Bundle
I've got a hunch that if you hop on over to the Shop, you'll be able to grab the Marlin T. Buckets armor effect...
verybody loves rabbits, which is why, with Marlin T. Buckets, nobody will touch a hare on your Spartan's head!
Please note: possession of the Marlin T. Buckets armor effect does not, in fact, prohibit other players from delivering unto you the full variety of dire fates that may come from various weapons, grenades, melee, fusion cores, and other instruments of destruction.
The Banished may be our enemies, but you can't deny that red looks good!
Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Catawba Liver M12 Warthog 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.
What does a Spartan in possession of the Banana Bombshell bundle say when they get the drop on the enemy?
Yellow.
Tell your friends more side-splitting puns from behind the wheel of all your vehicles, decked out in the most ap-peel-ing Banana Bombshell coating.
Ranked FFA & Social Slayer
As we continue to explore and experiment with Halo Infinite’s playlist offerings, two new experiences now join the fray – Ranked FFA and Social Slayer.
On top of being a blast, both playlists provide unique opportunities to learn even more about player preferences in matchmaking. Their additions as rotationals will help us study player behavior and playlist health, which will help inform our future rotational plans for the Winter Update and beyond. In September’s Playlist Update blog, we discussed this concept in greater depth and also outlined the popularity of Halo Infinite’s existing playlists.
Now, let’s take a look at the two new playlists you can play today!
RANKED FREE-FOR-ALL
Ranked FFA will test your ability to separate yourself from the pack. Prove that you are the ultimate lone wolf and climb your way up the ranks.
MODES
Ranked FFA Slayer
Ranked FFA King of the Hill
Competitive Halo Infinite Settings: Battle Rifle Starts. No Radar. It's every Spartan for themselves!
Social Slayer
Social Slayer takes fun to the extreme with some new action-packed Slayer variants. Hop into this playlist with your friend and you’ll have more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
MODES
Kong Slayer
Ninja Slayer
Purple Reign Slayer
Rock 'n' Repulsors Slayer
Rocket Dodgeball
Play with friends, slay your foes. Obliterate your opponents in an assortment of Team Slayer based modes. Whether you’re powering through the ranks in Ranked FFA or throwing Fusion Coils at each other in Social Slayer, we hope you find these new experiences enjoyable.
If you have any feedback about these playlists, please let us know. If you run into any technical issues while playing, be sure to report it on the Halo Support site.
We’ll see you online in matchmaking or in-person at the Halo World Championship next week in Seattle!
Ultimate Reward & Featured Shop Bundle
Come, get your mojo!
Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Mark VII Blue Mojo 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.
Suit up shabbily and they remember the armor; suit up impeccably and they remember the Spartan!
They say that half the battle is won by looking better than the other guy, and you'll certainly be turning heads on the battlefield with the Opulent Display set.
Embrace your baddest self with the Opulent Bouquet armor effect, Opulent Bronze Mark VII coating, Opulent Display stance, and Opulent Butterfly nameplate & emblem.
Swing by the Shop and dress for the job you deserve today!
There are 104 reasons to love this color combo!
Outfit your RAKSHASA armor core with the Ruckamuck Jade bundle, containing the Faded Jade armor coating, Ruckamuck Booniebox chest attachment, Blood of Doisac visor, and Low Value Target emblems & nameplate. Make your stand and let 'em know that the Great Journey ends here...
Halo Waypoint | Game History & Post-Game Carnage Reports
As Halo Infinite’s in-game offerings continue to expand, so does our support for the game with Halo Waypoint’s web and mobile app experiences. From launching with deep game integration to expanding its feature set with Halo Infinite’s Service Record earlier this year, Halo Waypoint continues to improve as the essential companion to the game.
Today, we’re excited to share that Halo Waypoint’s latest update, which is now available on all platforms, brings two highly requested features to players’ fingertips — Game History and Post-Game Carnage Reports (PGCR) for Halo Infinite.
The Game History feature serves as your main navigation page to find previous Halo Infinite matches that you’ve played in. That means this goes all the way back to your first match ever played, even all the way back to our surprise launch on November 15 of last year.
From this Game History page, you can select a match and examine its PGCR to see its scoreboard and all its finer details. Kills, Objective play, Accuracy, Medals, and plenty more stats—they’re all shown on this deeper dive with the PGCR. Additionally, if the match was Ranked, you can also see how much your CSR moved up or down as a result of that match’s outcome.
We’re excited to continue supporting Halo Infinite and Halo Waypoint experiences across the board, and today’s update is another step on that great journey.
To try out these features on your mobile device, download the Halo Waypoint app today:
Android: https://aka.ms/HaloWaypointAndroid
iOS: http://aka.ms/HaloWaypointiOS
If you have any feedback about this latest update, please share be sure to share it with us. If you come across any technical issues, please let us know on the Halo Support site.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback, and we’ll see you online!
The first time I looked at Forge in Halo Infinite, I was like "Oh hey, cool that's... oh, holy-- you guys did what?!”
With November already on the horizon, in just a few short months the Forge Beta will be in your hands to unleash your creativity with, dare we say, infinite possibilities.
In this four-part video series, we’re going to explore the foundational elements of Forge to get you acquainted with its tools, showcase brand new features and improvements from previous games, and provide some direct developer insight into what’s coming.
Here are the topics we’ll be covering in each video of this series:
Scripting & Bots – what is scripting, how can I use it, and how can I test my map with bots?
Polish – what lighting, art, and audio tools can make my maps look and sound great?
Canvases & File Sharing – where can I build my maps and how can people discover them?
But first, of course, for those of you who may just be joining us on this great journey, or may need a refresher, let us take a moment to look back on what Forge represents as a pillar for Halo...
What is Forge?
Once upon a time, matches on Halo 2’s Colossus would begin with a frenetic rush to collect the various plasma pistols and battle rifles strewn across its lower end, and we would have to impose honor rules.
In those days, the placement of weapons, objectives, spawns, and other details of Halo’s multiplayer spaces were largely fixed – rooted in place, until they were picked up and spent, after which an invisible countdown would bring them back to be fought over once again.
But then, Halo 3 brought with it an exciting new feature. Forge began as an object layout editor, enabling players to rework weapons, vehicles, scenery, and spawns – and you could invite your friends to hop in and test out these changes live, or spend an hour trying to drop tanks on each other.
As with all creative tools, when put in the hands of the community, impossible things happened. You built Scarabs and Pelicans out of crates and scenery items. You used teleporter nodes to keep objects floating in the air. You discovered techniques that allowed blocks to intersect with each other and the environment, creating all-new maps on empty canvases.
From that point, Forge ceased to be a simple layout editor. It became a map maker, and a community of creative cartographers arose from its foundations.
Since then, Forge has been continually upgraded in successive Halo titles with new tools and capabilities to give Forgers more agency and options in what they seek to create. More objects, bigger budgets, new terrain pieces, color editing, magnets, baked lighting, scripting... Forge is your playground, and in Halo Infinite we’re giving you more toys to play with than ever before.
Read Part 2 – Scripting & Bots to explore new and improved features around scripting, node graphs, and Bot support on Forge maps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgIxew1x12s
Part 3 – Lighting & Audio
For our third Forge video, we’re looking at how you can leverage new lighting and audio tools in the creation of your maps.
Michael Schorr, Forge Lead Designer, and Tyler Feddeler, Lighting Artist, showcase a series of new lighting and audio options that can be used to create more immersive and detailed maps than ever before.
Adjust your map’s time of day and even change the color of the sun and sky to get the exact atmosphere you want, whether that’s a pitch-black night-time environment with volumetric fog and curated shadows, a neon pink sun blazing down upon the battlefield, or anything equally wild your imagination comes up with. The sky(box) truly is the limit!
Then bring your maps to life with a suite of ambient audio options with primary and secondary sounds, reverb, effects, and even scripting audio. Looking to make an underwater or outer space map? It’s not just the sights, but the sounds that are now an integral part of your Forge arsenal.
Ultimate Reward & Featured Shop Bundle
You journeyed into the howling dark, but your deeds will not be remembered...
Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Eaglestrike Unremembered Defiance 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.
You can have it in any color you like, so long as it's blue!
Grab the Halite Storm bundle to acquire the Halite Storm coating for your EAGLESTRIKE armor, MK50 Sidekick, and CQS48 Bulldog.
