Halo Infinite — patch notes and updates
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| Forge Features | 2026-04-23 | Welcome to another edition of Forge Features! This series highlights notable maps, modes, and other creations from our talented Forge community. Bookmark your favorites using the links below for your next custom game.If it can be dreamed, it can be Forged. Our latest community Forge Feature starts with an in-depth look at TSG Warzone, and then genre-hops through space races, nightmare-fuel Infections, historical battles, “objectively” awesome strategy modes, and more!TSG WARZONE*Forged by: Okom1, TostEZ28, SilvervioletX98, Unusual Hiccup, spartan blood 1, JoValiant, Implied Skill, CaptainPunch374, NasMode bookmarks: TSG Warzone | TSG Warzone |
| Halo Franchise Sale & Halo: Campaign Evolved Wishlist | 2026-03-02 | All your favorite Halo titles on Steam are currently on sale! Whether you’re jumping back in or picking up a classic for the first time, now’s a great time to expand your library.Be sure to check out the full sale here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/halofranchisesale2026While you’re there, make sure to wishlist Halo: Combat Evolved Campaign on Steam so you don’t miss what’s next: |
| Forge Features | 2026-02-03 | Welcome to another edition of Forge Features! This series highlights notable maps, modes, and other creations from our talented Forge community. Bookmark your favorites using the links below for your next custom game.A new turn around the sun warrants more Forging fun! Check out our latest Forge Features showcase of community-made creations, including epic-scale battle modes, multi-part missions, social free-roams, minigames, and more.SUPERB SLAYERSExciting arenas for free-for-all and Team Slayer matches. Use the links to add them to your Halo Infinite bookmarks.LIMINALBookmark this map.Forged by: JDzirkusLiminal is a multicolor sporting aren |
| Operation: Infinite Out Now | 2025-11-18 | To celebrate all the Spartans in our Halo Infinite Fireteam, Operation: Infinite introduces a 100-tier free Operation Pass featuring three full armor sets and a 100-tier Premium Pass offering five more sets, six weapon models, and over 30 exclusive Spartan customizations.Upgrade to the Premium Pass at any time to transfer your tier progress from the free Operation Pass and earn your way to eight full sets.Halo Infinite’s last planned multiplayer update also welcomes permanent progression boosts, new maps, refreshed Ranked Seasons, over 200 never-before-seen customizations arriving in The Exchange, and more!Steady on, Spartan. The future is In |
| Operation: Infinite Out Now | 2025-11-07 | To celebrate all the Spartans in our Halo Infinite Fireteam, Operation: Infinite introduces a 100-tier free Operation Pass featuring three full armor sets and a 100-tier Premium Pass offering five more sets, six weapon models, and over 30 exclusive Spartan customizations.Upgrade to the Premium Pass at any time to transfer your tier progress from the free Operation Pass and earn your way to eight full sets.Halo Infinite’s last planned multiplayer update also welcomes permanent progression boosts, new maps, refreshed Ranked Seasons, over 200 never-before-seen customizations arriving in The Exchange, and more!Steady on, Spartan. The future is In |
| Operation: Infinite Update Preview | 2025-11-07 | As we look back on four years of evolution and updates in Halo Infinite, we’d like to thank our community for your steadfast support. Without your feedback and enthusiasm, Halo Infinite multiplayer would not be the special place it is today: a robust arena for slaying and playing, with something for every Spartan.With multiple Halo titles in development, we’ll need our whole team’s combined focus to deliver new experiences with the same passion and care that our community has given us. While we remain committed to supporting Halo Infinite on the road ahead, Operation: Infinite is the last major content update currently planned.Starting Novemb |
| Thank You | Halo World Championship 2025 | 2025-10-30 | Whether you joined us in Seattle or on our live broadcast, we’d like to thank everyone in the Halo community for making this year’s Halo World Championship in Seattle such an unforgettable experience.Between swapping stories with Halo fans, watching elite Halo Infinite players duke it out on the main stage, announcing Halo: Campaign Evolved, and seeing our community raise a whopping $67,000 for Gamers Outreach, it’s hard to pick a favorite moment from this incredible weekend—so we thought we’d share a whole collection of them!Check out more highlights from this year’s Halo World Championship below.Congrats to Shopify RebellionAfter three days |
| Operation: Haloween II Community Playdate | 2025-10-30 | Something wicked this way spawns…Join us for our Operation: Haloween II Community Playdate tomorrow at 11am PT for some spooktacular shenanigans. Match us to earn your treat – the Unicorn of Ice rewards!Costumes optional. Chaos guaranteed. |
| Happy 10th Birthday Halo 5 | 2025-10-29 | Fireteam Osiris, the light is green!It has been ten years since Spartan Locke sent Fireteam Osiris to Kamchatka, thus setting in motion the events of Halo: 5 Guardians.We’re celebrating in Halo Infinite by bringing some fan-favorite armor sets to the Exchange and bringing back the new, unique mode, Extermination.Anniversary ArmorsIf you’ve banked enough Spartan Points, you’ll be able to grab these sets as soon as they drop out of slipspace. If not, fear not – they will be available from the Exchange so you may obtain them at your leisure. (Or you can grab them from the Shop if you prefer that route.) Hunter: Savvy Spartans choose HUNTER techn |
| Halo: Fifth Canticle | 2025-10-29 | 2558. Amid the chaos of the Created uprising, five tales of truth, compromise, betrayal, purpose, and change unfold across the galaxy.Doctor Catherine Halsey and Jul ‘Mdama share an honest conversation, Captain Lasky makes arrangements for a vital mission to Sanghelios, Arbiter Thel ‘Vadam confronts a traitor, Exuberant Witness makes some new friends, and a strange signal is picked up on Zeta Halo. Halo: Fifth Canticle is available here, on Halo Waypoint, as a free PDF, and in audiobook format on YouTube.HISTORIAN’S NOTEHalo: Fifth Canticle takes place in October 2558 as the Created uprising radically threatens to alter the power structure of |
| Halo World Championship 2025 | 2025-10-20 | The biggest Halo event of the year returns to Seattle for the Halo World Championship 2025! Join fans from around the globe to witness electrifying plays, a thunderous crowd, and a celebration of Halo like no other.Whether you're into watching dev panels at the Halo Community Stage, playing in side tournaments, checking out cosplay, or just soaking in the atmosphere, there’s something here for everyone! Don’t miss your chance to watch live as the best players in the world compete for their share of $1,000,000.The Halo World Championship is the ultimate battleground, and the stakes have never been higher!This is the $1,000,000 Halo Infinite 4v |
| Halo: Ascension on Atropos | 2025-10-08 | This is a sequel to Halo: Saturn Devouring His Son. You can read it now to refresh yourself or catch up before reading Halo: Ascension on Atropos.October 2556. The crew of the UNSC Saturn deal with the consequences of a catastrophic Flood outbreak at LV-31, and a fanatical alien cult seeks to find a new path to divine transcendence.Halo: Ascension on Atropos is available here, on Halo Waypoint, as a free PDF, and in audiobook format on YouTube.HISTORIAN’S NOTEHalo: Ascension on Atropos takes place from October 2556, immediately following the Flood outbreak on LV-31, to April 2560, approximately four months after the disappearance of Zeta Halo |
| Survive the Undead | 2025-10-07 | October 7 UpdateThe nightmare returns. Back from the grave and more gruesome than ever, Survive the Undead claws its way back into Halo Infinite. First introduced last Haloween, the Forge Falcons’ labor of love made the jump from Combat Workshop to playlist just in time for the spooktacular season. And now, it’s back with a new map!Strategic SurvivalAt its core, Survive the Undead is an Infection-based Firefight survival mode where you, the player, are trying to avoid dying. However, unlike the “regular” Infection modes you may be thinking of where everyone is looking out for themselves, you are in a team of 4 trying to survive the onslaught |
| Forge Features | 2025-10-01 | Welcome to another edition of Forge Features! This series highlights notable maps, modes, and other creations from our talented Forge community. Bookmark your favorites using the links below for your next custom match.The ghastly delights of Operation: Haloween II will emerge from their cryptums next week. To help set the mood, we’ve collected a mix of frightening Forge modes, hair-raising maps, and a few Halo: Reach throwbacks that capture the cozy feeling of autumnal nostalgia.MORTIFYING MODESDo you like scary movies? Check out this grindhouse double-feature of terrifying, community-made Infection variants for your next spooktacular custom |
| Operation: Haloween II Now Undead | 2025-09-30 | Fog gathers. Fear stalks the land. Operation: Haloween II has risen from its dark slumber.To mark the frightful occasion, we’re trick-or-treating Halo Infinite players to a reanimated Survive the Undead playlist, scary-good Squad Battle updates, haunted helmets, and a creature-feature of Haloween costumes and accessories in the Exchange.SURVIVE THE UNDEADThe gruesome gauntlet of Survive the Undead returns for a sequel—with a vengeance.Appearing in a dedicated playlist now through November 18, the legendary arcade mode now includes four terrifying maps forged by the incomparable Forge Falcons.STRIVE TO SURVIVEMissed the first evil incarnation |
| Halo: ‘Ghosts & Glass’ by B. Giraud | 2025-09-14 | “2558. War journalist Benjamin Giraud pieces together stories of heroism and sacrifice from archives of recorded communications during the fall of Reach.”Halo: ‘Ghosts & Glass’ by B. Giraud is available here, on Halo Waypoint, as a free PDF, and in audiobook format on YouTube.HISTORIAN’S NOTEHalo: ‘Ghosts & Glass’ by B. Giraud takes place in March 2558, over five years after the fall of Reach.BRAVO 001: “Mayday, mayday! This is Bravo 001, en route to your position. Do you have a visual on my aircraft, over?”GOLDEN ARROW: “Bravo 001, this is Golden Arrow. I do believe you are steering that bird in the wrong direction, over.”BRAVO 001: “Negativ |
| Operation: Warpath Community Playdate | 2025-09-11 | Phase 1: Squad up Phase 2: Have fun Phase 3: Unlock Unicorn of Ice rewards by matching us 🦄 Join us for an Operation: Warpath Invasion Community Playdate tomorrow at 11am PT. 🟣 Twitch🔴 YouTube |
| Invasion | 2025-09-09 | Unstoppable force, meet immovable object. (At least, if you’re on defense you really hope you can embody that immovable object spirit.) It’s tactical, it’s intense, and it’s got just enough Halo: Reach DNA to make longtime fans feel right at home… Invasion has arrived!Whether you’re storming the gates or desperately trying to keep them shut, Invasion turns every match into a showdown of Spartan grit and glorious chaos.OBJECTIVE OVERDRIVEAt its core, Invasion is an asymmetrical, one-sided objective mode pitting two teams of 8 against each other. Each team will get the chance to attack and defend for a total of two rounds. Each round is broken |
| Operation: Warpath Now Live | 2025-09-02 | UNSC cadets are taught to imitate—and thereby venerate—the martial actions of humanity’s time-honored heroes.Operation: Warpath ennobles their legend with myth-made armor sets, the epic resurgence of Invasion mode, and a return to hallowed tradition in the Ranked Legacy rotational playlist.Harken ye to the drums of war. Operation: Warpath sallies forth!Last Chance: HAYABUSASleek and lethal, the next generation of Project: HAYABUSA looks to the future while respecting its past. The legendary Dragon Ninja returns to Halo Infinite to commemorate the release of NINJA GAIDEN 4 on October 21, 2025.Acquire the HAYABUSA ZOKUHEN bundle from The Exchan |
| Operation: Shadows Community Playdate | 2025-08-13 | Falcons are famished and the Banished are ruthless ⚔️ Feed the frenzy with our Operation: Shadows Community Playdate tomorrow at 11am PT! Match us to unlock the Unicorn of Ice rewards ❄️🟣 Twitch🔴 YouTube |