Like most other free-to-play multiplayer games, Halo Infinite is posed to have many events per season in order to keep fans coming back and earning exclusive rewards. The game’s first event, Fracture: Tenrai, did not go quite as planned for 343 Industries though, with backlash towards the game’s artificial blocking of progress and the lack of meaningful rewards. Players could only earn a few cosmetic items per appearance of the event, and to make matters worse, some of the advertised Yoroi armor components were only available in the Item Shop, not even by playing the game. Thankfully, 343 Industries has worked to restructure the event as well as its other planned ones.
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Starting today, Halo Infinite players can begin competing in the Winter Contingency event to get some limited time holiday-themed cosmetics. Besides a trailer teasing the event’s start, not much information has been officially released by 343 Industries, though a lot has certainly leaked. The Winter Contingency event will seemingly run from today, December 21, 2021 to January 3, 2022, and have 14 tiers worth of content. The bar for making progress is rumored to be as low as playing a game a day, meaning fans will have to check in once a day for the full two weeks to get every item in the Winter Contingency.
Negative_Tangelo on Reddit shared some of the leaked cosmetic items, looking quite dissimilar to the initial set up of Fracture: Tenrai. Every rank looks like it will offer a new equippable item, whether its emblems, armor pieces, or coatings, with no Boosts in sight. As shown in the Winter Contingency teaser, there is a festive red, green, and white coating for both armor and weapons, as well as a new brown armor coating later in the event. Perhaps it will go along with the supposed Rudolph nose and antlers that’s supposed to be sitting at the end of the event.
Coming off of Fracture: Tenrai, the Winter Contingency event seems to have a good assortment of content, especially for its diminished scale. If it turns out to really be as easy as playing a single game a day to earn a rank in the pass, that would be pretty considerate of the studio, it being a busy time of year where it will certainly be more difficult for some people to play. Hopefully the armor coatings can be worn across Armor Cores, or rather, are just given to all three currently available Cores.
Halo Infinite is available on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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