Nov 23, 2021

343 Halo Infinite has just launched its first limited time event , and players are able to pursue the Yoroi armor core and its ornaments for the first time. The battle pass for this event is 30 slots long, and by the end, you’ll unlock the Yoroi armor (you get the core pretty quickly) and all its ornaments by the end, with a bunch of other stuff in between. This is the first of three such events that will let you level the pass, but a lot of the best samurai looks are, you guessed it, in the store where you have to buy them for actual money. Simply put, you have to complete specific challenges relating to the selected playlist for the Fracture: Tenrai event. In this case, that’s a new mode Fiesta, which gives you random weapons and equipment on arena maps. Those challenges are worth a good amount of XP up front here, and right now they are in two of my four weekly slots. I have to win a Fiesta match and get a double kill in a Fiesta match for them to switch. Upcoming challenges are kills and assists, and nothing seems all that difficult to be honest. The problem is grinding out other challenges to *get* to the event ones, which is a pretty big issue with the entire event structure, if you ask me. As for the pass itself, here’s what these 30 ranks contain: 6 Challenge Swaps 1 Legendary weapon coating, 2 epic weapon coatings 5 Legendary armor cosmetics, 2 shoulders, 1 helmet, 1 helmet attachment and 1 utility sword belt Halo Infinite And again, a lot of the other cooler accessories (bigger swords!) are going to be rotating through the store. There seems to be a lot more cosmetics there than in the pass itself overall, and I know that many fans are already displeased with this. This adds to ongoing cosmetic debates about what’s unlockable and what isn’t, and why certain cosmetics only work within certain cores. In this case, you need to get to at least rank 5 to unlock the Yoroi core to even layer these cosmetics on top of it. This is part of the cost of Halo multiplayer being free-to-play, but for many players, they’re not wild about how this aspect of the game is going so far. In any case, we have three scheduled weeks for this event that you can hop into in the next few months here: Week 1: November 23-29 Week 3: February 1-7 So if you are busy with other Thanksgiving activities, you can circle back around later. See you out there in Fiesta for now.