Banished Honor

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Banished Honor
Start date:	April 30, 2024
End date:	June 4, 2024
Number of tiers:	20
Total unlock cost:	20,000 XP (Via challenges)
Includes content for:	Halo Infinite

Banished Honor is an operation in Halo Infinite that ran from April 30 to June 4, 2024. The first operation of Content Update 32, Banished Honor would focus on the Jiralhanae of the Banished, with Mark VII-specific armor and unlocks themed around the CHAMPION-class armor utilized by Ilsa Zane within the faction.^[1] Banished Honor would be directly followed by Tenrai IV.

A short story, Halo: The Third Life, was written to coincide with the update and its theming.^[1]

Banished Honor content[edit]

Content for Banished Honor is available through a 20 tier operation pass, which is perpetually available through Halo Infinite's switcher. Banished Honor was initially free on launch, allowing players to progress through the operation pass over the course of its month-long tenure, with challenges and general XP contributing to the pass' levels. While free, players could purchase the premium pass for 500 providing a non-expiring operation pass which could be progressed at any time, along with the Fuego Flame armor coating as a bonus item. Upon Banished Honor's end, its operation pass was replaced by Tenrai IV's pass, and locked to those who did not purchase it; as per before, it remains indefinitely accessible through Infinite's switcher.

Premium pass bonus[edit]

Content	Prerequisite
Fuego Flame (armor)	Purchase the Banished Honor premium pass for 500

Tiers 1 to 10[edit]

Content	Operation pass tier
Red Glare (all)	1
500 Spartan Points	2
500 Spartan Points	3
1,000 Spartan Points	4
Champion's Kneepad	5
500 Spartan Points	6
500 Spartan Points	7
1,000 Spartan Points	8
2,500 Spartan Points	9
Reinforced Vambrace	10

Tiers 11 to 20[edit]

Content	Operation pass tier
500 Spartan Points	11
500 Spartan Points	12
1,000 Spartan Points	13
2,500 Spartan Points	14
Colosseum Prize	15
500 Spartan Points	16
1,000 Spartan Points	17
Champion's Pauldron (left)	18
Champion's Pauldron (right)	18
2,500 Spartan Points	19
Champion	20
Essence Decompilation	20

Weekly rewards[edit]

Unlike prior seasons and updates which saw the release of unique, weekly rewards for completing weekly challenges, Banished Honor would see a distinct alteration to this system. Although general challenges would remain the same, rather than a unique capstone challenge every week, Banished Honor would provide only one weekly ultimate, which is to earn 5,000 cumulative score in-game. Once completed, the player would earn 1,000 Spartan Points, allowing them to gather the currency needed to purchase newly added items within the freshly implemented Exchange. This update would remain in effect from Banished Honor's launch through to Infinite, with the Exchange's content taking over the ability to earn free items.

Content	Challenge
1,000 Spartan Points	Complete the Score Master challenge, which requires earning 5,000 cumulative score.

The Exchange[edit]

Banished Honor would see the formal launch of the Exchange, a storefront centered on earnable, free earnable currency known as "Spartan Points". The Exchange serves as a way for Halo Studios to rotate in previous earnable, but vaulted cosmetics, while also injecting some new unique unlocks themed around the operations that were launching at the time. Banished Honor's release would introduce five new cosmetics themed around the Banished, with the Crowd Pleaser utility filling out the Champion armor unlocked in the pass. It would also see the 20th Anniversary and The Yappening's content added in for those who hadn't earned them in 2021 and 2022.

Content	Prerequisite
Xanadu Falu (armor)	30,000
Needle Minder	6,000
Crowd Pleaser	9,000
Yap Pack (all)	1,500
Yap Splat (all)	1,500

Shop bundles[edit]

Banished Honor saw the addition of two unique new store offers themed around the Banished. The first would launch upon the operation's release, with the second arriving upon the operation's third week. All content within these offers can be found here.

Content	First available	Cost
Paths to Dominance	April 30, 2024 - June 4, 2024	3,200
Renegade	May 14, 2024 - June 4, 2024	2,000

Marketing[edit]

We are the Banished[edit]

Main article: We are the Banished

An eighteen second teaser showing off the then-unnamed Champion armor.

Banished Honor Trailer[edit]

Main article: Banished Honor Trailer

A trailer released the day before the operation began, showing cosmetics within the event.

Production notes[edit]

All promotional material for Banished Honor would show the Datacore Administrator visor as the unlockable visor within the pass. As this visor was already available through the Facing Firewall bundle released during Season 03: Echoes Within, it would ultimately be replaced with the Essence Decompilation visor, an unused Firewall visor option from the same update.^[1]