Season

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Seasons are a feature of Halo: Reach, Halo 5: Guardians, Halo Wars 2, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Halo Infinite, primarily focused on their games' respective competitive modes. Seasons have typically accompanied new ranked settings, a handful of title updates or patches, and the release of DLC. Leaderboards on Halo Waypoint are additionally organized by season, with a new season seeing the reset of leaderboards and new matchmaking playlists.

Seasons were introduced to Halo: The Master Chief Collection following the 2019 release of Halo: Reach and the collection for PC, serving as the game's ongoing post-launch support with each new season bringing new cosmetic customization unlocks and gameplay improvements.

Halo: Reach

Introduced within Halo: Reach, seasons were exclusive to a certain set of playlists known as "The Arena", functioning much akin to prior installment's 1-50 ranking systems. Resetting on a monthly cadence, players would be required to play a certain amount of games to place within a certain division.

Halo 5: Guardians

Halo 5: Guardians featured an overhauled seasonal format, with Season 1 formally kicking it off, following a pre-season period that began with the game's launch on October 27, 2015. Upon the launch of Cartographer's Gift in December of 2015, ranks within the playlist pool would reset, and players would be prompted to complete their placement matches within any ranked playlist. Doing so would unlock an emblem exclusive to the season, a theme that would carry on for twelve seasons. Originally seasons were one month in length, with each one beginning and ending with the launch of a relevant content update.

Following the release of Warzone Firefight, seasons would be extended to two month rotations, with emblem grants ending midway through 2017 and 2018 featuring the last two month rotations. Seasons released from 2019 through to 2021 would be rotated every three months, with the "Evergreen Season" being the game's last. This final update would see the game's playlist roster locked in perpetuity, and rank resets would not occur past this point.

Halo Wars 2

Seasons are present in Halo Wars 2. During the first year of the game's life cycle, seasons were released roughly once a month to coincide with downloadable content releases or other events such as the launch of Xbox One X. Since then, the output of seasons has slowed to as little as one per year. Seasons are a fixture of the game's ranked multiplayer, used for leaderboard and rank resets. Season refreshes are typically accompanied by a Title Update, and may have several mid-season patches.

For a full list of seasons, click show below;