Winter Update

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Winter Update
Includes content for:	Halo Infinite
Season information
Start date:	November 8, 2022
End date:	March 7, 2023
Number of tiers:	30
Total unlock cost:	30,000 XP (Via challenges) 6,000 cR (Via purchasing level-ups)
Pass purchase cost:	Free

“

Drop into battle with sharp wits and even sharper knives.

”

Winter Update was an interim season, later redefined as an operation for Halo Infinite, which debuted on November 8, 2022, and ended on March 7, 2023 with the release of Season 03: Echoes Within.

As an interim season, the Winter Update featured a large amount of content for both campaign and multiplayer, seeing the launch of campaign cooperative play, Forge, and the return of the "customs browser" from Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Halo 5: Guardians. Like Season 01: Heroes of Reach and Season 02: Lone Wolves, it would also feature a myriad of customization elements for players to unlock, this time through a uniquely free battle pass; additional content would be available through a trio of events over the course of the update's run.

Overview

Multiple Spartans utilizing different Cadet coatings across various armor cores, all of which were added during the Winter Update.

Ancillary materials

• Halo Waypoint Story & Intel: Story and Intel released on Halo Waypoint to expand upon the characters, events, and miscellaneous details of the season.
• Halo: Winter Contention: A short story following NOBLE Team during the Defense of Concord.

Campaign

• Campaign network co-operative play
• Campaign mission replay
• New customization content unlocked by achieving 100% completion in a campaign save
  • 24 new Achievements inspired by mission replay and co-op, worth 400 Gamerscore

Multiplayer

• Free 30-tier battle pass, based on Mark V(B) armor core
• Match XP beta
• New multiplayer arena maps: Detachment, Argyle, and Empyrean
• New multiplayer mode: Covert One Flag
• Customs Browser

Forge

• Forge open beta
• New Forge canvases: Arid, Mires, Institute, Seafloor, Ecliptic, and Void

Miscellaneous

• Yoroi, Eaglestrike, and Rakshasa armor cores made free for all players
• 10 Cadet armor coatings available for all armor cores
• Red reticle for PC players
• High Dynamic Range Toggle
• Mute and report players during matches

Content overview

Armor, coatings, and emblems seen within the Winter Update's battle pass.

XP boosts

• 5 XP boosts

General customization

• 5 armor coatings: Moa Assault, Noble Drifter, Noble Offensive, Violet Crush, Wedgewood Spriggan
• 1 weapon coating: Snowbound
• 5 visors: Action Lime, Bay Sunset, Bullfrog, Sardonic, Sweetsight
• 2 emblems and nameplates: Brooch, Holiday 2022
• 2 backdrops: Holiday 2022, Squad Op
• 1 stance: Noble Rose

Mark VII core

• 1 helmet attachment: Silent Nightcap
• 1 chest: Ornamental

Mark V [B] core

• 1 armor core: Mark V [B]
• 2 armor kits: Rosenda-A344 Kit, Thom-A293 Kit
• 4 helmets: CQB, CQC, JFO, Mark V
• 2 helmet attachments: UA/Type C1, HUL-I/XFTREC/FLAMINGO
• 6 shoulder pads: SAP/GND, SAP/CDO, SAP/CQC, SAP/SEC, SAP/SEC[K], SAP/RECON
• 4 chests: TAC/Kukri Machete, UA/SIMA, UA/TAAP, UTIL/TVASTAR Diagnostic Rig
• 1 utility: UA/TYPE CHOBHAM
• 3 knee pads: UA/Type CQB, UA/Type GR, UA/Type JFO

Events

Please see the respective event pages for their event passes.

List of events
Events	Event content	Duration