Halo Infinite’s next content update is called ‘Operation Banished Honor’ and while many are waiting for news about Halo 7, the existing Halo titles are still receiving updates.
Featuring Forge updates, weapon changes including the Plasma Pistol and new armor – it’s a big update!
Here’s everything we know about this upcoming Operation.
Operation Banished Honor Release Date
The next operation arrives on the 30th of April 2024.
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Trailer
Patch Notes
Overview
- Plasma Pistol: EMP back on vehicles
- Mk50 Sidekick: Reduced rounds per second
- S7 Sniper: Faster ready-up time
- Firefight, Ranked, Custom Games updates, and more
- New Armor
- New Forge Updates
Weapons
- Plasma Pistol
- Restored EMP functionality on vehicles.
- MK50 Sidekick
- Rounds per second decreased 6.6 >> 5.6
- S7 Sniper
- Ready initial playback speed scale 1 >> 1.2 (shorter ready-up time)
- Cindershot
- Remove inverted impulse effect.
- Rounds per second decreased 1.33 >> 1.1
- Gravity Hammer
- Slight decrease of elimination range.
- Radius low 1.25 >> 1.75
- Radius high 2 >> 2.5
- Spike Grenade
- Detonation timer starts changed from immediately >> when at rest.
- Timer decreased (low & high) 1.8 >> 1.2 seconds.
Modes
- Firefight: King of the Hill
- Regular assists on all AI units = 5 points.
- Driver assists on AI units = 10 points.
- Adding higher priority to Land Stand announcer voice over lines to make the feedback more reliable.
- More Medal support when playing against AI Units.
- Ranked
- Ranks reset
- Improved team balancing
- If you load into a match and the server detects that there are uneven teams at the start of the match, the game will automatically end and send everybody straight back into matchmaking so players can get a back into a quality match.
- Customs
- [NEW] Score Override
- In the event of a game crash or disconnect during—for example—a tournament event, the match can be restarted and its previous state recreated with a set score and timer.
- [NEW] Score Override
Quality-Of-Life Improvements
- Respawn Cameras
- When you swap between your teammates while waiting to respawn, the camera will always start pointed at where they are looking
- When you fall in battle you will also be able to rotate around your own body
- The speed that you can rotate your camera has also been increased
- Weapon Drills
- Added the Bandit EVO to the standard Bandit weapon drills
- Deadlock Pelican Drops
- Updated to vehicle drops on Deadlock to only bring in Wraiths, while the rest of the vehicle pads still spawn in their normal vehicles.
Bug Fixes
- Weapon Dropping is faster than swapping to secondary weapon.
- Skewer should feel more responsive during online gameplay.
- Vehicles are able to play ‘Doom State’ audio without being in ‘Doom State.’
New Armor
Forge
Banished Honor brings exciting new additions to Forge including:
- New Forge Palette – Flood
- New Forge Palette – Alien World
- New Scripting
- Mode Creator Variants
- New Objective Objects
Plasma Pistol
The Plasma Pistol is finally getting it’s EMP ability back in Halo Infinite to disable vehicles.
Big Team Battle Heavies
BTB Heavies will return later this Operation and the map pool will have increased – adding all the BTB refresh maps:
- Fortitude
- Insolence
- Obituary
- Refuge
- Thunderhead
Additionally, the fan-favorite One Flag CTF mode has been added to Heavies so you’ll be able to play tug of war while you try to capture the flag.
The Exchange
The Exchange is coming to Halo Infinite.
You will be able to grind for Spartan Points to unlock individual items that were previously free through Events, Twitch drops, or previous Ultimates.
Ultimates, Daily challenges, & Operations will now all have SP to unlock.
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