Anvil Arrival

A new Operation has come to Halo Infinite along with a new BTB mode and community-made map, and we’ve got plenty on the horizon—from the HCS Atlanta Major to the physical release of Season Two of the Halo televisions series (including a sweet limited edition steelbook), and more.

From July 2-30, Operation: Anvil will be active and you’ll be able to acquire the new Sangheili-themed ASSAILER armor, a new emblem, and additional Spartan Points to spend in The Exchange.

Secure the Premium Operation Pass for either 500 or 2000 credits and you will additionally acquire the Smash and Grab weapon model for the M41 SPNKr and the Rent Seeker weapon coating.

A new Big Team Battle mode has arrived in Halo Infinite!

Adjutant Resolution, one of Zeta Halo’s submonitors who you met and fought in Halo Infinite’s campaign, has decided to jump into some multiplayer action. Two of them—simply known as “sentries” in this context—are on each team; your objective is to protect your sentries and destroy the enemy’s.

Each team has 2,000 points. As damage is dealt to your sentries, the available score drops, and if you reach 0 it’s game over. Each map will have at least one Repair Field that spawns in a neutral location—in addition to providing health regeneration for your fellow Spartans and vehicles, it’ll also repair your sentries.

This mode is playable across all BTB maps, including…

COMMAND
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Command is a new symmetrical BTB map created by our amazing community cartographers and will also be added to the regular rotation of BTB maps.

The Exchange has been refreshed with a new slate of items! As before, none of the previous items are going away, so you won’t be missing out on anything if you haven’t been able to acquire certain items from the past.

As a note: with this refresh of The Exchange, previous offerings do not appear in The Exchange itself but can now be obtained through Halo Infinite’s customization menus.

Head to Halo Infinite’s Shop and you will find this Operation’s new bundles available now—Cutthroat Business and Field Modifications.

With the end of Operation: Tenrai IV, both Juggernaut and Ninjanaut modes have been added to Halo Infinite’s Match Composer so you can select them (or, if it wasn’t quite your speed, deselect them) at any time.

HCS MAJOR ATLANTA 2024 (HOSTED BY FAZE CLAN)

HCS returns to Atlanta from July 26-28.

FaZe Clan will be hosting the third Halo Infinite Major this year at Gateway Centre Arena. Join us as the world’s best teams compete for their share of $250,000 and a paid trip to the HCS Major Salt Lake City later this summer.

Those in attendance will also get a chance to participate in the $5,000 free-for-all tournament along with a series of side tournaments in varying formats from Halo Infinite and legacy Halo titles!

Wondering where to tune in?

Twitch Drop announcements will be coming later this month, so stay tuned.

HCS GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Take a look at the community calendar for July!

Season Two of Halo The Series arrives on DVD, Blu-ray, and limited edition 4K UHD steelbook on July 23!

“When the Covenant threatens mankind’s greatest stronghold, the Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and his elite team of Spartans embark on an epic journey to find the Halo and ensure humanity’s survival… or guarantee their destruction.”

The four-disc collection includes every episode of Season Two along with nearly two-and-a-half hours of special features—including exclusive featurettes, Declassified, and more!

With the launch of Operation: Anvil this week, it seemed only fitting that we use this month’s art feature for Sam Brown’s illustration of Anvil Station itself—as featured in the 2022 edition of the Halo Encyclopedia.

Anvil Station is home to a multispecies partnership between the UNSC and their alien allies from the Arbiter’s Swords of Sanghelios. On Anvil Station, humans and Sangheili work together to test experimental prototypes, including new Spartan armor variants.

Coming later this month, a new Waypoint Chronicle will explore “a day in the life” aboard Anvil Station from the perspective of its multispecies personnel.

As always, this Waypoint Chronicle will be published here on Halo Waypoint, but will also be available as a free PDF and as an audiobook on YouTube. Stay tuned!

March 3, 2560. The human and Sangheili crew of Anvil Station mark the seventh anniversary of the Covenant War’s end as they weigh past burdens with hope for the future.

That closes us out for this month’s edition of the Community Update, which means it’s time to jump into some more BTB: Sentry Defense. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been having some very close matches—once both teams’ scores get down around the last 500 points it really feels like the entire dynamic changes. Be sure to let us know how you’re finding the mode!