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The ‘Winter Contingency’ event for 343’s shooter runs through January 3, 2022
Halo Infinite has a seasonal event starting today. Like Infinite’s prior event, a ton of cosmetic options are up for grabs, some of which are cool, all of which are free. This event, however, is more of a time commitment than anything else from the popular multiplayer shooter thus far, requiring you to play at least one match per day for 10 out of the next 14 days.
The “Winter Contingency” event runs from today through early January. (Fun fact: “Winter Contingency” is the name of an early level from Halo: Reach.) The event’s official end date is Monday, January 3. But a representative for Microsoft, Halo Infinite’s publisher, confirmed to Kotaku that it’ll be active until 1:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, January 4.
Winter Contingency works much like the previous event, “Fracture: Tenrai,” in that it has a separate battle pass you can progress through in tandem with Infinite’s standard battle pass. By completing weekly challenges, you can unlock new levels on the pass—not based on accumulating XP, as with the standard one, but merely by completing individual challenges. Unlike Fracture: Tenrai, where you could only earn progress by completing event-affiliated challenges, it appears any challenge from any playlist can go toward knocking out tiers in Winter Contingency’s battle pass. (I knocked out the first tier by simply winning one match of Fiesta, the random-gear mode.) But here’s the catch: You can only unlock one tier per day.
Beyond a handful of winter-themed emblems and backgrounds, you can nab some gear for your Spartan player avatar:
- At tier two you unlock the “peppermint laughter” armor coating, which looks like a Spartan fell into a vat of whatever abominable concoction they use to make candy canes. (It’s pictured at the top of this post.)
- At tiers three and four you earn shoulder pads for the Mark VII armor kit.
- Tiers five and eight unlock the “peppermint laugher” coating for your assault rifle and pistol, respectively.
- Tier nine gives you a little ammo for the Mark VII armor kit. It affixes to your left thigh.
- Finally, tier 10 grants the “sunset contessa” armor coating, a caramel-hued brown with tan accents on the shoulder pads and gloves.
Read the full article on Kotaku
