Halo Infinite’s Season 5 brings back Extraction mode and adds two new Arena maps, takes away some of the grind
Halo Infinite’s Season 5 lands next week with a reimagined game mode returning from Halo 4, a bunch of new cosmetics - including some inspired by the goopy Flood aliens - and two new maps for its Arena mode, while reworking the game's Battle Pass to make it less of a chore.
Season 5: Reckoning’s headline mode will be Extraction mode, a “reimagined” version of the five-vs-five objective-based mode in Halo 4 where two teams must race to extract crates faster than their opponents by planting a beacon and defending it until the crate is whisked away.
Stalwart competitive mode Arena, meanwhile, will get two new maps in the form of Prism and Forbidden. Prism looks to be a sort of cave environment with glowing purple crystals that can be shot to send damaging shards into your opponents, while Forbidden looks like a stone temple that reminded me a bit of Halo 2’s Lockout.
On the cosmetics side, there’ll be some new gear inspired by franchise baddies the Flood, with helmets and armour suits covered in Giger-esque tentacle-like thingies and squishy-looking skulls. They look kinda gross, which I’m into.
Those helmets won’t be locked to specific sets either, as Season 5 will now allow helmets and armour coating to be freely equipped across every armour core.
Halo Infinite’s Season 5: Reckoning launches October 17!
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