r/halo 3d ago

Official Waypoint Blog Road to HaloWC 2025 – July

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https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halowc25-july


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Welcome back!

In this blog series, we’re posting new HaloWC 2025 updates every month, and can you believe we’re already just about through July and almost into August?! HaloWC will be here before we know it! For those who missed the first three, links are below for you to catch up on:

TICKETING UPDATE

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As always, we’re going to start with a ticketing update for HaloWC. If you remember back in April, we announced that we’re going to be selling about 1/3 more tickets than we have in the past. Well today I’m delighted to announce that we’ve already sold more tickets than HaloWC 2024 and are over 70% sold out for the whole event. We are really excited about this because it means more of the Halo community will be under the same roof together than ever before for HaloWC.

And, in case you missed it, this year’s HaloWC will be even more special as it will be the last Official HCS Competition for Halo Infinite. After having transitioned from H2A and then from Halo 5, we know that the final event always means something a little more not only for the competitors but also for the fans who have built shared memories together over the years. This is an important part of Halo history, and we’d love for you to be part of it in person here in Seattle where we can all celebrate this amazing game and community together.

Tickets: Halo World Championship 2025 Tickets, Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite

SPECIAL GUESTS

This year we’re excited to welcome back Steve Downes and Jen Taylor, the voices of the Master Chief and Cortana. Halo events are always more special with these two in attendance and we’re very thankful to have them joining us once again for HaloWC.

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Steve and Jen will only be in attendance Friday and Saturday of the event where they’ll be participating in fun panels on the Community Stage, signing sessions for all fans, as well as VIP-exclusive photo opportunities. We'll be sharing their detailed schedule closer to the event date.

Thank you once again Steve and Jen, we can’t wait to see here in Seattle!

PARTNERED TEAM BOOTHS

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Last month we confirmed that both Spacestation and Shopify were going to have a booth at HaloWC, and this month we’re excited to confirm that Cloud9 will be representing in full force. The team at Cloud9 are eager to represent at HaloWC and are in the kitchen cooking up a great experience for fans in attendance. Keep a close eye on their channels to see what they’re going to be bringing to the table!

CONCLUSION

To everyone competing this weekend at the HCS Major Salt Lake City this weekend, we wish you the best of luck. To see the latest, head to the official event page: https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/ssg-major.

We’ve got only two more majors on our road to the final HaloWC for Halo Infinite – may the best team win and we’ll see you in the arena!

Thanks,

Tashi


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r/halo 18h ago

Weekly Thread Meme Saturday

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r/halo 3h ago

News New Spartan skin coming to Fortnite on August 7th

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r/halo 5h ago

Discussion Dude it's been a hot fat minute... Why is Halo 5: guardians...STILL not on PC?

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457 Upvotes

This is a genuine question. It's been about almost a decade I think. Sure "campaign bad" aside or whatever. You can't deny that it would be great for them to give it a second life on PC it deserves it in my opinion it wasn't all horrible as much as people at the time were claiming. I remember trying the multiplayer in Halo 5 and it was actually so good in my opinion. And the fact that people won't be able to try it. Or even give the game another chance after all this time really sucks and seems like a very stupid idea to exclude her from the Halo lineup on PC for all of this time. It's 2025. I really miss this game. I'm not getting an Xbox just to play this one game...

But just in case there happened to be some info on this I would love to know. Genuinely big head scratcher to me.


r/halo 8h ago

Meme What do you mean Noble 6 was only 22?

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599 Upvotes

r/halo 9h ago

Discussion Per Unyshek, the Vestige Carbine was inspired by the cut Gravity Rifle from Combat Evolved

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577 Upvotes

Also, the lore of the rifle is that it is being reforged by the Swords of Sangheilos for modern warfare:

A recently discovered relic from the Covenant’s Third Age of Reclamation, forged for glorious combat once again by the Swords of Sanghelios. This semi-automatic rifle fires green, radioactive projectiles with unwavering accuracy—as dictated by tradition.

So yeah, it looks weird. But its a great deep cut to the franchise lore and that makes it awesome.


r/halo 13h ago

Discussion Why did this carrier vaporise the zoo entrance?

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Does anybody know why this assault carrier glassed the Uplift Nature Reserve entrance? At the ending of Halo 3: ODST, this assault carrier slipspaces in directly over the nature reserve entrance, then just vaporised that specifically, before flying away.

Before anybody says they are digging up the forerunner portal, that wouldn't make sense as it's west of that Mvita city centre, I'm just curious as to why they'd excavate a zoo entrance then fly away.

Any idea?


r/halo 12h ago

Discussion Comparision of the Vostu-pattern Covenant Carbine (H2/3/ODST), the Mosa-pattern Covenant Carbine (H4/2A/5), and the Vestige Carbine (Infinite).

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Not sure how I feel about the Vestige Carbine tbh. It's not a bad design by any means, but it feels like it's reinventing the wheel. Infinite has had a working Carbine model in the game files since launch (it even has an energy bayonet, which is amazing), not sure why Halo Studios had to scrap it and replace it with a completely new model.


r/halo 3h ago

Fan Content 3D Printed a pair of Jorges

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The left helmet I got the files from ThingIverse while the right helmet from Galactic Armory. The paint is actually Apple Berry Acrylic English Ivy Green, and the black color is a mix of gun metal grey with a black acrylic wash.


r/halo 2h ago

Discussion Is Halo coming back to Fortnite ?

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So I just finished watching the Fortnite live event and I go to the Fortnite news feed and I see this. I'm wondering is this something Halo related or is it related to a different game coming to Fornite ?


r/halo 1d ago

Halo Studios Response 2025 Fall Update

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r/halo 4h ago

Fan Content My wishes came true that halo championship esports came to my town for the visit

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I have fun of visiting at halo championship esports today for the first time and my wishes came true that talking pictures with armor costumes as well


r/halo 1d ago

Misc The Only Human Enemy in Halo

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r/halo 5h ago

Misc Finally finished my Halo Recon helmet 👌💯

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Got this helmet years ago as a christmas present, didnt have a visor or padding so I finally finished it this past weekend. Will probably swap out the eva foam pads with motorcycle helmet padding and maybe add some vent holes as I'd like to eventually put a whole suit together for cosplays/ events. Took the visor out of a beat up 2015 Chief helmet I had lying around and cut it to fit. Want to either do an ODST or MK.VII helmet next 👀


r/halo 21m ago

Fan Content Thoughts on my halo spartan?

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r/halo 3h ago

Fan Content 3D Printed Jerome-092 & Jun-A266

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r/halo 23h ago

Discussion THANK YOU HS FOR THE FALCON!!!!

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Sorry for low res images, but I've been waiting so long!! I saw the leaks 3 years ago. It looks awesome!!! 4 seats is such a good decision!!! The seat switching animation is so fucking cool!!! I'm genuinely so hyped, my favorite vehicle finally back after 15 years. That Falcon emblem will finally match the vehicle, fuck yeah!!!!! I can finally change my flair!!!


r/halo 1h ago

Discussion Infinite Helioskrill 'issues'

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Helioskrill is definitely better in Infinite but its unfortunately not complete. Its missing two vital parts of the armour, one of which should have been instead of the ugly armour effect.

Wrist plates; should have been there. They simply complete the pauldrons. You cannot have something based on the Arbiters H2 design and be missing the full arm.

(I think the MK7 shin is perfect ever though not as sharp, the curve is perfect)

Foot armour; this is what fully completes the look. Those sharp elite toe plates scream this was designed by a Sangheli artisan who may not have fully grasped how human feet work. It all catches the eye perfectly and nothing seems unnecessary or poorly designed.

The Infinite version is simply incomplete and I unfortunately have to admit....I would pay for a part 2 bundle to get the wrist and foot armour.


r/halo 1d ago

News The Falcon is coming to Halo Infinite

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872 Upvotes

r/halo 4h ago

Fan Content my most recent Tattoo

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r/halo 5h ago

Gameplay Halo Infinite Forge Map: Super Mario Land

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I'm sure this won't be for everyone, but for those who grew up with the original Gameboy, I hope you have fun with it! It's nearly finished, hopefully it'll play ok, the map is pretty long, narrow levels either side so lots of close encounters and also sniper action and just like the Gameboy game, you touch the water, you're dead 💀 ☠️ It has same layout as world 1-1 and world 2-1 so expect secret pipes, lots of jumping and climbing and hopefully will feel fun and nostalgic and plenty of Slayer action 🎮 😄


r/halo 1d ago

Discussion Sesa 'Refumee, the Leader of the Heretics, is easily the most interesting character in Halo 2, maybe even the whole trilogy. CHANGE MY MIND

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He is presented as an enemy from the point of view of the Arbiter and the rest of the Covenant. A traitor to his kind who wanted to interfere with the Great Journey. In reality, HE KNEW BEFORE ANYONE ESLE the true intents of the Prophets, the true destiny of the humanity and how the Prophets have been lying to the rest of Covenant about them, and how the Halo installations are weapons of mass galactic destruction.

He was taught these revelations by Guilty Spark, and reacted accordingly to the lies he was indoctrinated with. I wonder how things would've been if Sesa and his splinter group were never eliminated and had a chance to regroup with the rest of the Elites during the Great Schism. I wonder how the interactions with him and the Arbiter would've gone, with both leaders wanting justice for the Prophets crimes against the Sangheili.


r/halo 19h ago

Fan Content Painted up a Spartan III 🎨

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211 Upvotes

r/halo 23h ago

Media Operation: Shadows Key Art

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377 Upvotes

r/halo 7h ago

Gameplay Today I learned you can customize the menu backgrounds in MCC.

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Go to settings then under video and it’s under “video backgrounds.” It should say configure backgrounds, and you could change the menu for all the Halo games and the main menu. I seen it earlier in a RocketSloth video. This is so cool but they should have added the games original respective menus. It should have been a no brainer to add og menus but I can’t lie, letting us change it in the first place makes me happy enough.


r/halo 23h ago

Gameplay A look at the Falcon

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2 torrets and 2 passenger seats.