The Halo Infinite challenge system is a core part of how Spartans earn the XP necessary to level up their battle passes throughout the season. But beyond XP, Halo Infinite adds an additional reward to incentivize players to complete weekly challenges: the Ultimate Reward.
Players who complete their challenges in any given week and then finish a final capstone challenge can earn a free piece of cosmetic loot. The free reward rotates every week, and only rarely do these cosmetics have the chance to return at a later date. If an Ultimate Reward catches your eye, it’s important to log on and get to grinding before you miss your opportunity to add it to your collection.
Halo Infinite weekly Ultimate Reward (Jan. 30, 2024)
This week’s Ultimate Reward in Halo Infinite is a new helmet for your Spartan: Kai-125. Pulled directly out of the Halo TV show, which returns in February, Kai’s helmet is available to earn for free, provided you can knock out the current suite of weekly challenges.
It’s the first of three weekly rewards tied to the series return, with the helmets of Riz-028 and Vannak-134 coming on Feb. 6 and 20, respectively. New helmets are a rare thing to see offered at no cost, so these are going to be Ultimate Rewards you absolutely want to snap up.
Halo Infinite has now entered what the developer is calling CU29, which is the first major update to the title after the conclusion of the seasonal model. While several changes have spawned from that, such as a greater focus being placed on the game’s Operations, the Ultimate Reward system has remained the same. There are still plenty of opportunities to earn a lot of cosmetics for free, provided they’re willing to put the time in.
In a change mainly designed around improving the battle pass, 343 updated Halo Infinite’s backend to allow single reward nodes to give out multiple bundled rewards. This was initially done to cut down on some of the bloat that used to exist in battle and event passes, but it also has ramifications for Ultimate Rewards. When you earn emblems or coatings here, they will now also be for all cores, weapons, or emblem locations.
The weekly Ultimate Reward can be anything, ranging from weapon coatings and player stances to charms and new Spartan armor coatings. 343 said before season two’s launch it wanted Halo Infinite’s Ultimate Rewards to feel like a worthy prize for the time invested into the weekly challenges, and the devs have made strides to make the rewards more regularly impactful season over season—fewer emblems and backdrops, more of the stuff players want.
During Operations, the weekly reward can also be themed around that event, whether that’s armor pieces or coatings specific to a core introduced through the Operation or just a weapon charm inspired by iconography from that event. Complete all your weekly challenges and the capstone challenge before the daily reset on Tuesdays at 1pm CT to acquire the Ultimate Reward.
