Halo 5 just got a big boost!

From maps, weapons skins to a new armour set — this update has it all

After Battle of Shadow and Light and The Cartographer’s Gift, Halo 5 is all set to receive its third free update — Infinity’s Armoury — later this week. The content update brings with it new maps for Arena and Warzone, along with a few new weapon skins, assassinations and a brand new armour set.

The new maps are Riptide for Arena mode and Urban for Warzone Assault. What’s awesome is that 343 studios is doing some serious fan service via this content update by including a Halo 2-era Battle Rifle as one of the new weapons. The carbine too is all set to get two new Reqs called Rain of Oblivion and Blood of Suban and the new armour set, called Achilles, is possibly one of the best-looking armour sets in the game to date.

The two new assassinations are called Wind Up, which essentially involves your Spartan suplexing your opponent and breaking his neck with an almighty wrench, The second, Stop Stabbing Yourself, is fairly self explanatory, however, it entails you sneaking up behind your enemy, proceeding to finish them off with a quick and deadly slash across the neck.

While an exact launch date for the content update pack hasn’t yet been revealed by 343 studios, they have confirmed that it will be made available to the public this week. Halo has always held a special place in the hearts of gamers the world over and continues to remain one of the most popular and competitive First Person Shooter games out there till date. It is good to see a company supporting their games with regular and free content updates so that it does not fragment the player base and everyone is able to enjoy the new content hassle free and most importantly, free of cost.

Players and community creators have also stepped up their game leading 343 to launch the community playlists featuring some truly amazing creations — the latest of which involves a fan recreating Super Mario’s Princess Peach's castle using the Halo 5 forge mode.