The Infinity's Armory

A blog dedicated to showcasing the best armor in the UNSC. New photosets daily, two on Saturdays.

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do you have any images of wetworks armor from Halo 4?

No, but I can try. Those MCC pictures can be a little trickier, though.(Yes, this blog truly still exists! I just have a lot of other games to play and that REQ grind is too real.)

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Hi, I was wondering if you can get more shots of the TEISHIN RAIKOU armor. I am part of the 405th Infantry Division and need to find big, clear photos of the armor in order to build the pieces and the rest of the body. If I may request, Can I see the armor with a prestige magnum, and a smg. These are really nice photos btw. I'll be using them as references and desktop wallpapers.

(hey this blog still exists!)I can get some shots of Teishin Raikou, sure. I'm a bit busy these days, but I'll post them here soon. I'm glad you enjoy the photoshoots and I hope this next one is just as good!

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In the spirt of r/halo and all of 343 Industries, this blog is now a Bravo dedicated blog. Expect nothing but Brav posts from now until the end of time.

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The Infinity's Armory stands with you as a shrine to the one true Bravo. May he be upvoted for all time.

Expect visual changes to accompany our new Bravo-centric coverage soon.

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Breaker Company - Achilles Armour!

Woo! We finally got the armour! Our last commendations were head-shots and First Strikes which was easily dealt with by getting everyone to spam SWAT! 

Onwards to the helmet! 

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Congrats to @arkanhalo and Breaker Company for unlocking the highly coveted Achilles armor!

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RECON RSO The heavily classified Auspex battlenet uplink in the RECON helmet contains the latest counter-cyberintrusion and firewall routines from ONI.

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CHALLENGER The CHALLENGER's high-performance thrusters and shield emitter arrays require constant stress monitoring and adjustment to avoid critical failure during a match, much to the dismay of Infinity's support teams.

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A Suggestion To The Community: Do not purchase the Spartan's Armory REQ Pack.

It’s been a while since I posted and I want to apologize for that, but there’s an issue of importance to me that I simply need to pass on to you, the Halo community.  This is a big message, so I’m putting it under a read more, but if you have the time, please read this.

In celebration of the upcoming HCS Championship this weekend, 343 has put out a new pack; Spartan’s Armory.  This pack costs $10 or 80000 REQ points, and I’m here to inform you in why that’s a load of crap.

This new pack is available until Monday and has within it 14 new weapon skins (which the announcement post implies will be available in regular packs later on?) and it’s weighed to give you cards from the last two updates, too.  The problem is you only get 2 skins per pack.

I haven’t played in a while and as such have 2000 points or so currently.  Using averages for Warzone - 20 minutes per match, 1000 points per match - I figured out that without any changes to the averages (which would absolutely occur) the 78 matches required would require 1560 minutes, or 26 hours of play. For one pack out of seven, as a reminder.

You get one pack for free, assuming you watch the final match via an Xbox Live-linked Twitch account on Sunday, but even with that plus 26 hours of play, I’d need an additional 130 hours of play, an absolute impossibility, to afford the additional five packs.

Or… I could do what 343 obviously wants me to do and shell out $50. For weapon skins.

I’m in no place to drop $50 in weapon skins currently, and even if I was, that’s insane spending, given I bought Halo 5 for only ten bucks more. What worsens the issue is that for the same $10 price a while back, you got 5 guaranteed unlocks. That pack I did buy, because it was a clear value; 5 items (including armor I could post here) for $2 each.

I have always been reluctant about microtransactions, but 343 had been handling them fairly well for a while; I have about 50% armor completion, at rank 72, and the only money I’ve spent on REQs was the $10 Athlon Champion pack. The Spartan’s Armory pack, however, is a step too far, asking players to either spend insane amounts of points or drop the price of a full game (assuming you have Twitch; add $10 if you don’t!) for weapon skins that’ll either be put into rotation soon or remain overpriced exclusives forever.

The worst part is 343 hasn’t even been entirely clear on what the pack is! The announcement post is worded fairly vaguely and I’ve read multiple accounts on r/halo alone about people not understanding the pack’s contents when dropping $10. It’s not illegal, but it’s certainly a bit underhanded.

So please, Halo fandom - DO NOT BUY THIS PACK. If you have already, that’s fine, but those of us who haven’t have a chance to speak with our purchases. Do not support 343’s overpriced, morally ambiguous practices. Do not tell them you’re willing to buy weapon skins at prices you could get a full game experience for. Microtransactions are a slippery slope, and it is up to us, as consumers, as players, as people with a passion for Halo, to draw a clear line.

If anything is this post is misinformed, please let me know so I may update it. I don't want to spread things that aren't true around.

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Another Apology

I want to reiterate again how sorry I am for falling off schedule so frequently. As someone with ADD (attention deficit disorder), I can easily forget to stick to a daily schedule of posts, but I feel like I could be doing far better for pretty much everyone who follows me. I hope to get better about my own flaws in the future and keep bringing you all content. But enough mushy mumbo jumbo about me. I'll try and keep a consistent schedule starting with tomorrow's update.

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Can we get some Halo 4/5 Gungnir armor sets?

I haven't unlocked Gungnir in H5:G yet but I'm sure some of my frequent guests have and I could throw something together in Halo 4 sooner or later.

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ENLISTMENT

So as I’m sure you’re all aware, there is some pretty fucking sick armor to unlock if your Spartan Company completes it’s kill commendations. 

This armor:

Well you may be wanting to acquire such majestic armor, and I do as well. So I have a proposition for you people…

Keep reading

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If you're wondering why there's no official Spartan Company for this blog; it's because I'm rolling with these smooth operators, and now you can too! Help us get Achilles and get in on sweet photoshoots!

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Spartans Never Walk Alone

I have not seen this on tumblr yet and I believe it needs to be seen by everyone…

Waypoint Blog Post

BY JOSHINGTONSTATE - 4 HOURS AGO

Last month we learned about a community member’s tragic loss. Adam (aka thecrzedspartan) and his wife Rebecca lost their daughters Trinity and Lena when their lives were claimed by an electrical fire in their family home. As a father, I can only imagine the heartache and pain caused by this loss. In the days following the tragedy, it was inspiring to see the Halo community come together to support Adam and Rebecca in a variety of ways.

In honor of Adam’s family and his daughters, Trinity and Lena, we’ve created the Spartans Never Walk Alone pack. This pack contains the True Light emblem, which is named after the first initial of each of his daughters’ names, and is the first animated emblem to come to Halo 5. All players will receive this pack as part of this month’s free update.

As well we have included a special feature in our new Arena map, Torque. As players look up and scan the stars above, the names Trinity and Lena will be visible in the night sky. These are but small gestures meant to honor Adam’s daughters, ensuring that their memories are always close at hand within the universe he loves.

/Josh

This gesture by 343 is immeasurable, and while no gesture will ever be enough to lessen the grief felt by Rebecca and Adam, their daughters will always be remembered by anyone who looks to the stars above Torque.

I believe it is our duty as Spartans to show our support as a community of friends and fellow soldiers by wearing this emblem with pride in Lena and Trinity’s memory.

I know I will.

/Fred (A.K.A Believe-in-117)

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//Okay so let me just say that, as a personal friend to Adam/Crazed, the absolute support from the Halo community through this tough time in their life is so amazing. When my fiance (who is a super close friend to Adam, they talk every day) told him about it all, he called his wife and told her and they both were crying. Thank you to everyone who has supported their family through all of this. Thank you 343i for showing so much support for a member of the community. Not only for the map and emblem, but the money donated to their gofundme. 

The whole family feels everyone’s love. They thank every person who has offered a blessing, no matter how small. Trinity and Lena are in heaven now, but they have become their parents’ guardian angels.

And if you want to wear the emblem, include pink and purple in it if possible. These colors were Trinity’s and Lena’s favorites.

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The Halo community is a family in its own right, and Adam, Rebecca, Lena, and Trinity are part of it.

Donate to these guys and wear that pink and purple emblem. It’s the least we can do to help one of our own.

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ENFORCER STRONGARM

ENFORCER-Class armor includes hardware-accelerated VISR enhancements for infiltrating and co-opting local battlenets to aid in target-tracking, and counter surveillance.

(Submission to @the-infinitys-armory)

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Great submission by @believe-in-117! Great map, great armor, great pictures.

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Torque Easter Egg - Spartans NEVER walk alone!

For those who don’t know the reasoning about the True Light emblem i have added in the picture above about this sad story. But this easter egg, my respect for 343 has gone beyond the roof.

Adam and Rebecca, i honestly cannot think what you are going through right now, other then living hell, but always remember there names are in the stars and so are they! R.I.P to there 2 daughters, Trinity and Lena, as you can see from the 2 screenshots 343 have also wrote there names out in stars on the Torque skybox. At the start of every match on Torque, i will look to the stars and i will honor them both. As the old, but legendary, saying goes… Spartans never die They’re just missing in action!

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Major respect to 343 Industries for implementing these tributes. I implore you all to use this emblem, at least for a little while, as a symbol of support; and my condolences go out to Adam and Rebecca.

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TRACKER ONI asset recovery specialists make extensive use of the TRACKER armor's biological and information forensics functionality to locate their assigned targets - whether man or machine.

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343 Industries has confirmed not only that Hammer Storm launches later today, but they’ve released a schedule of upcoming updates including Ghosts of Meridian (presumably what was showcased during last night’s stream), updates themed around Reach and the Warthog, and last but far from least, the return of Firefight as a Warzone variant! Be on the lookout for all these great updates in 2016.

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Did I say later today? I meant right now. Hit the court with Grifball, dominate with the CE Pistol, and bring the wrath of the Gravity Hammer on your foes!

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343 Industries has confirmed not only that Hammer Storm launches later today, but they've released a schedule of upcoming updates including Ghosts of Meridian (presumably what was showcased during last night's stream), updates themed around Reach and the Warthog, and last but far from least, the return of Firefight as a Warzone variant! Be on the lookout for all these great updates in 2016.

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SCOUT DECOY Materials Group tested various form factors of the SCOUT helmet before settling on a sleek shape reminiscent of the MARK VI [GEN1] model.