Halo Infinite’s upcoming Spring Replace will add its first new energy weapon since launch, and it is one which will likely be acquainted, but totally different, to longtime Halo fans–the Fuel Rod SPNKr.
It isn’t precisely the Fuel Rod Cannon first launched as a usable weapon in Halo 2, however fairly a UNSC SPNKr rocket launcher that has been closely modified by Halo Infinite’s enemy faction, the Banished, to fireside gasoline rods.
Whereas the weapon shares many similarities with the franchise’s basic Fuel Rod Cannon–like a big journal and big inexperienced bolts of exploding plasma–it does behave a bit in a different way. Most notably, the Fuel Rod SPNKr’s plasma bolts do not bounce off targets, appearing extra like Halo’s conventional rocket launcher.
Developer Halo Studios (previously 343 Industries) is at present on a roll in terms of including new weapons to Halo Infinite. The sport’s first new weapon, the Bandit DMR, got here three years after launch. Nonetheless, Halo Studios added a brand new SMG, the MA5K Avenger, late final yr and is now including the Fuel Rod SPNKr only a few months later. In a blog post outlining all the opposite new additions coming as a part of Halo Infinite’s 2025 Spring Replace on February 4, the developer confirmed it is engaged on one other new weapon within the type of a Banished-themed shotgun. That weapon is slated to reach as a part of Halo Infinite’s Summer season Replace.
The Fuel Rod SPNKr stands out as the star attraction of the Spring Replace, however Halo Studios can also be bringing again a basic Halo 2 recreation mode within the type of the bomb-planting Assault. Different additions coming with the replace embrace a remake of the Halo 5 map Coliseum alongside weapon stability modifications. The replace will moreover overhaul the sport’s premium Operations Move, including extra armor set to earn for individuals who resolve to buy it whereas making it so armor units from outdated passes will likely be obtainable on The Change (Halo Infinite’s in-game forex beauty store) the season after they debut.
Halo Studios is at present engaged on a number of new Halo initiatives, although the developer has not revealed what these initiatives are. The studio not too long ago shifted to utilizing Unreal Engine 5 to construct future video games within the sequence, within the course of revealing Venture Foundry, a prototype utilizing Unreal Engine meant as a coaching device that additionally exhibits what the way forward for Halo might appear like. In a blog post saying the shift (and the studio’s new title), it was stated the studio rebrand and transfer to Unreal was the beginning of a brand new chapter for the franchise. Given the transfer to Unreal remains to be early, a brand new recreation within the sequence was stated to not be “imminent.”
Rumors proceed to flow into that older Halo video games as soon as unique to Xbox, in addition to a rumored Halo: Fight Developed remake, might launch on PlayStation 5 within the wake of Microsoft’s new multi-platform recreation launch technique. Nonetheless, no official bulletins have been made.