343 confirms Halo Infinite's controversial Fracture: Tenrai event ends on Tuesday as backlash continues

343 has confirmed Halo Infinite’s controversial Fracture: Tenrai event ends on Tuesday as the backlash to the game’s progression, battle pass and cosmetics continues apace.

A tweet from the official Halo Support account announced Fracture: Tenrai ends as originally planned at 6pm UK time on Tuesday, 30th November.

This also means the Fiesta event playlist, which I’ve had a lot of fun playing, goes dark until the Tenrai event returns to Halo Infinite in January 2022.

Fracture: Tenrai, the game’s first limited-time event, has sparked a vociferous backlash from Halo Infinite players for a number of reasons.

This event, which is free to access for all players, contains its own 30-tier progression track that includes the samurai-inspired Yoroi armour core and other related Yoroi armour pieces.

Progress on the event pass is made by completing event challenges, which means you can’t progress simply by playing the limited-time playlist. Once you’ve completed all available event challenges in a given week, you will have progressed as far as possible until the next Fracture: Tenrai event.

This means progress along this event pass is gated – you can only complete seven event-specific challenges during this first week of the event, which means you can only complete seven tiers of the event pass.

343 has said it plans for Fracture: Tenrai to make six total appearances over the course of Season 1, with its next appearance set for January 2022.

The way the event-specific challenges work feels miserly. The event challenges are mixed in with the normal weekly challenges, so you have to complete normal weeklies just to access the event challenges you need to complete to progress through the event pass. Some players have struggled to complete these event challenges, too.

Adding to the furore is the fact 343 is selling limited-time, premium Samurai-themed cosmetics in the Halo Infinite shop. These cosmetics have been slammed for being too expensive. The Chonmage armour set, for example, costs 2000 credits – or £14.39.