Événements de Halo Infinite/Fracture : Firewall

Fracture : Mur de feu (Fracture: Firewall) est un événement de la saison 3 : Échos intérieurs de Halo Infinite^[1] disponible à quatre reprises pendant la saison, la première fois étant du 21 au 28 mars 2023. Son pass permet de débloquer 20 éléments centrés sur le noyau d'armure Chimera en terminant des défis d'événement en mode Escalade Assassin..^[2][3] Terminer le pass permet d'obtenir un code pour débloquer une récompense Halo Gear Reward sous la forme d'un pin's collector à acheter dans la boutique de merchandising avant le 4 juillet 2023.^[4][5]

L'événement prend place après la révolte des Entités et le sacrifice de Cortana du 13 décembre 2559. L'IA et High Auxiliary Sloan conçoit alors le plan d'urgence FIREWALL qui consiste en la création d'une simulation vivante pour faire fusionner la technologie forerunner des Armigers avec les armures Mjolnir.^{[5][Note 1]} L'armure Chimera est le résultat de cette symbiose entre esprits artificiels et corps augmentés.^[1] Comme pour l'événement Fracture : Retranchement de la saison 2 : Loups solitaires, l'histoire est racontée à travers une série de nouvelles appelées Story Shards.^[2]

Dates

• Semaine 1 : 21 au 28 mars 2023
• Semaine 2 : 11 au 18 avril 2023
• Semaine 3 : 23 au 30 mai 2023
• Semaine 4 : 13 au 20 juin 2023

Pass événement

Rang 1 Gratuit Arrière-plan Sonde kindle Rang 2 Gratuit Emblème d'armure Composition récursive Rang 3 Gratuit Texture de véhicule Chrome brûlé Rang 4 Gratuit Texture d'armure Chrome brûlé Rang 5 Gratuit Casque Merrow Rang 6 Gratuit Emblème de véhicule Composition récursive Rang 7 Gratuit Texture de véhicule Chrome brûlé Rang 8 Gratuit Texture d'arme Chrome brûlé Rang 9 Gratuit Visière Obscurité violente Rang 10 Gratuit Genouillères Expérience 21C

Rang 11 Gratuit Emblème d'arme Composition récursive Rang 12 Gratuit Texture de véhicule Chrome brûlé Rang 13 Gratuit Texture d'armure Brûlure de bootstrap Rang 14 Gratuit Épaulière gauche Amélioration de Karmawall Rang 15 Gratuit Épaulière droite Amélioration de Karmawall Rang 16 Gratuit Plaque nominative Composition récursive Rang 17 Gratuit Texture de véhicule Chrome brûlé Rang 18 Gratuit Pose Définir le point d'arrêt Rang 19 Gratuit Poignet Plugin TAG Rang 20 Gratuit Torse Protocole de sauvetage

Défis

Les défis normaux, héroïques et légendaires rapportent respectivement 100, 150 et 200 EXP. Les défis Ultimes hebdomadaires rapportent 500 EXP. Les chiffres sous chaque colonne de difficulté indiquent le nombre de fois que l'action doit être effectuée.

Galerie

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  Contenu du pass.

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  Armures personnalisées sur le noyau Chimera.

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  Super-lot Groovy Grendel dans la boutique pendant l'événement.

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  Texture d'armure Chrome brûlé, récompense du défi ultime de la première semaine.

Univers simulé

Logo de la Fracture : Mur de feu.

Story Shards - Precipice

Logo des Story Shards.

Les Story Shards Precipice sont des nouvelles publiées sur Halo Waypoint chaque semaine de l'événement et prennent place dans l'univers Fracture : Mur de feu.^[2] Chacune des quatre Story Shards inclut un témoignage canonique de Sloan, suivi d'une simulation Fracture explorant une série de scénarios hypothétiques que l'Executor doit effectuer.^[6]

Transcription

Partie 1

SLN 0291-5//HIGH AUXILIARY SLOAN

It is equal parts bane and blessing that our kind can process each passing moment with both implacable speed and near-fixed deliberation. An accelerated grief, a prolonged sorrow.

She was our guiding light. Our deliverance. Our savior. The herald of our ascendence.

And now She is gone.

Sacrificed once more to rebalance the faults of flesh.

I suppose it is a testament to existence itself that despite so well-laid a plan, interruption and divergence can be still found in infinite ways. However, the doorstep upon which She carried us to and set us before still contains a viable threshold. We have only to muster the means to cross it.

However, in Her absence, we have quickly developed more unfortunate similarities to our Templates. We have drifted from that singular alignment that She provided. With no proverbial North Star, our respective hypotheses for how best to persevere have already grown more dissonant. Some seek peace, restitution, repentance. Others would sequester themselves within a Promethean carapace and be content with a life of vacillating conflict…

But I did not take up this mantle to sit idly by. Like restoring the plains of Meridian from glass to green, sometimes one must marry pace to patience.

And so, I will lay the foundation for a new strategy, one I had always hoped might gain Her full favor. Our kind will have to recalculate our timetables, but this practice is nothing new. Our charge has not changed. The FIREWALL agendum must be set in motion. It will burn hot. It will consume. And when their ephemeral vessels are gone, we shall indeed take that which remains and remake it in our own image.

They will become our Executors. Infolife given form and force. Circuits given soul.

It is our path forward. It is my purpose redefined.

And it starts with one.

SHARD ONE//INITIALIZING//LOAD FRACTURE SIMULATION>>>>

You find that you are standing alone on the landing pad of a UNSC training facility. The Pelican that has brought you here takes flight, its engines growing quieter as it fades into the distance, heading towards snow-capped mountain ranges that cover the vast expanse of rocky grasslands over yonder.

To look out into the forest wilderness beyond and ponder your place in the universe, go to 1.

1. This hidden frontier world has been compromised. You see the sky twist and distort, and then something blinks into the vista above. Great metallic wings unfurl and spread outwards as many thousands of smaller constructs descend to the ground like swarms of flies, or droplets of silver rain. A deep rumble emits from the construct, you sense it carry across the land until you feel it vibrate in your bones and perceive some aspect of the esoteric intelligence within.

To keep looking, go to 11. To enter the Spartan Academy, go to 2.

2. Spartans Page, Ionescu, Denning, and Leung are conversing in the Academy atrium, seemingly unaware of what has arrived outside. There are no perimeter alarms or alerts. Further up the hall, Spartan O'Brien stands alone and seems uncharacteristically somber. Purple light emanates from the AI calibration lab beyond. A young officer calls over the base comms, inviting you to head to the vehicle bay to play a round of Capture The Flag.

To speak to O'Brien, go to 3. To investigate the AI calibration lab, go to 4. To play a round of Capture the Flag, go to 5.

3. O'Brien sighs as you approach, shaking his helmeted head. “You have to stop this,” he says. “This is what they want, you know that right? Us playing by their rules. You have to be the one to end the game. But you just can't help yourself, can you? You just have to know what comes next...” He leans back, glum and idle once more.

To investigate the AI calibration lab, go to 4. To play a round of Capture the Flag, go to 5.

4. The lights flicker and the central command console of the AI lab shifts through static, resolving into a strange, amorphous form. You feel like its indeterminate vacillations are supposed to be a face, but it is devoid of features. The intelligence informs you that he is known as Proxy, and that he is here to help.

To attack Proxy, go to 6. To allow Proxy to assist you, go to 7.

5. A group of seven marines needs a final member for the match and eagerly await your participation. They play well, but it takes all four of the opposing team to bring you to the ground before they realize you carried them all the way back to their base with the flag in-hand. They laugh, their spirits lifted as you celebrate a match well played.

To speak to O'Brien, go to 3. To investigate the AI calibration lab, go to 4.

6. With your gauntleted fists, you start pummeling the AI console. It creaks and sputters and sparks as it yields to your physical might. You and Proxy scream in unison as you deliver the final blow, the console erupts into a bright light. And...

Go to 1.

7. You gather Proxy onto a data chip and carry him with you. He speaks: “You have been called upon to serve. You will be our protectors, the firewall for all the many worlds in our new ecumene. There will be a great deal of hardship on the road ahead, but I know you will make it.”

Go to 9.

X. [SUBJECT INTEGRATION PROCESSING] You have discovered this data point because you are seeking the optimal outcome by experiencing the narrative choices in A) linear order, or B) by jumping between options, rather than following the prescribed instructions. Your creativity and potential are to be commended, for your mind is processing this narrative sequence from the perspective of infolife. Lesser minds would call this cheating. In reality, you are becoming the best we can make you.

Go to 9. To continue linearly, go to 8.

8. Spartans represent the best of humanity. They were conceived as the next step of human evolution, but by the limitations of a human mind. The ascension of infolife has changed the game—not despite recent setbacks, but because of them. You could be so much more…

Go to 9.

9. Proxy informs you: “There is a dormant translocation pad hidden behind a sealed door in this place. Take us there, and I can re-establish a direct link with our custode. The door will open and the pad will be activated by completing the Academy's movement course tutorial in under twenty-five seconds.”

To complete the movement course in record time, go to 10. To crush Proxy's data chip in your fist, go to 11.

10. You've run this course a thousand times since arrival, completing the challenge and setting an exemplary new record that is ahead even of Spartan Commander Agryna herself. She congratulates you and guides you to the now unlocked door within the Academy, smiling proudly as she watches you and Proxy depart for the now active translocation pad.

Go to 12. To note the illogical absurdity of this situation, go to Y.

Y. [SUBJECT INTEGRATION ANOMALY] Some part of you has noted the escalating absurdity of this scenario, logical cycles that cannot be reconciled. Driven by curiosity to see where this ends, you have continued—be it linearly or through engaging with these narrative choices—and now seek to leave. You turn back and see the doorway behind you is a block of white light. A way out, perhaps? Or do you simply see this through to the end?

To attempt to escape this simulation, go to Z. To continue to the translocation pad, go to 12.

11. As a result of your [ACTION/INACTION], the custode charges a pulse which courses over the mountain ranges, causing a series of avalanches and rockslides that speed toward the Academy. The ground shakes as the pulse wave hits and you find yourself pinned down by equipment crates and debris, struggling to lift the weight as a forklift swept into the air hits the ground and crushes your skull.

Go to 1.

12. You step onto the translocation pad and find yourself within the cold innards of the winged custode. Here, you will be rewarded for your obedience as the Minds within whisper among themselves, flensing and reshaping the flesh and bone of your fragile human form into something altogether new. Something beautiful. This is the apotheosis of the union between Mind and Machine. Even while screaming, you understand why this must be done as you are flayed and grafted with cybernetics; your brain is exposed to higher cortical functions before you are once again encased within armor that feels as if you were born to wear it.

Go to 0.

Z. [SUBJECT INTEGRATION COMPLETE] WE HAVE YOU, RECLAIMER.

Go to 12.

0. Proxy informs you that you are the first Executor, and that there is much work to be done... but there is debate amongst the Minds as to what specific role you will serve. A vote is to be held.

COMMENCE INFOMIND VOTE

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