Halo 5 Getting More Covenant Forge Items, See Some Here

Halo 5: Guardians came out a year ago this month. Microsoft has steadily supported the Xbox One game with all manner of free DLC, and now we know a little more about what's coming next.

In its latest weekly blog post, 343 Industries showed off some of the new, Covenant-themed items coming to Halo 5's Forge mode in a future update. Forge director Tom French said one common piece of feedback is that users want more Forge pieces, which is no strange thing, considering how important the Covenant faction is to the Halo universe. Sangheili items are on the way next.

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"We scoured our maps to find pieces and even shapes we could rip out of them that would make great accents with a wide variety of applications," French explained. "We looked for pieces that would make great accents to levels, helping add the curves where needed and augmented that list with a lot of Covenant staples; Phantoms, drop pods, weapon pods, etc. Additionally, we opened up the flood gates on social media asking for suggestions. The hundreds of screenshots and suggestions helped us prioritize what we were going to ultimately deliver. For sake of time and bandwidth we opted to spit the list between the two types of Covenant themes; more classic Covenant style was prioritized for the first update and then followed by assets from the Elite home world Sangheili in the next (coming soon!)."

French went on to say that the new Halo 5 update containing the Sangheili items is "huge" and there is a "lot to discuss about it." For now, all we know is what can be gathered by the screenshots above, which were released in the blog post. Click through the gallery to see them all.

343 has for a long time now been teasing the next Halo 5 update. In the newest blog post, 343 said "work on the next Halo 5 release continues," though no specifics were provided. 343 previously said that the new update will deliver "a few flavors of goodness," whatever that means.

September's Anvil's Legacy was Halo 5's ninth free expansion. Halo 5's other expansions included The Battle of Shadow and Light (November), Cartographer's Gift (December), Infinity's Armor (January), Hammer Storm (February), Ghosts of Meridian (April), Memories of Reach (May), Hog Wild (May), and Warzone Firefight (June).

Halo 5's Forge tools are also now available on Windows 10 PCs.