Halo Infinite: Give your Spartan some style with armor coating skins

Looks that kill.

One of the Halo series' greatest strengths is its player customization features, and this tradition is continuing in Halo Infinite. One of the primary ways that players are able to personalize their Spartan is through the armor coating system, which can be used to change how your armor looks in multiplayer gameplay.

Now that Halo Infinite's multiplayer is available to all players through the Halo Infinite beta, most of Halo Infinite's armor coatings are now available to use. Here's a complete overview of every Halo Infinite armor coating we know of so far, as well as a breakdown on how you can obtain each one.

Halo Infinite: What are coatings?

The Noble Defender armor coating.

Halo Infinite's armor coatings are a special shader-like makeover that you can apply to pieces of armor to change both its color and its material/texture appearance. For instance, one coating may give armor a shiny black metallic appearance, while another might make pieces of armor look crimson with a matte texture.

Notably, there are also coatings for other types of objects as well; Halo Infinite's weapon coatings are a good example of this, as they will allow you to completely change the appearance of your guns. Coatings for vehicles are available as well.

Halo Infinite: All armor coatings

Here's a list of all known Halo Infinite armor coatings, as well as information on how you can get them. Note that the requirements to unlock these coatings may change over time as 343 Industries makes adjustments to Halo Infinite before it launches later this year. Also keep in mind that some coatings that were previously available through promotions may not be available now, although a way to obtain them could return at a later date.

Name	Information	Unlock requirements
Cadet Grey	Description: A light gray armor coating with slight orange accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Cadet Blue	Description: A vibrant blue armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Cadet Red	Description: A vibrant red armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Cadet Orange	Description: A vibrant orange armor coating with gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Unknown rarity	● Unknown: It's currently unknown how to obtain this coating
Recruit Brown	Description: A simple light brown armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Recruit Cyan	Description: A bright cyan armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Recruit Forest	Description: A vibrant green armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Recruit Orange	Description: A bright orange armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Recruit Red	Description: A dark red armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Recruit Sage	Description: A bright green armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Recruit Violet	Description: A deep purple armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Recruit Yellow	Description: A bright yellow armor coating with slight gray accents and sleek, clean textures. ○ Common rarity	● Default: Available to all players when starting the game
Cloven Seafoam	Description: A sky blue armor coating with white accents and some small orange trims. The texture of the coating is smooth and clean. ○ Rare rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 6 on the Season 0 Battle Pass
Hexen Slate	Description: A sleek tan armor coating with dark brown and gray accents. ○ Rare rarity	● Unknown: It's currently unknown how to obtain this coating
Karaba Sirocco	Description: A clean blue and light blue coating with red and yellow accents. ○ Rare rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 66 on the Season 1 Battle Pass
Stone Green	Description: A very light green armor coating with a white helmet and sleek textures. ○ Rare rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 11 on the Season 1 Battle Pass
Arctic Void	Description: A bright blue armor coating with several green and orange trims. The textures are clean and smooth. ○ Epic rarity	● Unknown: It's currently unknown how to obtain this coating
Blue Rampage	Description: A bright red armor coating with a dark blue undersuit, helmet, arm, and leg armor. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 5 on the Season 1 Battle Pass
Cosmic Corruption	Description: A dark pink armor coating with light gray trims and sleek textures. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 16 on the Season 0 Battle Pass
Ghost Grey	Description: A white, gray, and black camo armor coating with yellow and orange trims. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 56 on the Season 1 Battle Pass
Scorpion Punch	Description: A dark gray metallic coating with a bright red right arm and a large red accent on the top of the helmet. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 8 on the Season 0 Battle Pass
Tahuna Sands	Description: A bright sand-colored coating with dark gray and orange accents. ○ Epic rarity	● Store: Available to purchase from the Halo Infinite store page
Bleached Bone	Description: A bright armor coating that gives armor plates a clean white appearance while making Spartan undersuits appear very light blue. ○ Legendary rarity	● Unknown: It's currently unknown how to obtain this coating
Estate Gold	Description: A metallic and sleek blue armor coating with gold accents on the torso, helmet, arm, and leg armor. ○ Legendary rarity	● Unknown: It's currently unknown how to obtain this coating
Monarch	Description: A purple matte skin with some dark gold trims and accents. ○ Unknown rarity	● Promotion: Was obtainable from specially marked Oreo and Chips Ahoy! packages. May be available in the future.
Granular	Description: A light blue coating with green trims and an orange and tan undersuit. ○ Unknown rarity	● Promotion: Was obtainable from specially marked Oreo and Chips Ahoy! packages. May be available in the future.
Red Shift	Description: A vibrant red skin with noticeable battle damage, light gray accents, and a dark black undersuit. ○ Unknown rarity	● Promotion: Was obtainable by purchasing Halo Infinite from a select few GameStop locations. May return in the future.
Watchdog	Description: A silver and black metallic skin that features small red trims and a deep black undersuit. ○ Unknown rarity	● Challenge: Available to players that reach SR 152 in Halo 5: Guardians before the launch of Halo Infinite
Splinter Desert	Description: A forest camo-style skin with muted light and dark green armor plating and a dark black undersuit. ○ Unknown rarity	● Unknown: It's currently unknown how to obtain this coating
Noble Defender	Description: An olive green and gray skin with slight red accents. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 74 on the Season 1 Battle Pass
Wild Kovan	Description: A tan and green camo skin with several gray accents. ○ Unknown rarity	● Unknown: It's currently unknown how to obtain this coating
Moa Assault	Description: A simple light brown armor coating with a gray helmet. Noticeably, there are decorative light brown trims on the helmet. ○ Unknown rarity	● Unknown: It's currently unknown how to obtain this coating.
Platinum Anniversary	Description: A green metallic coating that looks similar to Master Chief's armor. ○ Legendary rarity	● 20th Anniversary: This skin is unlocked by logging into Halo Infinite before Nov. 23.
Noble Portal	Description: A dark green coating with red and yellow accents, similar to Halo: Reach's Jorge. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 76 on the Season 1 Battle Pass
Noble Principle	Description: A dark blue matte coating with slight gray accents. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 14 on the Season 1 Battle Pass
Noble Observer	Description: An olive drab coating with dark blue accents. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 34 on the Season 1 Battle Pass
Noble Intercessor	Description: A sky blue matte coating. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 54 on the Season 1 Battle Pass.
Noble Executioner	Description: A dark gray and black coating with slight red accents. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 89 on the Season 1 Battle Pass.
Tempest Lilac	Description: A lilac coating with orange accents. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 41 on the Season 1 Battle Pass.
Redacted Records	Description: A completely dark gray matte coating. ○ Epic rarity	● Battle Pass: Tier 99 on the Season 1 Battle Pass.
HCS Winter	Description: A bright white, blue, and red coating that looks similar to the Halo Championship Series branding. ○ Epic rarity	● Store: This coating is available to purchase in the HCS portion of the Halo Infinite Store. It's free at launch, but may cost Credits later on.
Funko	Description: It's unclear what this coating looks like, but it's likely that it has the same blue armor with yellow gauntlets, greaves, and helmet trims seen on the Blue & Yellow Spartan Mark VII Funko Pop! figure. ○ Unknown rarity	● Promotion: This coating can be unlocked with the code that comes with the Blue & Yellow Spartan Mark VII Funko Pop! figure ($10).
Deathly Poison	Description: While this design has only been mentioned by name, it implies a black and green color palette, taking cues from Razer branding. ○ Unknown rarity	● Promotion: This skin is unlocked via a code included with the Kaira Pro wireless headset ($180) designed for Xbox consoles.

Your thoughts

What do you think of the armor coatings that have been revealed for Halo Infinite so far? Do you have a favorite? Personally, I really like the look of the Splinter Desert coating. For more on Halo Infinite's customization systems, don't miss our Halo Infinite full armor list as well as our list of Halo Infinite's weapon coating skins and charms.

Halo Infinite's free-to-play multiplayer has launched on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One consoles, and Windows 10 PCs. So far, the reception to the game has been overwhelmingly positive, and there's serious potential for it to become one of the best Xbox shooters ever.

Halo is back

Halo Infinite Multiplayer

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Halo Infinite's multiplayer has launched a few weeks early, compiling its classic arena multiplayer modes, expanded 24-player Big Team Battle, and more into one free-to-play package.