Halo Infinite’s second new weapon leaked after three years of release

A new weapon is coming to Xbox’s free-to-play multiplayer shooter Halo Infinite. Almost three years after the game’s official launch, the game’s second new weapon has been leaked in a recent datamine. New Halo Infinite weapon More than a year after the release of the Bandit DMR, 343 Industries is adding another human weapon to Halo Infinite.

Instead of playing into the Banished /Covenant toybox or introducing a new vehicle—such as the datamined Falcon—the Halo studio is bringing a new human SMG to the game. Halo dataminers discovered references to a new MA5K SMG in newly updated files for the live service game. While not present in Halo Infinite at the time of writing, the MA5K has featured prominently in the series’ novels over the years.

In the 2007 Halo book Ghosts of Onyx, the MA5K submachine gun appears, and it also plays a prominent role in The Rubicon Protocol, one of the two prequel novels for Infinite. However, this weapon has never appeared in a Halo game before. While art for the weapon has existed, Bungie and 343 never cared to bring the weapon to any of the games, not even Halo Wars.

In Halo Infinte’s files, there are now multiple references to the MA5K Avenger. Since the game added the weapon under the SMG class, it can’t be a weapon kit for the existing iconic MA5B assault rifle. However, this doesn’t guarantee the weapon’s release.

Scrapped Infinite weapons After years of datamining, fans have discovered tonnes of cut weapons and vehicles i.