Navigation point

A Waypoint shows the direction of your next objective or destination.

Waypoints will appear in your HUD in multiplayer games, indicating the location of game objectives such as flags and VIP's. These are also present in Campaign if you're lost and/or confused in the terrain. They're also used to mark vehicles. For example in Halo CE, after you have crash landed on Installation 04, Cortana will radio Echo-419 for a Warthog. Once deployed, a Waypoint marker will be in place directly above the Warthog.

In Halo: Combat Evolved, the waypoints are coloured orange while in Halo 2 and Halo 3, they are blue when played as the Master Chief and are purple when playing as the Arbiter in Campaign Mode. The same feature is also present when played as an Elite in multiplayer. Often they have a distance indicator, in metres, showing the player how far away they are.