I’ve finally managed to gather up enough credits in Reach to buy Inclement Weather, but before I blow all of 2 mil.cR, I wanted to know if 343 has said anything about adding more to the armory in the future.
I’m trying to decide if I should save my credits or not, because it is safe to say that I’ll never have this many credits ever again. I would be very very disappointed if I blew all my cR on Inclement Weather, only to find out a few months later that I could finally buy my katana in Reach.
So, has there been any official word confirming/denying new armory additions?
From what most people have told me, it’s not possible.
> From what most people have told me, it’s not possible.
Let me set the record straight, it’s not impossible. The reason so many people (probably including those that told you about it) in this isolated community say it isn’t not impossible is because of a one-off post made by an employed UI designer back on the bungie forums. And of course having gold text everyone took his professional opinion as the absolute writ of eternal law which no mortal man could contradict.
Well, here’s one for you, many, many, many games have had additional player skin DLC. It’s even standard policy in modding communities to supply just that to PC games, and without the sort of shenanigans as posed even with the primative hardware of the pre-xbox generation. And now, we have Brink, TF2, Fable, Oblivion, Fallout, Mass Effect, Unreal Tournament 3, and more supplying extra customization without on-disc locked content. It’s nothing new, by any stretch of the imagination, nothing radical, and nothing as monumental as people here have made it out to be. It would be a bit of a fuss, yes, but nothing that’s absolutely prohibitive beyond the will of Bungie/343 to do it.
> > From what most people have told me, it’s not possible.
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> Let me set the record straight, it’s not impossible. The reason so many people (probably including those that told you about it) in this isolated community say it isn’t not impossible is because of a one-off post made by an employed UI designer back on the bungie forums. And of course having gold text everyone took his professional opinion as the absolute writ of eternal law which no mortal man could contradict.
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> Well, here’s one for you, many, many, many games have had additional player skin DLC. It’s even standard policy in modding communities to supply just that to PC games, and without the sort of shenanigans as posed even with the primative hardware of the pre-xbox generation. And now, we have Brink, TF2, Fable, Oblivion, Fallout, Mass Effect, Unreal Tournament 3, and more supplying extra customization without on-disc locked content. It’s nothing new, by any stretch of the imagination, nothing radical, and nothing as monumental as people here have made it out to be. It would be a bit of a fuss, yes, but nothing that’s absolutely prohibitive beyond the will of Bungie/343 to do it.
While it is true many games have had DLC skins, halo has not. Halo uses a unique save system that, in previous titles, would make adding skins nearly impossible. This is due to weapons, models, and skins being written into the maps. This means that adding new items to current maps would require the player to re-download every bit of data.
This is all in previous titles, however. I feel that, with the extreme amount of armor available, a different system would likely be used.
> > > From what most people have told me, it’s not possible.
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> > Let me set the record straight, it’s not impossible. The reason so many people (probably including those that told you about it) in this isolated community say it isn’t not impossible is because of a one-off post made by an employed UI designer back on the bungie forums. And of course having gold text everyone took his professional opinion as the absolute writ of eternal law which no mortal man could contradict.
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> > Well, here’s one for you, many, many, many games have had additional player skin DLC. It’s even standard policy in modding communities to supply just that to PC games, and without the sort of shenanigans as posed even with the primative hardware of the pre-xbox generation. And now, we have Brink, TF2, Fable, Oblivion, Fallout, Mass Effect, Unreal Tournament 3, and more supplying extra customization without on-disc locked content. It’s nothing new, by any stretch of the imagination, nothing radical, and nothing as monumental as people here have made it out to be. It would be a bit of a fuss, yes, but nothing that’s absolutely prohibitive beyond the will of Bungie/343 to do it.
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> While it is true many games have had DLC skins, halo has not. Halo uses a unique save system that, in previous titles, would make adding skins nearly impossible. This is due to weapons, models, and skins being written into the maps. This means that adding new items to current maps would require the player to re-download every bit of data.
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> This is all in previous titles, however. I feel that, with the extreme amount of armor available, a different system would likely be used.
Adding new skins would require adding a new file for the game. That file would be added in either a patch/TU or as a “free version”/“premium version” of the DLC. Free lets you play with people who have it as premium gives you access to it. The issue with the Free/Premium way is that then if someone didn’t download it they would mess up matchmaking so the only other alternative would be to add the content files through a TU/patch which would then mean updating every file on the disc that involves the player model. This means hitbox files, maps, campaigns, cut scenes, ect. That would make the title update about 1gb minimum in size … Now who wants that?
I think that was a slight oversight by Bungie: As soon as you have 100% in Armory Completion, what else are you going to do with your credits?
I don’t think any new armor is going to come. But what I would do with all that is spend it on the armor, to make yourself look cool. Or do not spend it at all, and you will have quite a bankroll.
Long and short? No. No new armor will be added when CE:A hits.
However, it is in the realm of possibility. It was an idea that 343 thought about adding but the amount of time it would take was not feasible due to the TU and the release of CE:A and the seven MP maps. Just wasn’t enough time to do that apparently 