In future games i’d like AA’s to look more believable. So far all they’ve been are just packs (or in halo 4’s case paper planes) on your back. I’d like them tp be a little more believable.
For example:
Promethean vision would add a little uplink-looking thing to your helmet.
Hardlight Sheild would resemble a jackel gautlet on your arm.
Something like that.
I always thought AAs should have been very distinctive Chest or Helmet designs so players knew who was packing what. I guess it falls on the art director ultimately on what looks like what. I wonder if he or she has a Twitter feed.
It’d be nice if armor abilities WOULD be armor pieces, taking up an actual armor piece slot or something, so you could see that if someone has a certain chest or helmet they have a certain ability.
But that’d restrict the premise of Spartan dress up dolls, wouldn’t it?
> It’d be nice if armor abilities WOULD be armor pieces, taking up an actual armor piece slot or something, so you could see that if someone has a certain chest or helmet they have a certain ability.
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> But that’d restrict the premise of Spartan dress up dolls, wouldn’t it?
I’ve actually pitched that idea to the forums, only got a few people to agree.
> It’d be nice if armor abilities WOULD be armor pieces, taking up an actual armor piece slot or something, so you could see that if someone has a certain chest or helmet they have a certain ability.
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> But that’d restrict the premise of Spartan dress up dolls, wouldn’t it?
I’m not sure if that would matter. You jump into a match on BF3 and you’re really sort of generic class of solider, you can pick out an Engineer from a Recon unit pretty easy even when they have advanced and unlocked certain colors or looks.
Take all the specialization Perks. I wouldn’t bother me to simply don my Pathfinder armor if I wanted to use that specialization. But I chalk that up to having to play other developer’s games and simply just being ok with how the model looks.
Halo doesn’t have to be Forza or Armored Core where I can paint and add whatever I can think of for it to be fun. Reach introduced some really nice looking realistic space armor, but with AAs and classes being the new norm of FPS I’m down with donning a specific set of armor and playing as a Spartan Operator or Tracker. No big deal really and I’m the guy who likes insanity in my games.
I like how the thruster pack is tucked up under your shoulder things, where the actual jets come from! that’s awesome…
What could the hologram look like? a projector on ones shoulder?
> I like how the thruster pack is tucked up under your shoulder things, where the actual jets come from! that’s awesome…
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> What could the hologram look like? a projector on ones shoulder?
hmm… maybe a sort of generator on the chestpiece, kind of resembling a crude ironman arc generator