Are armor abilities canon?
With halo 4 it seems like it but i am still not fully sure how i feel about it. There weren’t mentioned or implied a single time with the original canon now all of a sudden they are everywhere.
I honestly feel like halsey would have mentioned them with her armor specifications or at least implied it or something. They pretty much seem to be the power grabs in MP since thorn pretty much used camo that way.
other than it always being on for x amount of time.
Yes they are… Why wouldn’t they?
Armour abilities are basically separate modules that attach to MJOLNIR with its native and ad hoc support. They even have proper designations.
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/intel/armor
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Cortana even mentions active camouflage, Promethean vision. Palmer mentions the jet packs, a scientist mentions the thruster pack.
Here’s an armour ability, the T-PACs that Linda, James and John used. James’s armour ability got damaged.
Fall of reach, 2001.
Armour abilities from the looks of it could just be equipped simultaneously, some of them at least. A jet pack on the back, autosentry above the butt, active camouflage module on the leg. Seems good.
Armour Modifications are also canon, however logically it seems that you could have more than one tactical package and one support upgrade at the time. Most of them seem to just be hacks pushing the safety limits of the armour.
T-Pacs aren’t armor abilities that is an attachment. Strapping on a thruster and calling it an armor ability is not correct.
I can’t even wrap my head around the UNSC walking around and using promethean vision like nothing. don’t even get me stated on the materialization of the sentry turrets or the Hardlight shield.
I don’t think so, but it’s not really confirmed. Majestic and Palmer never displayed any knowledge of AAs and never used them, even though I’m sure they’d be useful for Palmer’s infiltration of Jul’s base.
Majestic were actually shocked to find an active camo unit on Gek so I’m assuming active camo at least isn’t used by the Spartans.
Thrusters might be canon because unlike past thruster packs, they’re built into the armour aren’t they?
I imagine they’re all canon but not widely used by the Spartan IVs in War games or ops unless scavenged on the field like Chief did.
Well just to put Halo Reach’s AA’s safely. They are canon
The Halo Reach game Manual that came with the game assuming that everybody here has it. Has an area on AA’s telling what they do. And maybe some extra canon on them.
I’d say they’re canon, though their availability and use are not. At the very least, the tech exists.
That said, the hardlight shield is likely just some kind of projector like the watchers have. Similarly the Auto-Sentry is probably ‘summoned’ similarly to how the watcher can teleport in dogs and turrets.
I’ll clear up that i know they are canon and i am not talking about that more so the sense of it all.
In a way yes. They exist in the universe, but Armor Abilities seems to be a gameplay term.
The functions the modules provide exist though.
That’s what an amour ability basically is. An extra-attachment, usually with a recharge meter and stuff. If you took kinesis from dead space and put it on a spartan, that’d be an armour ability.
Why would 343i give official designations, like the T-3 active camo module, to something that isn’t canon? All this stuff is meaningful. Click the Link I provided.
Hard light shield armour ability. A module that manipulates hard light to create a shield of solid photons.
Autosentry armour ability. A module that likely as well manipulates hard light to create an automated personal defense drone.
Crawlers are built by watchers actually.
Really, simple. If it has lore descriptions, then you can mostly say its canon.
Why would they not be canon? They’re just pieces of equipment attached to Mjolnir armor, nothing more. Like what Onyx81 said, “armor ability” is a gameplay term, but the functions exist.
Let’s put it this way, a soldier using night vision goggles is using an armor ability.
> T-Pacs aren’t armor abilities that is an attachment. <mark>Strapping on a thruster and calling it an armor ability is not correct.</mark>
And strapping on a jetpack is?
> > T-Pacs aren’t armor abilities that is an attachment. <mark>Strapping on a thruster and calling it an armor ability is not correct.</mark>
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> And strapping on a jetpack is?
Are you implying that i said that? because i didn’t.
Rolling and sprinting aren’t AA either.
> > > T-Pacs aren’t armor abilities that is an attachment. <mark>Strapping on a thruster and calling it an armor ability is not correct.</mark>
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> > And strapping on a jetpack is?
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> Are you implying that i said that? because i didn’t.
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> Rolling and sprinting aren’t AA either.
Well thruster and jetpacks work very similarly so I’m just saying…
Sprinting was in Reach and even for canon reasons as for evade, I don’t think there was any real reason for it other than gameplay.
Imo, the only true “armor ability” that could reasonable exist in the Canon is Armor Lock. It is something that the armor would be able to do itself, without the need for an add-on type item or some silly technology.
Sprint isnt an armor ability, because you dont need the armor to run fast.
Jet Pack isnt really an armor ability either, because its basically just a back-pack like item that you throw on your back.
Imo, in order for something to be considered an armor ability, it would need to be built into the armor system itself, some something added on.
In terms of Halo 4 armor abilities, I dont imagine theyre really canon. I cant see anyone being able to just pick something up, slam it onto their armor and all of a sudden being able to just do crazy -Yoink- like generating a frontal hardlight shield or sentry bot out of thin air.
This is annoying.
Why don’t people get they are canon?
Armour abilities are canon. There is canonical information about them. Canon is not about what you think, it’s about what it is.
Madman, the gen2 is designed for that. Picking up something and generating those things.
Sprint was an external attachment that hacked into the MJOLNIR gen 1 to provide faster than usual speed by going beyond MJOLNIR’s safety limits if I recall. Evade was probably something for the shields to be better at rolling or something that made the armour less restrictive in movement to allow better roll.
Armour abilities, external modules. Multiple uses/rechargeable.
Armour lock is an external module. Locking your armour is something built in.
Of course they are canon. Why would they not be?