Armor Coatings need a solution. Here’s one

Games Halo Infinite
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Preface.

As the community knows by this point in time, the Armor Coatings system is controversial at best.

By being locked to purchases or passes, and without any way to fulfill a sense of personal colorization otherwise, the Coatings are drawing a lot of reasonable flak from many players. Some common assertions include being a form of predatory monetization, being a ‘deliberate cash grab’, and even as being a regression from previous systems.

In many ways, it is a regression. But I have an idea that could fix this.

Introducing the Armor Coating Editor

I’ll get straight to the point and stop wasting your time.

This ‘Armor Coating Editor’, which will now be referred to as just the ‘Editor’, is a system designed to do the following:

  1. Provide a completely free way for players to create their own color schemes using basic colors and textures, with all ‘normal’ colors being available by default and with advanced colors/textures being unlocked by purchasing or obtaining new Armor Coatings.

  2. Allow players to create ‘presets’ of these colors, which are custom color combinations that are saved as independent Armor Coatings. I propose that these ‘Editor Coatings’ be placed in a ‘Custom Colors’ section, which will take the place of the current “free” colors.

  3. Allow players to achieve true personal customization without lessening the value of standalone, battle pass, or store bought armor coatings. To make them more valuable, I suggest making the aspects/colors of any purchased Coating be usable in this ‘Editor.’

Debrief and Additional Statements

With the actual armor in use aside, the ability to color and customize oneself in a Halo game is critical to player enjoyment. Simple aspects like this give a player control over how they appear, and help to create an individualized Spartan of their own.

This system would capitalize on both of those things. In-depth color and texture choice would dramatically increase player customization options, while also making it easier to achieve individuality.

On a side note, this system would be entirely optional, and would not obstruct players from using armor coatings in their original intended fashion. It would simply give people more options.

What do you all think about this idea? Do you have anything to add? Let me know in the thread.

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@BlitzGear02,

I completely agree! I was actually going to post a very similar solution and am glad that I found yours. I was going to suggest that at the very least they give us the same primary and secondary color options that we have had since Reach, that way we at least have the basic two-color editor that we have always had in addition to the current armor coating system.

I don’t think anyone necessarily has a problem with armor coating as is, but rather with the absence of the old system. Both the new and old system can exist together, with the old system only giving the basic two-color personalized options for free and armor coatings giving players the option to pay for more intricate designs with more than two colors, or asymmetrical colors (such as one red arm) and different camo patterns, etc. I know that this would make a few of the existing armor coatings redundant (as they were taken from Reach and thus created by that system), but it really would be best for the game as a whole.

I like your idea of an “editor” to make our own coatings, however if I may play devil’s advocate for a moment, 343 may be worried that allowing us to make any design from existing designs will eventually give us all the resources we would need so that rather than buying a new coat when they release one, we just make it ourselves, eventually negating any ability to sell new coats.

I would love it if the editor you described eventually made it into the game, even if we had to pay a small price for every coat we made, as long as we still have the original Reach color system for free, especially seeing as we have the Reach armor back we really need the colors to go with them. That seems like a fair compromise to me, we get as much free customization as we have always had, and they can still make money from their new system.

It is exciting that the first Pass includes every part needed to recreate my original Reach Spartan (except the recon shoulder pads), but until I have Sage primary with Brown secondary colors, Noble 6 will never be restored to his full glory, and that is just too specific of an armor coat to wait for. Once there is a proper progression system and the means to color our Spartans exactly the way we could before, I may consider buying the Pass (I have never payed for a Battle Pass before in any game, but Halo might just win me over).

I hope that more people and the developers see your post and act on it swiftly. I will share a link to your thread on other posts of the same topic in order to raise awareness. Thank you for taking the time to read this long response.

Godspeed,
A. Galileo

P.S.
Apparently I don’t have authority to share links, if anyone does, spread the word to every other thread about customization.

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I would love to see this happen. I hope it does.

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Me too. I know that a progression system is the top priority, but I hope that this comes next.

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343 PLEASE follow up to these ideas! The color editor is a must along with allowing different parts of armor kits to be mixed around. These kind of things are always about money, so if you think you can get more money by having these features lock out options, I can promise you, it would make more money to have better features and options that would make the skins worth it more to get, more people would be getting the battle pass too!

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We really need a system that keeps the 2 color system we’ve always had and have armor coatings be like op suggested were they are more like textures, patterns, effects, decals, and colors not abble to be used or 3+ colors that can’t be done by the normal 2 color system.

This would give 343 more to sell and pad out bps and unlockables with and would have players more invested into customization that would increase sales and make players happy. It’s good for all parties involved. Please 343

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