Just for comparison sake, Quake Champions manages to have different species and still make it work. I don’t see why 343i can’t if other triple A developers can.
The talented developer team left and microsoft took their own staff and had them fail to replace their predecessors.
This new team has no desire to innovate or evolve the game so they just copy from pre existing material both from Halo and popular games. So Elite player models wont be added because it would take too much creative thought which is something that isn’t allowed at the current department in charge of Halo.
They and their fans like to list “competitive” as an excuse to not allow more customization, however they fail to realize only a tiny percentage of their entire playerbase doesn’t care about “competitive” and would prefer to play as Spartans or Elites. My solution to making things “competitive” is that there should be no male or female body types or voices, armor pieces, or colors at all everyone should just be a bright white mannequin to allow for complete competitiveness without any detraction to “esport”.
Gears of war is similar too! the locust are way beefier and chunkier along with the more slimmer kantus and the humans are even more slimmer especially the females! and don’t even get me started on they’re armor too! If they can pull it off so can 343
Forget the lore, halo has put lore second until 343 took over.
Halo reach did this, ended up getting cut out of MM.
Then play overwatch or something lol i dont see your issue
I have no issues, friend, I don’t need elites to keep playing halo, so your words about overwatch looks kinda weird to me, sorry.
By the way I don’t like overwatch.
Elites do not need their own special mechanics
343 doesn’t like playable Elites simple as that.