What are your predictions for updated Covenant designs? I hope its Halo 2 Anniversary esque for most things. But I like the Halo 5 Plasma Rifle a lot though it had barely changed. Would prefer the Bungie wraith, barricades, phantoms and weapon crates etc.
I’m excited to see the new elites. Hope they’re close to Halo 3 designs. It would be nice if multiplayer elites could mix and match all the elite armours from 3, Reach and even 4 and 5 and the honour gaurd pieces and the arbiter armour.
Really hope they work off of the Halo CE/2 Elites, they were always my favourite. Sadly that’s probably wishful thinking but I’d be fine with something similar to the H2A Elites. More importantly I hope to god they go back to the classic look for the Grunts & Jackals the 4/5 design was so horrible. Hoping for a few weapons to revert to their older appearances too. Give me a CE Fuel Rod!
Before I get into my other point I have to get this out of the way… There is the possibility that we could see a formation of Covenant aliens working for Cortana and if so they might be outfitted with some Forerunner tech and I’m not sure how that would influence there design but it could be intriguing and I’d be open to it for at least 1 game. We might not see major changes to Covenant weapons, rather, there would be a return to many classic designs but I think there could be a lot of brand new equipment introduced that would allow 343 to try out new designs. The aliens themselves may return to their classic looks but the armor they dawn could be quite different. That would be my prediction.
That said, if the Covenant aliens are going to have designs like they’ve always had I too would like to see mostly Halo 2 Anniversary designs. I also hope they would take inspiration from Reach for Jackal Snipers.
As far as general vehicles and equipment go I want to see an explosion of different unique designs specific to each alien race like the Grunt Goblin for example. But I don’t expect that till after Halo Infinite.
Personally, I’m not even sure that the Covenant will be in Halo Infinite. At this point, while a Covenant can be reformed, the Covenant we knew was destroyed long ago in Halo 3. The one’s we saw back in 4 was just splinter groups of the original faction, and the one showcased in 5 was Jul 'Mdama’s Covenant. Overall, I don’t think that the Covenant will be rebuilt, at least on the grounds the previous Covenants built.
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I would say that there is space for a new “Covenant” in general. Now that the Covenant is over, there’s a pretty solid vacuum that’s gonna get filled at some point or another. And, imo, the most fitting for that position would be the Banished. They made a hefty appearance as being this strong, powerful and overwhelming threat to the UNSC in Halo Wars 2, and now that they’re basically armed to the teeth similar in the ways the Covenant was(scarabs, cruisers, etc.), I think its pretty solid to say that they would be a major player in the system.
As for them, I say their designs look pretty much amazing, and I’d like to see more H2A-esque/H3-esque armor designs for Elites. Also some Reach for some vehicles, potentially, though the Banished have their own variants of such.
At this point who knows if they will be in the the game, but if they are in some matter whether it be a reformed or another splintered group I hope they will go back to the classic style of art for them as we have seen for the chief.
reach elite designs were pretty solid and really represented their power and ruthlessness. HW2 elites were also really nice designs and wouldn’t mind if they copied them. the guy who made HW2’s art style is (pretty sure) making infinites so i wouldn’t be surprised if he did follow up at that.