The new ‘Decimator’ armour in the February update looks a lot like the default armour from Halo: Reach in my opinion. Does anyone else think this?
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Little late to this conclusion… And yeh like all the other remakes it’s a retarded version
It’s been confirmed to be based on Naoim-010’s armor, a Mk VII prototype, not the Reach Noob armor.
Not exactly the armor itself as in the body is is trying to replicate the mark 7 armor that Naomi uses but the helmet itself it said that has a design lineage that stretches back to the final years of the Covenant war so it is very possible that the design of the helmet is based off the mark 5 B helmet here is the description from the latest cannon fodder for both helmet and armor.
Armor: The DECIMATOR is Materials Group’s attempt to reengineer key improvements of the Mjolnir Mark VII prototypes. The most successful of these efforts is the suit’s protean energy shield, which can be partially reshaped and sculpted.
Helmet: DECIMATOR helmets have a design lineage that stretches back to the final years of the Covenant War, though few Spartan or UNICOM commanders are privy to the full details.
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> It’s been confirmed to be based on Naoim-010’s armor, a Mk VII prototype, not the Reach Noob armor.
Naomi’s armour is based off of the Mark V**, so he isn’t wrong.**
But yes, Decimator looks like a bad version of the Reach armour. It’s unfortunate that 343i feels the need to mess up every armour they remake.
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> Naomi’s armour is based off of the Mark V**, so he isn’t wrong.**
> But yes, Decimator looks like a bad version of the Reach armour. It’s unfortunate that 343i feels the need to mess up every armour they remake.
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Seriously, do they take drugs before they design their armor? "Hey! You remember the default Helmet in Reach? Let’s put it in Halo 5, but we’ll make it look better by taking a hammer pounding bumps on the visor!"
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> > It’s been confirmed to be based on Naoim-010’s armor, a Mk VII prototype, not the Reach Noob armor.
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> Naomi’s armour is based off of the Mark V**, so he isn’t wrong.**
> But yes, Decimator looks like a bad version of the Reach armour. It’s unfortunate that 343i feels the need to mess up every armour they remake.
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or in other words, plastickyfy
Mark V variant is the inspiration for Decimator.
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> > Naomi’s armour is based off of the Mark V**, so he isn’t wrong.**
> > **But yes, Decimator looks like a bad version of the Reach armour. It’s unfortunate that 343i feels the need to mess up every armour they remake.
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> > Seriously, do they take drugs before they design their armor? “Hey! You remember the default Helmet in Reach? Let’s put it in Halo 5, but we’ll make it look better by taking a hammer pounding bumps on the visor!”
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That’s exactly it! And look at Recon or Mark V, pale imitations of the great helmets they used to be. Honestly, if they want to bring in armour sets from past games, they should do what they did with the Noble helmet and just do a copy-paste. It worked for Bungie, why can’t it work for 343i?
Yes, its the Mark V helmet with the default Reach chest plate. The rest is a cross between Mark VI and Reach armor.
My dream armor.
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> Naomi’s armour is based off of the Mark V**, so he isn’t wrong.**
> But yes, Decimator looks like a bad version of the Reach armour. It’s unfortunate that 343i feels the need to mess up every armour they remake.
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What did they ruin? There are a few bumps that I didn’t even originally notice on the visor and some more forced white but its still mostly true to the original.
I like the armor, not the helmet. Seriously they gave Carter’s helmet and the Mark IV which looks stunning and very good, why can’t they do the same for the Mark V Alpha and Decimator. Unless they are actually gonna give us a proper Mark V and V along the way too seeing that the Mark V Alpha and Decimator are just near copies of the orginal and Decimator using some design elements of the Mark VII
Considering the Reach artstyle for armor is different from 343’s and even the original trilogy, it is GOING to look strange when translating it to what GEN2 mjolnir looks like.
Naomi’s suit, while technically different, is still based off the art style of Reach and Mark V**.**
Some people have been comparing it to the starting armor you get in Reach, but I think they have almost no similarities.
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> Some people have been comparing it to the starting armor you get in Reach, but I think they have almost no similarities.
And by no similarities he means its 90% the same. Mark V has always been my favorite helmet and I recognized it immediately when I saw decimator.
I’m cool with the polygon changes, but the mandatory white skin on it is excessive. Especially on the helmet. Unskinned version please?
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> And by no similarities he means its 90% the same. Mark V has always been my favorite helmet and I recognized it immediately when I saw decimator.
Well I’ll just show the difference Noble six 1, Noble six 2
Decimator
Pretty sure its not 90% the same, the forearms are changed, shoulders, the legs edited, the body inspired since there is still a difference and the helmet inspired since since its shape is different, visor looks weird, and where the white is below the visor is longer than its supposed to be.
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> > > Some people have been comparing it to the starting armor you get in Reach, but I think they have almost no similarities.
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> > And by no similarities he means its 90% the same. Mark V has always been my favorite helmet and I recognized it immediately when I saw decimator.
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> Pretty sure its not 90% the same, the forearms are changed, shoulders, the legs edited, the body inspired since there is still a difference and the helmet inspired since since its shape is different, visor looks weird, and where the white is below the visor is longer than its supposed to be.
Great to have the comparison side by side in browser tabs! Thanks!
Anyone think the similarities to mkV might just be coincidence? 
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> Pretty sure its not 90% the same, the forearms are changed, shoulders, the legs edited, the body inspired since there is still a difference and the helmet inspired since since its shape is different, visor looks weird, and where the white is below the visor is longer than its supposed to be.
I probably should have said that I was only talking about the helmet. And I still see pretty much the same helmet. Yes the visor is a little different but most parts are the same. Some of the geometry is a little different. Seriously, who called the Mark V from Halo 3 a completely different helmet because of some minor differences?
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> > Pretty sure its not 90% the same, the forearms are changed, shoulders, the legs edited, the body inspired since there is still a difference and the helmet inspired since since its shape is different, visor looks weird, and where the white is below the visor is longer than its supposed to be.
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> I probably should have said that I was only talking about the helmet. And I still see pretty much the same helmet. Yes the visor is a little different but most parts are the same. Some of the geometry is a little different. Seriously, who called the Mark V from Halo 3 a completely different helmet because of some minor differences?
There’s plenty of differences to the helmet that’s why it looks weird, its shorter and wider but still has notable designs from the original but that doesn’t make it 90% the same especially with several minor details of the helmet that make it different not sure why they just didn’t go Noble route and copy/paste the helmet.