I know we’ve all heard that armor customization is suppose to be similar to Halo Reach this time around, and while I hope this is true I want to discuss more options that we can customize on our Spartans or elites. Personally I’d like to see the options on every armor piece to make it more military-esque like in Reach by adding ammo pouches or grenade belts. This could give us the option of having our spartans look more like Halo 4 and 5, or more like Reach. Some other things I’d like to see would be having the options of having armor wear and knife positions. Armor wear would have different levels of wear you can pick from that would show different levels of damage such as scratches, paint missing, pieces missing, and cracked visor. Also having blood splatter would be cool where we can choose from either covenant or human blood. Knife positions would just allow us to change where we want the knife displayed on our armor. So we can have it on the shoulder like Emile, on the waist, on the chest, and possibly having the option for two knives. I wouldn’t mind seeing armor effects returning as well.
Obviously I have no idea how difficult any of these things would be from a game design perspective, so what do you guys think? And what other options would you add?
Edit: I’d also like the option to be able to change your Spartans voice that you would hear in spartan chatter. You could have options from all of blue team, Osiris, red team, noble team, and possibly Johnson and some of the classic marines.
Being able to have different knee guards would just about give greater customisation than Reach. Maybe both forearms can have attachments, and both lower legs too. I think being able to choose where scratches and damage could go is unlikely though.
For Elites, I’d be fine with something akin to Halo 3’s options. They don’t need all the additional attachments to their left thigh, forearms, legs, etc.
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> Being able to have different knee guards would just about give greater customisation than Reach. Maybe both forearms can have attachments, and both lower legs too. I think being able to choose where scratches and damage could go is unlikely though.
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> For Elites, I’d be fine with something akin to Halo 3’s options. They don’t need all the additional attachments to their left thigh, forearms, legs, etc.
I agree with you on being able to choose where the scratches and damage to go would be unlikely, but I’d even be happy if we could just have the option of having it on or off.
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> I agree with you on being able to choose where the scratches and damage to go would be unlikely, but I’d even be happy if we could just have the option of having it on or off.
Perhaps as with paint jobs on helmets and armour in Halo 5, there could be set options of battle damage for each armour piece that we’re able to choose from.
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> > I agree with you on being able to choose where the scratches and damage to go would be unlikely, but I’d even be happy if we could just have the option of having it on or off.
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> Perhaps as with paint jobs on helmets and armour in Halo 5, there could be set options of battle damage for each armour piece that we’re able to choose from.
For me the hard part about having Reach style customization with 343 going to a more Halo 3 armor style. I am curious whether or not it will be like reach and halo 3 where everyone has the same base armor and just swap out certain parts (shoulders, chest attachments, etc…) or is it going to be more like Halo 4/5 with complete armor sets and in 4 where you can mix and match certain parts from certain sets.
In addition to the Halo Reach customization, I’d like to have one or two skins for the armors that arent modular but would still make sense in Infinite like maybe the SPI armor or something like that.
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> Being able to have different knee guards would just about give greater customisation than Reach. Maybe both forearms can have attachments, and both lower legs too.
Seeing as the main torso wasn’t customisable in Reach, that could be another option. With each chest piece having options of different attachments.