I thought it would be good idea to go through the design of mostly the mythics and legendary armors and show their uniqueness and also issues and I felt like the hell jumper’s a good start to get our feet first into the series.
So right off the bat we know that this is buck’s armor, a hybrid of a ODST armor with the modern style’d spartan armors and all in all, I pretty much really like the design of this, although it doesn’t really shout ODST, you do get the odd idea it is.
The unique points of this armor set is that the armor itself is only 1 of 2 or 3 to have a thumb alternative, the other being technician & security (but they’re the same types )
Another good feature is having your own knife holster with a nice easter egg of dare’s emblem next to it.
The helmet itself doesn’t have much to say except it has that nice style’d odst helmet look.
Now for the downside…
Although I think this armor is a great design, there are some massive issues that just makes me not want to wear it.
First with the helmet, even though it’s a nice styled ODST helmet, I just feel like the side bits make it stand off being an proper ODST helmet…Think the way to fix this issue is to simply mix the NightFall’s and Hell Jumper helmets together, have the shape / form of the Hell Jumpers but use the Night Fall’s helmet (as it looks more relateable…sort off) then lastly just swap the visors round and you got your own proper ODST.
And for the armor, I don’t know what 343i were thinking but the VARIANTS really ruin this armor, you either have a choice of bright white lines everwhere or, a weird patterned armor in reference of Halo 3:ODST Virgil,right?..Why couldn’t we of gotten a simple plain variant? Another issue I got is these weird bars around the armor and hand plates, I don’t know why but they look like they don’t belong there.
Overall, in my opinion, this is one of the better armors out there but sadly just had the variant pallet destroy the looks of it, if 343i was able to just redo the standard as a simple plain primary and secondary, no white ballcrap, I’d wear this thing constantly.