The TAC/SAPPER RIG is incorrect and is not Emile’s original chestplate. The original had a MUCH better design. This new variant doesn’t possess the belt of grenades and is missing the middle 2 grenades that fit just below the middle of the chest. This new one IS NOT EMILE’S CHESTPLATE. And is inappropriate to have assigned as Emile’s chestpiece for the EMILE - A239 KIT. I wondered why it seemed so different. It seemed unimpressive but now I see what’s missing. We loved the original because it was assertive and flashy. This new one is very unimpressive. I would upload an image of a comparison between the 2 but it won’t allow me to upload them. We want the belt and nades back! It was 1000x better than the new one!
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I agree, they should do chest piece attachments just like the helmets to add grenades and knives to the waist
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Yeah all the “hero” armor looks wrong. Why even bother if they were going to ruin it like this? It just makes them seem creatively bankrupt.
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I understand having variants of the same armor but they should at least include the original as a starting point and then allow for changes and/or attachments to it just like the helmets. It’s wrong for them to advertise something like an armor kit as “Emile’s” but have incorrect designs. Why would they change it to begin with? Based on the chest piece it’s clear they saved themselves time by not placing those missing components. But in doing so it becomes a completely different piece of armor. I want the original sapper design.
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Sadly, they STILL didn’t fix it or at the very least, add the OG sapper chest from reach as a 2.0 variant. But it doesn’t surprise me with how 343 has ignored canon, fans, issues, infinite itself… and many other things.
Also… and I’m sure it’s been noticed by now… Emile’s shoulder pieces are all wrong too! The big shoulder piece with the blade is all red when it’s supposed to have a white line on it and the opposite shoulder piece is just black whereas in reach, it had some white design to break up all the dark armor colors.
The fact that 343 literally helped build a bunch of stuff in gears 5 (I mention that cause of the 2 Spartans you can play as in PvP… Emile being one of them) and they got Emile perfect looking in gears yet they ruin his look in halo infinite just baffles my mind!!
Again, at the very least… they should add a “sapper 2.0” with the grenade belt so we can build our better version of Emile for PvP, but you know they won’t. Doing so would admit they screwed up, and 343 has taken this long to get Bonnie Ross outta there (making horrible decisions with frank O’Connor since 2007), which shows they just kept ignoring feedback and deciding on things that royally screwed up the franchise since they took over. If it took that long to get Bonnie outta there, they def won’t admit to other minor screw ups like cosmetics and such, so don’t get your hopes up at all for the necessary changes. Only thing I can say is that hopefully… they add sapper 2.0 into the reward pool when they drop the winter event that gives the missing Reach armor pieces. I know they won’t… but I can still dream of a time where all our wishes were answered and 343 stopped ruining the things that mean the most to us.
Oh well…
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I’m going to assume that 343i built these Spartans differently on purpose. I mean keep it the exact same makes sense especially when calling the Spartan by name, but look at Master Chief whose armor has significantly changed every single Halo title.