To be clear from the start, I see a lot of room for amazing things with the armor core system, but in its current form, I think it’s being squandered and used to artificially limit customization, which is even clearer seeing people posting screenshots of bots wearing cross core armor pieces. But I can see how the system could be used for the better, and cleaned up so it doesn’t feel limiting, but rather freeing and expansive.
First of all, all the similar cores should be merged into one, which at the moment with season 1 only seems to encompass 2, maybe 3 cores if you count yoroi, which personally, i can see some of the pieces in it being cross core, but not necessarily all of them. Alternatively, you could create a list for each armor piece as to what cores it could fit on. For example, Making the yoroi helmet equippable on all 3 current cores, but the legs, which are kinda incompatible looking, only available to yoroi. The cores system, instead, should be used for completely different styles of armor where it wouldn’t be as simple to allow pieces across them.
For examples of what I mean by this, yeah, of course, you could probably picture some fractures cores being made seperate if they get creative enough with them, but Imagine having your standard Spartan IV core, but then also being able to pick playable Elites or even brutes as a seperate armor core. It’s a highly modular system that has room for all kinds of amazing and uplifting customization features, but as it’s currently implemented, I think its potential is being wasted.