I’v seen enough discussions online to see how most the halo 5’s armor gallery is considered ugly which is a damn shame. At first having over 200+ sets of different armor sounds like your giving the players more choice than ever before, but without any real impactful customisation options, nothing looks unique anymore. Once you see an armor a player has you’ve seen it forever, it wont change, aside from the slight colour change. Even though Halo 3 had just 27 pieces of armor to choose from, there where over thousands of combinations you could see people wearing. I thought the EOD helmet looked dumb so I never tried to unlock it, until I saw my friend wear it with the Security shoulders, that made me desperate to unlock that helmet. Same thing happens in halo 5 except I cant go on a unlock quest because I got no damn customising options.
I hate the Solder armor but the chest is the best part, I would love to wear it with the Interceptor shoulder plates and have my spartan covered in pouches Liefeld style, and just like that, 2 armor’s I had no interest in would become my sought after pair. Hell maybe even Toilet head (seeker) could work great if it had the right shoulders to match it (i doubt it though).
tl;dr: the armor sets suck but given the chance to mix and mash, some pieces of these terrible amor set could work great together to make there own great sets.
for god’s sake I just wanna dress like blood pouch
I loved the armor in reach and 4 where you could customize every bit of the armor. No idea why they did away with it.
theres definitely way too many variants in h5. some armors have 4 variants, like boi who needs that?
Yeah, the customization in Halo 5 is nowhere near as good as Halo Reach, and even Halo 3. There is too much armor to unlock yeah, but a lot of the armor just looks so similar. I also think there should have been armor attachments. I like skins for armor, but there are only a few skins that look unique to me, like the flaming Recruit armor skin.
reach had the best customization imo. the REQ system is why they did away with all the good stuff, money over quality, I’m sure this is on Microsoft’s part, 343 has a lot of halo fans they’ prolly like full customization as well. sadly the big wig money bois who most likely have never picked up video game in their lives are the ones choosing how it’s built. poorly implemented microtransactions and all of these thing of that nature are on the hands of these rich bois.
Some customizations look different in my opinion. Some are even darker, while some are lighter.
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> theres definitely way too many variants in h5. some armors have 4 variants, like boi who needs that?
Sums up everything. Having base armor with a color wheel (or even halo 5’s Color choices) and stickers for decals is all that is needed .mix and match like reach or 4. Option for black undersuites .I’m sure the community would be more then please
Since release I’ve been wanting customization like at Halo 4 but that never happened.
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> theres definitely way too many variants in h5. some armors have 4 variants, like boi who needs that?
But we NEEEEED armor variant #5 that has a tiny splash of white on the left knee lol. In all seriousness all the req fluff is just for $$$. Turn 100 armor sets into 300 by adding random patches of color to the standard armor, call them legendary, and rake in the $$$ from the kids who gotta have the Legendary MKXI Mackdaddy White Scar Gruntbuster Armor.
If $$ wasn’t a factor and we’re strictly talking about what we’d ideally like the armour system to look like i think H3 is a good foundation to work off.
Aside from Mk V and VI there were 9 helmets, all looked different to one another, all had a distinct look, all felt human, simplistic and feasible in the universe.
Ideally i’d just like more Halo looking armours, i don’t care the number, it’d just be nice if the were more in line with those ideals.
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> I loved the armor in reach and 4 where you could customize every bit of the armor. No idea why they did away with it.
Yesssss, I liked to customize my guy as much as possible and do crazy stuff running social and then cool stuff for skrims . For sure had a better system
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> > theres definitely way too many variants in h5. some armors have 4 variants, like boi who needs that?
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> But we NEEEEED armor variant #5 that has a tiny splash of white on the left knee lol. In all seriousness all the req fluff is just for $$$. Turn 100 armor sets into 300 by adding random patches of color to the standard armor, call them legendary, and rake in the $$$ from the kids who gotta have the Legendary MKXI Mackdaddy White Scar Gruntbuster Armor.
“MK IX Mackdaddy White Scar Gruntbuster” You jerk, you got me kicked from my uni class today for making me laugh too hard. 
Heres hoping they learned from this…fingers crossed.
AND WHILE THEY’RE AT IT GIVE US SOME LORE BASED ARMOR INSTEAD OF THIS NEW UGLY CRAP TOO HUH?
Where’s my Sam-034 inspired “MK IV Sacrifice” skin huh?
How difficult do you think it would be for 343 to divide up the existing armors into pieces (Chest, Shoulder, Legs, Boots, Arms) and make those into separate options? That would be one hell of an update. Lets take that fantasy one step further and say what if we had attachments like reach, with pouches, pads, plates, knives, grenades, etc.