343 said that they took out color options to make the coating system in order to make our Spartans look more detailed and custom. But look at this comparison. I wanted to make a cool wallpaper for my PC where both of my Spartans from Halo 5 and Halo infinite in the same room. Take a look at your own Spartans and tell me which one looks like it has more TLC put into the design. The difference is almost embarrassing.
(I was supposed to have a picture of the wallpaper here, but I can’t because it’s saying I can’t embed anything, and I can’t post a link either! :()
My Halo 5 spartan is way better looking. He is in Black and Blue just like I want with beautiful white detailing, his armor is slightly scuffed up but mostly polished, and his armor most definitely makes it look like the designers took their time designing it with love, care, and EFFORT.
They really need to just start throwing out a ton of coatings with every kind of possible color combination and maybe add patterns and stuff. And not every coating needs dirt on it! Some detailing like that is nice, but players should have the choice of having weathered armor, a nice clean polish, or a mix of both. Thoughts everyone?
If I want to be teal & blue like my Halo 3 Spartan back in the day I’d have to hope that 343i makes a coating of a similar resemblence AND THEN I have to worry about how much they’ll charge me for it
Coatings are terrible & they shouldn’t exist in their current rendition
I wouldn’t exactly put Halo 5 in a higher regard when it comes to customization either considering a majority of the armor selections barely had defined areas for a secondary colour to show.
5 had the worst armor system since the original
launch of H2. Only being able to choose a helmet and then a whole set of armor was terrible. Infinite has a great system for customization but how you unlock the armor is terrible.
Most armor should be unlocked through specific challenges like it was in Halo 3 then some can be bought with credits earned through gameplay like in Reach. I really hate that all progress is tied to a pass or bought as all it shows is who can either spend the most time or money in the game.
Armors like Recon from H3 and Helioskrill in H5 allowed people to show off their skill through armor and i wish we could get some sets like that in Infinite.
Halo 5 Spartans look like REAL Spartans, supersoldiers from the 26th century. Halo Infinite Spartans do NOT resemble anything like Spartans at all, instead looking more like present-day soldiers in “power armor”. And Infinite’s terrible coatings prove that.
I think halo has, for the most part, pretty heavily leaned into “practical” designs. In the UNSC they still drive wheeled vehicles, the marines wear Kevlar, and they still use firearms. Many of the armors in halo 5 and 4 are obtrusive and flashy, and a few barely even do a good job protecting vital organs. The infinite armor is down to earth and practical, however. One or two base armor cores that you would just modify makes more sense than a bunch of different highly specialized armor, if only for cost and availability reasons. It just seems like the halo 4/5 armor is fancy for no real reason.
All I’m saying is, I would hate to be a taxpayer living under the watch of the UNSC between halo 4 and halo 5
As for personal preference, I don’t see anything wrong with halo 4/5s armor. And halo infinite definitely has some issues regarding cosmetics, like the ridiculous cost for the color blue.
The biggest problems with color coatings is that we’re relying on someone else to pick the colors for us.
Armor/Weapon/Vehicle coatings should have never been colors, they should have been patterns, ones that still allowed us which part of the pattern was which colors. This would have given everyone a chance to have a lot of freedom to pick the colors we want, while 343i could still make money selling the coating patterns. I would also add a slider to how dirty the Spartans is as well.
Allow default players to start with one color coatings as a default, and can pick any color their spartan carries.
Full RGB would be nice too, and not just relying on a set number of present colors too.
I totally agree with you Halo 5 seems to come from the future, battling superior species.
With Halo Infinite spartans, are like the ons from WW1 or WW2.
at first i didn’t mind halo going back to the classic style, didn’t mind 4 and 5 either, the images that were released looked super good like real life armor but now the game has launched it looks worse than reach! a lot of the armor just look so plain and flat, the only ones that look somewhat decent will cost you a pretty penny or grind your butt off. infinite is without a doubt is the worst halo and it’s customization i think is the worst of any game, most games let you pick your own colors, let alone past halos, it’s 2022 and infinite doesn’t!!!
Well that was until the Heiloskrill Armor set was tossed into the random RNG Casino Slot Machine System known as the infamous Req Card System. Which also tossed the preordered Hunter armor in there as well. So at the end of the day Halo 5 pretty much said hahaha player skill really what’s that
i don’t know about you but i rather just buy the game and have all the armor free to earn than a free game locking most armor behind a paywall and fomo. with a single set costing a 1/3 of a full price game.
L opinion. Halo 5 looks disgusting. and customization was bad. who the hell want a preset body and helmet. that was as bad as, or arguably worse that having preset colors. from older games they keep taking steps backwards for seemingly no reason.
Spartans in Reach/Infinite-The guy with a Grenadier helmet and a Grenadier chest must be use heavy weapons well, take on Scout helmet and Recon Package you will looks like ascout
they just like Special Forces member, play difference part in fireteam
H4/5 Spartans-Spartan A, Spartan B, Spartan C…
They looks same, but have different meanless details
Infinite- wow they gotta lot of money to burn, are those cat ears and flowers on the shoulders?
lets be real here it’s all meaning less, at least the armor in 5 isn’t gonna cost me more than the game itself and getting all the armor wont be $1000.
Halo Infinite has the better armor designs because 95% of the armor design is actually attractive looking and not purposefully made to look like terrible cosmetics to help fill out the REQ raffle prizes.
Halo Infinite is actually trying to look like Halo unlike what we had in Halo 4 and Halo 5 Gorbians.
The Neo-Classical art style of Infinite is a wonderful return to form that sadly does have to stumble on the fact that the game is both incomplete and the company is asking too much money for cosmetic unlocks.
The one thing I will say that Halo 5 has on-top of Halo Infinite when it comes to cosmetics is the unlocking scheme.
You can grind matches out to get REQ Points which you could exchange for REQ Packs. And a REQ Pack guaranteed some form of cosmetic unlock without duplicates being applied (I’m looking at you literally every other lootbox system ever made).
But that’s just it.
That is the one thing that Halo 5’s armor system had going for it.
The armor selection? Most of it was weird and made no sense when it came do design.
The armor style? Some sets didn’t even resemble the Gen-1 counterparts, other sets were way too curvy to fit in to the UNSC design philosophy.
The armor customization? Halo 4 and Halo Online were superior to Halo 5 because you could mix-and-match every level of your armor. Meanwhile Halo 5 forces you to wear the entire suit from the neck-down and then mix-and-match helmets with that. And they entirely missed out on alternate exosuits.
The armor colorization? Granted you could select what color you were, but no matter what you are bright like a glow stick, even when choosing black. And we still had forced colors on our exosuits.
But when it comes to which armors look better out of the two, I have to go with Halo Infinite’s design updates 95% of the time.
Aviator Gen-2 looks like aviation gear designed for G.I. Joe
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ac/f1/78/acf17825111037d6bb38061c5bf9d016.jpg
Aviator Gen-3 looks like it could be applied to Halo 3 or Halo Reach as an option
https://halo.wiki.gallery/images/a/a4/HINF_AVIATOR_Helmet_Icon.png
Anubis Gen-2 looks like it belongs to an alien faction in Mass Effect
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/5/5c/H5G_REQ_AnubisHelmet.png/revision/latest?cb=20161001060650
Anubis Gen-3 however looks like I could see that in Halo 3, bringing to mind a heavier armored version of the Scout helmet
https://halo.wiki.gallery/images/d/d1/HINF_ANUBIS_Helmet_Icon.png
It just has a far more appealing look overall.
Plus the design of how Armor Cores work allows for armor combinations to always look fantastic, since all the pieces within look like they belong together.
With how Halo 4 and Halo 5’s systems worked, you could be wearing angular armor and then a super curvy helmet, or vice versa.
Granted, hopefully we get some limited form of cross-core for Halo Infinite for most cosmetics.
Most Rakshasa items would bit in nicely with the Mark V [B] while many Mark V [B] items would look great on Mark VII.
Halo Infinite, despite its many flaws in how you acquire the cosmetics and how little gameplay there was at launch and still is, Infinite has the superior art style.
A style that tries to modernize the original rather than “break tradition for the memes” to paraphrase Frank O’Connor.
halo 4 has better options and 5 looks way better than infinite, they just look like they had a lot of fun designing all the armor even if some may find them unhalo like. infinites armor is just so plain and flat looking, overall the game has very little originality and imagination, it’s so boring just to look at. the new stuff is just ridiculous, doesn’t even look like a sci-fi shooter let alone Halo, more like a post-apocalyptic game set slightly in the future or some magic fantasy.
Infinite has the best armor customization since Halo Reach, but making the armors separate cores and replacing the color options with coatings were mistakes.
