How bout we throw out some ideas for armor cores

Games Halo Infinite
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So the 3 currently available cores all seem…COOL…but not really incredibly unique at their CORE (pun intended).

What I mean is, every piece of armor that the cores have are capable of being equipped on any other core. Perhaps not for US, but as you can see on waypoint, and on the bots in bot modes, every armor piece works on every core without clipping.

So that in mind, lets assume for a second we get what we’re asking for with cross core customization, and all the armor pieces and coatings are unlocked for all 3 current cores. What are some NEW cores you can think of that would be TRULY unique, and take FULL advantage of the cores system? Armor styles that are so different from the 3 launch cores, that the armor pieces truly WOULDN’T be compatible across other cores?

I’ve mentioned in the past that some commonly suggested ones are Elite and Brute cores that allow you to play as those two species instead of a spartan, and I wholeheartedly agree with those, as an Elite player in past games where they were available, but there’s still room for other spartan designs as well. Off the top of my head you can have maybe like, a “Vagabond” armor core that is heavily poncho chief inspired and features heavy cloth and rags over most of the armor pieces. I’d also like to see a fracture event that brings some medieval/norse/grecoroman armors like we got in MCC, though those I can see being cross core armors.

Lets hear some of your ideas for new cores. Bonus points for unique differences that actually warrant armor pieces exclusive to that core.

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Mark IV, V and VI with the Halo Wars 2, CE and Halo 3 armor sets are the obvious ones as well as elites. Brutes I think are just unrealistic because of their size difference, impossible to fit them to the hitboxes of a spartan.

I could also see the 1999 Macworld Mjolnir and SPI getting in like MCC, not sure if as individual cores or parts for those.

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idk, elites have always towered over spartans normally as well, but they were made balanced by changing their posture to lower their hit profile to be similar to spartans, or, in reach, they made them lankier to make up for them standing taller. Brutes were never all that much bigger than elites, so I think a similar thing could be done with brutes, making them hunch over more in a playable core form. They do seem the type to hunch over in a primitive monke stance.

Not that I’d be all that upset if we never got them, but I think they could make it work. More importantly though are elites. I’ve been lamenting their removal ever since their role in customization was downscaled in reach, then removed in 4 entirely.