You all seem to be forgetting that the bots themselves have access to cross core customization. These aren’t RNG loadouts. People sat down and purposefully designed each bot’s look, sometimes even giving it a fitting name. So this right here pretty much makes everything discussed about it being “impossible” moot. The bots have more freedom than the players.
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Ohh hohoho lemme tell you, they are not going to change this. This is the money maker. The experience of 200k players means less to Microsoft and 343’s brass than the money of 1k Whales.
343 seriously needs to look to warframe for inspiration on how to give players a good customization system while still being able to make money from that system
Those two things are not mutually exclusive though.
You could quite easily have a ‘classic’ and ‘enhanced’ mode of colour system.
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Make no mistake, the base multiplayer being free wasn’t an act of generosity. It was done to try and get the free to play market and ultimately increase profits. They didn’t do it for our benefit.
I want RvB in matchmaking, your color presets in FFA. Ring a bell? Every other Halo. They probably hate that idea with how much money they’d lose tho, seeing as tho this is “pay for cosmetics” release. Lol.
Having armour cores makes sense to me, the customisation will fit for that core and over the life of the game more variety will present itself.
Campaign playthroughs will unlock more options as well.
Im not defending the cost of items and a few more free immediate options would be nice.
Visor colour shouldnt be restricted, its just a colour, armour colour shouldnt be restricted either.
As long as I can get to what I had in Reach I will be happy.
Again that argument goes out the window as bots can cross core anything and everything. We can’t though.
I havent come acriss cross cored bots yet.
And because I am old and remener a time when every thread had this at least twice…
(clears throat) …ahem…
“Pix or it didnt happen”
Damn I love the way you explained about the armour cores and. The kits that one with it colours etc,
My thoughts exacly
Yeah, it’s ironic. With the dropping of the Red vs. Blue coloring, this should be the game that lets you be the most unique spartan possible in the series. But the customization system prevents that from happening.
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They should just change the cores so that you can have 3 presets of anything set up… restricting customisation in the way they have is just plain rubbish.
There’s a tweet from S7etch in July that they’ll look into unlocking armor cores but that’s really something that should be done at launch, not later down the road.
Well good news is you don’t have to look hard
https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/r3677u/bots_can_use_samurai_swords_on_mark_vii/
https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/qutvck/spartan_bots_in_the_tutorial_are_able_to_spawn/
These pics do it for you?
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Oh yeah thats the stuff.
Thanks
If I were 343, I would add in a color system where you can choose the color of your armor pieces individually, for free. Then, I would remove any armor coatings that could be made with such a system and replace them with ones that could not be. Make ones that are fancier. There’s all kinds of designs they could sell in the store, burned armor, scratches, dents, color gradients, patterned designs, etc. That would all be worth charging for, and people would buy them. I don’t think I would be off base saying this would make an enormous amount of people very happy, and I think they would still make their money. Probably more so, considering we’re about to have a boycott
I want to freely mix and match any/all armor pieces for a look all my own. I want to color individual areas of my armor as I see fit.
I’m gonna tell you why you’re not going to get this anytime soon and it has nothing to do with monetization. Ready for it?
The system you described simply does not exist and to get a working prototype you’re talking about months of work from engineers, UX/UI, design, character art, animation. Then QA is gonna find about a million bugs with it because the game was never designed with this in mind. Those bugs are gonna take even more time to fix.
And then it would be released just for 90% of the playerbase to ignore it in favor of presets/randomizer button.
Except you’re completely wrong. The system was designed for it, they even said so years ago. Hell, even the bots themselves are proof that it is possible.
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Except you’re completely wrong. The system was designed for it, they even said so years ago. Hell, even the bots themselves are proof that it is possible.
First of all, pumpkin, a dev saying something “YEARS AGO” means they’re talking out of their butt. They could’ve been halfway through the prototype, or still in paper design, and then they hit a roadblock and were like “oh crap this isn’t going to work because of…” So I honestly don’t give a -Yoink!- what they said “years ago.”
Second, what are you talking about the bots for? Got something to link me so I can understand what you’re talking about?
C’mon now, we can hold a discussion without mocking and diminishing one another. We’re all ultimately seeking the same thing - a satisfying experience.