I was excited for the new Lone Wolves armor... until I read that it's a separate armor core

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If you haven’t read 343’s Halo Infinite Update March 2022 post, I recommend you give it a read first: https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-infinite-update-march-2022

When I initially clicked on the update, I was excited to finally get some news about Season 2 and the content coming with it. I read about how some new armor would be introduced called Lone Wolves, along with a showcase of the armor concept art (which looks amazing) getting me even more excited. At first, I thought the Lone Wolves armor would be additional armor pieces and attachments for the Mark VII armor core. Then I scrolled further down, and read this line:

Here’s a concept of that core, and we can’t wait to show you all the customization options for it—and for the free Lone Wolves armor core.

At that moment all my excitement was replaced with disappointment. The reason?
Halo Infinite does not currently allow cross-core customization for the canon armors.
This means you can’t use anything you’ve unlocked for the Mark V[B], or the Mark VII core, and soon the Lone Wolves interchangeably, not even armor coatings, which are essentially just colors. Now, I like my current visor, armor coating and helmet, and I’m feeling disappointed that I won’t be able to use them on the new armor.

I know disappointment in regard to this is somewhat of a minor ordeal in the grand scheme of things, but Halo Infinite has been criticized for its current implementation of customization since release, and for very good reason: in comparison to previous legacy titles, Infinite’s customization is very constrained, and large part of that is due to the armor core system. This very system likely designed to encourage player cosmetic store purchases is a literal disincentive to said purchases: why would I pay for an armor coating, helmet, visor, etc. that I can’t even use on other cores? At the very, very minimum, cross-core customization should be permitted for armor coatings, visors, and helmets/helmet attachments. It would be ideal to also permit it for shoulders, and wrist attachments, possibly even chest attachments, to maximize the degree of customization available to players.

So, while I wanted to get excited for the new armor, I honestly can’t feel anything but disappointment, knowing I won’t be able to use the new armor pieces the way I would like to. Does anyone else feel underwhelmed by this?

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New armor? YAY

Only for new core? AW :frowning: PASS

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When 343 said it was a separate core I just lost all interest in the armor. It looks good, but limiting the customization to a core just kills it.

It just shows that at the core 343 isnt really acting on what players want. They may be listening, but they know cores give more chances at cash grabs in the store.

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Every armour now is gonna be a seperate core until they decide to remove the system. So, best get comfy in your current choices and pay out for another blue XD They really should change cores to just saved presets and you can have any armour mixed, and technically, I can see us getting a new set every season, so that’s 4 sets a year, this game is for 10 years, so we’re gonna have more than 40 cores, especially since the facture events are seperate cores too.

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Its a minor ordeal that will amount to many annoying irritations that will result in putting people off.

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" What? You guys don’t like Blue?! " - 343i

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I’m already put off. I reinstalled 5 and just enjoyed all the armors and colours.

I then realized that infinite isn’t what I want to play, so I’m moving on. I’m downloading destiny 2 as we speak, so im going to bounce back and forth between 5 and destiny, and maybe check in on Tuesdays when the challenges and store are updated just to see.

But yeah. I’m not putting any more money into this game. If I enjoy destiny (never played) I’ll throw money at that instead.

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I don’t advise Destiny 2 either, but I understand moving on to greener pastures.

hope you find fun there, im awaiting entering Elden Ring and the release of FF Origin.

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Eh, I was a little surprised the Lone Wolf Armor is a whole core of its own. I’m curious to see that and the Fracture core. Although that makes me wonder if we’ll get another armor core for the Season 2’s season pass since Lone Wolf and Fracture are free. Unless they decide to reserve the season pass for the stuff they marketed before like the CQB and Mark V Delta that theh advertised before the game even came out.

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Not sure why this is surprising or even a little unexpected. It’s quite clear this had been the plan from the beginning.

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okay, look look… i get seperating the armor per core, keeping the armor, like helmets, chests, knees, shoulders, wrist, and utilities make sense and flow well with the given armor, fine. compatability with the given core
what i don’t get is visor colors and the armor coatings… they’re litteratly just colors, why aren’t those cross core? i mean… ARMOR EFFECTS ARE CROSS CORE, so why not the color options to be crosscor-… oh yeah, to re-sell us blue -v-

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Crosscore should be allowed for everything and just don’t let armor go together that clips a lot or floats.
It would not be hard to implement a system like this and would only increase the value of the cosmetics + give more customization freedom to the players

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It really frustrates me.

343: “We had to delay Co-Op [a big component of Halo and one they said they “learned from their mistakes” after Halo 5’s exclusion] and it can’t meet the Season 2 launch.”

Also 343: “Teehee, while you wait, we have 2 new armor cores for you to purchase store microtransactions including all of your favorite colors AGAIN because there’s no cross-core!”

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I wouldn’t mind the cross core so much of they let us save each individual customization set of that core. Really annoying having with switch coatings and then weapon coatings just cause I went from one armor to another

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Yes, there should absolutely be presets that you can save and switch between. Heck, 343 could even sell an extra slot or two.

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PRESETS! THATS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR!
THANK YOU!
that was driving me nuts.

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Not true. Originally they made false claims about the customisation and progression system and were caught lying. They only changed it around release and now people are expecting this type of thing because this is what happened at launch instead of what 343i originally claimed months before release. :thinking:

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How entitled you all are! Don’t you see this is a brand new opportunity for everyone to purchase blue! Every slightly different shade of it mattering massively to someone… presumably.

More cores! More blues!

… I do hope it was obvious I was being sarcastic. It sucks. Imagine some of the kick -Yoink!- designs you could create with cross core customisation.

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I mean, sure, the Lone Wolves core looks badass, but we already invested so much time (and some people spent money) on the cores we already have, so if we play as a Lone Wolves core, then previous armor cores were a waste of time (and money). We can only play as one core at a time anyway, and have no real incentive to change cores, ever. Besides keeping our armor up to date, we will stick with our favorite armor, because Spartans are meant to define who we are.

Turning off cross-core just leaves every Spartan looking roughly the same in each core, instead of a unique amalgamation of every possible armor part and coating across the game, that you’ll probably never see two of the exact same mixtures often, if ever.

343 really hates freedom of player choice. I’m sick and tired of how limited our choices are for customization, emblems, and game modes. Even our gameplay is limited by the lacking sandbox, unlike previous Halos where you could really get experimental with the physics, explosions, and collisions. Halo Finite never fails to bemuse me.

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It’s definitely a disappointment. While the game has much larger issues, Spartan customization has always been a big part of Halo. The core system is limiting in pretty much every way.
Because of all the different iterations of armor throughout the years, I think a much better system would’ve been one similar to the MCC Halo 3 customization system, where you choose your tech suit and the armor over top of it. This would allow for the later addition of the Gen 2 armor, with the huge variety of different armor sets and the cool looking honeycomb textured tech suit beneath it, along with all of their new cores.
Coatings and visors should definitely be cross core.

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