For those of you who don’t know, Halo Reach’s concept art showcased that there were plenty of unused armor designs for the Mark V [B] to utilize. And Halo Infinite has brought back some of these designs, namely the HAZOP and JFO knee guards.
- https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/001/082/545/large/isaac-hannaford-ih-spartan-permutations01.jpg?1439666272
We have also seen the return of other items from unused concept art, such as how one of the earlier concepts of Spartan Frederic-104 from Halo 5’s development eventually became the Morrigan helmet on the Rakshasa armor core.
- https://external-preview.redd.it/mWQLogpbOX04dvz_IYoVBWXjMih6Ux4yOCL58FFrvUY.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0dfd9ded477bd2ca5372ec6ea02e0fe1778b3642
Which begs the question — what other armor concept artwork might be revitalized in Halo Infinite?
For example, there are three-helmets in this picture that were not utilized but were conceptualized during the development of Halo Reach
- https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9b/6e/ee/9b6eee20e8c08fc06e83fae2e5384255.jpg
A fun fact from the MJOLNIR Gen-2 era of armor is that the Orbital, Ranger, Raider, Strider, and Venator all state that they have their origins in MJOLNIR Gen-1.
So perhaps the bottom-left helmet in the above picture could be modeled as Orbital Gen-1 or Strider Gen-1.
The bottom-middle helmet could be Raider or Ranger Gen-1.
And the bottom-right one could be the Venator Gen-1 helmet.
I wonder what other scraps of old concept art could be touched up and finally modeled for use.
Thoughts anyone?