I feel the same way about the new grunts, in Halo 6 I hope for the return of more classic styled grunts: A picture showing the new vs old grunts
I miss the pointy back grunts
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> I feel the same way about the new grunts, in Halo 6 I hope for the return of more classic styled grunts: https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/8edgp8/the_virgin_halo_5_grunt_vs_the_chad_classic_grunt/
They might return for hI, but it might not replace the current grunt design. In Halo wars 2 the original grunt design is used for the normal grunt squads, but the new design is used for the suicide grunts. Imo Hw2 did a good job at mixing the new and old art styles and I hope 343 continues with it.
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> They might return for hI, but it might not replace the current grunt design. In Halo wars 2 the original grunt design is used for the normal grunt squads, but the new design is used for the suicide grunts. Imo Hw2 did a good job at mixing the new and old art styles and I hope 343 continues with it.
Said it before and I say it again: I love how the H4 Grunts are the suicidal ones in HW2! “I’m so ugly, I don’t even wanna live!”, hahaha! 
However yes, HW2 overall managed to blend in the new art direction with the original Halo-verse. I’m really glad the same art director is working on Hi now!
All the changes in the Covenant designs since Halo 4 are just varying degrees of abominable: Grunts, Jackals, Elites. I’d be more than happy with abandoning these new designs and moving onto something that pays more respect to the old ones.
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> All the changes in the Covenant designs since Halo 4 are just varying degrees of abominable: Grunts, Jackals, Elites. I’d be more than happy with abandoning these new designs and moving onto something that pays more respect to the old ones.
This.
I’m thinking Iconic Covenant in general! Old grunts looked better, I don’t like the elites new armour and wtf is going on with the jackels jaw!!!
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> All the changes in the Covenant designs since Halo 4 are just varying degrees of abominable: Grunts, Jackals, Elites. I’d be more than happy with abandoning these new designs and moving onto something that pays more respect to the old ones.
If we look at canon then this shouldn’t be a problem to do at all. Jul mdama’s covenant has fallen so this opens a new covenant faction to make an appearance, or maybe even the banished to return?
Yeah i liked the old design of the Grunts, The new design just doesn’t catch my interest at all. Honestly i just want the old covenant designs in general. The Elites looked badass, The Jackals looked like more of a threat, and Grunts just looked way more fun to kill in my opinion. But if these changes don’t end up happening, i won’t be upset about it. I respect what 343 wants to do with the designs and how they want the game to be.
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> Yeah i liked the old design of the Grunts, The new design just doesn’t catch my interest at all. Honestly i just want the old covenant designs in general. The Elites looked badass, The Jackals looked like more of a threat, and Grunts just looked way more fun to kill in my opinion. But if these changes don’t end up happening, i won’t be upset about it. I respect what 343 wants to do with the designs and how they want the game to be.
Exactly, I liked all the old designs better, rather than just the grunt design. The armour was sharp, jagged and more linear in general, but these weren’t the reasons for its superior asthetics. The uniqueness of this style made it appealing, a futuristic slightly 90’s extraterrestrial look, just awesome.
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> I miss the pointy back grunts
I’m more a curlback grunt kind of guy.
We still don’t know rest of HI artstyle. I would guess 343i would use the old grunt design, jackals maybe both and elite probably just H2A. Or they will come up with a lore reason why the h4/5 grunts, jackals and elites are all dead or just be blunt and say the h4/5 ones are non canon if 343i only use the classic designs. But hey who knows
If by “original” you mean the classic Halo: CE & Halo 2 designs then I’m all for it. I’ve never really liked the H3 design that’s been used as the standard Grunt model since that game’s release; their ugly look contrasted way too much with the humor we’ve come to associate with them (though they did fit pretty well in Halo Reach). I honestly liked the H4/5 design as I felt it was a much-needed improvement over the H3 version.
They can keep the space grunt but yeah the triangle backed grunts need to make a comeback.
Please don’t revive old threads.