Reach armor > 343 armor.
Mark IV [Halo Wars] > anything else.
I guess I don’t necessarily care if I don’t like most of the armors but I do however care that they have just made so many of the same ones with just minor differences
No please don’t say it again because its posts like these that clutter this site.
I guess there is just only so much you can do with armor and still have it look cool/unique.
What I think is really screwed is you can’t mix match armor like you could before.
Power Rangers: UNSC edition!!!
I agree, most of it looks lame and un-Halo.
I disagree.
Wow, what a meaningful discussion this is.
My main complaint is that the colors feel too vibrant. Makes them looks odd.
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> My main complaint is that the colors feel too vibrant. Makes them looks odd.
Use dark shades?
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> > I agree. Armor design is not 343’s strongpoint. I wish it was more like Reach where everything was new and different but still had that Halo feel. A few weird looking armors here and there is fine, but that seems to be the bulk of 343’s armory.
> > Luckily, I found a combination I like.
> > I also agree about the emblems. It would be nice if they displayed on our armor somewhere.
> > Also, what’s up with some of the skins being color-locked? There’s a set of recon armor with this weird aqua-marine decal allover it. Basically, the only people who’d wear it are people who want recon AND some aqua-marine skin. Seems like a niche crowd to me.
> > And then there’s some armor (Noble and one of the MK VI) that takes whatever secondary color you’ve chosen and makes it like 5 shades darker. What is the point of this? I chose my secondary color because it the one I wanted, not because I thought it would look good as a completely different color.
> > Some of the design choices baffle me, not because of my opinion on what looks best, but because these choices just don’t make sense.
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> I feel like those white patterns they have all the armors should be a separate color customization so you can basically hide them if you don’t like them by matching them with the primary color.
I would love that as well however 343 gets 2-3 variants out of adding white designs on the armour. So instead of having 2 sets with different secondary colours, they can get 2 to 3 more by adding white designs to them. It almost needs a third colour bar to have that one changed as well.
It extends the amount of things to unlock (which for some completionists extends the game life) for me it lessens the enjoyment of getting something unlocked when it’s the same as something I got a while ago but with some white markings all over it.
My favorite two are Tenshin and Tenshin Shuraii. I just like the “beefy” look to my Spartan. Its a really big set of armor, so it makes you look bigger. Tenshin is a ctually what im wearing right now. They look great to me.
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I think you are confusing bright with vibrant. The colors pop too much, even the dark shades.
i disagree here man, i love most of the armor sets excluding a god awful few. i love my current armor setup wich is the shinobi set and deadeye helmet.
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> I think you are confusing bright with vibrant. The colors pop too much, even the dark shades.
I’m not sure why this is inherently bad.
But that’s mostly because I liked the more vibrant colors in Halo 3.
I didn’t like the desaturated colors that Reach generally went with, in any case. But that’s just my own perspective and perhaps a hint of nostalgia.
If you can get an actual operator to wear any of that junk in combat then you must have paid him some serious money. Can you image walking in a trench or through a thick jungle with a fotus helmet on?
Yup, I’m on board with this one, and hope 343 makes strides to create cooler armor in the next game.
The reality is that we have no idea what a super-solider would look like 500 years from now (and in comparison to modern day trends in technology, I think it’s safe to say that the human race in the Halo universe is vastly under advanced). Regardless, the best we can do is apply what we “think” a future super-solider would look like in a practical sense - and while I disliked Reach as a whole, I thought this game nailed armor/customization on the head.
When I see armor like THIS, I think, “who would wear that and how the hell is that practical?!?” In addition, armor such as: Fotus, Legionnaire, Coperhead, Mako, Oceanic, Pioneer, Raider, Recluse, Pathfinder, (the list goes on) I can’t help but cringe at there awful design. What’s the point of having these ridiculous looking helmets that seem to serve no purpose other than to look ridiculous.
At least in Reach/H3 armor seemed to fit a real life military role (CQB, CQC, EOD, EVA, Scout, Recon, Pilot, etc). We should try to revert to that mindset, and make armor look more practical/useful rather than over the top and flamboyant.
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> I didn’t like the desaturated colors that Reach generally went with, in any case. But that’s just my own perspective and perhaps a hint of nostalgia.
Just my opinion, It just makes it look a little cheesy to me. It’s like looking at Skyrim then playing ESO. ESO was made to look a lot more vibrant, and it didn’t look nearly as good IMO.
I agree. The Seeker helmet is just so bad. It looks like you got hit in the face with the butt of a gun before the game started. I also like having your emblem on your armor. Yes it’s a small thing, but the small things are the things that I pay more attention to.
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> I agree. Armor design is not 343’s strongpoint. I wish it was more like Reach where everything was new and different but still had that Halo feel. A few weird looking armors here and there is fine, but that seems to be the bulk of 343’s armory.
> Luckily, I found a combination I like.
> I also agree about the emblems. It would be nice if they displayed on our armor somewhere.
> Also, what’s up with some of the skins being color-locked? There’s a set of recon armor with this weird aqua-marine decal allover it. Basically, the only people who’d wear it are people who want recon AND some aqua-marine skin. Seems like a niche crowd to me.
> And then there’s some armor (Noble and one of the MK VI) that takes whatever secondary color you’ve chosen and makes it like 5 shades darker. What is the point of this? I chose my secondary color because it the one I wanted, not because I thought it would look good as a completely different color.
> Some of the design choices baffle me, not because of my opinion on what looks best, but because these choices just don’t make sense.
This annoys me A LOT. I like some armours, but don’t use them because of this. This is why I mainly use Helioskrill (besides that it looks amazing) and not Scout is basically that. A toggle or extended colourisation of armour wouldn’t be so bad, would it?
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> I don’t agree. I think the armor looks futuristic and cool, it has some crumby ones but a lot of them look good. I wasn’t a fan of reaches system of “its the same template with different stuff on top” having complete differences in suits makes the armor feel more worthwhile.
Definitely. A lot of the armour do actually look nice, but are ruined by the previous statement. Like my beloved Scout armour, for example. I want to use the Scout Decoy helmet but I cant stand the colour. I would use the regular Scout but he left half doesn’t match the right in colour usage. I love the right half’s look being asymmetric with that vertical stripe, but why does the left use a darkened primary instead of solid grey like the right? It looks HORRIBLE.
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> It’s not the endless floods of trash armor and skins in the game that frustrates me the most.
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> It’s the fact that all unlocked cosmetics are SORTED CHRONOLOGICALLY.
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> If you change your armor with any kind of frequency, you have to sort through your entire collection of useless throwaway armor that you’ll never use for a million years in order to find the pieces you want to equip. You can’t just look up a cool armor set online and easily search your unlocks for the armor pieces, because everyone’s cosmetics are arranged differently. Come on, 343. Put them in alphabetical order, or something, at least.
I’ve had this issue too. I use the collections menu for armour that I like the appearance of with my currently equipped gear. I use the customisation menu for the rest, and frankly, I don’t like waiting a week to find that I went past what I was looking for. At least put the skins and base of an armour set in a folder!
This post makes me want to make a list of things people want changed with the armour sets and find a way to do a DoS attack on 343i’s servers with just links to the post.
I’d rather have armor sets built off of a good template than a bunch of unusual lower torso exposing power ranger suits with futuristic Rugby team colors.
Reach armor > 343 armor (Mark IV is an exception.)