Purple and blue brutes, blue elites, orange and blue grunts? Why? Aren’t all of the Banished supposed to be red? Half of them are literally just covenant copy pastes with slightly updated tech, even if they are mercs Halo Wars 2 was pretty consistent making them all one color
I did find that strange. Was hoping to see close-up what the different species look like in the Banished style-- an elaboration of how they looked in HW2.
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> I did find that strange. Was hoping to see close-up what the different species look like in the Banished style-- an elaboration of how they looked in HW2.
Glad I’m not the only one, I thought enemies would be simple: get them from Halo Wars 2, zoom in, add detail. The Infinite demo looks like 343 gave them a bunch of extra and unnecessary stuff
Well HW2 is an RTS, so all units of the same faction are designed to share the same theme color to ease gameplay. We know for sure that Covenant equipment comes in all sorts of colors, but in HW1 they still were mostly portraited in purple, regardless of ranks and species. In an FPS color-coded individuals can help you be informed of your surroundings (differently colored Elites actually have different combat characteristics, for instance), so I think this is the major logical reason behind the difference. Plus a vibrant, diversely colored Banished isn’t unimaginable in terms of lore either, given the Covenant already were so.
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> Purple and blue brutes, blue elites, orange and blue grunts? Why? Aren’t all of the Banished supposed to be red? Half of them are literally just covenant copy pastes with slightly updated tech, even if they are mercs Halo Wars 2 was pretty consistent making them all one color
I have a feeling those members were a part of the Harbinger that Hyperius was talking about that is working with the Banished. I feel they may be another Covenant Remnant, and the Red and Black brute are the only members so far of the actual Banished we have seen. So I feel that we may see more variants of Grunts, Elites and we still have to see the Hunters, so I feel that is why they have those colors.