So instead of giving us playable elites with elite armor cores we get a bunch of samurai Warriors running around everywhere that don’t even fit in the halo universe??? Wow 343 way to drop the ball again you guys just don’t listen…. Pretty pathetic….
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I mean the tenrai event armor is cool but elites would also be neat even though I personally stick to spartan armor
It’s edgy, it’s “artistic,” it’ll get the people going and have them clawing at their credit cards to buy it.
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Well, samurai armors have existed since Halo 3 I understand…
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Whats really cursed is the spartan helmet with cat ears
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Maybe we could get elite with samurai stuff on.
I’ll be honest I’ve always hated playable elites. But that’s just my personal opinion.
Except you get the armor for free, fanboy.
No playable elites, no dual wield, no co op campaign, no mixed armor customizations, no colors, no forge, but at least we get microtransactions 
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Not to play Devils advocate but Hayabusa from halo 3? Secondly, making playable elites would be a whole new chunk of a mess from everything to hitboxes to debating if they want to put in any customization effort (on a whole new system of customization, making elite cores would probably be a huge pain.) or give you, like, 7 options as they did in reach.
Even if “Space samurai” isn’t cannon (is Hayabusa cannon?) in the halo universe, it wouldn’t be impossible, look at Achilles, or really, any of the more exotic armor sets in halo 4 and 5 like the Unicorn.
The fractures just give 343 a little more breathing room with creative design so they don’t have to justify every little detail.
Don’t get me wrong, losing elites as an option sucks, but it’s not the worst thing they could have done.
Remember when people said the reason we didn’t get elites is because 343 would have to worry about making elite exclusive armor?
Apparently making samurai exclusive armor is fine though.
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No dip sherlock, you must not have seen the other samurai cosmetics added to the store that are not free? That is what I was referring to.
Not Samurai exclusive, it’s spartan exclusive, samurai is the theme, the look.
But its limited to the samurai core. You can’t use samurai parts on other armor cores.
Just like you could have an elite core.
The Hayabusa armour at least looked like armour and adapted well.
This Samurai armour looks horrible in my opinion. It doesn’t suit the aesthetic at all. It’s overdone. Didn’t need to have all the “skirt” stuff ( don’t know what it is called ), and there is no shape to it. Lets just say it looks “unfit” for a super soldier.
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But then they’d have to make an elite samurai core, and that’s probably what they didn’t want to try and pull off.
Either that or they have to split events and resources for elite cores and spartan cores… and well… you can see how rough things are with spartan cores alone
Weren’t there samurai elites in halo legends or am I not remembering correctly
You’re missing the point.
The elite would be the core. You wouldn’t need to make samurai elites. Just as you don’t need to make samurai MK VII because the samurai armor exists.
In the current system, armor is locked to a core. The system already assumes you’re not sharing armor across cores.
So you make elite a core. Elite core users can only wear armor made for the elite core. Just as a MK7 spartan can only wear armor made for the MK7 core.
The samurai are still Spartans, you know that right? They have the same body and voice customization, the same armor core system, the same shielding system, and the same hitboxes. Everything is the same other than the design and aesthetic of the armor, which by the way, is part of Fractures canon and not the real Halo canon.
Incorporating a whole other species into the multiplayer is very different from introducing a new class of Spartan armors. Don’t conflate the two.
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So instead of giving us playable elites with elite armor cores we get a bunch of samurai Warriors running around everywhere
Do you think there’s any difference at all to adding in cosmetic armor versus creating a new character model, animating it, developing new armor cores for it, adding in voice lines, and ironing out a bunch of unintentional bugs?
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