It’s going to be safe to assume that the Arbiter is going to be returning for Halo 5 and he’s gonna probably have his Elite soldiers. in Halo 4 the elites wore different armor because they were pirates/ a different covie faction. Also the jackals and maybe the grunts were supposed to be cousins to the original Jackals and Grunts. Like the skirmishers and the jackals from reach, different sub types of the species. So should the old Halo 3 designs re-surface for Halo 5 for the arbiter’s soldiers? In Halo escalation we see some classic halo 3 designs. Now it’s just my opinion but if they do return i hope 343 doesn’t change it in any way like they did to the Forward unto dawn in Halo 4. What do you guys think?
I didn’t know the changes were canon, I assumed it was just a new take on the character models. I would prefer the old models to return, I think the Arbiter would look odd if he were restyled.
Sadly the Arbiter was already re-styled. He has a new golden armor. You should look it up. Yup the changes are canon. All the changes in Halo 4 are canon in some way, except the Forward unto dawn changes which haven’t been explained. I think the elites in Halo 4 are also a cousin species.
> Sadly the Arbiter was already re-styled. He has a new golden armor. You should look it up. Yup the changes are canon. All the changes in Halo 4 are canon in some way, except the Forward unto dawn changes which haven’t been explained. I think the elites in Halo 4 are also a cousin species.
Can you post a link, because he had gold armour in Halo 3 and I haven’t seen anything of him from Halo 5?
EDIT: If you mean from Escalation I don’t see how changes could be canon, since the Arbiter’s skin looks like the Elites in Halo 4, instead of how it looked in Halo 3.
I meant the escalation armor. Actually i took a better look and the only difference is the helmet on the armor. Except for a few changes. I take that back, i think the halo 4 elites are canon but the armor/harness is only to the storm elites.
> Sadly the Arbiter was already re-styled. He has a new golden armor. You should look it up. Yup the changes are canon. All the changes in Halo 4 are canon in some way, except the Forward unto dawn changes which haven’t been explained. I think the elites in Halo 4 are also a cousin species.
The Sangheili seen in Halo 4 are not a cousin species, however the majority of them are natives to the Sangheili Colony Hesduros. These ‘changes’ are canonical, did you think they were different because of their skin colour or different facial structure? Catalog has confirmed that Sangheili differ in skin colour.
> I meant the escalation armor. Actually i took a better look and the only difference is the helmet on the armor. Except for a few changes. I take that back, i think the halo 4 elites are canon but the armor/harness is only to the storm elites.
It’s a different set of armor, which is completely canonically acceptable. More ceremonial.
It makes sense for the Arbiter to get new armor, as the Arbiter was meant to serve as the hand of the Prophets, and you had to have been terribly disgraced to be offered the armor. It was a symbol of the Prophets and his past, something he wouldn’t want to be a part of anymore.
Escalations does show Halo 3 era armor, so everything is still canonical.
The sangheili are a diverse species, much like humans. Having a variety of “types” in Halo 5 would be great.
Yeah they should totally bring it back also that way you know which elites to shoot at
Maybe the old designs for the allied Covenant, but not the Covenant Remnant.
I say a 343i style of the Reach Covies…WIN
I thought the Storm Elites we’re cousins because they looked more reptilian than previously. But i think 343 should use the Halo 3 designs for the elites for the Arbiter’s Covenant. But keep the same design for the storm/remnant.
> I thought the Storm Elites we’re cousins because they looked more reptilian than previously. But i think 343 should use the Halo 3 designs for the elites for the Arbiter’s Covenant. But keep the same design for the storm/remnant.
Think it’ll be something like this.
I’m really hoping for that to happen. It would give some nice continuity to Halo for once XD If you notice in Halo 4 there is nothing at all that is from past halo’s. The ships changed, armor changed, lots of stuff changed and i wish 343 would just use old assets. Because if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. (I’m talking about designs)
The first few levels made no sense to me in terms of updated weapons and gear. Cortana only updated Chief’s armor, not the weapons, or the vehicles, or the entire ship. They should’ve kept the old designs for UNSC equipment up until the point in which the UNSC Infinity arrives.
I do hope that in future Halo games with the Arbiter’s Covenant, we see the old armor and weapons from Halo 3.
> Sadly the Arbiter was already re-styled. He has a new golden armor. You should look it up. Yup the changes are canon. All the changes in Halo 4 are canon in some way, except the Forward unto dawn changes which haven’t been explained. I think the elites in Halo 4 are also a cousin species.
That isn’t his canon armor. It’s likely his ceremonial armor, worn to meetings such as peace conferences. His Halo 5 character model can briefly be seen in Spartan Locke’s visor at the end of the Master Chief Collection trailer, although it isn’t very telling. The things we see in comics, especially pertaining to visuals, should be taken with a grain of salt, because they’re subject to debate and are sometimes born from poor understanding of the Halo universe.
Jul 'Mdama’s Sangheili are not the same ethnicity we saw in Halo 3 from what I’ve been able to piece together. They’re from a colony called Hesduros and likely have evolved through separate gene pool mutations. When Thel’s Fleet of Retribution returns, I’m rather confident they will have an appearance different from that of the “Storm”, and a more classic look.
Many aesthetic changes from Halo 3 to 4 have yet to be explained. In reality it’s simply because of 343i’s new art direction, which is difficult for me to accept.
> Maybe the old designs for the allied Covenant, but not the Covenant Remnant.
That’s what I was thinking. But wouldn’t it have made more sense for the new Covenant (remnants) to have kept the ranks and armours of the old Covenant? I’d expect revisionism from the Arbiter’s supporters. I don’t know if the fact that the remnant forces were initially found isolated on a planet after the war really has anything to do with their appearance.
> That isn’t his canon armor. It’s likely his ceremonial armor, worn to meetings such as peace conferences. His Halo 5 character model can briefly be seen in Spartan Locke’s visor at the end of the Master Chief Collection trailer, although it isn’t very telling. The things we see in comics, especially pertaining to visuals, should be taken with a grain of salt, because they’re subject to debate and are sometimes born from poor understanding of the Halo universe.
This is a good point. Do you remember what the Arbiter’s armour looked like when he was Supreme Commander?
Am I the only one who likes Halo 4’s covenant models? But yeah, for the Arbiter’s side, they should just use updated versions of Halo 3’s models.
I liked Halo 4’s models but i wouldn’t like it for the legit covenant. I feel that 343 was pushing to hard to make Halo theirs and they wanted to change all the designs. I understand but i would like to see the classics return for future halos. Now don’t get me wrong i liked the Halo 4 designs but i liked the older ones 100% better. That’s all.
I preferred the Reach enemies the most they had a great class balance and the Elites looked more monsterous and alien. The halo 4 Elites just looked too much like the brutes. Big bulky legs, and standing upright.