With the Infinite elites being slimmed back down, and made more like legacy elite shapes, I think 343 intentionally made the door a bit more open for playable elites to return. From a hype perspective, it makes no sense for 343 to not introduce a season themed around elites and announcing them as playable. Tons of people (myself included) would buy that battlepass in a heartbeat. If they want more money, it’s an easy decision, even if it’s a year or more down the road.
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I never thought of it that way before. That’s a pretty good point.
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But I don’t…. Want to pay money for something i had for free before 
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BuT THe dEveLOPerS NeEd To BE pAiD! dO YoU WaNT tHeM tO STARVE???!?!?!?!?!
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343 are bound to run out of ideas eventually, that’s where Elites may come in.
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I know that post is bait and a lol. But I would rather pay for them then not have them.
and we all know the game is leaning earned over Paid.
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Yup. Let em starve 
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Ah yes, for 6 years…I guess we can throw out the developmental work they did for Halo wars 2, fixing and patching/upgrading MCC. Updating and adding dlc for halo 5 guardians. Dlc for MCC, adding Reach, ODST, and Halo 4 to MCC, plus the constant seasonal updates that it gets while also building the engine that they likely didn’t get done with until ~2018-2019 while writing the script and story could be done in the meantime, they had A LOT going on in the background to really say this game had 6 years of development. It likely has only had maybe 2-2 1/2 years of active development. Throw in covid and working from home it’s understandable that it’s missing some features that are still coming.
Why 6 years of development? Because coding for modern gaming engines and systems are a lot more complex than they were 14 years when the games with 3 year cycles were almost literally copy-paste of the engines and subroutines, as opposed to building something from scratch. I didn’t really pay attention to vehicle destruction in the flight so I have nothing to say about that
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That ending was…. Really…. Random….
I don’t know where that came from
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Arbiter will most likely show up again at some point. Best way to reintroduce them is a sos dlc as well as adding in throwback covenant weapons like the plasma rifle
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Wish we could use polls to have people vote whether they want playable elites or not. Since this forum could potentially be the revival of playable elites forum, then why not have a poll?
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Wow, 70 replies in just over a week. I see why the original forum had almost a thousand pages.
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This isn’t even the only topic.
See my profile for the other topic on this which is more an armor core idea.
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I HAVE REVIVED THE FORUM
Yay!
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Nice. I’m glad there’s demand for playable Elites. I’m seeing more people play as them everyday (mostly).
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I would truly love to see playable elites return i honestly feel it would be good for halo infinite. As well as seeing there own unique customization.halo mcc we have already seen new armors for elites so it would be possible for them to get there own armor customizations. I feel it would bring a lot of uh our sangheili fans back go the franchise as well.
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Hopefully last as long as the other or hopefully not too long so that 343i can finally implement one of Halo’s most requested features.
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With the game going to be out for the next 10 years it is possible, however, it is a very big undertaking on 343i part.
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Always thought it would be cool to have an Invasion-like game type and the first round would start out SWAT-style playing as Jackals/skirmishers and marines/ODSTs.
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Likely to be seen in purposefully asymmetrical gametypes. The way Halo: Infinite is structured, there is nothing in place to support Elite based modes, save their modular armor.
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