I don’t really care for playable elites, it hasn’t been a thing in forever and I can’t say I miss it.
That being said, I don’t care. If they want to add them that’s fine because then people who want them get to play them.
I just hope they don’t make it Spartans vs. Elites where you have to play as elites every other game. Dedicated Spartans vs Elites would be fine.
I don’t care really, since it will be disabled for majority of matchmade games aside from FFAs.
Honestly that’s the entire thing ain’t it? Why bother spending resources making a core which no one will really see outside of FFA and customs?
That’s the exact thing which happened in Reach.
But what I do want are Grunt modes, or Invasion.
Imagine Invasion playing as different aliens. Fun.
Why would they only be enabled for FFA?
Elites are harder to headshot from the back than Spartans.
Elites also have their head jutting out when crouching due to their physiology.
Put that in regular matchmaking and you may find Elites easier or harder to kill in certain situations.
Example : ever tried sniping an Elite in a moving Warthog? Ever crouch behind a pillar as an Elite and your knees/head is just not in cover?
Also we have to remember, this is Halo Infintie with advanced movement. This means Elites also slide, clamber, sprint. How will their head position factor into these situations?
That’s why in most MM playlists for Reach/MCC Reach, you have players who prefer Elites default to Spartans. Elites only show up in MM for FFA or AR Slayer, things which generally don’t have a focus on Precision starts.
Not to say they can’t add Elites to slayer under similar conditions but… cmon. Reach has barely any customization for Elites for this exact reason. H3 didn’t have new customization options for Elites UNTIL THIS YEAR.
Why does it have to be like reach?
They work perfectly fine in Halo 3
They’re definitely going to do this down the road, a few seasons in, after they’ve exhausted Spartan options, most likely a season/event for the “Elite Core”. Based on their current model it would be stupid for them not to do this, a new alien core will add the possibility for many new armors in the store that they’ve already made for the campaign (so less time in development) and also will give them reason to add the alien weapons/vehicles in our armory allowing them to also sell us coatings and different models for. I miss my MCC orange energy sword and og covenant purple ghost.
So what, a difference in hit boxes doesn’t really change much, as you learn to play around it and use it.
Oh I have to mention we hit the min viable sample size… and it is only now I realized I messed up, I forgot a I don’t care option.
To say it lightly, if 343 added playable Elites back in after all these years, this would be the best Christmastime ever!
Except for around 4 BC of course 
Because MP is canon now. That’s why I voted no.
Thing is do to MP being canon, elites at the least should be there, as in halo 3 and 4 it was mentioned spartans and sangheli are training along side each other.
How is that a reason?
With the UNSC being in shambles, we have lost contact with ANVIL. Which is where the Swords of Sanghellios tribe was training with S4s.
I’m all for playble aliens however I think elites are the only ones that should have the same health and shields. They shouldn’t be playable in normal multiplayer but only in invasion like game modes or custom games.
For the other aliens idk but it would be cool if you could play as them in customs.
Yes but we can regroup as part of the MP story line.
What do you mean it’s canon? Fractures armor is not canon. Christmas decorations on your armor is not canon. Weapon skins are not canon.
Playable Elites are much more canon than all that ridiculousness.
Assuming it wasn’t destroyed along with Laconia. Time will tell.
Besides that, no other facility has the capacity to run the Wargames Ops. Right now it’s all being done via TACSIM iirc. Which is solely for use of S4s.
Also we have this.
While your MP spartan is canon, not everything about them is. I mean anything by Fotus isn’t canon.
I’m gonna say no only because of you’ve listed the species as armor cores.
It should be completely separated from the armor cores and have their own section with different armor cores for the Elite counterpart.
Image a similar hall but in a banished facility where there are the similar pedestals but instead you have Elites standing on the pedestals than Spartans. That would be a lot more cooler.
Overall I’m against the whole Armor Core idea that everything is locked to a certain Armor. Instead the Armor Hall should have been a showcase of your own custom armors you have created with the use of cross core pieces. So you could have the same armor piece on different pedestals but with different parts and colors.