Prometheans' recent change of color.

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I remember a comment regarding the two colored variants of Prometheans. Now I see the original orange-gold color less and blue a lot more. Is blue replacing the original color or are there two factions of Prometheans sporting different colors? To me it makes sense that these Forerunner entities would glow the typical color we’ve grown used to over the years. But that orange-gold color makes sense with weapons since it’s typical with the energy from sentinel beams.

The new look of later builds or part of more variety in the game? Your thoughts?

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I’ve heard that the colors are based on the time of day.

Orange during the mornings and day.
Blue at/near night.

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Orange is during the day, Blue is at night.

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Orange=day Blue=night

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> Orange is during the day, Blue is at night.

Then why would the weapons still be orange?..

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> > Orange is during the day, Blue is at night.
>
> Then why would the weapons still be orange?..

Because 343i missed a golden opportunity with the weapon skins system.

Here’s to hoping it’s changed soon.

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> Orange is during the day, Blue is at night.

is there a source to this?

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> > Orange is during the day, Blue is at night.
>
> is there a source to this?

No, but every time we see them during the day, they’re orange, and every time we see them at night, they’re blue. So it’s a fairly logical assessment.

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> > > Orange is during the day, Blue is at night.
> >
> > is there a source to this?
>
> No, but every time we see them during the day, they’re orange, and every time we see them at night, they’re blue. So it’s a fairly logical assessment.

Yep, something which I’ve suspected since we saw them first actually.

We know that Cortana’s not controlling them, and they definitely aren’t friendly, not even to the Covenant.

But there’s always the possibility that there’s a whole other reason behind their color.

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> But there’s always the possibility that there’s a whole other reason behind their color.

I hope so. Seems like a pretty arbitrary reason for a colour change. It’s not like they’re trying to stay hidden or anything.

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Besides pictures, has anyone seen recent in-game footage of Prometheans being orange instead of blue? To me it seems orange is in old builds.

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> I’ve heard that the colors are based on the time of day.
>
> Orange during the mornings and day.
> Blue at/near night.

My god it better not be like that.

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In some of the night pictures the knights were blue and then some crawlers and watchers were still orange, so I don’t think it’s a time of day thing…

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> > I’ve heard that the colors are based on the time of day.
> >
> > Orange during the mornings and day.
> > Blue at/near night.
>
> My god it better not be like that.

I’m afraid it is. Seems reasonable to me. It’d be good if the weapons and the energy were blue at night time.

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> I’ve heard that the colors are based on the time of day.
>
> Orange during the mornings and day.
> Blue at/near night.

So wait does this mean halo 4 will have a day to night cycle or is it just day missions and night missions.

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> > I’ve heard that the colors are based on the time of day.
> >
> > Orange during the mornings and day.
> > Blue at/near night.
>
> So wait does this mean halo 4 will have a day to night cycle or is it just day missions and night missions.

That actually sounds pretty cool to me. Imagine how much harder it may be to play some missions at night that were normally day time missions from past Halo games, and vice versa. The level Nightfall from Reach would be like a frontal assault if done during the day, and not a sneaky night mission

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> > > I’ve heard that the colors are based on the time of day.
> > >
> > > Orange during the mornings and day.
> > > Blue at/near night.
> >
> > So wait does this mean halo 4 will have a day to night cycle or is it just day missions and night missions.
>
> That actually sounds pretty cool to me. Imagine how much harder it may be to play some missions at night that were normally day time missions from past Halo games, and vice versa. The level Nightfall from Reach would be like a frontal assault if done during the day, and not a sneaky night mission

Another reason I think this is because in the recent vidoc you can see a Promeathan Knight on top of MC with it face exposed, just like in the E3 campaign trailer, only his skull face was blue and not red and it was night and not day.

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I honestly just think they should all be blue, orange has never really been a distinct forerunner color, and it seems like they just use orange to make them look fierce.