Should there be a return of armor effects? I liked burning blue and having foul clouds swirling around my steel back in reach, and I was deeply saddened when all I saw in halo 4 was birthday party (which isn’t bad).
Can we see a return of personal armor effects?
If it’s too much for a competitive playlist, then at least we could see them in social matches.
As long as the gameplay remains unaffected by them, sure I’m all for them. Cosmetic variety is nice to have.
Armor effects never affected game play, so I don’t see why it would be a problem in competitive games. I would love to see armor effects return and in all honestly, I would love to see the variety that the Halo Reach armory brought, return for Halo 5
I have to agree that the cosmetic variety of Reach was fantastic. I wish halo 4 (or halo Xbox one) will have the helmet attachments at least. But mostly armor effects. 
XD I remember when we had them in reach and everybody complained like mad about how pathetic and pointless they were and now they’re gone people want them back?!
I really, really hated them and how they looked, so I would never want to see them return, but I would totally be up for a special 343i cheat piece setting your head on fire like in H3.
> Armor effects never affected game play, so I don’t see why it would be a problem in competitive games. I would love to see armor effects return and in all honestly, I would love to see the variety that the Halo Reach armory brought, return for Halo 5
They make you stand out and eliminate stealth, so they do affect competitive players. They’re also extremely ugly, but I guess that’s my opinion.
TBH, i want Armor Effects to return for Halo 5. Specifically, Inclement Weather. However, I would like to see new AE’s, like Flaming Armor (Not just helmet), Fireworks, etc.
Flaming heads… Not so cool.
Flaming feet or hands, OK now we’re talking.
Different coloured puffs of smoke and sparks, different particle effects,they’re both good.
As long as we don’t have sounds like “YAAAAAA!” or something else very disconnecting to the gameplay at hand.
That “YAAAAAA!” really did ruin the sound of the MP experience.No funny stuff like that.
I thought they were cool, something to work towards. The only one that I could see being annoying was inclement weather because it kind of looked like the persons shield was down if you weren’t careful in distinguishing the two. I was fooled a few times by it.
I don’t like them to return either. I simply don’t like that kind of gimmicks in a game like Halo.
I am all for variety in armor customization but gimmicks like armor effects, flaming helmets or that katana from Halo 3 should all be locked away in a box and thrown into a collapsing slipspace portal. 
Armor effects are unrealistic (though fun to wear). We should have armor effects like your energy shields shimmering, or the armor’s lights blinking.