> > > > > > > I think we should go back to the days when Spartan and Elits could both fight side by side.
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> > > > > > And have the same customizations.
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> > > > > > I heard at one point the Elites were going to have an arbiter armor for themselves as DLC during the Halo 3 days, but it never worked out because of a few reasons.
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> > > > > > I know one was because the tech wasn’t powerful enough to have armor as DLC for FPS games.
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> > > > > As far as I am concerned: I suggest the elites make their return for this new upcoming Halo game.
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> > > > > That being said I do also hope a lot of their weapons also return. And I don’t mean just the plasma rifle and the standard guns
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> > > > > (granted I absolutely LOVE those weapons I expect those to come back)
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> > > > > In my opinion: I’m talking about weapons like the concussion rifle. While I know there are those who prefer the Brute-Shot I just find the Concussion rifle a lot more fun to use in comparison, also cause it looks less human-ish than the brute shot does, not in the guns appearance, but projectiles.
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> > > > > That and considering at the time of Reach and beyond it was the only Elite weapon that fires red plasma, I know the Brute-Plasma Rifle existed Halo2 but what’s the likely chance that will ever show up again in Halo5?
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> > > > > I do hope one weapon comes back for the Halo arsenal: Incendiary grenades, now those are fun brute weapons to use!
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> > > > You might see it at some point.
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> > > > I hope we get different energy sword colors for the sanghili…maybe not
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> > > Green sword… but ya , arbiter armour would be a good solo legendary reward.
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> > I’m not sure I’d be thrilled about Arbiter armor for Legendary. Not only would it lessen the coolness of the armor, but we’d have a billion Arbiters running around in War Games, and eventually the armor would loose it’s value.
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> STOP. THAT EXCUSE IS AWFUL. I can’t stand hearing things like this.
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> Just because you have an irrational hatred towards popular things doesn’t mean we should deny people the ability to wear that gorgeous Arbiter armor in multiplayer.
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> -Yoink!-, I’ve been dying to use it on my elite in multiplayer since 2004 and if you want to go full hipster here and come to hate it just because people will be wearing it then shame on you!
Easy there, I’m not trying to start something. I don’t hate popular things (mostly), but I’m not a fan of static routines. Cake everyday spoils the pleasure.
Regardless, I respect your opinions and desires, and if Arbiter armor does become a useable permutation, then I’m sure I’d stop caring eventually. No sense crying over something out of my control that doesn’t affect me.
EDIT: But if multiplayer will still be canon, then having Arbiter armor might be a different story (pun not intended). Though FOTUS and Ricochet have disproven that, so it could happen.
> > > > > > > I think we should go back to the days when Spartan and Elits could both fight side by side.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And have the same customizations.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I heard at one point the Elites were going to have an arbiter armor for themselves as DLC during the Halo 3 days, but it never worked out because of a few reasons.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I know one was because the tech wasn’t powerful enough to have armor as DLC for FPS games.
> > > > >
> > > > > As far as I am concerned: I suggest the elites make their return for this new upcoming Halo game.
> > > > >
> > > > > That being said I do also hope a lot of their weapons also return. And I don’t mean just the plasma rifle and the standard guns
> > > > >
> > > > > (granted I absolutely LOVE those weapons I expect those to come back)
> > > > >
> > > > > In my opinion: I’m talking about weapons like the concussion rifle. While I know there are those who prefer the Brute-Shot I just find the Concussion rifle a lot more fun to use in comparison, also cause it looks less human-ish than the brute shot does, not in the guns appearance, but projectiles.
> > > > >
> > > > > That and considering at the time of Reach and beyond it was the only Elite weapon that fires red plasma, I know the Brute-Plasma Rifle existed Halo2 but what’s the likely chance that will ever show up again in Halo5?
> > > > >
> > > > > I do hope one weapon comes back for the Halo arsenal: Incendiary grenades, now those are fun brute weapons to use!
> > > >
> > > > You might see it at some point.
> > > >
> > > > I hope we get different energy sword colors for the sanghili…maybe not
> > >
> > > Green sword… but ya , arbiter armour would be a good solo legendary reward.
> >
> > I’m not sure I’d be thrilled about Arbiter armor for Legendary. Not only would it lessen the coolness of the armor, but we’d have a billion Arbiters running around in War Games, and eventually the armor would loose it’s value.
>
> STOP. THAT EXCUSE IS AWFUL. I can’t stand hearing things like this.
>
> Just because you have an irrational hatred towards popular things doesn’t mean we should deny people the ability to wear that gorgeous Arbiter armor in multiplayer.
>
> -Yoink!-, I’ve been dying to use it on my elite in multiplayer since 2004 and if you want to go full hipster here and come to hate it just because people will be wearing it then shame on you!
Nah, I agree with Varmah on this. If there’s an armor set that’s supposed to be unique to a character than it should stay that way. The same goes for a lot of other armor sets to like Chief’s new armor, Noble team, Buck’s squad and maybe even Locke if he becomes as significant which he probably will. It’d be be nice to see Majestic and Palmer get something that’s unique to them as characters too.
What I’m talking about isn’t irrational. I want the way these characters look to be unique and special as well as have the multiplayer characters to be unique and special too. A multiplayer character wearing Thel’s armor cheapens this on both ends and it’s just not necessary when your multiplayer character could have so many other armor options to choose from. Halo’s look and feel centers around the armor that many of the characters wear. It’s an integral part of the characters and how they’re represented and portrayed. Pretty much every Halo book that features a Spartan goes into so much depth on how their armor is like a second skin, it’s a part of their body and mind, the armor is a part of the character, this is done for the Forerunners in the Greg Bear books too. Cheapening the uniqueness of a character’s armor in Halo is IMO cheapening a piece of the character.
Of course I’m not against armor sets that come close like the original Mk V and VI sets or the ODST armor. Even in Reach you can sorta recreate Noble team’s armor sets but not perfectly. What if something like this happened to the Arbiter set? Thel’s armor may have received some modifications at this stage so maybe the old Halo 2 style one could become usable while Thel’s current armor can stay unique to him.
Though I have to ask how an armor set like this would canonically exist. And before someone says it. No, Wargames has nothing to do with the armor having to be canonically correct. The armor in every armory since Halo 3 and even before that have existed in the canon. There’s no such thing as non canonical armor in Halo, the closest thing we have to something like that is Fotus description and the Haunted Helmet which is just a variant of an existing canonical helmet.
So maybe Thel could have a group of body guards/apprentices that wear similar armor to him and that could be what’s available for the player to wear? Or maybe something else along the lines of that. But the armor that becomes available shouldn’t linked to a character.
Wheter the arbiter armor will be useable or not is beyond me, personally so long as we can actually customize the armor sets I think that’d be grand. I know it’s supposed that Elites don’t “customize” there armor, but come on, it’d be good to have more variety to it. Sure there might be some mis-matches here and there but that’s been going on even with Spartans.
I actually have a good feeling about Elites coming back. Even before Halo 4 was released, not a lot of people were happy about no Elites. And as said before, them returning seems to be pretty high on everyone’s lists. If 343 wants to win back the community, I think Elites would be a pretty good start.
> I actually have a good feeling about Elites coming back. Even before Halo 4 was released, not a lot of people were happy about no Elites. And as said before, them returning seems to be pretty high on everyone’s lists. If 343 wants to win back the community, I think Elites would be a pretty good start.
Does Promethean technology require a Human or Forerunner touch to activate? Or does it react to any kind of organic interaction? A canon issue may be brought about by this if the former question is answered in positive.
> Does Promethean technology require a Human or Forerunner touch to activate? Or does it react to any kind of organic interaction? A canon issue may be brought about by this if the former question is answered in positive.
would it matter?
aren’t we only talking about MM/Custom games here?
> Does Promethean technology require a Human or Forerunner touch to activate? Or does it react to any kind of organic interaction? A canon issue may be brought about by this if the former question is answered in positive.
I think it just needs something organic. In Spartan Ops, you can see an Elite Warrior using a Scattershot in Episode 7. I think it’ll be fine.
> > Does Promethean technology require a Human or Forerunner touch to activate? Or does it react to any kind of organic interaction? A canon issue may be brought about by this if the former question is answered in positive.
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> I think it just needs something organic. In Spartan Ops, you can see an Elite Warrior using a Scattershot in Episode 7. I think it’ll be fine.
Considering the Arbiter is being given a role again in Halo 5 (seriously, prominence in the first actual trailer), I have good hopes for their return into multiplayer.
So Destiny is on it’s way and I was wondering what everyheili thinks about the game’s alternative playable races.
Do they compare to Halo’s Elites?
Will Bungie’s decision encourage 343 to bring Elites back in order to compete?
Do you think that the Exos and Awoken have the potential to become more interesting than Halo’s Elites?
I think that the fact that both franchises are known for having multiple player races is going to become a key part of their competition in the coming years. Thoughts?
> So Destiny is on it’s way and I was wondering what everyheili thinks about the game’s alternative playable races.
>
> Do they compare to Halo’s Elites?
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> Will Bungie’s decision encourage 343 to bring Elites back in order to compete?
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> Do you think that the Exos and Awoken have the potential to become more interesting than Halo’s Elites?
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> I think that the fact that both franchises are known for having multiple player races is going to become a key part of their competition in the coming years. Thoughts?
Time will tell, but it will take a hell of a lot to be more interesting than the races/politics/religion of the Covenant. I still find the Covenant lore absolutely fascinating.
> So Destiny is on it’s way and I was wondering what everyheili thinks about the game’s alternative playable races.
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> <mark>Do they compare to Halo’s Elites?</mark>
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> Will Bungie’s decision encourage 343 to bring Elites back in order to compete?
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> <mark>Do you think that the Exos and Awoken have the potential to become more interesting than Halo’s Elites?</mark>
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> I think that the fact that both franchises are known for having multiple player races is going to become a key part of their competition in the coming years. Thoughts?
Unfortunately not, the Exo and awoken are just humans with a diff skin. They all look a like unless you take their armor off. IMO Bungie dropped the ball. I see a Sangheili I think “Oh a Sangheili” I see Bungie’s skin swaps I think “Oh a Hunter(Titan or Warlock)” The key to being a unique race is that even with all your armour on, I can still tell what you are.
343i knows we want them, I can almost assure you that they will be back. Destiny is good but it is NOWHERE near what it was said to be.
If Elites were in H5 (which they should be, really), what would you rather see: Elites with equal stats to Spartans-think H2 & H3, or something like Reach?
> Sorry if this has already been answered but:
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> If Elites were in H5 (which they should be, really), what would you rather see: Elites with equal stats to Spartans-think H2 & H3, or something like Reach?
> Sorry if this has already been answered but:
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> If Elites were in H5 (which they should be, really), what would you rather see: Elites with equal stats to Spartans-think H2 & H3, or something like Reach?
Like Halo 2 and 3, so I can play as an Elite freely.
> Sorry if this has already been answered but:
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> If Elites were in H5 (which they should be, really), what would you rather see: Elites with equal stats to Spartans-think H2 & H3, or something like Reach?
Equality. Come on, everyone knows that Reach wasn’t the best way to go with the Elite’s.