hi I know i have and possibly many others have been wondering is the armor cheif has been shown wearing in halo4 a new mk of armor? or is it a compleate redesign of the old MJOLNIR?
an answer would be greatly appreciated by myself and im sure many others.
It’s still the Mark VI from Halo 2/3. It’s just redesigned thanks to the power of the new engine behind Halo 4. 343 is basically adding on to the design really but it’s the same armor.
Bungie changed Cortana, Chief and a number of characters during the trilogy, it’s not far fetched to say 343 is doing the same for Halo 4.
In the Game Informer article, they said that Cortana rewrote Chief’s armor firmware while he was sleeping.
That’s why the HUD looks different in all the media we’ve seen.
It’s Mk.VI but 343i’s take on it.
Basically, it’s art.
> It’s still the Mark VI from Halo 2/3. It’s just redesigned thanks to the power of the new engine behind Halo 4. 343 is basically adding on to the design really but it’s the same armor.
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> Bungie changed Cortana, Chief and a number of characters during the trilogy, it’s not far fetched to say 343 is doing the same for Halo 4.
true, but Bungie justified the redesign from Halo CE to Halo 2 as a transfer from mark V to mark VI.
The OP is asking if 343i is claiming it to be mark VI or mark VII. It does look totally different, and it’s not like cortana would start welding and upgrading his hardware, so to be canonically correct, they should technically call it mark VII imo.
Oh well, whatever, I don’t care.
> so to be canonically correct, they should technically call it mark VII imo.
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> Oh well, whatever, I don’t care.
To be canonically correct, his armour is Mark VI armour. it looks a bit different, but it’s still Mark VI. It’s just a graphical upgrade, just like the Elites, Grunts, Jackals, Phantoms, Warthogs, Scorpions etc. have changed over the games without any other reason than the graphics being updated.
It’s still the same ship, just graphically updated.
i guess i can except a new mk of armour but if it is just a redesign of the original armour im very upset because it just throws the pre established armor out the window. 343 are welcome to provide their own interpretation on things they create or make different versions of whats already established but i feel changing the pre established bungie design of the MJOLNIR armour is not cool heres what is on the halo wiki:
"MJOLNIR is Halsey’s attempt to create a powered exoskeleton capable of taking full advantage of the physical capabilities of a SPARTAN-II. <mark>The battlesuit is constructed in overlapping layers.</mark> It is a sealed system, capable of extravehicular activity or operations in toxic atmosphere. It is hardened against EMP and radiation, and has filters that are completely effective at removing toxins and bacteria from local atmosphere.
<mark>The armor’s outer shell is composed of a multilayer alloy of remarkable strength and has been augmented with a refractive coating capable of dispersing a limited amount of Covenant energy weapon strikes.</mark> The suit contains a gel-filled layer underneath <mark>a thick black armored bodysuit.</mark> The gel layer regulates temperature and can reactively change its density. The inner skinsuit is made of a moisture-absorbing synthetic material linked to an environment control computer and the occupant’s UNSC-issue neural interface."
now that is pre establised canon. it is a powered <mark>exoskeleton</mark> made up of <mark>overlapping layers</mark>
now the armor cheif is wering in halo 4 is not that although it has the sameish design it is not made up of a thick multilayer body suit with overlapping armour plates. it appers to be a single layer nano like suit with armor plates hanging off it, there for if it is infact meant to be the old armor it goes against what is alredy established. BUT if it is a new mk of armor then it is up to 343 to make it what they like.
The shoulders and chest look a bit too different, but apart from that, it just looks like a graphicaly upgraded version of the Mark VI.
It even has the same slash/scar/scratch across the right side of his chest.
> Mark VI from Halo 3
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> John’s armour in Halo 4
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> The shoulders and chest look a bit too different, but apart from that, it just looks like a graphicaly upgraded version of the Mark VI.
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> It even has the same slash/scar/scratch across the right side of his chest.
In my opinion they should just start out with the armour look from halo 3 and later in the game (maybe the second level) you get the new halo 4 looking armour.
> > Mark VI from Halo 3
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> > John’s armour in Halo 4
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> > The shoulders and chest look a bit too different, but apart from that, it just looks like a graphicaly upgraded version of the Mark VI.
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> > It even has the same slash/scar/scratch across the right side of his chest.
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> In my opinion they should just start out with the armour look from halo 3 and later in the game (maybe the second level) you get the new halo 4 looking armour.
They could have done that, but there’s obviously a reason why they didn’t. Maybe the story doesn’t enable Chief to get new armour early on in the game. John could be on his own for the majority of the game, and even if he does meet some Marines or whatever, I doubt they’d have a spare set of MJOLNIR Mark VII. John does come across the Infinity later in the game, but 343 probably want him to hae his new armour since the beginning.
I’d much rather have no reason for the new armour other than the graphics than have a bad reason.
well i’d rather not see them throw the old design out the window. if somthing has been already established they shouldn’t just disregard that and change it. they can create a new set of armor but just replacing what is already established is wrong