We’ll start with an easy concept, the ability to use multiple helmet attachments at once, Halo Reach had a system where you could select from some presets and have multiple attachments on any given helmet, I believe Halo infinite should do one better and implement a system where players can choose every attachment they want.
This system could simply be allowing for one left attachment, one for the right, and one for the top and then one for the face, or making the top and face share a slot, which would allow for significantly more options regarding personalization, even if it’s only for the helmet attachments.
Now the second idea, one that’ll probably cause a little more controversy and put a lot more work on 343i’s plate is the ability to stack chest pieces, this doesn’t mean wearing every chest piece at once, but some of the smaller parts such as Petal Metal, Clonely bear, Psych apples, Liberty Rig, and The 88 Ratio tend to leave these gaps… where you could easily fit in other chest pieces… e.g. Liberty rig and Psych apples, 88 Ratio and Psych apples, Petal metal and ENAV Beacon, even the TSA prototype and the M1 combat knife on the Reach core could easily do this. I get that this would be a lot of work as you would have to go through manually and see what works and what doesn’t and then make the code to stack such pieces, but it would open a lot of possibilities.
Now, for the controversial part, by doing this, you have a reason to not do cross-cores, the sheer amount of work that would be involved in seeing how each and every chest piece interacts with every other piece on every other core, would be a lot of work, especially later down the line when we have new season cores and other fracture cores, but, if you expand on core personalization within the cores themselves, I’d imagine that would make some people satisfied at the very least. I still firmly believe colors should be shared across cores though, but that’s another debate.
Would the community be amicable to this? Or is this just a bad idea and we should push for cross-core personalization? Anyone have their own spin on it they would like to throw in?