Wow, that looks really freakin cool
at least they managed to separate the armor from the bodysuit this time around. that always bothered me in the past halos
The straight black would add a nice contrast to the armor. As it is, the details get lost in the poor, pastel-like, color tones.
> A last-minute (And absolutely terrible) design change by 343. I love Halo 4, but that’s one of the few things I dislike.
I totally disagree. Black underarmor was one of the limper points of the old spartan’s design. “Hey,” says Bungie “There could be something cool going on here, but let’s just black it out so that we can put ALL the emphasis on the bits of metal haphazardly glued to your ninja-PJ’s. Boy what visionaries we are to reduce you to a junk-yard power ranger.”
Anyway I’ll put my vote in for the new stuff. I know I’m alone in this but it’s an issue of the utmost importance to the community and all viewpoints must be heard! 
> > Yeah. That is really terrible design choice. Black under armor looks so much better and less toyish. Master Chief got it right though, but why not Spartan IVs? :I
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> I really don’t know. As this render exists, it makes me wonder if there was originally going to be an option to customise this. But they couldn’t make it work/ran out of time.
I agree. I’ve always wondered why we cant just choose the design and color of each piece of armor. That would look so badass! I hope that they do that with the next-gen consoles.
> A last-minute (And absolutely terrible) design change by 343. I love Halo 4, but that’s one of the few things I dislike.
It wasn’t last minute, it was shown in the first multiplayer pics.
I agree it is completely stupid though, wish you were able to change it.
> I really don’t know. As this render exists, it makes me wonder if there was originally going to be an option to customise this. But they couldn’t make it work/ran out of time.
An option to control the under armor colors would have been awesome! It would allow for more customization and make the armor pieces bolder.
Also we need some bolder colors as well, the current pastel has been washed out too much.
It is a shame they changed it at the last minute… looked really cool.
Being a Gunpla fan I understand better than most how much colour separation changes our perception of things.
I honestly don’t understand why on earth the black under suits were removed but it’s one of the few things I feel is wrong with this game, visually at least.
I’m glad that I was not the only one who did not care for this change.
> I agree. I’ve always wondered why we cant just choose the design and color of each piece of armor. That would look so badass! I hope that they do that with the next-gen consoles.
Rainbow Six Vegas did that six years ago (plus custom camo patterns and it was great!) It wouldn’t take a new console, just a more ambitious development strategy than to just one-up the last thing we/Bungie did.
Customisable under-armour for Halo 5 anyone?
I don’t see it as such a bad problem though. then again I do agree with you.
If 343 can patch it to make the alloy black, that’d be very nice.
i’m with you guys, i like the black under armor, makes you look like SPARTAN and not a plastic doll
This was something that bugged me in the very first pics that were released and I always hoped it was due to betas and that and it would be changed.
I can see that some may like this change but most seem to not. So I’m going to go for hoping to see an option appear in the update to choose the colour… even if it is just either black or your primary or secondary colour choice. If not the TU… which would be unlikely anyway, but in the next game.
I miss the all black under armor, it made spartans look way better. Now they kind of look like action figures rather than soldiers. It’s not something that bothers me too much but I hope they change it back.
Awww that’s a shame.
The under-armor should be customizable.
Probably it was to make it easier to tell what team they were on. As for color combinations, they could always replace it with a color wheel.
> > A last-minute (And absolutely terrible) design change by 343. I love Halo 4, but that’s one of the few things I dislike.
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> I agree it is completely stupid though, wish you were able to change it.
It would make sense, we are able to choose three colors for our symbol but only 2 for our armor when we should have the option to choose the color of the body suit.
I like Halo 4’s armor (sorta), but this would have made it sooo much better-- it makes each individual piece of armor actually stand out.
I actually think we should get an option in Halo 5 of changing the color of the undersuit-- just barely. Not so much changing its color (it would always stay dark), but adding just a shade of a certain color, still dark enough to make the armor pieces look good on their own.
And someone mentioned this earlier, but I think the colors are a little too weird. They must have looked at Reach and then went overboard in trying to fix it. Halo Reach had very dark colors, and Halo 4 has… well, a rainbow.
The colour changes are for Spartan-IV uniformity under the UNCS Spartan-IV colour scheme protocole. Since all of us are technically on a Fire Team we are suppose to match one another whist still being identifiable. The black under-armour (even if it looks better) would be to individualized and would make us look like we aren’t part of the same program.