Good day everyone, how are you all?
I wanted to make this thread days ago, but i never had time to, because i think i have to say a lot of things (sorry if my english will have some mistakes).
First of all, i want to say this is my personal opinion, a personal feedback. I understand someone could not agree and i respect. In this case, i’m totally ok to talk about it in this topic. Also if 343i doesn’t like my feedback, that’s ok for me. I just want to say it.
I really like Halo 5. After Halo Reach, I have been playing this game for so long, and i like 343i did a good job about multiplayer gameplay.
I’m a fanatic of Halo armor design, and i have to say 343i did a good improvement if we think about Halo 4.
But i think you could improve even more, because something is not okay (always personally).
The first thing is the fact we don’t have a full personalization. We can change only helmet, armor and visor. But this doesn’t allow me to change my Spartan as i want.
I’m glad you have added more colors, but this is not much for me. I think, in fact, you should make more personalization like in Halo 4 and Halo Reach. And i think you can do even more. So i think you should permit personalization like this: Helmet, shoulders (left and right), chest, arms, legs, visor, thruster and addons.
They have more or less the same category of Halo Reach, except for thruster and addons.
With the first one, you will be able to change the thurster trail with another color. This is not necessary, but if it’s possible, would be great!
The second ones, addons, are what they are: addons. Something you can add as “extra” in your Spartan. I’m giving you some examples: An antennae? a military scarf (like the one Jun has in Reach)? A badge? Something of holographic? Well, something that would make your Spartan even more personal. I would appreciate something like that.
The second thing is the suit. I mean that suit which covers the Spartan. In other Halo games the suit is basically black. This made the armors more ‘cool’, in my opinion.
Even in Halo 5 Spartan Vale does have a black suit (covered by the red armor she has) (link http://bit.ly/1pX0cRM)
And i think you should make the suit black again, or at least leave the possibility to change it.
here’s what i mean if you didn’t understand:
Before: http://i.imgur.com/gbkH1IB.png
After: http://i.imgur.com/EOJfn59.png
I know there are some armors you can do something of similar (make the primary color black and the secondary as you want), but you can count those armors with only a hand, for exampe, with Atlas Vigilant. You could do the same with Breaker Hatchetman…then you have updated the armor and now it’s totally different.
And in any case the result would be different.
So i would appreciate you can change this, or at least give us the possibility to change it.
The third thing is.the armor itself and the skins (i will try to explain despite i’m not for long phrases). I don’t dislike armor skins. But it depends how you do them. 3/4 of those skins are just some random lines which doesn’t have any sense. In Reach you have your secondary color in arms and legs, in way to give a sense. In fact it’s possible to do this with the Noble Armor (and in fact i love it). But only with this armor.
My criticism is about how you manage the color. The way you show them in computer graphic is not the same in game.
Also i think there is too less “metallic parts” in Spartan armors. I saw something in Breaker and Achilles armors, but what about the others?
I think that, with the right colors, you can make awesome any armors in Halo. Here’s an example:
Before: http://i.imgur.com/gbkH1IB.png
After: http://i.imgur.com/FbrTIq1.png
As you can see now the shoulders (shoulder in this case) is metallic, and the helmet is well covered (also i think a bit of black makes Jumpmaster really cool!).
So all the skins you (343i) do should have a sense in base on how you put the secondary color. Ok textures, ok lines, but don’t forget to not make them the secondary color.
Also, i was wondering if you could make sub-categories for armors with skins.
And that’s all. As i said, I like Halo 5 and i will continue to play it. But i think you should not forget you can make it even better.
Thank you very much for reading this topic! Have a good day.