OK, so many of you have probably seen the new Dynast armor set. You also probably already noticed it looks a lot like the classic CQB armor from Halo 3.
Halo 5 has a lot of classic armors, unfortunately they all radically differ from their original counterparts.
When it comes to bringing a classic armor to Halo 5, 343 tends to change them a little too much. Look at the Mark V Alpha. The helmet looks like it was dropped on it’s head as a baby. Look at Recon. It’s chin looks like an erection. Now maybe you like the remade armors. I personally like the Dynast armor. The problem is that the new armors look almost nothing like the old classics we love and want in this game.
Now, I have a solution to this problem. If 343 wants to make new versions of old classic armors, that’s cool. Just give us the old variants, too. I’d wear the hell out of a faithful remake of Halo CE’s Mark V armor. I’m sure plenty of people would rock retro Recon, or old school ODST.
So please give this post some attention if you want the old classics in the game as well as the new stuff. What armor do you want in the game?
Let’s get 343 to add some of the greats back into Halo. Make Halo great again.
i completely agree. To be honest, I want to know who Let’s these New armor concepts be put in the game. I Mean seriously What the -Yoink-. Why can They not put in some original armor without tweaking it so much to the point where it looks like complete -Yoink-. I believe the only Good Remakes of these helmets would just be The Mark 6 And scout. Why? because they are the least tweaked armors! But good luck with 343 listening to this post. it makes me sad. to see such great potential not be used correcrly. ive been a halo fan since Halo 2, And i believe it has always gotten better. but 343’s Artists are starting to Piss me off.
I totally agree. I despise what they did to the Mk. V(B) helmet. It is by far my favorite helmet in the series, but I can’t wear it because it just looks so bad in comparison.
It looks nothing like CQB??? Nothing! If they had t have written it 90% of people wouldn’t notice. The body is Athlon and the helmet is something new altogether, the visor is slightly T shaped and that’s it.
Someone do a side by side because I can’t on my phone. But the only similarity is the visor, if someone took the visor from locke’s helmet and put it on something that looked like tracer then it wouldn’t be a remake of locke’s armour would it?
I agree completely as well. As much as I do like the Dynast armour, I don’t see it as being a replacement for CQB. There are too many differences and creative liberties that take them away from their original design, especially since those differences are for the worse. The same goes for Mark V Alpha not being a replacement for the true Mark V, or Decimator for Mark V**. Even Recon and every other armour other than Noble are just too far off from their source material.** I fail to see why 343i can’t just pull a Noble helmet with the classics and do a direct port of these armours rather than try to recreate them and fail. It seems that, like with the coloured undersuits, 343i is just changing things for the sake of changing them.
I’d really like to see this in future Halo games, where you can choose to wear armors from MJOLNIR GEN 1 or GEN 2. I’d like to be able to wear the older classic armors unchanged from the earlier Halo games via GEN 1, but also wear the upgraded classic armors, or 343’s design, through GEN 2.
I agree. 343 should make armors look functional, as they did in Reach. Shotgun shells, sniper netting, tacpads, and combat knives should all be present. Unfortunately, 343’s attempt at a functional looking armor set, interceptor, just comes off as looking forced. The pouches all the way down the legs and on the oversized shoulders look ridiculous. 343 need to keep looking through Bungie’s old armor concepts and using them for inspiration, rather than just scribbling down whatever anime-esque designs they can think of. I’ll give them credit where it’s due, though… Their soldier redesign looks functional in a good way.
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> NO! NO THE DYNAST DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THE CQB WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE! WE WANT THE REAL CQB!
> Helmet: Having in many ways effectively replaced older CQB and CQC designs, the DYNAST helmet shell is covered by layers of compressed carbon nanotubes and hyperdiamond sheets, making it fantastically durable . . . and expensive.
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> I agree. 343 should make armors look functional, as they did in Reach. Shotgun shells, sniper netting, tacpads, and combat knives should all be present. Unfortunately, 343’s attempt at a functional looking armor set, interceptor, just comes off as looking forced. The pouches all the way down the legs and on the oversized shoulders look ridiculous. 343 need to keep looking through Bungie’s old armor concepts and using them for inspiration, rather than just scribbling down whatever anime-esque designs they can think of. I’ll give them credit where it’s due, though… Their soldier redesign looks functional in a good way.
Unfortunately 343 are going through a phase where they feel the need to change everything, I cant remember how many different armours we now have that specialise In close quarters combat.
The Dynast helmet wouldn’t look so bad if it weren’t for that weird forehead. This seems to happen a lot with 343’s armor designs. A lot of the helmets are just plain fugly, but then there are a lot that would actually look pretty nice if it weren’t for just one thing that completely ruins it (i.e. facial expressions/indentions in the visor, giant foreheads, etc…).
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> The Dynast helmet wouldn’t look so bad if it weren’t for that weird forehead. This seems to happen a lot with 343’s armor designs. A lot of the helmets are just plain fugly, but then there are a lot that would actually look pretty nice if it weren’t for just one thing that completely ruins it (i.e. facial expressions/indentions in the visor, giant foreheads, etc…).
Agree. 343 have shown that they can make a lot of good designs and then ruin them by adding pointless additions.
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I really do not care what Canon Fodder thinks of it. It ISN’T the good old CQB, and NEVER WILL BE!
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> I’d really like to see this in future Halo games, where you can choose to wear armors from MJOLNIR GEN 1 or GEN 2. I’d like to be able to wear the older classic armors unchanged from the earlier Halo games via GEN 1, but also wear the upgraded classic armors, or 343’s design, through GEN 2.
If the GEN I armors still had thrusters and sprint, etc. I would be A OK with this. In a different thread, I also proposed the MK V having the Halo CE hud, that would be very cool. (It would have to have some slight tweaks, but it still would be cool.)
