Since the game came out in November I’ve been soured more and more by this game’s customization. From the tiny amount of options at launch to the current small amount of choices, I’ve not been impressed by anything. Nothing has stood out to me as “yes this looks amazing and I want to wear/use that”. Even when things have caught my eye they’re in a bundle and I won’t pay for all those things I don’t want just to get the shoulders.
But one thing has stood out to me since the Tech Previews. Why do all the attachments look like chunks of metal that you’ve just slapped onto your armour or helmet? Seriously, why have this BS monetization system where I have to pay for Black or Blue if it’s just gonna be covered by a big piece of freaking metal that just stays metallic grey? I seriously can’t understand this. Why is this the way it is? Halo 3 wasn’t like this, nor was Reach. Reach had a few chests that kept parts the same color but not the entire piece. And most of those had black detail so it matched with the undersuit color to blend in well with the rest of the armor coloring.
For me this just ruins an already choked and ransomed customization system. They’ve gutted player expression to replace the void with money. But I guess I shouldn’t be complaining that much since I can’t even color “My Spartan” the way I want. The coating system has completely ripped individuality away from the hands of players. I’ve always had my Spartan black and dark blue. Guess what coating doesn’t exist? And when one comes out I’m sure it’ll be priced for $4-8 and I will not pay for something we’ve been able to do for over 20 years.
They should at least make it an option. I personally like the metallic grey attachments and also that was how it was back in Reach. You didn’t customise the armour attachments.
I don’t bother using the attachments 90% of the time due to the lack of colour. Sometimes they work, most the time I find they don’t.
I just use Clonely Bear now so I’ll never have a chest plate on my MkVII but I’ve found them to be underwhelming on the Yoroi. I use one with some variations but especially on my white armour it just looks silly.
Overall I’d say I’m happy with the customisation so far. I’ve had to throw a bit of money at the game already but I really like how my Mark VII and Yoroi cores look and I am finding a lot of players.look unique online. I’m enjoying that aspect right now. Think it will be really cool further down the line when we have even more.
Yeah this is awful. Really something that needs to be addressed. No reason that a coating I paid $5-15 for shouldn’t be applied to any attachment I want.
The idea of being able to change armor attachment colors is a great idea and hopefully one day this does become a thing. Thank you for sharing fellow Spartan.
Just to be clear I was mainly focusing on chest pieces which are more like chest attachments like 3 and reach had. They attach to the base chest piece. Both 3 and reach did have these pieces change color. A good example is the ODST chest piece. In reach it would change to whatever color you chose and still have a little black detail. It is just a chunk of metal slapped to your chest piece in Infinite. Same for the Collar chest (Jorge’s chest piece). It would change color to match in reach, but in infinite it’s just a massive hunk of metal.
The helmet attachments in reach were mostly black with various details. In infinite they’ve all been turned metallic grey chunks. Even the CBRN breathing attachment is now a grey metal pipe that attaches to your chin. Some are still black, but I’ve only noticed like 3.
But Reach did have helmet attachments that changed color. Such as the UA/HUL(3) attachments for the EVA helmet. And after just checking, the CBRN had a piece that changed to match your primary.
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks this. I mentioned this as part of my feedback from the flights. The idea of removing color customization to add a ‘pay for color’ locked palette system is bad. It’s even worse to charge people for a cool color combo and then not even let the armor attachments be those colors, or at the very least provide the option to. Like why would someone pay $10 for a color then Pay another $15-$20 to cover it up with bulky gray chunks of metal? Their thought process here makes absolutely zero sense to me.
I think it’s because of the dumb way attachments are assigned colors. Based on Jorge’s and Jun’s coatings coloring their respective chest pieces, it appears that every coding assigns (or more often doesn’t) every attachment a color. So it’d be way more work then it should be to color chest pieces. Hopefully they update things in the future. Maybe they’ll let us eagle eyes players have colored attachments in season 10 or 12.
It’s especially dumb with Reach where the chest pieces were literally designed to be colored. Remember how chests like Security looked like almost a completely different chest pieces in Reach? Well now when it comes back it’ll look like some metal glued to the default chest.
Reach armors are my favorites they took my knives from every chest piece and my body isnt right and the armor is set as the heavy version so im stuck with that but i got my air assualt helmet and hip bag and knee armor i want but im still waiting on my wrist armor and chest piece forgot the name its got straps on it and the knife is sideways on the front of the chest and of course im missing my armor coloring hope they fix that at least