with everyone wearing the same armor, the helmet in the prologue makes you assume it's just some random spartan's helmet until you realize at the end that it's yours.
@@JPmax4ever To be honest most players would be jumping into the campaign completely fresh their first time around so i reckon 90%+ players saw the standard Mark V [B] Helmet their first time through, giving the same impression as this video... And with Halo being a very Story focused Game especially back then the amount of players that would have pushed through ranks before running through the first mission is very low
@@acua3 i dunno as the first image you see in the campaign im sure most people wouldnt think too much past it at first as just another spartan helmet... Depends how must attention your giving the game i guess
Okay, seeing all of Noble team wearing the MK V armor and helmets is something I never thought would be great to see. Halo reach has an amazing, more grounded military art style that I love.
@@Orinslayer he actually wears his Grenadier still in this, just everything is green. I take that as his own armor is specialized to be ultra heavy anyway.
and an equally grounded story/theme to match. i think this is the only Halo game where we lose in the end and its not a power fantasy where you're mowing thorough everything as Chief, the literal definition of plot armor. this game was depressing, realistically grim, and hopeless from the start.
this is why I miss the Spartan II's. The different armors and colors of SIII's and SIV's are cool in all, but the Spartan II's uniformity with just the olivedarb color and slight armor differences made them look so badass
I still can't believe how hard Bungie nailed Spartan helmets in the first game, Mark V legit has never been topped for me. Bulky, more simplistic looks are absolutely ideal for Spartan designs.
@@MA_KA_PA_TIE I absolutely agree. Opinions on Infinite's monetisation aside a lot of the designs in that game such as the Mark 7 (and non Spartan elements like The Banished, the marines and Forerunners) go back to a more grounded design philosophy like the early games and I'm very much on board with that
I’ve played the campaign a few times with my friends (because most of my friends don’t play halo and I don’t have many friends anyway) and I remember crying during every Spartan’s death and my dad just looking over at me like I was crazy. I also remember responding “YOU WOULDNT GET IT!!!!” I was weird… might explain why I didn’t have many friends. But while after every death I don’t remember crying again until the next except for Jorge and that line
I'd be interested to see them all in Standard Mark V [B] with a few class defining traits too as well as Mark VI as Mark VI was when Halo went from 90's Generic Sci-fi design to a more grounded approach with more thought put into the designs without loosing that original art style Because to me the Mark V while classic still looks like it comes from a completely different game where as the Mark VI bridges the gap and fits in Reach's Armory better
@@drunkvax how u gonna tell me my opinions wrong lol + bungie made the games hence the saying games always come before the books and u can say that a book was released before a game came out but bungie were actively working on CE and had someone write a book based on their concept
I’m so glad to see that there are others who agree that Spartans look more iconic when they’re in uniform instead of a mismatched variety of armors. It makes a more powerful impression in every aspect, and truly makes them feel like they’re the same “species”. It also feels special seeing so many of them since we grew up with Chief in his iconic armor being the “last Spartan”.
The mismatch variety of armors can make sense. Noble Team in particular is comprised exclusively of specialists who would need specific equipment to suit their jobs. The brightly coloured armors though? Nah. All greens, all day.
I think what's so cool about this is that you can still tell who everyone is by what they're using or the attachments on their armour. Kat uses the data pad. Emile still has his shotgun shells. Jorge is still bulky and has his gun. Carter has the commando attachments. And Jun still has his sniper.
This is what I wish the Halo tv show was. Just Spartans running ops in a small war story. It didn’t have to be about Master Chief, oh I’m sorry, Master Pablo
Honestly, Spartans shouldn't be the main characters in something that isn't a game. They can be characters in it, but the main character should always be someone that isn't a Spartan.
Honestly wearing that armor in the opening scene when carter tells you that he “read your file” and to “leave that lone wolf stuff behind” hits different. Especially once you’ve officially lost everyone and six finds himself once again a lone wolf surrounded by a never ending pack of wolves. Really makes you think how the Master Chief will face his end
Damn, the story on this game really slapped. Brought the scale of how bad the covenant war was into vision. It could be part-nostalgia, but I still get goosebumps from the cutscenes
Nah its solid - the fact we watching it over 10 years later and still appreciating it says it all. I didn't like it much back then now I think they couldn't have done a better job.
Everytime I read or hear someone saying Halo 4 has the best story in the franchise I get dumbfounded. Halo reach might not have the best gameplay but the story is the most rounded properly made for anyone familiar and unfamiliar to the Halo Franchise. Just the story of a squad, an alien invasion and them meeting their fates one by one.
@@LeoFalcon I think Reach does have the best gameplay in the series.. The sandbox is the most refined it ever is, the AI is the best. It is just inconsistent and the campaign is a little flat in parts and not as memorable.
I understand the retcon of all Spartans using identical armor for the sake of the player being able to identify them at a glance (not that it particularly matters here as NOBLE is mostly III’s) in game, but this is still amazing
I honestly figure the best way to implement both schools of thought is to issue Spartans adequate Mjolnir sets on a mission by mission basis. If a Spartan needs the edge in CQB combat, they'll have CQB armour instead or if they need to perform EVA duties, they have the EVA set with the built in -music player- AMBAC device, but most of the time they'd be using the standard set. That way, by swapping out pieces frequently, the Covenant still won't be able to tell which Spartan is which, keeping the Demon and Spartans Never Die myths alive.
Considering they were 3's it shouldnt be too much of an issue that they are wearing mis matched armour. Most Spartan 3's were only issued SPI armour, only elite teams like noble were issued Mjolnir, and that was usualy second hand sets left over or recovered from fallen 2's
Im just now realizing how much weight was in what Kat said at 21:36 Shows you just how intelligent she had to be to uncover all that information and keep it discreet, which is more than likely the reason Carter was able to read the entirety of B-312's file, which ONI themselves didn't want him to see.
People often sidesweep Kat's intelligence to meme about her death and hate on her driving skills, or just focus on the over sexualization of her (which I'm not too upset about seeing as this is a game with a primarily male fanbase). They fail. To realize that there was no system in existence that she could not hack into. She even invented one of the main components in the newer Mark V [B] MJOLNIR armor, which was a Bypass system that allowed for, in summary, more comfortable movement at the expense the suit's coolant systems. Every single crazy plan Noble team has gone on has been planned by Kat. Operation: Offset Eye, Operation: UPPERCUT, both were success (Kind of, for Uppercut, since they lost Jorge and it didn't really work.) Kat sadly doesnt get enough credit for he intelligence as much as she's hated for her driving AI, sexualized, and memed on for her death.
@@NobleVagabond2552I agree. It really helps distinguish them from each other, not to mention the fact that they just look cool. This looks neat too, though.
@@limewater4074I don’t think it’s a major problem that they showed off the customization options Reach had pioneered within the Halo series. I think they should have originally done a toggle option to have a “close to canon” look for Noble team, like we see here, and a “Reach Interpretation” version. This modder did an amazing job making the Spartans look closer to what they are described as in the books.
seeing them all in matching Mk V is awesome. We never got to see Blue Team or any of the other spartans in matching armor and it gives a good depiction of what spartan squads would’ve looked like in actuality
I love this. It adds realism considering how expensive and logistically hard it would be to equip and maintain Spartans with separate armor models on an individual basis.
It might fit the narrative of the books but bungie said even tho they like the book and what Erik Nylund did with it, nothing overrides the canon and precedent set in the games. It’s a smart decision cause you would want your general audience to understand the story and what’s going on without being confused. Outside of hardcore fans most people don’t read the books therefore if books were set in stone like the fall of reach then 75% of this game would be inaccurate and that would confuse and upset most casual fans, and the majority of halo fans are casual players. These are Spartan-IIIs so it makes sense that they may not be wearing the standard set the Spartan IIs we’re issued especially since noble team are all headhunters and are basically a special forces team level inside the already special forces nature of all Spartans
@@CantRead1 They're different stories, I don't know if I'd say either one is better than the other. I personally prefer the book, but you can't always fit a book into a game and the story made for this game fit the game.
@@CantRead1 I agree, I enjoyed the book but I wish the two could blend together, if they made some alterations where chief still received cortana at the end from noble six but he was not in cryo and chief still did some fighting just in different spots on reach than noble team. I like noble team and think they are a great fit in halo universe and it would have been cool seeing noble 6 hand chief the drive holding cortana. Maybe as a legendary ending imagine if you get a first person perspective of handing it over to chief the way the scene where the elites ambush you was in first person
2:45 I think it would of been hilarious if Carter already had he's helmet on but put's on the other helmet as a reference to Chief having two helmets in CE.
This actually looks really good and makes sense lore wise since the mark V was basically the most recent update to the Mjolnir armor of I remember correctly and it looks really uniform with it being the base with person touches to everyone’s set.
Kats death is such a good scene. Such a good game. It really was ahead of its time by mountains. The way that they keep tension through the bickering of the spartans and the intense music the whole way, only to be suddenly stopped with the sound of a gunshot, followed by Kat's lifeless body dropping only to be caught by Your Character, and immediately followed by silence. Silence that is broken by a single piano note, and Noble Six's first reaction being to get a gun and shoot back. The way the rest of the team immediately and without a sound pull out their rifles, fall into formation and shoot back as well, even though they know its hopeless, its just all they've ever known. The civilians begging for their lives after they saw one of the so called unkillable super soldiers get gunned down right in front of them. Carter's body language in the end while holding his team mate's lifeless body, the destroyed city in the distance, the piano, all of it. Beautiful. There are games that depicted the horrors of war far better than reach ever could, but reach did in it's own more subtle way. Set back after setback, loss after loss, the feeling of being powerless in a war that you can't win on your own elicits a feeling of dread, because while still being a spartan, your no longer the one-man-army Master Chief.
I think it may have been the people butthurt over how much of the game you had to play to get it. It wasn't cheap in the 360 era. Personally, I LOVE mark v. Shame then that it's probably gonna be 10 bucks in infinite.
I love the customization of Spartan IIIs in this game but this is so cool too. This is what I loved about the Spartan IIs and what would be so cool about them in person. It gets rid of the whole unique superhero reputation that Spartans had going on in 4-Infinite especially. It's not like "oh wow Spartan Palmer is here with her completely unique armor that can be identified and targeted from a mile away, and boom! Now our commanding Spartan is dead because the enemy was so easily able to pick her out of the group and overwhelm her." It's just Spartans. Some a little more heavily built, some carrying comms equipment, some with a lot of optics attachments. But just Spartans at the end of the day. No unique, wacky looking, brightly colored shit with no tactical equipment.
I like that Jorge is still wearing his grenadier variant mark IV helmet. It would make sense that since he’s the only Spartan II on the team his helmet would be older
There's just something so classic and stoic about the Mark V armor. My favorite adaptation of it being the Halo Wars Spartans with the Mark V Delta variant. Even in Halo 5, the Delta is easily my favorite armor set.
Reminded me a little bit of a Clan I used to be in Halo Reach, we all could wear whatever armor we wanted, so long as we kept the colors, emblem and tag
@Neko16gram Gaming clans were the best ones since they were always involving game nights with everyone and even try to bring in other clans to play custom games with to make friends that last for hours
Well only the those gaming clans were pretty cool but too many of those dumb serious clans that even try to force you to change your username which is super dumb
Love the original idea that they were given the newer armor compared to the 2’s who didn’t get the new armor until returning to reach, but I love this idea of noble team using the same armor as the 2’s with slight modifications.
this is already one of my favorite halo campaigns, and this is just a cherry on top for me. totally fits and adds an element of "realism" that the colorful armors took away from.
I adore this mod, though I wish the Spartans were wearing the proper Mark V instead of Mark V [B]. I like the unique armour looks that was eventually adopted, but I still have a desire to see this uniform apparel being used.
This makes me happy. I was never a fan of the blue armor because of how much it stood out. Always felt like that would make the spartans too obvious of a target. But the green shade definitely would allow them to blend into the local environment better. I wanna get this mod and play the campaign again. :)
BRO I GOTTA GET THIS MOD!!!! This is how they should have looked honestly. I get the different armors so that we could tell them apart, but this is how they should look.
Personally I’d let carter either have his helmet or have the Mk VI prototype with the uplink module since he is the leader. Maybe give Emile the up armor variant of Mk 5 since he could potentially use it to headbutt enemies in CQC
@@Lorenzo_I. I didn’t say CQB. I said CQC. CQC you definitely can headbutt especially if you have a helmet and especially if that helmet has extra protection like uparmored does. Just like how the Spartan pushed off the elite with his shoulder in Halo Wars. You’re not going out to do it. But you can. And since Emile is CQC and CQB specialist, he can. Doesn’t mean he’s specifically going out to do it.
This is how i always imagined a Halo Reach in times of Halo CE. But since Noble Team are S-III i imagined them with the same armor and different colors. Except for Jorge of course.
Six jumps the bridge after it explodes with no regard for the basic marine on the turret in back; the thing proceeds to flips and barrel roll - that’s hilarious - they should have Chief do that shit
I love how grounded this game was. The military focus, the heaviness/bulk of the armour, the grittiness and atmosphere is unlike any other Halo game. This is the best in the franchise for me
The armour uniformity with slight variations and modifications looks great. There's something really staisfying about the uniformity, and the animations are good enough that you can still tell who's who (though maybe that's because I've played the game 1000 times).
It's funny the way they do the helmets to get the right angles during the cutscenes. It's only when you add the Mk. V helmet (and specifically, the brim) that you notice just how much Emile looks "down".
It's a neat idea, though it's a shame some of them couldn't keep their more unique shoulder armor pieces. Like Noble 1's shield shoulder, or Jun's ammo.
The way that fucking Zealot tanked 2 AR's is so cool, the way he shrugged it off and ran without flinching is why this incarnation of Elites is my favorite. Cunning warriors.
I won't lie I love how they all have the same primary armor base designs with some key notes of the original but me personally would love to see them as a odst strike team
19:52 60% of UNSC Fleet to be deploy on Reach is actually a miracle! Just imagine all OTAN fleet being deploy from North Atlantic to Antarctica in just 48 hous which usually takes at least 4 weeks, that's impressive.
That civilian chatter after the glassing cutscene is horrifying. I’ve never noticed those lines before.. for 12 years. Damn these cutscene are beautiful though.
I think the introduction of the covenant should have been that cut scene at the end of the first mission, and the whole mission modeled as a mystery, Imagine how much more terryfying it would be to realise the covenant is here by nearly getting you head sliced off by Elite zealots.
Not gonna lie, this feels right. Seeing a Spartan II team being the catalyst instead of some random Spartan III team. Would have demonstrated Chief is avenging his fallen brethren. Not just humanity, but his fellow Spartans. Plus adds more intrigue to the vast lore of Halo.
The helmets could have stayed since it was common with the armor set, and Jorge’s Supplemental armor plate on his chest, shoulder have been black or grey. However Noble 6’s helmet was the only one that should be the Mark V Mjolnir helmet.
While I liked the original Spartan's individuality, I really do like seeing them with matching Mk V. I feel like this is the way it really would've been.
See, THIS. THIS right here is what Reach should have been. I believe Spartans should just be either ODG or grey. Save the custom armor colors for multiplayer.
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with everyone wearing the same armor, the helmet in the prologue makes you assume it's just some random spartan's helmet until you realize at the end that it's yours.
😥 would've been SOO much better.
@@JPmax4ever To be honest most players would be jumping into the campaign completely fresh their first time around so i reckon 90%+ players saw the standard Mark V [B] Helmet their first time through, giving the same impression as this video... And with Halo being a very Story focused Game especially back then the amount of players that would have pushed through ranks before running through the first mission is very low
@@xproflipscarab The standard Mark V [B] is your helmet though. So anyone playing for their first time could easily tell it was there's.
that would have been so fuckin sick
@@acua3 i dunno as the first image you see in the campaign im sure most people wouldnt think too much past it at first as just another spartan helmet... Depends how must attention your giving the game i guess
Okay, seeing all of Noble team wearing the MK V armor and helmets is something I never thought would be great to see. Halo reach has an amazing, more grounded military art style that I love.
Agreed.
Jorge is still wearing his old mk IV helmet from the looks of it.
@@Orinslayer he actually wears his Grenadier still in this, just everything is green. I take that as his own armor is specialized to be ultra heavy anyway.
and an equally grounded story/theme to match. i think this is the only Halo game where we lose in the end and its not a power fantasy where you're mowing thorough everything as Chief, the literal definition of plot armor. this game was depressing, realistically grim, and hopeless from the start.
@@jalakor also on most medias like comics and movies, they have different helmets but same armor
I liked the uniformity of The Spartans with slight personal touches alot like how the clone troopers are the same but different.
I got bad batch vibes from this matching noble team
this is why I miss the Spartan II's. The different armors and colors of SIII's and SIV's are cool in all, but the Spartan II's uniformity with just the olivedarb color and slight armor differences made them look so badass
Agreed
Great comparison and I totally agree. Really has the essence of the Fall of Reach art and other stuff like that.
Yea it would've been even cooler if they wore spi, you know the actual armor that most S3s wore.
Shit that covey sniper shot Kat so hard she went back to her original helmet
man this comment got me dying
@@kisamiorenai190 just like kat huh?
If you go frame by frame it actually takes away her whole head for a frame.
It's because the helmet gets a hole in it, which is a custom/different model than the actual helmet
@@seemslegit6203 dude
Seeing a bunch of Spartans in minimally modified armor just hits so good. Reminds me of the book covers.
I still can't believe how hard Bungie nailed Spartan helmets in the first game, Mark V legit has never been topped for me. Bulky, more simplistic looks are absolutely ideal for Spartan designs.
only thing i can say that looks better is mark 4 from halo wars 2 cutscenes
Its based on actual motocross helmets. Hence why its more believable. A touch halo has lost over the years.
@@elitescorpioyt2820 true. I believe the reason Mark 4 looks so good is because it has a lot of the same design philosophies as Mark V
@@MA_KA_PA_TIE I absolutely agree. Opinions on Infinite's monetisation aside a lot of the designs in that game such as the Mark 7 (and non Spartan elements like The Banished, the marines and Forerunners) go back to a more grounded design philosophy like the early games and I'm very much on board with that
@@kapkant6197 Atleast they had the wisdom to go back to halo 2/3 chief. They shit the bed big-time in 4 and 5
This mod makes it feel more tied into the Halo Wars/Halo CE timeline
...It's all one timeline though?
@@RedTHedge It is. Both of those games are canon same with Halo Wars 2
@@RedTHedge halo wars is first, halo reach and then CE
Halo wars 1 just had this weird vibe around it that made it feel more Halo than any other game
@@oneplayer4805not the first time travel happened in Halo eithee
“Sorry I came alone”
“Make him proud”
Still chokes me up to this day
Same when I replay that mission at times it just hits in the feels
I’ve played the campaign a few times with my friends (because most of my friends don’t play halo and I don’t have many friends anyway) and I remember crying during every Spartan’s death and my dad just looking over at me like I was crazy.
I also remember responding “YOU WOULDNT GET IT!!!!”
I was weird… might explain why I didn’t have many friends.
But while after every death I don’t remember crying again until the next except for Jorge and that line
I like this look. It makes the team seem more like a cohesive unit, and I feel like it's more in line with the lore from the novels.
i feel like a spartans helmet is personal so i liked them all having different helmets
I'd be interested to see them all in Standard Mark V [B] with a few class defining traits too as well as Mark VI as Mark VI was when Halo went from 90's Generic Sci-fi design to a more grounded approach with more thought put into the designs without loosing that original art style
Because to me the Mark V while classic still looks like it comes from a completely different game where as the Mark VI bridges the gap and fits in Reach's Armory better
No, the Mk.5 they wear works. Halo reach will never be in line with the novels due to how much lore it breaks
@@drunkvax how u gonna tell me my opinions wrong lol + bungie made the games hence the saying games always come before the books and u can say that a book was released before a game came out but bungie were actively working on CE and had someone write a book based on their concept
@@drunkvax books are a fun read but the games overrule the books
I’m so glad to see that there are others who agree that Spartans look more iconic when they’re in uniform instead of a mismatched variety of armors. It makes a more powerful impression in every aspect, and truly makes them feel like they’re the same “species”. It also feels special seeing so many of them since we grew up with Chief in his iconic armor being the “last Spartan”.
The mismatch variety of armors can make sense. Noble Team in particular is comprised exclusively of specialists who would need specific equipment to suit their jobs.
The brightly coloured armors though? Nah. All greens, all day.
All day, the different colours and different everything seems childish when you realise how military operates. This was amazing.
I think what's so cool about this is that you can still tell who everyone is by what they're using or the attachments on their armour.
Kat uses the data pad. Emile still has his shotgun shells. Jorge is still bulky and has his gun. Carter has the commando attachments. And Jun still has his sniper.
I agree all the armors look the same but they have there own personal modifications to them
Jorge still has a grenadier helmet though.
@philippeblais8594 The Grenader helmet is the exception as its a shielded version of the Mark IV.
This is what I wish the Halo tv show was. Just Spartans running ops in a small war story. It didn’t have to be about Master Chief, oh I’m sorry, Master Pablo
It's not Master Pablo, it's Master Cheeks
Asster Chief
Now is Fucker Chief(? xD.
Btw your Rigth, it wasnt really hard to do. But they want to doit in their way
Agreed. This fictional universe is too rich in lore and themes to be so fixated on a select few characters. So many other stories to be told
Honestly, Spartans shouldn't be the main characters in something that isn't a game. They can be characters in it, but the main character should always be someone that isn't a Spartan.
Honestly wearing that armor in the opening scene when carter tells you that he “read your file” and to “leave that lone wolf stuff behind” hits different. Especially once you’ve officially lost everyone and six finds himself once again a lone wolf surrounded by a never ending pack of wolves. Really makes you think how the Master Chief will face his end
They'll end the franchise before Chief is shown to die in game.
@@RedTHedge 343i: Hold my beer
Mister Chef will never die
@@SuperJibulus Here's hoping !
If he's now fucked someone for everyone to see, I wouldn't put it past them to make a lone wolf 2.0
I dont know if anyone has said it but the camera work is phenomenal in this game, its shot like a movie.
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Damn, the story on this game really slapped. Brought the scale of how bad the covenant war was into vision. It could be part-nostalgia, but I still get goosebumps from the cutscenes
Nah its solid - the fact we watching it over 10 years later and still appreciating it says it all. I didn't like it much back then now I think they couldn't have done a better job.
Everytime I read or hear someone saying Halo 4 has the best story in the franchise I get dumbfounded. Halo reach might not have the best gameplay but the story is the most rounded properly made for anyone familiar and unfamiliar to the Halo Franchise. Just the story of a squad, an alien invasion and them meeting their fates one by one.
@@LeoFalcon I think Reach does have the best gameplay in the series.. The sandbox is the most refined it ever is, the AI is the best. It is just inconsistent and the campaign is a little flat in parts and not as memorable.
@@LeoFalcon agree completely
@@LeoFalcon because it is.
everything in 4 is crap except the story
I understand the retcon of all Spartans using identical armor for the sake of the player being able to identify them at a glance (not that it particularly matters here as NOBLE is mostly III’s) in game, but this is still amazing
Wowowowowo wait noble team were Spartans of generation III?
@@tristanm4442 yeah they’re Spartan 3s and they were taken out their respective companies because of their skill set
@@tristanm4442 Except for Jorge. He's a Spartan II.
I honestly figure the best way to implement both schools of thought is to issue Spartans adequate Mjolnir sets on a mission by mission basis. If a Spartan needs the edge in CQB combat, they'll have CQB armour instead or if they need to perform EVA duties, they have the EVA set with the built in -music player- AMBAC device, but most of the time they'd be using the standard set. That way, by swapping out pieces frequently, the Covenant still won't be able to tell which Spartan is which, keeping the Demon and Spartans Never Die myths alive.
Considering they were 3's it shouldnt be too much of an issue that they are wearing mis matched armour.
Most Spartan 3's were only issued SPI armour, only elite teams like noble were issued Mjolnir, and that was usualy second hand sets left over or recovered from fallen 2's
Im just now realizing how much weight was in what Kat said at 21:36
Shows you just how intelligent she had to be to uncover all that information and keep it discreet, which is more than likely the reason Carter was able to read the entirety of B-312's file, which ONI themselves didn't want him to see.
People often sidesweep Kat's intelligence to meme about her death and hate on her driving skills, or just focus on the over sexualization of her (which I'm not too upset about seeing as this is a game with a primarily male fanbase). They fail. To realize that there was no system in existence that she could not hack into. She even invented one of the main components in the newer Mark V [B] MJOLNIR armor, which was a Bypass system that allowed for, in summary, more comfortable movement at the expense the suit's coolant systems. Every single crazy plan Noble team has gone on has been planned by Kat. Operation: Offset Eye, Operation: UPPERCUT, both were success (Kind of, for Uppercut, since they lost Jorge and it didn't really work.) Kat sadly doesnt get enough credit for he intelligence as much as she's hated for her driving AI, sexualized, and memed on for her death.
The uniformity makes this look 10x better. Kudos to the modder!
agreed prolly one of the best Mods!
I wouldn’t necessarily say better. It looks awesome no doubt. But I don’t think them having distinct armor is a negative
@@NobleVagabond2552I agree. It really helps distinguish them from each other, not to mention the fact that they just look cool. This looks neat too, though.
@@limewater4074I don’t think it’s a major problem that they showed off the customization options Reach had pioneered within the Halo series.
I think they should have originally done a toggle option to have a “close to canon” look for Noble team, like we see here, and a “Reach Interpretation” version.
This modder did an amazing job making the Spartans look closer to what they are described as in the books.
@@dylanjwagnerbut the game overruled the books no?
seeing them all in matching Mk V is awesome. We never got to see Blue Team or any of the other spartans in matching armor and it gives a good depiction of what spartan squads would’ve looked like in actuality
This felt like looking at the cover of one of the novels.
Fuck yeah
Jorge still has the best death imo (barring 6).
“We all make it sooner or later.”
I love this. It adds realism considering how expensive and logistically hard it would be to equip and maintain Spartans with separate armor models on an individual basis.
Found this video by chance. Such a simple idea but works so well!
this is actually more canon
It might fit the narrative of the books but bungie said even tho they like the book and what Erik Nylund did with it, nothing overrides the canon and precedent set in the games. It’s a smart decision cause you would want your general audience to understand the story and what’s going on without being confused. Outside of hardcore fans most people don’t read the books therefore if books were set in stone like the fall of reach then 75% of this game would be inaccurate and that would confuse and upset most casual fans, and the majority of halo fans are casual players. These are Spartan-IIIs so it makes sense that they may not be wearing the standard set the Spartan IIs we’re issued especially since noble team are all headhunters and are basically a special forces team level inside the already special forces nature of all Spartans
@@paulypauleypolly6417 lmao what's funny is the Fall Of Reach was the better story by a landslide.
@@CantRead1 They're different stories, I don't know if I'd say either one is better than the other. I personally prefer the book, but you can't always fit a book into a game and the story made for this game fit the game.
@@CantRead1 I agree, I enjoyed the book but I wish the two could blend together, if they made some alterations where chief still received cortana at the end from noble six but he was not in cryo and chief still did some fighting just in different spots on reach than noble team. I like noble team and think they are a great fit in halo universe and it would have been cool seeing noble 6 hand chief the drive holding cortana. Maybe as a legendary ending imagine if you get a first person perspective of handing it over to chief the way the scene where the elites ambush you was in first person
@@paulypauleypolly6417 that and also the simple fact that some of the armors that noble team had were technically in the novels.
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I think it would of been hilarious if Carter already had he's helmet on but put's on the other helmet as a reference to Chief having two helmets in CE.
This actually looks really good and makes sense lore wise since the mark V was basically the most recent update to the Mjolnir armor of I remember correctly and it looks really uniform with it being the base with person touches to everyone’s set.
Kats death is such a good scene. Such a good game. It really was ahead of its time by mountains. The way that they keep tension through the bickering of the spartans and the intense music the whole way, only to be suddenly stopped with the sound of a gunshot, followed by Kat's lifeless body dropping only to be caught by Your Character, and immediately followed by silence. Silence that is broken by a single piano note, and Noble Six's first reaction being to get a gun and shoot back. The way the rest of the team immediately and without a sound pull out their rifles, fall into formation and shoot back as well, even though they know its hopeless, its just all they've ever known. The civilians begging for their lives after they saw one of the so called unkillable super soldiers get gunned down right in front of them. Carter's body language in the end while holding his team mate's lifeless body, the destroyed city in the distance, the piano, all of it. Beautiful. There are games that depicted the horrors of war far better than reach ever could, but reach did in it's own more subtle way. Set back after setback, loss after loss, the feeling of being powerless in a war that you can't win on your own elicits a feeling of dread, because while still being a spartan, your no longer the one-man-army Master Chief.
I didn't realize i was missing this in my life
Man the armor looks amazing not sure why people hated the mkv
Edit: i take back what i said lol this armor is not underrated
Lolwut? People love the MK 5 armor.
Man this Halo is amazing not sure why people hated Halo
I think it may have been the people butthurt over how much of the game you had to play to get it. It wasn't cheap in the 360 era. Personally, I LOVE mark v. Shame then that it's probably gonna be 10 bucks in infinite.
Only issue would be the shoulder armor not fitting flush to the arms. The MKV pieces stick out too far compared to how streamlined they looked in CE
@@zatharos6427 thus the shoulders from Kat
Im actually surprised how much I liked their Mark 5 uniformity. Personally I had always wanted them in a uniform color scheme, but this is awesome!
This is so ridiculously cool that it instantly made me want to play halo reach!!!!!!!!
Red team (HW1-2) is the closest we've gotten to this in unmodded games, I wish we could have More.
The covenant were hunting Kat. She was so brilliant she couldn't be permitted to live even if they had to kill her dishonorably.
You realized half of noble was killed by zealots right?
nah nah nah
@@sledge7106 Six was so Lethal and Emile was so edgy/the coolest that they had to be taken down dishonorably as well.
Her cheeks were so thickk they couldn't permit her to live.
@@lemmingscanfly5 not really dishonorably but okay, their deaths were ironic every single one of them
I love the customization of Spartan IIIs in this game but this is so cool too. This is what I loved about the Spartan IIs and what would be so cool about them in person.
It gets rid of the whole unique superhero reputation that Spartans had going on in 4-Infinite especially.
It's not like "oh wow Spartan Palmer is here with her completely unique armor that can be identified and targeted from a mile away, and boom! Now our commanding Spartan is dead because the enemy was so easily able to pick her out of the group and overwhelm her." It's just Spartans. Some a little more heavily built, some carrying comms equipment, some with a lot of optics attachments. But just Spartans at the end of the day. No unique, wacky looking, brightly colored shit with no tactical equipment.
Seeing Noble Team decked in OD is pretty cool. God Halo Reach was such a classic
I kinda wish they had a setting in mcc where you could switch their armor to this, it's so satisfying to look at
I like that Jorge is still wearing his grenadier variant mark IV helmet. It would make sense that since he’s the only Spartan II on the team his helmet would be older
Reach had by far the best looking armor of any game. It looks so novel accurate and grounded.
There's just something so classic and stoic about the Mark V armor. My favorite adaptation of it being the Halo Wars Spartans with the Mark V Delta variant. Even in Halo 5, the Delta is easily my favorite armor set.
Reminded me a little bit of a Clan I used to be in Halo Reach, we all could wear whatever armor we wanted, so long as we kept the colors, emblem and tag
@Neko16gram Gaming clans were the best ones since they were always involving game nights with everyone and even try to bring in other clans to play custom games with to make friends that last for hours
Hell yeah. Clans were the best and actually taught me some leadership skills
Well only the those gaming clans were pretty cool but too many of those dumb serious clans that even try to force you to change your username which is super dumb
@@impactium_8508 They taught you leadership skills…? Oh god XD
@@KeepcopingBuddy To each their own 🤷♂️
Love the original idea that they were given the newer armor compared to the 2’s who didn’t get the new armor until returning to reach, but I love this idea of noble team using the same armor as the 2’s with slight modifications.
this is already one of my favorite halo campaigns, and this is just a cherry on top for me. totally fits and adds an element of "realism" that the colorful armors took away from.
Hands down one of the best campaigns.
One of the coolest things I ever saw my Spartan do in this campaign was sucker punch an elite in the face
Not gonna lie, the fact Jorge still has his own armor made me laugh. Like, you can't take Jorge's armor away. xD
Big man knows he stands out and he deserves it
@@ThelRiSycuseeit makes Hasley’s question even funnier. “What did you do to my armor?”
Jorge: 🤖🤌
So cool. Uniform colors look great especially with the more gritty art style of reach.
Very nice, like that you left Jorge virtually unchanged you know your lore well.
Well, it is technically MK5, just the G variant
@@A.Z.296actually modified Mark IV.
Well yeah you kinda have too since its directly mentioned in game that its been modified
I adore this mod, though I wish the Spartans were wearing the proper Mark V instead of Mark V [B]. I like the unique armour looks that was eventually adopted, but I still have a desire to see this uniform apparel being used.
To be fair, all of NOBLE (except Jorge) are Spartan-IIIs, and Jorge wears prototype armour.
They ARE wearing the "proper" armor, canonically.
@@tiocfaidhfinster6124 I meant the full production version of Mark V, not the beta variant we see here.
@@physical_insanity Right, except the [B] Variant is canonically accurate for any SPECWAR/Group Three S-IIIs on reach, making this the proper armor
This makes me happy. I was never a fan of the blue armor because of how much it stood out. Always felt like that would make the spartans too obvious of a target. But the green shade definitely would allow them to blend into the local environment better. I wanna get this mod and play the campaign again. :)
BRO I GOTTA GET THIS MOD!!!! This is how they should have looked honestly. I get the different armors so that we could tell them apart, but this is how they should look.
"where does he get off calling a demolition op priority one-" -Kat, moments before her mk5 helmet turned into an air assault helmet
She got the green smacked off 🗿
Personally I’d let carter either have his helmet or have the Mk VI prototype with the uplink module since he is the leader. Maybe give Emile the up armor variant of Mk 5 since he could potentially use it to headbutt enemies in CQC
I’d also let carter keep his other shoulder armor but that’s just me
Nobody is out here headbutting people in CQB, like what are you on about?
@@Lorenzo_I. I didn’t say CQB. I said CQC. CQC you definitely can headbutt especially if you have a helmet and especially if that helmet has extra protection like uparmored does. Just like how the Spartan pushed off the elite with his shoulder in Halo Wars. You’re not going out to do it. But you can. And since Emile is CQC and CQB specialist, he can. Doesn’t mean he’s specifically going out to do it.
Man lore channels are gonna LOVE this for videos of Spartan IIs
“5, 6 CLear the hole” still get goosebumps
This is how i always imagined a Halo Reach in times of Halo CE.
But since Noble Team are S-III i imagined them with the same armor and different colors.
Except for Jorge of course.
I don't know about any of fellow Halo fans but I really do like the mkv armor.
I couldn't help but laugh when Kat's helmet went back to the original air assault helmet when she got shot in the head lmao, caught me so off guard
YOU get a Master Chief! YOU get a Master Chief! EVERYONE gets a Master Chief!
I like to think that when you play halo ce co op it’s actually an alternate timeline where 6 didn’t stay behind on Reach.
Or Linda if she didn't die
Y'know, it makes sense George has his Grenadier armour. It is technically a prototype from the Mark IV (4), so it is possible he could have it.
Six jumps the bridge after it explodes with no regard for the basic marine on the turret in back; the thing proceeds to flips and barrel roll - that’s hilarious - they should have Chief do that shit
Her: you think you can handle all this
Carter: I’ve got the mass
🤣🤣🤣
This is something I never knew I needed. Love this so much. It flows so much better
Group of spartan II (noble team ) nice
Spartan III
@@PerturaBased duh spartan 2 man just for lore friendly armor they wearing 🙄
I love how grounded this game was. The military focus, the heaviness/bulk of the armour, the grittiness and atmosphere is unlike any other Halo game. This is the best in the franchise for me
Now this is Halo! Closer to the books/expanded lore.
The armour uniformity with slight variations and modifications looks great. There's something really staisfying about the uniformity, and the animations are good enough that you can still tell who's who (though maybe that's because I've played the game 1000 times).
Close your eyes for a second and picture Emile wearing that helmet from the multiplayer with the mister chief face drawing on it. 😂
It's funny the way they do the helmets to get the right angles during the cutscenes. It's only when you add the Mk. V helmet (and specifically, the brim) that you notice just how much Emile looks "down".
It's a neat idea, though it's a shame some of them couldn't keep their more unique shoulder armor pieces. Like Noble 1's shield shoulder, or Jun's ammo.
jun has the ammo shoulder
The way that fucking Zealot tanked 2 AR's is so cool, the way he shrugged it off and ran without flinching is why this incarnation of Elites is my favorite. Cunning warriors.
37:21 Blink and you'll miss it. But the moment Kat is shot. Her mk5 helm dissappears and is replaced by her usual blue helmet.
I won't lie I love how they all have the same primary armor base designs with some key notes of the original but me personally would love to see them as a odst strike team
19:52 60% of UNSC Fleet to be deploy on Reach is actually a miracle! Just imagine all OTAN fleet being deploy from North Atlantic to Antarctica in just 48 hous which usually takes at least 4 weeks, that's impressive.
Not Kat’s helmet becoming airborne when she gets domed
Helmet go brrr
Glad Jorge keeps his MK4.
Comments: "I like how Noble team looks like a unit.
Covenant after killing all of them: "Suck my unit!"
🗿🗿🗿🗿😂😂😂
Master Cheif: Fine. I'll finish the fight by myself
One of my favorite parts of reach is when the singular fart from the super-carrier turns the Grafton into the Graftoff.
Dude, definitely wouldve enjoyed this campaign more with the uniformity spartan armor
Same it just feels like it was meant to be tbh
It scares me that I almost like it more...
Probably just shows how iconic that armor is...
37:21 There's something eerie and beautiful about this oversight in the mod. Don't really have the words to describe it.
That civilian chatter after the glassing cutscene is horrifying. I’ve never noticed those lines before.. for 12 years. Damn these cutscene are beautiful though.
I think the introduction of the covenant should have been that cut scene at the end of the first mission, and the whole mission modeled as a mystery, Imagine how much more terryfying it would be to realise the covenant is here by nearly getting you head sliced off by Elite zealots.
Only thing that would make this feel more nostalgic is if the zealot elites were golden :D
Not gonna lie, this feels right. Seeing a Spartan II team being the catalyst instead of some random Spartan III team. Would have demonstrated Chief is avenging his fallen brethren. Not just humanity, but his fellow Spartans. Plus adds more intrigue to the vast lore of Halo.
they did jorge justice with this mod. "Big, green, and mean." indeed.
The helmets could have stayed since it was common with the armor set, and Jorge’s Supplemental armor plate on his chest, shoulder have been black or grey. However Noble 6’s helmet was the only one that should be the Mark V Mjolnir helmet.
I like how George is the only spartan II and not wearing the Mk V
I mean... the military does it that way for a reason. I like this a lot.
Would look cool to have each of them use their colors for their accents. But still, having a team like this is still badass.
Noble 6's introduction as a lone wolf was way better than the cutscenes Halo Infinite did for their "lone wolf" battle pass.
While I liked the original Spartan's individuality, I really do like seeing them with matching Mk V. I feel like this is the way it really would've been.
See, THIS. THIS right here is what Reach should have been. I believe Spartans should just be either ODG or grey. Save the custom armor colors for multiplayer.
Or ya know, just the entire adaptation of the novel.
@@jackcolson4745 YES. THANK YOU!!!!
@@dauntlesswarriorproductions112
Yeah you could say I'm still salty that Reach didn't adapt the book.
@thei rei I like that Jorge still has his grenadier helmet because it's still MkV but just the heavy varient
I know it'd be really outdated but I wanna see even earlier variants. The MKIV is a personal favourite of mine
51:16 covenant cruiser taken out by noble 6
I actually never realized that is the ship you shoot good eye !
Where?
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the music when cortana is revealed gave me such goosebumps man
Seeing the Spartans relatively the same with special mods like Emile's big ass shoulder knife and Jun's extra ammo is a nice touch
Thank GOD you gave 6 the grenadier knee pads. They’re the closest matching ones to the original ones from CE
I love Halo Reach. My first and favourite part