The Evolution of Halo's Armor Customisation
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Armor Customisation is one of the greatest features ever added to Halo, and so today, I thought we'd take a look at its evolution from humble beginnings, to a staple, beloved feature of the franchise!
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0:00 - Intro
0:57 - The Beginning
1:37 - The First Innovation
3:03 - The Beginning of Evolution
8:11 - A Different Feel
8:57 - The Apex
13:51 - A Step Forward, A Step Back
19:30 - The Master Chief Collection, A Journey In Itself
26:03 - 0 Steps Forward, 1000 Steps Back
32:07 - Redemption?
41:15 - Outro
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Kept you waiting, huh?
It was worth it
Still waiting for a time machine to go back to halo 3 Era of gaming
Alwayssss
I've been ready how bout you?
Of course we did duh
I miss the days of Halo 3 and Reach customization..
Remember when you were wrong on all of your infinite predictions
Yeah and heres a shocker. They had in fact ONE armor "core" would peeps cry they took muh customization freedom if say Reach had not only Mk Vb and all its parts but also Mk IV, Mk V?
Heck… even MCC’s armor customization is pretty good too.
Same dude
@@danielsan9850 yes it’s way better than infinite halo 5 too
The lack of ANY armours from campaign was the biggest stab in the heart for me. I still think we should have gotten Cheifs Mark 6 armour for completing the game in legendary. I should have looked it up before doing the campaign on legendary, I could have saved my sanity lol
Yeah, agreed on this. I wonder if they just thought that the Mark 6 would just suck the life out of people actually wanting to buy and armours?? Otherwise it just makes no sense.
The biggest stab for me was *ALL* the Reach armour being locked behind a paywall; from the overpriced regular store to the paid half of the Reach-themed battle pass (with the *entire* free side and half of the paid side being random crap and Mk-VII stuff).
And I still want to know what happened to the armour-specific markings and details on the Reach armour, they all look so bare.
They know fans will mass buy it one day, and money rules this god forsaken world.
I can get pretty close with the MK VII helmet and MK V shoulders and no chest plate attachment with olive green. But I agree I wish we got a legit set of MKV and MKVI armor
Mine was armor colors but that’s a cause that can’t be saved. Now it’s the FOMO.
From Reach having the best customisation in the series to Infinite having the most extensive storefront in the series. How the mighty have fallen.
The saddest thing is that Infinite is so close to perfection, but it fumbled the bag at the final hurdle
There’s a Rogue One quote for that…
@@HiddenXperia 'we were this close!'
@@HiddenXperia "We were on the verge of greatness, we were this close"
Cue Tarkin's "I told you..." response.
Halo is dead, just a husk is all that remains.
It’s honestly crazy how we went from simple colors, to switching to an elite, and then being able to fully customize our own spartan.
Then to losing the ability to switch to an elite, and then eventually to losing the ability to customize colours entirely without breaking out the credit card.
@@vegeta002 Very accurate
@@vegeta002 sad
@@vegeta002 it's fucking sad as shit. why'd they have to make it F2P? well, whatever. they woulda done it anyway
@@vegeta002 that’s not bungie, that’s not halo
Getting skulls with my friends in halo 3 so they could unlock it as well was 1 of my favorite experiences in co-op campaign. And for the friends who were quite competent in higher difficulties, we would knock out both EOD and Hayabusa in 1 run. Along the way i would show them various easter eggs too. When halo 3 odst came around, getting recon was the icing on the cake! So much content and memories were had when we chased these pieces of customization. Showing it off in matchmaking after a long days work was the payoff. Boy was it a perfect system! And dont get me started on how many times i tried to get a mongoose mowdown for those scout shoulders 😂 Finally getting it was so hilarious and exciting
"Piece of cake?" Bro, you're a certified BADASS if you managed to get Endure easy.
We all either was that friend or was able to get that friend online when people wanted to do a vidmaster/ IWHBYD skull/ duck hunt custom games/ rainbow road/ the goddamn fucking insanely nuts ninja courses that people built on halo 3 when you couldn’t lock a object in midair and them fuckers built floating maps. People real deal put in years on them games just to get complete garbage games years down the road. Halo waypoint we figured out that forerunners de-evolved humanity back to the Stone Age with that being said 343 De-Evolved the halo franchise as soon as they touched it.
Reminds me of a meme that went something like this:
-Games then: I finally unlocked all the extra content.
-Games now: I finally purchased all the extra content.
And this was in 2014. Oh, how much things haven’t changed.
Everything after reach can be summarized as
“It’s evolving, just backwards”
One thing you didn't cover (or maybe I missed it) was spartan gender/voice. Being able to choose your spartan's gender added another layer of depth to creating a spartan that was truly "yours". With reach onward being a good example of having physical differences between the two. They didn't have to include it, but they did anyway.
To think we went from that to 3 boring androgynous "body types" that don't even conform the armor pieces you equip on them.
Ah yeah, that’s true actually I forgot about that, agreed!
😆 There are no genders now 😆
@@UniUnknown Gender is in the mind not your type of body, or so I was told.
They went and made halo infinite “woke” and removed gender altogether to cater to non binary 343-Tards.
Infinites had potential to be the best customization the series had, just sucks almost all the armor is locked behind a paywall
Definitely not. We can't choose our own color palette and the armor isn't cross core compatible.
And no sangheili
@@praisethesun6078 343 says infinite is a spartan story and the spartan is you but you cant choose your color wtf, i just want to use my black and blue colors i always use and while there was the one from HCS that was black and blue it forces me to use the mark VII which isnt bad, but what is the point of doing events and getting attachments and visors if I cant wear them without getting rid of my volors, 343 just why!!!
@@praisethesun6078 He said it had the potential to be the best, not that it was the best. All you have to do is look at the designs themselves to see how good the customization could've been.
@@machina5 most of the designs suck. Cat ears. Neon Mohawks. Energy coming from your wrists. Stupid angel halos over your head. Stupid ww1 era armor IN HALO.
Even worse because half the time they're focusing on their new crappy cores. So mark 7 users have to go through a ton of bloat....mark 5 users are pretty much tapped out since they forgot to release all the reach stuff last season..
it's still so upsetting that infinite has the potential to be the absolute best armour customisation in the entire franchise but just keeps fumbling it in every area
not just customization
It's fumbling in every area unfortunately
Game has too much technical debt for any meaningful growth.
@@dom4591 art style and gameplay is right. Some weapons need to go for sure but yeah Progression & Customization wise a solid L. Especially the FOMO aspect.
@@evanmurray3974 I know bungie is some what at fault cause they created some of it. I say somewhat cause 343 been working on this engine for like 10 some years as well..... and they literally stacked the shit outta it. Fucking lazy ass devs
i loved halo reach credit system, THAT is the exact system we need in infinite, 343 can just make things more expensive and make us pay for more credits, or grind them
I’d be alright with that. Anything is better than what we got
I miss my blue Halloween fire ghost pilot helmet in reach
You nailed it, "this game is full of fantastic ingredients, but the way they were all put together is frankly terrible." I will never forget how rewarding it felt to strap on that katana in Halo 3 when i unlocked the final achievement.
Mark VII most sleek
Rakshasa most realistic
Mark V the middle ground
Mark VI gen 3 most tanky (easily Chief's best design)
Mark IV most sci-fi
I thought that the Mark V(b) from Reach was the most realistic.
My solution for Armor Coatings in Infinite:
Introduce a single "Custom Coating" to the game. This coating would be very rudimentary, only allowing players to customise like 2 or 3 color channels (Acting something like every past Halo before it).
This would then allow paid or unlockable coatings to feel more "premium" and justifiable - offering unique patterns, textures and materials to separate itself from the regular custom coating. I feel this would also encourage 343i to place more effort making armor coatings far more unique looking instead of like 50 versions of grey.
I second this
If it's between this and cross core customization, I'd take this any day.
I can see cross core being somewhat problematic with armors possibly clipping into each other due to them being designed with various styles and sizes in mind, especially with fractured cores.
Basic custom color coatings in addition to the curated armor coatings we have now should make a lot of players old and new happy, and should be less of a headache for 343 to implement (I think). Further monetization in color palettes for custom colors could also be done, similar to Warframe's system. Seems like 343 is listening to player feedback (to some degree), I just hope it won't be as long a wait like MCC had for players to get this level of customization.
My solution is to play mcc.
my solution, get rid of the shit monetization and let us customize our primary, secondary and tertiary colors like we always have been able to for free, because noone believes 343's crap about "curated colors". What they really meant was pay for the cool skins and if you dont submit you'll be stuck with garbage
Should have said this before it came out when they announced this system. It can’t be helped now.
I find it sad that the default armor for almost every other game costs $10 in infinite
Agreed
Welcome to capitalism.
@@CloppingIsMyThing Communism is better
Infinite had every reason to succeed in armour customisation... But it all went crashing down when greedy shareholders, investors, and Microsoft Executives decided to force 343 to increase potential revenue from the game. Nothing sickens me more than the idea that some people will always try to find a way to profit off of a situation, even in games.
well the game is free, what do you expect. They have to make the money back somehow
@@GUY-on-Earth they don't have to paywall 2/3rds of the content tho. And they said on multiple occasions that the OVERWHELMING majority of the game's cosmetics would be free.
@@Air_Pilote what content? it’s purely cosmetics and they give out free armor every other week/month. the game needs work, customization is the last thing we should be worried about
@@GUY-on-Earth If you don't understand shitty business practices then I can't help you. The game is free to manipulate stupid like you. There are over $1000 worth of Cosmetics in infinite. The game is ftp to double down on that to make seem less worse. The problem I have with the Microtransactions is that there is no balance between armor earned through gameplay and armor purchased in the store. Seeing Halo reach armor in the store made me sick to my stomach.
@@GUY-on-Earth sorry, by "content" I meant the customisation. Also idk if it's been a while since I played the game or smt but I have never seen 343 hand out an armor set (I'm not counting the default armor cores). And yeah the game is hot garbage with absolutely nothing to play but still, theres always been a huge emphasis on identity surrounding Halo's customisation and it is definitely not something that should be swept under the rug as "we'll fix it later, no one cares". It's just as much of a priority as getting forge, coop, griffball, infection, and all the other gamemodes out the door.
I remember the pure joy upon seeing Reach’s customization. Being able to make my Spartan look exactly how I wanted is what kept me playing. Infinite has so much potential, but sadly I don’t think it will ever be fully realized. 343 is so far fully committed to the full blown monetization style of obtaining cosmetics.
genuinely depressing to reminisce how *good* halo's customization used to feel, only to be hit in the face with reality at the end
infinite has left a bad taste in my mouth for a series i've loved for years
'Yo, hit me up with that new moss coating!'
'Sure! That'll be $10'
'Back in my day we had a whole pallet to chose from!'
'Sure, grandpa. Let's get you to bed.'
Finally, someone gave Halo 4's commendation system the love it deserves. Thank you very much, people often write off halo 4 customization and unlocks.
I appreciate your relatively calm demeanor in explaining the terrible decisions 343 has made. I can’t think about or talk about this without becoming very angry for what they’ve short-sightedly done to my favorite series.
I’ve hit the point where I just can’t bring myself to care anymore because I know the issue will never be fixed
@@HiddenXperia They will, we have to keep fighting until 343 realize they fucked up real bad trying to sell reach armor in the store. The funny thing is they probably could have made more money if the monetization wasn't so horribly designed.
@@sunburnnttt5605 I agree just wait another 10 years for 343 to fix things haha, on a serious note how do they still have the rights to halo?
@@evanmurray3974 nah don't worry they are working on it, just keep waiting
Man, I still remember when I got the Hayabusa armor. The only thing I didn't get was the sword.
The Olive Helmet was definitely Recon level status
Timmy was pretty awesome too and zero moneys involved
Ahhhh damn I forgot those! I don't think they were anywhere near Halo 3 Recon levels, but they were still cool
@@HiddenXperia there's super exclusive Timmy and Olive emblems in Halo infinite as well.. I know one of the Halo Moderators has the timmy one and idk how to get it 🤯
I find it slightly annoying that some emblems in MCC are off centered and in infinite some of the armor items and coatings got “vaulted” after season 1.
Don't worry, the former will get patched up in future updates.
Not sure about the latter. Foolish move, that.
Wtf do you mean by vaulted? Do you mean they’re permanently locked off now or something?
@@michaelandreipalon359 Certain Affinity was the one updating MCC, they’re now working on Infinite’s battle royal, so that likely won’t be happening for a while.
@@Slender_Man_186 Yep unless you get the premium version of the last season pass you just progress that by switching to it though I’m unsure if by doing so you can progress the current battlepass as a F2P
I still remember getting my last assassination before unlocking Venator in Halo 4. I absolutely loved it's progression and specializations were a really cool idea. They wouldn't work as well in classic/current Halo but I do like the idea of picking a particular armor set to work towards.
Dude same re: Venator haha, I grinded that helm so hard and it was worth every assassination
@@HiddenXperia I grinded the Commando helmet in 4 by playing like 600 Dominion matches or whatever it was (I lowkey liked that mode by the end), and my Spartan company earned Achilles legitimately. Neither were as great as anything in Halo 3, yet both were way more rewarding than Infinite. It’s a shocking state of affairs
The customization problem in infinite can be solved by doing 2 things:
1. Allow players to customize Spartans with no or little restrictions. I know some armour may look weird and it may have bugs but it would still be better than how it is now.
2. allow players to earn credits by doing weekly challenges. If you want to monetize the game, atleast allow us to earn credits besides the battlepass and from buying them.
the nostalgia that washes over me looking at the Halo 3 armor sets is one of best feeling ever
Man this trip down memory lane really puts Infinite in perspective. They did alot right, but also fucked alot up
Halo Infinite did a great job with the prosthetic limbs, despite everything else with the armour.
Honestly, I really like the base Spartan customization. The prosthetics, the body-types and the voices let us make Spartan customization feel just a little bit more personal. It's a shame that the armor/monetization system is a strong contender for the worst I've seen in a triple-A game.
@@TehCakeIzALie1 for the Mk VII armour core, I tried to make my own version of Commander Shepard from Mass Effect with the Scorpion Punch coating and other attachments. Here's hoping it'll improve overtime.
Thank you! Giving Halo 4 some actual credit for the customization for Halo 4.
One thing I should say is that I personally found both Reach and 4 to be the peak when it came to armour customizations for the games. I WISH Halo 4 gave us the MK VI MOD Chief used Halo 4. Personally, I actually liked how Halo 4 had no arnour effects, and I personally don't like how Halo 4 just got the Reach ones in MCC instead of unique ones. But this was actually a good video man
I feel like Halo 4 should also get more credit for being the only game in the series, that let you switch out some very major, but weirdly underutilized armor pieces. Namely the legs and the forearms. There is a lot you can get out of just those pieces, so I find it weird how none of the later games allow you to switch them out individually anymore.
I am very happy to see you talk about Halo 4's. Because while I disliked the removal of Elites, and the overall art style, I really think Halo 4 did the best job at unlocking armors.
Thank you for touching on the memorability of having certain armor pieces behind specific objectives like they did in Halo 3. I've never been as attached to customization as I was in that game because I actually felt like I earned the right to the armor. It felt so much more engrossing.
I adore Halo and have for such a long time. Unfortunately, my passion for Halo was awakened by the story of the Arbiter in halo 2. Over a decade of 343 neglecting to include playable elites has honestly caused my love for the series to diminish. I loved customizing my elite and Spartan in both 3 and reach. Not having a choice now leaves me feeling relatively empty with each new Spartan helmet I "unlock"
I like how haunted and hayabusa are non-canon yet they are sought over, unlike the TV show.
Reach still has the best armour customisation in my opinion
Halo 3 and reach were the pinnacle of customization. Infinite has good multiplayer but lacks customization and overall gameplay gets stale with lack of addition plus the pay wall on most things kills player enthusiasm so eventually they’ll drive away more players than they’re keeping.
Gotta love how, not only did 343 just hand out recon to everyone, but also made it impossible to have chiefs armor.
As much as people will throw shade at Anthem, they had the “coating” system down right. It was material based. Allowing you to change the different parts of the armors to any material you owned in any combination and allowing a full color wheel for paint customization. That’s what I had hoped for with this “coating” system 343 threw at us. Man was I wrong.
I'm very thankful that 343 fixed Halo 4 and 5's ugly armor customization by nearly removing armor customization entirely and charging $8 for the color blue, three times ♡
I feel like they could still fix the coating system without removing it. Maybe instead of functioning like presets they could function like patterns in a way. You equip a coating on your spartan at which point you decide where each color goes. Take scorpion punch for example. It's a 2 color coating so you'd get the option to pick one color for the arm and one for the body. By default every player has all the base colors unlocked like red, orange green, etc. In addition to these base colors you can also unlock shades either via the shop or battlepass, stuff like maroon, salmon pink, or pale yellow. Maybe for each coating you could also customize it's material, so you could have it look more metallic or plastic. This could give players greater incentive to buy coatings since it would mean they get to choose how that coating looks.
This
This
YES. FUCKING YES. THIS IS LITERALLY HOW TO DO IT. AND, BETTER YET, MAKE IT SO YOU GOTTA GRIND WITH THESE COATINGS TO EARN THAT CUSTOMIZATION. MAKE THAT SHIT PROGRESSION. AND HAVE THAT WORK HARD
I was so hyped when I found out how to unlock the robotic arms and Emile’s helmet.
I would have excepted the armor coating system if they instead affected the location of the primary and secondary colors we'd have control over. (EX: a coating that lets you change the color of just the helmet and the rest the secondary. Or another that lets you change the colors of just the arms as primary and the rest as secondary.)
@Jeremiah Rodriguez That's a really cool idea! I'd definitely feel like I got my money's worth with all the different color options for a pattern. Possibilities are endless! 343 messed up bad and missed that opportunity.
I just sat still and silent for 40 minutes, not even noticing that this wasn't a 10 min vid like most other vids. So this must have been a good video. Great work.
I remember being awarded Recon armor in 2008 when i went 50-0 in swat on Construct when my 3 teammates left at beginning of match
I’m fine with the fractures. I like them a lot. I just wish they weren’t some of the only free armors. They are so common now and that makes them less cool. It’s the opposite of what made Hyabusa cool. (Spelled that wrong)
Personally I love the Fractures armour so far but how little of it is available for free is so shit, Eaglestrike in particular feels like an event that exists purely to add more shop items
@@HiddenXperia good to see you posting Halo again. I just think the legacy armors should all be free and the shit you have to pay for should be the out of universe ones. The in universe stuff should be progression unlocks.
Man... I miss the Halo 2 and 3 days...
Good times. Reach as well.
Although recently I've been playing MCC just to unlock customization for Halo Reach & 3.
343i did a good job with MCC, althogh it took a few years go get there.
I think if infinite did the coatings similar to how warframe does skins for characters it might of worked out. For example you could have the default looking mk7 armor armor that you can choose the colors you want and you could have the option to buy a camo coating that changes the armor from its default look but you can still choose how the colors look on the armor.
I think a different aspect of Warframe is more applicable to the idea of monetizing player made coatings: Color pallettes.
If you scroll through the armor coating previews on the same armor, I see a pattern of the armor parts being actually split into individual pieces, each of which has a color, material and/or pattern attached to it. That in the hands of the players with color pallettes, material and pattern selections being monetized would yield more creative results than even Warframe could and it would still make 343 quite a bit of money.
I don't understand how they didn't see this potential.
The amount of hours and stress I’ve given to unlock Recon armor. I was never more proud in my life. Miss those days..
Remember in Reach when the multiplayer lobby had an Inheritor in it and you were like, “woooah” and then you scrolled over to see the armor? And that armor reminded you of how much more grinding you got left to do?
There’s 0 feeling like that in Infinite. None.
(PS - bring back Reach’s menu/UI)
Also the feeling that you earned something isn’t as present in Infinite. Idk why, but the battle pass just doesn’t give me the same feeling when unlocking things
You always do such a good job with the narration for your vid’s. Keep it up!
Reach will forever be in my top 5 games of all time i LOVE the armour customization
Thanks for using red vs blue in the ce segment
I remember watching my brother and his friends do the vidmaster challenges, one of my fondest memories.
I miss having fully customizable elite armor from 3. Also the fact they never bothered to try to build another mythical armor like Recon again still blows my mind, it was such a huge part of Halo 3’s customization appeal, and added a whole new level to engagement with the game that was unique to that one specific part of that game only.
I don't think I have heard a more accurate and well put together summary of the armor of Halo. Even having missed the Xbox 360 heyday, it has been one of my favorites, with a fantastic story, and as mentioned, the BEST armor customizations made available in any Halo game. (Minus the Elite armors)
My boys uploading a 40 minute video on every games armour? You know this is my whole evening 🍿🍿🍿
Reach has my fondest memories
Getting inheritor is still one of my most cherished achievements
A way to potentially fix Infinite's armor color problem: have a custom palette to give us the customization we used to have, and keep some of the preset palettes for those that dont have an eye for customizing colors (or for those that dont really care). BUT, keep the custom curated palettes behind a paywall, which can remain highly detailed and high quality (perhaps moreso). That would not discourage us from purchasing their work, BUT allow us to freely customize without having to break out the credit card.
If the armor material is desired for customization, we could have what Digital Extremes has done: Voidshell skins! Essentially, we can have Spartan Armor models with CUSTOMIZABLE sections, in which we can not only color them up, but also make them have a special material texture on them! Make armor look as rusted or polished, bent and warped, or even something not even metal, can make our Spartan fashion take a step in the right direction.
Of course, even IF they dont think Infinite should have Elites, you can argue that the Swords Of Sanghelios are still allied with the UNSC, so it stands to reason that in some Spartan training programs (Multiplayer matches), we can choose to play as a Spartan OR an Elite (even if it has Reach level customization for them, SOMETHING is better than nothing)
No one here probably knows this game that I’m talking about but, the only other game to “replicate” that feeling of Recon’s rarity and hype that I can think of is OG MM2’s Corrupt knife from 2014 to 2016, until the duplication glitch came out. RIP.
i gotta say i do miss these halo videos that were just talking about halo
I think halo 4 really was quite good all in all. Some gear was unlocked by levels, some were decided, some were achievements. That’s the best system they’ve had. Not the best looking, but definitely the best system.
I think the changes to armor over the years exemplifies one of the key differences between Halo under Bungie and Halo under 343: Halo 2-Reach’s armor looks like it was developed by gamers, while Halo 4-Infinite’s armor looks like it was developed by people trying to relate to gamers.
I remember getting that katana in halo 3 for completing all the achievements, it was so beautiful.
ah yes, the vid master challenges. 10 year old me and my dad went through hell to finish those, especially ‘endure.’ but it was so fun and so rewarding at the same time. miss those times
Good to see you guys uploading again! Can’t wait to see more content!🙂
Halo 4 armor was my favorite to unlock. Genuinely. Nothing made me happier than Ninjaing a trillion times to unlock venator. And when I joined lobbies with it on I would get comments on how they know I'll be 90% melee kills xD was a fun time and I miss it. Made me sad to see Venator handed out in H5
What a great work my friend 💫
Years ago I matched against a bungie employee on halo 3, it was a big team slayer game and before the match I asked “if I get my first perfectionist medal this game can I get recon” fast forward to me top fragging the lobby sitting near the water on Valhalla with the sniper & 9 year old me actually got it! I’ll never forget that & truly wish infinite had earnable gears similar to the halo 3 model. Some of my best memories
I think they should allow color customization and have the coatings for more unique stuff
And also loved that you used rvb for the ce part
The cool thing about Halo 2 was that the playable Elites had custom animation for when they had the Energy sword. Something i wished stayed a feature but it was badass
Man we need the operator helmet on infinite. It was and still is one of my favorite reach helmet
Always a pleasure seeing you upload something 😘 especially Halo stuff ❤️
God it was so satisfying seeing those credits go up to some crazy number after wreaking havoc in a match in reach. There’s just nothing better than knowing you’re being directly rewarded based on performance.
Man. I wish I was older when halo 3, reach, and 4 came out. I was around 4 when halo 4 came out, and I never thought about doing multiplayer. I wish I could go back in time and experience it myself.
Although, I had a great time with my dad playing halo reach campaign with our custom spartans
with the ACs in Infinite, lets say the green camo AC for example, they cudve release that and still allowed us to change the primary and secondary colors WITH the free colors that we been getting in past games. that way no two players can have the same AC color. itll be the same AC as the next players BUT only difference is that the players gets to change the colors of em to better fit THEIR spartan. thats where i think they missed the mark with infinite. Also they tried using the campaign as a way for us to go out and explore and i guess "randomly" find secrets , such as ACs, WCs and VCs but like you said, non of it feels earned.
I don't think it had happened at the time of writing this, but we simply cannot forget about how 343 dropped the price of the whole armor sets due to the backlash, only to quietly raise them back up to full price once the fans quieted down for a bit
From swapping colors in Combat Evolved to literally becoming an in-game celebrity with the Recon armor, this Halo journey was more epic than accidentally splattering an enemy with a Mongoose. Can't wait to rock my flaming helmet and confuse aliens with my impeccable fashion sense in multiplayer!
I think a more accurate title would’ve been “The Evolution and Devolution of Halo’s Armor Customization”.
Instead of Halo Infinite having colors locked to the armor color system, each color in the pattern should be customizable. For example, instead of Emile's colors being forced to the black armor with the red shoulder, you would be able to change the color of the shoulder and the base armor. This would allow so many options for players and the armor color/pattern system they made would still be useful.
I remember playing Halo 4 legendary to get the classic armor, then everytime I played Spartan ops some little kid would be like "Hey, it's Master Chief!"
Never thought I would see rvb in a HiddenXperia video
When he said "getting blasted out a Mac cannon back" I can't be the only one who though "Mac round, in atmosphere? "
Anyone know wat music is used towards the ending of the video?
Never talked about spartan stances in much depth. Maybe that was the point. Anyways, great video.
you know reach is the best when even a damn pink spartan somehow looks realistic and not ridiculous. Also there i had my sweet sweet military police helmet
There actually was something like the Recon armour in another game series, the LittleBigPlanet Crown, among other many rare costume pieces. The way you get it is very similar, you had to be a helpful community member or get a Team Pick on a level.
I have a simple fix for Infinites coating system that still allows 343 to monetize it. Make a “custom coating” that is the most basic form of polish, and simply allows the player to pick the primary and secondary color. 343 can then continue to sell/allow us to earn coatings that do things like have 4 or more colors, have asymmetrical colors, have different levels of dirt/polish, etc.
The Timmy helmet was another acception to the Halo 5 rule that you forgot about. 500 hours of Custom games required to unlock.
Seeing people w recon armor back in 2007 was otherworldly… felt like such a mysterious cult that was really unclear how to get into besides rumors
😱 Vid master challenge was a nightmare back in the day
Halo reaches was the best by far.
Honestly, I can live with Infinite for now, the only thing that makes me mad is that all of the free and paid battle pass coatings are scuffed up and covered in dirt and dust. I want the clean armour and techsuit that you see in the paid coatings and team kits, but not have to pay for them. I know exactly why this is and why it won't change, but I still want it.
Definitely liked the video because this is the exact comparison that needs to be shown over and over again to make it known how much of a monetisation and anti-player lead path 343 took with Infinite. An incredible success, butchered by greed and honestly confusingly bad design.
Halo 3 : HEX editing my spartans colors and emblem on the 360. Having an Ultra white spartan with inverted emblems that no one else had. Definitely remember getting tons of messages.
Then the first week of ODST release unlocking recon for about one week of legendary status
That Samurai Suit goes hard
used to play reach on xb360, without an internet connection, and unlocked all items in the game....
Damn I love this franchise🤩
37:30 there is *technically* match xp as has challenges that are 'play one match', but yeah they suck for the grinding... add in that the event week ones have to share the challenge 'slots' with normal ones, and only way to remove them is to complete or spend an item to force a swap and take the chance on it.
Halo Reach beta had the best hype I’ve ever seen. We all got ODST then waited for the beat all jumped on and fucking went nuts for like a week or two while it was live. And then we had all these expectations and they all held up to the point the day the game dropped we were using the hologram forge ball glitch to see all the new armor because we were way to hyped to wait for the grind we had to see gunginuir helmet.
Ok but what's the map at 11:04.
I've been wanting to play this race again.