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Posted by: switch 104 sv
Spartans are given standardised armour. Some missions may require mission specific upgrades e.g. EVA helmet for vacuum combat etc. For the most part Spartans don't have a choice. Noble Team have different variations basically to make them easily distinguishable in game. The canonical reason is that they each have specific roles within their squads and have modified their armour with tech that with aid them in these roles. Based on this we could assume that Spartans can request certain upgrades. I'd imagine Linda would have optic upgrades like Jun to make her more efficient. But like I said, Spartans don't choose their armour.
EDIT: It sounds like I'm contradicting myself. When I say Spartans don't choose their armour I mean they dont walk into a warehouse and choose whatever configuration they want. For the most part they don't change their armour.
They may request a more specialized armor for there roll, but its not one big mall saying "Heya Spartans! What armor you want? We got it all!"
Makes sense. Thanks, Switch.
(I went too quote your post, and I actually deleted some of it by accident, so I pressed quote again. The second time was after you edited, so, although my on-forum text showing your reply did not have the edit, the quote suddenly did. Haha!)