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Subject: Halo CE marine armour looked ridiculous

Seriously, it looked like it had been duck taped together and was about to fall off their bodies

  • 08.19.2011 3:01 AM PDT

It looks fine

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  • 08.19.2011 3:11 AM PDT
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I quite liked the heavy armour plate style, hope they keep the same asthetic for CE:A.

  • 08.19.2011 4:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: Fin5434p
I quite liked the heavy armour plate style, hope they keep the same asthetic for CE:A.

I'm not sure if they were placeholders, but they seemed to wear the halo reach marine armor in the trailers.

I'll miss those guys.

  • 08.19.2011 4:41 AM PDT

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Those guys were feckin awesome, they had the Aliens look and errthang.

  • 08.19.2011 4:50 AM PDT

I agree. It just looks off to me. But in the other Halo games, the Marines didn't HAVE enough armor, especially in Halo: Reach in which they had extremely thick clothing, and barely any armor plates.

[Edited on 08.19.2011 5:24 AM PDT]

  • 08.19.2011 5:23 AM PDT
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Ugh, they looked like Tin Man.

  • 08.19.2011 5:30 AM PDT
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Posted by: BlueRuby2k10
I agree. It just looks off to me. But in the other Halo games, the Marines didn't HAVE enough armor, especially in Halo: Reach in which they had extremely thick clothing, and barely any armor plates.
I can assure you they had armor on, but, it was probably a futuristic type of the Kevlar we see today. It makes sense for futuristic unaugmented soldiers to use that type of armor instead of the armor displayed on Halo: Combat Evolved. The Halo: Combat Evolved armor looked absolutely terrible to me just to boot. (By the way, Combat Evolved is my favorite Halo, played it 10x more than any Halo, its rare that I hate anything about it.)

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  • 08.19.2011 5:39 AM PDT

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  • 08.19.2011 5:50 AM PDT

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Oh well its a FPS you dont get too see it........X)


MARINE ARMOUR

But yeah, it's just gonna feel wrong if 343 change too much...

  • 08.19.2011 6:48 AM PDT


Posted by: theboxmike
It looks fine

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  • 08.19.2011 6:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: BlueRuby2k10
I agree. It just looks off to me. But in the other Halo games, the Marines didn't HAVE enough armor, especially in Halo: Reach in which they had extremely thick clothing, and barely any armor plates.
Those were the Army Troopers. The Marines in Reach were heavily armored.

  • 08.19.2011 8:56 AM PDT

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343 have the classic botton, so that means we don't have to worry about the "Army" body armour they've put on Marines.

  • 08.19.2011 9:25 AM PDT

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At the time, sure, it was probably a graphics issue. However, comparing it to recent versions of Halo's marine armor, it does look pretty funny.

I think it just goes to show how far Halo's graphics have come.

[Edited on 08.19.2011 9:59 AM PDT]

  • 08.19.2011 9:58 AM PDT


Posted by: theboxmike
It looks fine

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This..

And they look just like the Troopers/Marines from Reach, and I thought they looked great

  • 08.19.2011 10:03 AM PDT
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I'm sure the CEA armor will look different.

Why the hell would a marine carry a piece of metal on himself,it will limit it's mobility around the torso not to mention it's heavy as hell.

  • 08.19.2011 10:13 AM PDT


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Posted by: BlueRuby2k10
I agree. It just looks off to me. But in the other Halo games, the Marines didn't HAVE enough armor, especially in Halo: Reach in which they had extremely thick clothing, and barely any armor plates.
Those were the Army Troopers. The Marines in Reach were heavily armored.


Even then, the armor troopers wore armor. It was just the bulk of the time the armor and underlying clothing was a similar, if not same color/camo pattern.

http://www.halopedian.com/images/c/c7/UNSC_Army_variations.pn g How can you say those guys had 'barely any armor plating'?(And that's not even all the variants/army trooper appearances.)

I agree with the post, having what looks like pure metal armor would weigh down and hinder mobility.

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  • 08.19.2011 10:22 AM PDT

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Probably just for extra strength concentrated protection at the known cost of limited mobility. Though apparently it's a cost the marines were not willing to pay (unless they're involved in upfront assaults like TaR and SC) since a lot of them forgo the heavy armor altogether in CE. It'll be interesting to see if they'll have that variety between armored and armorless marines once again in CEA.

  • 08.19.2011 11:01 AM PDT


Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Probably just for extra strength concentrated protection at the known cost of limited mobility. Though apparently it's a cost the marines were not willing to pay (unless they're involved in upfront assaults like TaR and SC) since a lot of them forgo the heavy armor altogether in CE. It'll be interesting to see if they'll have that variety between armored and armorless marines once again in CEA.


If I remember right, it's because of the rushed leaving of the PoA. A lot of them left the ship without their armor. Of course, one theory I heard was the armored marines were really the ODSTs, and the ones without armor were just marines.

  • 08.19.2011 11:11 AM PDT

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Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Probably just for extra strength concentrated protection at the known cost of limited mobility. Though apparently it's a cost the marines were not willing to pay (unless they're involved in upfront assaults like TaR and SC) since a lot of them forgo the heavy armor altogether in CE. It'll be interesting to see if they'll have that variety between armored and armorless marines once again in CEA.


If I remember right, it's because of the rushed leaving of the PoA. A lot of them left the ship without their armor. Of course, one theory I heard was the armored marines were really the ODSTs, and the ones without armor were just marines.


I'm fairly certain that a Bungie employee once chimed in that it was a matter of choice to ditch the armor. I say fairly because I don't recall who within Bungie said it, but know that within the Wapoint forums Vociferous relatively recently chimed in reiterating that to be the motivation for the troops on the Autumn in one of the armor discrepancy threads there. Considering that Johnson is shown in full combat gear in the opening cutscene, then later sheds his armor I'm leaning towards believing the whole choice thing to be the case.

Alternatively for the other theory it really doesn't (least to me anywho) make sense as to why regular Marines wouldn't have any armor whatsoever. More so since the concept of an ODST being discernible within the games had yet to exist at the time.

  • 08.19.2011 11:20 AM PDT

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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
http://www.halopedian.com/images/c/c7/UNSC_Army_variations.pn g How can you say those guys had 'barely any armor plating'?(And that's not even all the variants/army trooper appearances.)

Just a small input here; aren't the soldiers with armored boots (the armor outside their BDU's) Marines?

  • 08.19.2011 11:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
http://www.halopedian.com/images/c/c7/UNSC_Army_variations.pn g How can you say those guys had 'barely any armor plating'?(And that's not even all the variants/army trooper appearances.)

Just a small input here; aren't the soldiers with armored boots (the armor outside their BDU's) Marines?


Supposedly based on guesses. There's really no indication other than contextual clues as to what separates a Marine from an Army Trooper in Reach. The only time Marines are verbally addressed as Marines is in the Boneyard section of the Pillar of Autumn mission, and even then those particular soldiers look like they're using the Army character model. I PM'd Vociferous about it, and even he doesn't know if there's going to officially be a line drawn as to whether or not so and so randomized model (basically everything that shows up before the troopers seen within the Ship Breaking facilities themselves) should be considered Marines or Troopers, and if all the BDUs seen in Reach are available to both branches.

  • 08.19.2011 11:35 AM PDT

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