Armor customization (Halo: Combat Evolved)

This article is about the armor customization in Halo: Combat Evolved. For other games, see armor customizations.

A Spartan with customised blue armour, and green visor, in Halo: CE's MCC port.

Armor customization in Halo: Combat Evolved allows a player to change the colour of their armour, and in MCC only, customise the colour of their helmet visor too. Unlike later armour customisation systems, the player cannot change their physical armour model in Halo: CE, or assign a secondary or tertiary armour colour.

Colours

Armour colour customisation has existed in CE since its initial release on the Xbox in 2001, and has remained unchanged since. It allows players to pick the colour of their entire armour set, with the exception of the undersuit and certain sections of the bracers and greaves, which will remain black regardless of colour choice. Unlike later games, no secondary or tertiary armour colours are available; the entire armour will be coated in a single colour. The set of colours available has not changed between any of the ports, remasters and rereleases of the game.

A total of 18 colours are available for use in CE:

Armour colours v • d • e
Icon	Image	Name	Unlock Requirements
		Black	Unlocked by default
		Red	Unlocked by default
		Blue	Unlocked by default
		Gray (Grey MCC)	Unlocked by default
		Yellow	Unlocked by default
		Green	Unlocked by default
		Pink	Unlocked by default
		Purple	Unlocked by default
		Cyan	Unlocked by default
		Cobalt (Light Blue MCC)	Unlocked by default
		Orange	Unlocked by default
		Teal (Lapis Lazuli MCC)	Unlocked by default
		Sage (Forest Green MCC)	Unlocked by default
		Brown	Unlocked by default
		Tan	Unlocked by default
		Maroon (Cherry MCC)	Unlocked by default
		Salmon	Unlocked by default
		White	Unlocked by default

^MCC Colour names that were used by MCC at launch, before later being updated to match the original CE names.

Visors

On the 13^th of June 2020, alongside the launch of Series 2: Spark for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, 343 Industries retroactively added the ability to customise the player's helmet visor colour, first introduced in Halo: Reach, into the MCC port of Halo: CE. This was alongside a larger update to MCC CE's cosmetic customisation options, which also added weapon and vehicle skins. To allow players to experience the game as it originally released, a toggle was implemented that allows players to hide all new skins and visors and show only those customisation options that were available at the launch of the original game. These options are specific to MCC CE, and do not exist in CE on Xbox, its original PC and Mac ports, or the Xbox 360 remaster, Halo: CE Anniversary.

A total of 30 visors were added, making for a total of 31 including the default visor (which remains unchanged from the original game):

Visor colours v • d • e
Icon	Image	Name	Description	Unlock requirements
-		Default	-	Unlocked by default
		Blue	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 1 ( 1)
		Dark Blue	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 5 ( 1)
		Green	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 7 ( 1)
		Dark Green	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 12 ( 1)
		Purple	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 15 ( 1)
		Bronze	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 19 ( 1)
		Dark Purple	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 22 ( 1)
		Red	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 24 ( 1)
		Yellow	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 28 ( 1)
		Orange	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 33 ( 1)
		Dark Yellow	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 38 ( 1)
		Pastel Blue	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 40 ( 1)
		Silver	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 44 ( 1)
		Dark Red	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 47 ( 1)
		Pastel Green	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 50 ( 1)
		Dark Orange	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 53 ( 1)
		Pearlescent Yellow	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 57 ( 1)
		Platinum	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 60 ( 1)
		Pastel Orange	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 63 ( 1)
		Pearlescent Red	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 66 ( 1)
		Spectrum	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 70 ( 1)
		Pearlescent Purple	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 72 ( 1)
		Pastel Purple	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 75 ( 1)
		Pearlescent Orange	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 78 ( 1)
		Groovy	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 81 ( 1)
		Pearlescent Green	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 85 ( 1)
		Pastel Red	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 89 ( 1)
		Pastel Yellow	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 93 ( 1)
		Pearlescent Blue	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 96 ( 1)
		Onyx	Part of a suite of experimental VISR enhancements.	Series 2, Tier 100 ( 1)

Gallery

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  An unused colour selection image extracted from the files of CE, perhaps indicating that a random colour option was once going to be available.