Armor customization

"Armor Permutations" is a feature in Halo 3, allowing the player to aesthetically customize his/her multiplayer character.

Introduction

Armor Permutations allows a player to customize his/her multiplayer character as either a UNSC SPARTAN-II or a Covenant Elite, and change between different helmets, shoulder pads, chest armor, and detailed colors (primary color, secondary color, and armor detail). All permutations are aesthetic only and do not change gameplay.

They were originally discovered in the Halo 3 Beta hexadecimal code by modders and were confirmed to provide high levels of player customization by GamePro's June magazine issue. There are "thousands" of possible combinations.

Armor Permutations are unlocked by accomplishments in either the campaign or multiplayer modes of Halo 3.

SPARTAN Armor Permutations

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All Spartan MJOLNIR Permutations.

There are a wide variety of SPARTAN armor permutations, with 12 helmets, 8 shoulder pieces, and 8 chest pieces for a total of 5,376 different SPARTAN armor permutation combinations: one helmet, two shoulder pieces, and chest piece per permutation.

Helmets

• Mark VI: Default Unlocked
• CQB: Default Unlocked
• EVA: Complete Campaign on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary
• EOD: Complete Campaign on Legendary
• Hayabusa: Collect all skulls
• Security: Get all achievements in Halo 3.
• Scout: Complete "Used Car Salesman" Achievement
• ODST: Complete "Spartan Graduate" Achievement
• Mark V: Complete "UNSC Spartan" Achievement
• Rogue: Complete "Spartan Officer" Achievement
• Recon: Bungie Employees only and selected few Bungie like/feels sorry for
• Flaming Helmet: Bungie Employees only

Shoulder Pieces

• Mark VI: Default Unlocked
• CQB: Default Unlocked
• EVA: Complete The Ark on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary
• EOD: Complete The Ark on Legendary
• Hayabusa: Collect 9 skulls
• Security: Get 850 of 1000 gamerscore on Halo 3
• Scout: Complete "Mongoose Mowdown" Achievement
• Recon: Bungie Employees only and selected few Bungie likes/feels sorry for

Chest Armor

• Mark VI: Default Unlocked
• CQB: Default Unlocked
• EVA: Complete Tsavo Highway on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary
• Hayabusa: Collect 5 skulls
  • Katana (Add-On): Earn 1000 out of 1000 Gamerscore Points for Halo 3
• EOD: Complete Tsavo Highway on Legendary
• Scout: Complete "Too Close to the Sun" Achievement
• Recon:Bungie Employees only and selected few Bungie likes/feels sorry for

• Bungie:Bungie Employees only

File:Elite Armor Permutations.png

All Elite armor permutations available (the Commando and Ascetic aromor is mixed up)

Elite Armor Permutations

There are a wide variety of Elite armor permutations, with 5 helmets, 5 shoulder pieces, and 5 chest pieces for a total of 625 different Elite armor permutation combinations: one helmet, two shoulder pieces, and chest piece per permutation.

Helmets

• Combat: Default Unlocked
• Assault: Default Unlocked
• Flight: Complete Campaign on Heroic or Legendary
• Ascetic: Unlock "Steppin' Razor" Achievement
• Commando: Unlock "Overkill" Achievement

Shoulder Armor

• Combat: Default Unlocked
• Assault: Default Unlocked
• Flight: Complete The Ark on Heroic or "The Storm" on Legendary
• Ascetic: Unlock "Overkill" Achievement
• Commando: Unlock "Killing Frenzy" Achievement (Still Bugged as of 11/2/07)

Body Armor

• Combat: Default Unlocked
• Assault: Default Unlocked
• Flight: Complete Tsavo Highway on Heroic or Legendary
• Ascetic: Complete "Up Close and Personal" Achievement
• Commando: Complete "Triple Kill" Achievement

Unlocking Permutations

	Body	Shoulder	Helmet
Spartan Armor Permutations
Mark VI	(Default)	(Default)	(Default)
CQB	(Default)	(Default)	(Default)
EVA	The Road (Normal)	Refuge (Normal)	Campaign Complete: Normal
EOD	The Road (Legendary)	Refuge (Legendary)	Campaign Complete: Legendary
Hayabusa	Collect 5 skulls	Collect 9 skulls	Collect all skulls
Katana	Unlock all achievements.
Security		Earn 850 G.	Unlock all achievements.
Recon	Given to select people by Bungie.	Given to select people by Bungie.	Given to select people by Bungie.
Scout	Too Close to the Sun	Mongoose Mowdown	Used Car Salesman
ODST			Spartan Graduate
Mark V			UNSC Spartan
Rogue			Spartan Officer
Elite Armor Permutations
Combat	(Default)	(Default)	(Default)
Assault	(Default)	(Default)	(Default)
Flight	The Road (Heroic)	Refuge (Heroic)	Campaign Complete: Heroic
Ascetic	Up Close and Personal	Overkill	Steppin' Razor
Commando	Triple Kill	Killing Frenzy	Overkill

Images

Human Spartans

• CQB-Halopedia.jpg

  The finished image of the Close Quarters Battle Armor

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  The Extra Vehicular Armor finished image

• MJOLNIR V Halo 3.jpg

  The Mjolnir Mark V in Halo 3

• Halo-3-custom-armor.jpg

  An EVA SPARTAN wielding an M6G

• Halo3 Spartan-pistol-01.jpg

Elites (Sangheili)

• Assaultarmor.jpg

  The Elite Assault armor permutation

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  The updated Elite combat armor permutation

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  An Elite in the 'Commando' Armor.

Miscellaneous

• DSCF0943.JPG

  Magazine scan of most of the known armor, the Arbiter's armor is included in this picture as well

• Halo 3 Armor Models.jpg

  Spartan and Elite armor models

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  "Recon" armor permutation.

• Modhelm.jpg

  MJOLNIR Mk. VI, Extravehicular, Close Quarters Battle, and the Recon armor, without the skin.

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  the pre-skin form of the E.O.D. armor "leaked" from bungie

• Halo 3 Customization.jpg

  An example of the customization.