Armor customization

most of the known armor models, the Arbiter's armor is in there as well

Spartan and Elite armor models

Quick Overview

Originally discovered in the Halo 3 Beta code by modders, Halo 3's new multiplayer armor permutations provide high levels of player customization and were confirmed by GamePro's June issue^[1].

Bungie has confirmed that all of the armor permutations have no effect on gameplay.

Higher resolution screenshots of the armor permutations in action can be found at the Halo 3 Project's screenshots section at Bungie.net, as of July 2, 2007.

Bungie has stated that there are "thousands" ^[2] of possible combos, but they refuse to state exactly how many variations will be in the final product.

In the Bungie Podcast, it was confirmed that 2 of each player variant armors are given at the start of the game,speculated to be,EVA,CQB,Raptor,and Predator.

Spartan Armor Permutations

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An example of the customization.

MJOLNIR Armor - Mark VI
EVA Armor - Extra Vehicular Activity armor
CQB Armor - Close Quarters Battle armor
Unknown Armor - Unnamed at this point in time
Second Unknown Armor - Unnamed Armor at this point in time

Bungie has hinted to more types of armor in the June 8, 2007 Weekly Update. Also in June 22, 2007 Weekly Update: "Players were using different permutations than we’ve shown"

In a new update on Bungie.com on July 4: "The EVA Armor and the CQB Armor are two of the numerous types of armor available."^[3].

There were 5 permutations for Spartans discovered by modders in the Beta code; Bungie has currently conformed the three armor permutations, MJOLNIR,Close Quarters Battle armor and the Extra Vehicular Armor. It is possible that the "numerous" permutations as mentioned above is numbered at five in total. ^[4] However, more types of armor may have been developed or added to the game since the Beta's release.

Concept Art (Spartan)

This is a concept rendition of a new set of armor, unknown at this point.

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One of the new sets of armor, un-named as of now

Rendered Image (Spartan)

These are the images of the supposed leaked pre-skin rendered models below,

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MJOLNIR Mk. VI,Extravehicular,Close Quarters Battle, and the unnamed armor in pre skin form

the pre-skin form of the second unnamed armor "leaked" from bungie

Finished Image (Spartan)

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The finished image of the Close Quarters Battle Armor

The Extra Vehicular Armor finished image

Elite Armor Permutations

Though unconfirmed by Bungie as of yet, Beta code modders also found the following Elite armor types: ^[5]

Elite Combat Armor - Default Elite Armor the armor has strange symbols possibly Forerunner.
Elite Assault Armor - "Predator" or "Raptor" (similar to Ranger Elite armor)
Unknown - Speculated as the Arbiter's armor.
A fourth has been reported in the Halo 3 Epsilon build.

A couple of images of the Elite permutations exist below,

Finished Image (Elite)

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The Elite Assault armor permutation

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The updated Elite combat armor permutation

Customizable portions

Helmet
Body
Left Shoulder
Right Shoulder

Sources

^ "Halo 3's online mode offers new armor permutations that allow players to customize their persona's from head to toe." GamePro June 2007
^ http://nikon.bungie.org/bwu/index.html?item=140
^ 'http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12616
^ http://flamesoffeenix.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/revealed-halo-3-new-custom-armor-types/
^ http://flamesoffeenix.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/customarmorelites.jpg

[1] "Halo 3's online mode offers new armor permutations that allow players to customize their persona's from head to toe." GamePro June 2007

[2] ttp://nikon.bungie.org/bwu/index.html?item=140

[3] 'http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12616

[4] ttp://flamesoffeenix.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/revealed-halo-3-new-custom-armor-types/

[5] ttp://flamesoffeenix.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/customarmorelites.jpg

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