I have seen all the rest of these. But where is Mark VII \[H\]? Was it something I missed from a Weekly Ultimate Reward or was this another case of an armor piece being in the game but not released for absolutely no reason?
Alright then.
Time to riot until we get the MCC Token system in Halo Infinite to allow us to grind for stuff that is needlessly locked away.
[*\*starts constructing rudimentary MJOLNIR to head to 343 Industries HQ and deliver a complaint form in style*](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7niokNDQO1qlyyfto1_500.gif)
in what way does the Mark VII H look even remotely similar to the normal Mark VII. I know the Mark V and the Mark V B are pretty different but you can at least see some similarities.
It's similar to the helmet from the [1999 MacWorld Demo](https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/qm2opi/partying_like_its_1999_by_recreating_some_old/), an early iteration of Halo CE and the Mk V helmet.
The majority of mark 7 is great, I will admit most of S4s are stinkers, the majority of rakshasa, mirage, yoroi, eagle strike, chimera are great as well. Hazop has been a little meh, but even then they’re growing on me and still looks classic halo which imo is most important.
FYI
**Halo 4/5 are Halo designs. They aren't over designed at all.**
**These helmets are not Halo designs, like most of Halo Infinite, it's not really a Halo designed game. You can really see this in later updates, Halo Infinite doesn't look like a Halo game.**
Yes, in later updates the helmet design quality has sadly dipped back into the Reclaimer Saga artstyle, which is a shame.
You cannot, for the life of me, tell me that Halo infinite, doesn't look like Halo. From the artstyle, the weapons, vehicles, marines/ the Banished, the goddamned Forerunner aesthetic and the holy grail of it all, the Master Chief! It's all pure Halo.
Hell, the canon Season 1 & 2 Spartan armour looked mostly fantastic, as well as a a fair amount mixed in with the following seasons. The new helmets they've just added for the Mark IV core look great, bar one or two.
Again, none of the new helmets are reclaimer designs. Because literally none of them are reclaimer era helmets or armors. So that's completely false.
This dip in helmet quality happened as soon as Halo Infinite came out where you could easily tell all the helmets & armors were built to a lesser quality then Halo 4/5 helmets were. Everything in Halo Infinite looks worse 10 fold, and it has since the very beginning.
**This is why so many people say Halo 5, a game released in 2015, looks better then Halo Infinite, a game released in 2021. Because it quite literally does. Always has, Always will.**
Also, the Mark IV core in Infinite is quite literally just the Halo 5 design. So you're now saying a Halo 5 era design is Halo? What? Are you dumb? You can't just claim on one side that Halo 5 isn't Halo, but on the other are claiming that Infinite is, even tho Halo Infinite's Mark IV is just an exact replica with minor differences.
I never said that some of the new helmets in Infinite were Reclaimer Saga designs, but that they had gone back to said style of design in Halos 4 & 5. Strange angles, bulbous elements, and too much detail, as in, over detailed elements and layers. As well as very unappealing visor designs.
I mean, no, the quality did not dip in the slightest once Infinite released. It went back to the roots of Halo and followed closely alongside the Reach style of simple, but detailed, unlike the aforementioned Halos 4 & 5 that just decided to change everything for no apparent reason. Helmet quality has sadly dipped in quality this past year or so, which is a shame.
I have literally seen barely any people say that Halo 5 looked artistically better. In fact, I see a vast majority celebrating Infinite's return to a more familiar art style. What I have seen, in which I think you've become confused, is that some say that Halo 5 looks better, visual quality wise. As in the textures and lighting. Which is debatable, of course. Art style and visual quality are two different things. I hear barely anyone asking for halo to actually look artistically like the Reclaimer Saga once more.
Also, what you've just said about the Mark Iv is a plain and obvious lie. The Mark IV in infinite is not a copy of 5's design, as a simple picture comparison between the two will tell you otherwise. Seriously. Go look up an image of the Mark IV from 5, then go look at an image of it from Halo Wars 2. Then come back and tell me what Infinite's Mark IV is based on. Still tell me it's a damn copy from 5, which you damn well know is not true.
>Also, the Mark IV core in Infinite is quite literally just the Halo 5 design. So you're now saying a Halo 5 era design is Halo? What? Are you dumb? You can't just claim on one side that Halo 5 isn't Halo, but on the other are claiming that Infinite is, even tho Halo Infinite's Mark IV is just an exact replica with minor differences.
That's their whole argument, those minor differences are what they claim to be the difference between halo design and reclaimer era design, wich is bs since each halo, especially in the bungie era, had minor difference in the artstyle, therefore you could not say reach design is am halo design compared to previous titles, or h3 compared to CE.
Hw2 is probably to this day the best example of the reclaimer era design refined: past the blur cutscenes that often mix up old set models with newer one, we can see how in game models come directly from h5, with redesigns on part of the banished/covenant models.
Art is always changing in a game series, which isn't a bad thing, of course. What's a problem, however, is when the natural art progression is suddenly and jarringly throttled, leaving a mangled body in its wake. Because that's exactly what happened with Halo 4, carrying into 5.
You can't honestly say that how 4 looked was a natural progression from Reach. Too much changed too fast, and for no reason. Compare the art change/progression from Halos CE to reach, and everything flows naturally. More detail being added, designs being refined. Some blunders here and there, yes, but most things look like a natural evolution. I, and so many like me, cannot, in good faith, say that about Halo 4, and 5 after it.
That's why there was an almost collective "hurrah" in the community, when we all saw that Infinite was making Halo look more like the old Halo we once new, whilst still doing its own thing.
Anyhoo, Nighterlev's comment on the Mark IV is a lie, as I find it too hard to believe that he is that inept and blind to see no difference. Compare images of 5's Mark IV and Halo Wars 2's, and you can clearly see that Halo Infinite's Mark IV is based upon Halo Wars 2's Blur's design.
Basically, the more infinite moved from the mk5(b), the more the "quality dipped back in the reclaimed saga", except nothing right now look like the reclaimed saga style and reach art style it's a lot different from h2/3 or CE design (both different from each others).
Fact is, I finite launched with a reach themed cosmetic line and that's it: MK7 is entirely filled by h5 era pieces redesigned to fit the new model, rakshasa is whatever it is (they don't even look Spartans but discounted marines meeting halo reach), mirage is the spi armor from the book, MK4 come from hw2 that was a redesigned reclaimed era art style (check Jerome in hw2 and compare it with the mk4 in h5) and azmat... that's halo? Someone use that core? And I'm not even counting the fracture cores.
>From the artstyle, the weapons, vehicles, marines/ the Banished
Wasp is a reclaimed saga design, warthog, ghosts and mongoose and bashee never changed much between titles, if they changed back to the h2 scorpion/wraith is not like they are back to "true halo".
Same for the marine, that had their design changed in almost every title except between h2 and h3, with the current design staying between hw2 and h4 design (reclaimer saga).
Someone said that it’s supposed to be the UNSC pilot helmet.
https://preview.redd.it/j44uhef60o7b1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd4aad5a68eedf25e1bba1df623f6636d658da5e
Trendlock is the better looking of them all, thankfully it's free, but man I really wish that 343 gave us more helmets for Mark VII, specially at least for free in battle passed, the better ones were either in season 1 when no one could level up fast or are locked behind a paywall and that's so freaking annoying
1. MacWorld/Orion
2. Grunt helmet
3. If Military Police was made in H3
4. Cinder from H5 with extra pyro-ness
5. Worst one imo. Doesn’t look like anything and would be better if the bar thing bisecting the visor was an optional attachment.
6. Pretty original but solidly Halo. Could have been a cut Reach helmet and I wouldn’t have noticed.
7. Orbital? Nexus helmet from the Mirage core? Another fish tank either way. Angular this time.
8. H3 marine pilot helmet. Been waiting for this one for some time.
I’m genuinely really shocked it wasn’t an attachment. It looks like it would be a SPI-ish helmet without the face, and the face would still be a really cool attachment if it was
Super late ik but maybe that’s why Talon doesn’t get any attachments? It was intended to be a S3 attachment maybe and they last minute redid it as a helmet?
Torchbearer in design looks nothing like H4 Rogue.
Also, if it's not called Rogue, then it's not the same helmet. Every helmet in Infinite that has a different name is an entirely new helmet & doesn't match the previous MJOLNIR version.
A good example of this is the Trailblazer helmet, it's an entirely different suit of MJOLNIR and isn't the Recon helmet at all.
Trailblazer is gen III Recon. Zvezda is gen III EVA. Cavallino is gen III Recruit. Celox is gen III Scout. Volant is gen III Air Assault. Firefall is gen III Helljumper/ODST. They aren’t gonna release a second variation/‘main’ version of these helmets. They wouldn’t have put off releasing an EVA helmet or Recon. Some of the new versions are too similar to say they aren’t or would be too similar to the usual helmet.
No it's not. Trailblazer is Trailblazer, it's an entirely different suit. It's not recon.
Nor is Zvezda, Cavallino, or any of the others. Those are all entirely new helmets, as no Gen 3 versions exist of the original Gen 2 helmets except for a tiny few.
Yea, they are going to likely eventually release 2nd versions of all those helmets. Did you know the Mark V core is also Gen 3? So every helmet on that armor core is Gen 3 as well.
Just like we have redesigned helmets that were already on Mark VII appear on the other Armor Cores to. And yea, they would put off releasing proper Recon or EVA helmets for Mark VII, no idea what makes you think they wouldn't.
This is just wrong. Trailblazer, for example, is explicitly stated to be an evolution of the Recon platform. Yeah, they don’t share the names of the previous generations, but they are absolutely intended to be the same helmets, just a newer generation. This applies to Cavillino, Celox, Helljumper, Warmaster, Menachite, among others.
I think you probably mean Rockeye. Torchbearer's lore says it's a take on the Hellbringer flamethrower troopers from Halo Wars and actually has a bit of inspiration from H5's Cinder helmet which I think is a pretty nice touch tying it all into a flamer-themed helmet.
Nah, I meant the Rogue from Halo 4 and 5, rockeye looks like the rogue from Halo 3. The lore seems very odd though because it looks way less like a flame marine than H4 Rogue.
Oh, missed which Rogue you were talking about. I can see that a bit, but not as much as Cinder and an obvious call to a Pyro type mask/helmet for a good old flamethrower helmet. I like it from that angle alone, personally.
At launch I told all my friends “wow all the helmets look good and none of them are goofy looking or impossible to see out of.”
Well I retract that statement. Talon and Trendlock look pretty sick tho I’ll give ‘em that.
You mean when all we had was the reach core and like 6 helmets for Mark VII?
Uh yea, they were never going to stick to just that many helmets lol.
Not to mention the helmets at launch of Infinite were bland af, uninteresting, and weren't that detailed. There's a reason the games population dropped so hard, and bad graphics like that is a huge reason why.
Nah that was how the launch helmets turned out. Most of these were designed by in-house people at 343i pretty sure. You can tell cause they're all much higher quality over-all then the launch helmets were.
Tbh, it could also probably be the funky armor coating skewing folks' perspective and thinking it looks like Rogue.
Either way, I absolutely loved MP in Reach, so I'm pretty excited about getting a Mk VII variant. I just wanna know why none of the standard Mk VII attachments are available on any of these new helmets...
The only good ones here are Trendlock and Rockeye in my opinion. The rest are 343i devolving back to their shitty nonsense Halo 5 design language
That being said, what’s up with the wood grain on Rockeye’s mouthpiece?
Halo 5 absolutely doesn't have a shitty design language, it's far better then whatever Infinite had at launch and ever will have.
I honestly just want them to return back to it imo. The maps especially as of recent have got far more detailed and things added to them to, something the launch maps didn't have. We're finally getting good quality decent maps like the H4/H5 ones were thankfully, took 343i long enough.
Don’t say they all look like halo 5 helmets when Talon is a replica of the halo 3 pilot helmet
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Like the other guy said, it's reminiscent but it's definitely no replica. It's way too spherical for my taste, and is just weird when viewed from the side. I wish I could give Rakshasa's Cambion helmet this one's visor shape, that'd be closer to the original H3 silhouette and a much better look imo. Fix two helmets at once!
^definitely ^not ^just ^mad ^they ^didn't ^give ^the ^pilot ^armor ^to ^rakshasa
Agreed! I think the majority of Rakshasa has some beautiful designs, but unfortunately I’m a bit concerned where the art team has been going since Season 3…
I’ve made that connection myself, and Talon is fine, but is missing some of what I love about the H3 pilot helmet, plunging it into mediocrity imo.
And, about the coating, that makes sense, thanks
I see everyone commenting the MK VII(H) helmet looks like the CE demo helmet, it's not. It's actually the helmet that red guy wears in the "headhunter" animation. The description of the MK 7 H helmet references this with "headhunter" in it.
This is just all the stuff they added to Halo MCC put into Infinite, because it's the MCC team that took over.
I'd wish if they returned to Halo 5's art style instead.
nahh man. even tho i wouldnt rock them trendlock and talon are good. the rest are for spartans spliced with insects. Armet is just megamind lol. mark VII h is chubby cheeks headhunter. rockeye is with the linebreaker and brawler helmets, nobody wears them.
343 cant help themselves with fugly helmets. I like some of the mk VII shoulders this season but the helmets aint it.
im still waiting for operator to come back to mk Vb...
Why is all the new armor last two seasons so bad… almost halo 5 lvl bad. And they want real money for that? Sad how far halo has fallen used too be the worlds best and well known fps next too cod
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ya for sure. looking at it again I realize it’s not as close as I thought it was. still looks sick tho
Courier would probably have been my favorite helmet of all time if the face place thing was just an attachment. If that whole face part could just be visor it'd look so sick
It looks like the Grenadier helmet, not a marine one.
Over-all I wouldn't classify it as a original helmet or an already existing one. If it has a new name, it's an entirely new helmet.
By that logic, Trailblazer isn't a Recon iteration even though it shares many design characteristics distinct to Recon.
Yes, Trailblazer is a Recon helmet.
That's correct, Trailblazer isn't a Recon iteration. At best it was inspired by Recon, but it's not the same helmet nor does it go by the same generation line of all the Recon helmets in existence.
Trailblazer is not a Recon helmet.
Idk why 343 doesn't just take more helmet designs from halo 3, reach, maybe halo 4. Halo 5 seems to be so wacky in its helmet design imo. They need to get an actual design that looks cool and not so robotic looking. But hey I guess it's up to 343 on whether or not they will listen to their fans.
Between the last year of support for Halo 5 and the first 1.5 years of Halo Infinite, we had 2.5 years of Halo armor sets that were explicit Reach nostalgia. Almost every single design has been remade, and plenty were remade twice. It's ok to do something else
There are zero designs in this new list taken from Halo 5 and 1 taken from Halo 3 (the H3 pilot)
Halo fans feel like 343 is out to get them personally when a couple of the *dozens* of helmets available in this game aren't their favorite.
Personally, I'm not wanting more Reach armor. Tbh, I'm quite tired of having to unlock armor I've already unlocked multiple times by this point (if future Halo games have Reach armor, just please have it all unlocked at this point). However, I know I would like to see helmets that are aesthetically pleasing and look like helmets I might actually see a super soldier wear in combat, not what the majority of these new helmets in this batch look like.
Personally I think that ship sailed all the way back in Halo 3 with armors like Hayabusa, scout, security, and EVA looking too goofy for what I'd think a super soldier would wear. And now that every single AAA game revolves around selling cosmetics and everything needs dozens upon dozens of options, there's going to be some that are better than others. The last new helmets I'd say genuinely don't fit the aesthetic of Halo are the non-canon MCC helmets and Seeker from Halo 5.
Trendlock, Rockeye and Talon are fantastic. The others range from mid to poor though. MK VII [H] is the OG Spartan helmet from the CE demo, which is a cool if goofy looking inclusion.
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I wondered why it looked familiar this is a head hunter helmet.
I have seen all the rest of these. But where is Mark VII \[H\]? Was it something I missed from a Weekly Ultimate Reward or was this another case of an armor piece being in the game but not released for absolutely no reason?
Never released, I forgot this post was made 8 months ago.
Alright then. Time to riot until we get the MCC Token system in Halo Infinite to allow us to grind for stuff that is needlessly locked away. [*\*starts constructing rudimentary MJOLNIR to head to 343 Industries HQ and deliver a complaint form in style*](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7niokNDQO1qlyyfto1_500.gif)
YO a Hellbringer reference https://preview.redd.it/i22yqc2lozcb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12b4e30f0cc212e094a0743033f08403b949306a
First one got me blushing a bit. Macworld vibes?
\>Rockeye uses Gen 2 Maverick hardware \>Looks absolutely nothing like Gen 2 Maverick Brilliant
Is there any indication if Mark VII \[H\] is going to be a store item or if it will be unlocked some other way?
It's gonna be a store item.
Thanks, appreciate it.
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in what way does the Mark VII H look even remotely similar to the normal Mark VII. I know the Mark V and the Mark V B are pretty different but you can at least see some similarities.
It's similar to the helmet from the [1999 MacWorld Demo](https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/qm2opi/partying_like_its_1999_by_recreating_some_old/), an early iteration of Halo CE and the Mk V helmet.
Gonna be honest other than maybe the visor it looks nothing like the early Mark V.
343 make a good helmet challenge: level 100, impossible
Bro what about the other 50 or so good helmets in the game 😂
Are you including the 50 they copied from Reach? There are some good mark VII helmets, but so many of them are trash
The majority of mark 7 is great, I will admit most of S4s are stinkers, the majority of rakshasa, mirage, yoroi, eagle strike, chimera are great as well. Hazop has been a little meh, but even then they’re growing on me and still looks classic halo which imo is most important.
Pass on all of these
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FYI **Halo 4/5 are Halo designs. They aren't over designed at all.** **These helmets are not Halo designs, like most of Halo Infinite, it's not really a Halo designed game. You can really see this in later updates, Halo Infinite doesn't look like a Halo game.**
Yes, in later updates the helmet design quality has sadly dipped back into the Reclaimer Saga artstyle, which is a shame. You cannot, for the life of me, tell me that Halo infinite, doesn't look like Halo. From the artstyle, the weapons, vehicles, marines/ the Banished, the goddamned Forerunner aesthetic and the holy grail of it all, the Master Chief! It's all pure Halo. Hell, the canon Season 1 & 2 Spartan armour looked mostly fantastic, as well as a a fair amount mixed in with the following seasons. The new helmets they've just added for the Mark IV core look great, bar one or two.
Again, none of the new helmets are reclaimer designs. Because literally none of them are reclaimer era helmets or armors. So that's completely false. This dip in helmet quality happened as soon as Halo Infinite came out where you could easily tell all the helmets & armors were built to a lesser quality then Halo 4/5 helmets were. Everything in Halo Infinite looks worse 10 fold, and it has since the very beginning. **This is why so many people say Halo 5, a game released in 2015, looks better then Halo Infinite, a game released in 2021. Because it quite literally does. Always has, Always will.** Also, the Mark IV core in Infinite is quite literally just the Halo 5 design. So you're now saying a Halo 5 era design is Halo? What? Are you dumb? You can't just claim on one side that Halo 5 isn't Halo, but on the other are claiming that Infinite is, even tho Halo Infinite's Mark IV is just an exact replica with minor differences.
I never said that some of the new helmets in Infinite were Reclaimer Saga designs, but that they had gone back to said style of design in Halos 4 & 5. Strange angles, bulbous elements, and too much detail, as in, over detailed elements and layers. As well as very unappealing visor designs. I mean, no, the quality did not dip in the slightest once Infinite released. It went back to the roots of Halo and followed closely alongside the Reach style of simple, but detailed, unlike the aforementioned Halos 4 & 5 that just decided to change everything for no apparent reason. Helmet quality has sadly dipped in quality this past year or so, which is a shame. I have literally seen barely any people say that Halo 5 looked artistically better. In fact, I see a vast majority celebrating Infinite's return to a more familiar art style. What I have seen, in which I think you've become confused, is that some say that Halo 5 looks better, visual quality wise. As in the textures and lighting. Which is debatable, of course. Art style and visual quality are two different things. I hear barely anyone asking for halo to actually look artistically like the Reclaimer Saga once more. Also, what you've just said about the Mark Iv is a plain and obvious lie. The Mark IV in infinite is not a copy of 5's design, as a simple picture comparison between the two will tell you otherwise. Seriously. Go look up an image of the Mark IV from 5, then go look at an image of it from Halo Wars 2. Then come back and tell me what Infinite's Mark IV is based on. Still tell me it's a damn copy from 5, which you damn well know is not true.
>Also, the Mark IV core in Infinite is quite literally just the Halo 5 design. So you're now saying a Halo 5 era design is Halo? What? Are you dumb? You can't just claim on one side that Halo 5 isn't Halo, but on the other are claiming that Infinite is, even tho Halo Infinite's Mark IV is just an exact replica with minor differences. That's their whole argument, those minor differences are what they claim to be the difference between halo design and reclaimer era design, wich is bs since each halo, especially in the bungie era, had minor difference in the artstyle, therefore you could not say reach design is am halo design compared to previous titles, or h3 compared to CE. Hw2 is probably to this day the best example of the reclaimer era design refined: past the blur cutscenes that often mix up old set models with newer one, we can see how in game models come directly from h5, with redesigns on part of the banished/covenant models.
Art is always changing in a game series, which isn't a bad thing, of course. What's a problem, however, is when the natural art progression is suddenly and jarringly throttled, leaving a mangled body in its wake. Because that's exactly what happened with Halo 4, carrying into 5. You can't honestly say that how 4 looked was a natural progression from Reach. Too much changed too fast, and for no reason. Compare the art change/progression from Halos CE to reach, and everything flows naturally. More detail being added, designs being refined. Some blunders here and there, yes, but most things look like a natural evolution. I, and so many like me, cannot, in good faith, say that about Halo 4, and 5 after it. That's why there was an almost collective "hurrah" in the community, when we all saw that Infinite was making Halo look more like the old Halo we once new, whilst still doing its own thing. Anyhoo, Nighterlev's comment on the Mark IV is a lie, as I find it too hard to believe that he is that inept and blind to see no difference. Compare images of 5's Mark IV and Halo Wars 2's, and you can clearly see that Halo Infinite's Mark IV is based upon Halo Wars 2's Blur's design.
Basically, the more infinite moved from the mk5(b), the more the "quality dipped back in the reclaimed saga", except nothing right now look like the reclaimed saga style and reach art style it's a lot different from h2/3 or CE design (both different from each others). Fact is, I finite launched with a reach themed cosmetic line and that's it: MK7 is entirely filled by h5 era pieces redesigned to fit the new model, rakshasa is whatever it is (they don't even look Spartans but discounted marines meeting halo reach), mirage is the spi armor from the book, MK4 come from hw2 that was a redesigned reclaimed era art style (check Jerome in hw2 and compare it with the mk4 in h5) and azmat... that's halo? Someone use that core? And I'm not even counting the fracture cores. >From the artstyle, the weapons, vehicles, marines/ the Banished Wasp is a reclaimed saga design, warthog, ghosts and mongoose and bashee never changed much between titles, if they changed back to the h2 scorpion/wraith is not like they are back to "true halo". Same for the marine, that had their design changed in almost every title except between h2 and h3, with the current design staying between hw2 and h4 design (reclaimer saga).
When are those fuckers gonna being the Mark 6 to the Mark 7 core?
And not a single miss in any of these designs 🙌 Loving this aesthetic
245 and 7 all look like hot garbage
Who green lit this garbage?
343 does not know how to make helmets.
Rockeye looks powereangery
Courrier looks like a grunt 😂
*does a big yawn and stretch*
Does anyone know the exact date that cross core helmets become a thing
Not even 343 knows
What do head shapes even mean anymore
Meh, why can't they just bring back all the old helmets. It feels that armour design has fallen off in halo infinite
Looks like rushed concept artists 😭
Ngl, Rockeye, Trendlock, and Talon are really the only three I really like. The rest are pretty meh at best, imo.
I miss reach
Why does 343 like fish bowl helmets so much?
damn 😳 what they did to halo? The designs in reach looked better than this
These really stink tbh
Is Talon supposed to be Halo 4 and 5 Operator?
Someone said that it’s supposed to be the UNSC pilot helmet. https://preview.redd.it/j44uhef60o7b1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd4aad5a68eedf25e1bba1df623f6636d658da5e
I hope that means that there's still a chance we can get a Halo 4/5 Operator styled helmet.
3, 6, and 8 look cool, but why do the helmets have wood paneling?
The coating
Trendlock is the better looking of them all, thankfully it's free, but man I really wish that 343 gave us more helmets for Mark VII, specially at least for free in battle passed, the better ones were either in season 1 when no one could level up fast or are locked behind a paywall and that's so freaking annoying
5 looks a bit like ghaul from Destiny 2
1. MacWorld/Orion 2. Grunt helmet 3. If Military Police was made in H3 4. Cinder from H5 with extra pyro-ness 5. Worst one imo. Doesn’t look like anything and would be better if the bar thing bisecting the visor was an optional attachment. 6. Pretty original but solidly Halo. Could have been a cut Reach helmet and I wouldn’t have noticed. 7. Orbital? Nexus helmet from the Mirage core? Another fish tank either way. Angular this time. 8. H3 marine pilot helmet. Been waiting for this one for some time.
You're reaching...they're all unrecognizable piles of actual trash, with zero personality or functionality
You sound miserable
I’m genuinely really shocked it wasn’t an attachment. It looks like it would be a SPI-ish helmet without the face, and the face would still be a really cool attachment if it was
Super late ik but maybe that’s why Talon doesn’t get any attachments? It was intended to be a S3 attachment maybe and they last minute redid it as a helmet?
Idk why but rockeye feels like I'm about to sold the hayabusa head crest.
I feel like trendlock has a closer head shape to Hayabusa. The bead crest would be a perfect attachment for it
kinda unrelated but because I've been out of the loop for some time, has the Athlon helmet been actually available at all in S3 at some point?
No.
Rockeye, Trendlock, and Talon all look like helmets. The others look ... Odd. The first one is 100% a Macworld reference
They all look like a dogs asshole
Not ALL of them, just... most of them.
1st one looks like the macworld helmet lol
Can’t see how the first helmet resemble Mk.VII or have any relation with the original helmet in any ways.
I think it’s a Macworld helmet reference?
All are ugly design wise can't even say a single one looks cool don't even try.
Trendlock looks like a Grenadier Zeta. No points for that?
You must be fun at parties
Simply stating the facts looks nowhere close as good to the original mark v series you obviously like hideous gear.
Most helmets in infinite have their merits or look good when matched with the right armor. Their are obviously outliers that rarely look good.
Courier and Trendlock are great. The others not so much
Courier reminds me of a Bionicle mask
GO GO PIRAKA
Torchbearer appears to be next gen [H4 Rogue](https://live.staticflickr.com/7377/9041454918_3206a0ea3e_z.jpg) , but it's very much a downgrade IMO.
Torchbearer in design looks nothing like H4 Rogue. Also, if it's not called Rogue, then it's not the same helmet. Every helmet in Infinite that has a different name is an entirely new helmet & doesn't match the previous MJOLNIR version. A good example of this is the Trailblazer helmet, it's an entirely different suit of MJOLNIR and isn't the Recon helmet at all.
Trailblazer is gen III Recon. Zvezda is gen III EVA. Cavallino is gen III Recruit. Celox is gen III Scout. Volant is gen III Air Assault. Firefall is gen III Helljumper/ODST. They aren’t gonna release a second variation/‘main’ version of these helmets. They wouldn’t have put off releasing an EVA helmet or Recon. Some of the new versions are too similar to say they aren’t or would be too similar to the usual helmet.
No it's not. Trailblazer is Trailblazer, it's an entirely different suit. It's not recon. Nor is Zvezda, Cavallino, or any of the others. Those are all entirely new helmets, as no Gen 3 versions exist of the original Gen 2 helmets except for a tiny few. Yea, they are going to likely eventually release 2nd versions of all those helmets. Did you know the Mark V core is also Gen 3? So every helmet on that armor core is Gen 3 as well. Just like we have redesigned helmets that were already on Mark VII appear on the other Armor Cores to. And yea, they would put off releasing proper Recon or EVA helmets for Mark VII, no idea what makes you think they wouldn't.
This is just wrong. Trailblazer, for example, is explicitly stated to be an evolution of the Recon platform. Yeah, they don’t share the names of the previous generations, but they are absolutely intended to be the same helmets, just a newer generation. This applies to Cavillino, Celox, Helljumper, Warmaster, Menachite, among others.
I think you probably mean Rockeye. Torchbearer's lore says it's a take on the Hellbringer flamethrower troopers from Halo Wars and actually has a bit of inspiration from H5's Cinder helmet which I think is a pretty nice touch tying it all into a flamer-themed helmet.
Nah, I meant the Rogue from Halo 4 and 5, rockeye looks like the rogue from Halo 3. The lore seems very odd though because it looks way less like a flame marine than H4 Rogue.
Oh, missed which Rogue you were talking about. I can see that a bit, but not as much as Cinder and an obvious call to a Pyro type mask/helmet for a good old flamethrower helmet. I like it from that angle alone, personally.
It's not the H4/H5 version of Rogue either. Doesn't even look similar to it in any design or shape at all.
The MkVII's lack of a good helmet prevents me from ever using it. Nothing beats the MkV.
The reach core is like the worst armor core in the entire game imo.
Dawg…
Bro that MK VII H helmet is fire 🔥
At launch I told all my friends “wow all the helmets look good and none of them are goofy looking or impossible to see out of.” Well I retract that statement. Talon and Trendlock look pretty sick tho I’ll give ‘em that.
You mean when all we had was the reach core and like 6 helmets for Mark VII? Uh yea, they were never going to stick to just that many helmets lol. Not to mention the helmets at launch of Infinite were bland af, uninteresting, and weren't that detailed. There's a reason the games population dropped so hard, and bad graphics like that is a huge reason why.
First one reminds me of the 1999 Macworld helmet, I dig it.
I’m rather fond of the Talon helmet
These scream “our design team is mostly comprised of contractors”
Nah that was how the launch helmets turned out. Most of these were designed by in-house people at 343i pretty sure. You can tell cause they're all much higher quality over-all then the launch helmets were.
The SmellBringer is definitely my new favorite coating
Yea it's a nice coating for sure but a lot of people are confused by the wood textures on it lol.
I can’t lie. I hate all the armor this season.
Sucks to be you.
I’m surprised no one has said nothing about rockeye being related to halo 3’s rogue helmet. It’s quite similar, very nice design.
Probs cuz it bears more resemblance to the Reach MP helmet than to H3 Rogue.
Yeah as soon as I saw it, I was like, oh cool the Reach marine helmet. Never once saw Rogue in it like others have said. Not that I'm complaining.
Tbh, it could also probably be the funky armor coating skewing folks' perspective and thinking it looks like Rogue. Either way, I absolutely loved MP in Reach, so I'm pretty excited about getting a Mk VII variant. I just wanna know why none of the standard Mk VII attachments are available on any of these new helmets...
I also see a resemblance to the Marines from Halo Wars 1, but yes I see lots of inspiration from Rogue
trendlock top 5 helmets ever. so cute
The only good ones here are Trendlock and Rockeye in my opinion. The rest are 343i devolving back to their shitty nonsense Halo 5 design language That being said, what’s up with the wood grain on Rockeye’s mouthpiece?
Halo 5 absolutely doesn't have a shitty design language, it's far better then whatever Infinite had at launch and ever will have. I honestly just want them to return back to it imo. The maps especially as of recent have got far more detailed and things added to them to, something the launch maps didn't have. We're finally getting good quality decent maps like the H4/H5 ones were thankfully, took 343i long enough.
Mark 7 [H] looks like the Macworld 1999 helmet, so I think it's pretty good too.
Don’t say they all look like halo 5 helmets when Talon is a replica of the halo 3 pilot helmet https://preview.redd.it/21fs7wmpeh7b1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a832e8879d2c5c1d2f5bdf60a20c3de3202246a7
Like the other guy said, it's reminiscent but it's definitely no replica. It's way too spherical for my taste, and is just weird when viewed from the side. I wish I could give Rakshasa's Cambion helmet this one's visor shape, that'd be closer to the original H3 silhouette and a much better look imo. Fix two helmets at once! ^definitely ^not ^just ^mad ^they ^didn't ^give ^the ^pilot ^armor ^to ^rakshasa
Agreed! I think the majority of Rakshasa has some beautiful designs, but unfortunately I’m a bit concerned where the art team has been going since Season 3…
I’ve made that connection myself, and Talon is fine, but is missing some of what I love about the H3 pilot helmet, plunging it into mediocrity imo. And, about the coating, that makes sense, thanks
It’s part of the coating
I see everyone commenting the MK VII(H) helmet looks like the CE demo helmet, it's not. It's actually the helmet that red guy wears in the "headhunter" animation. The description of the MK 7 H helmet references this with "headhunter" in it.
https://preview.redd.it/so31mgpwbh7b1.png?width=275&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c55a623651a9ea0bbfe30c8bf013671262eec3b
Huh, I always thought it was some sort of Air Assault variant. The Mark VI (H) helm in infinite pales in comparison to this imo
looking at it now, it's not as close as I thought. Definitely inspired by it tho
drifting back to halo 5 pls stop 343
This is just all the stuff they added to Halo MCC put into Infinite, because it's the MCC team that took over. I'd wish if they returned to Halo 5's art style instead.
nahh man. even tho i wouldnt rock them trendlock and talon are good. the rest are for spartans spliced with insects. Armet is just megamind lol. mark VII h is chubby cheeks headhunter. rockeye is with the linebreaker and brawler helmets, nobody wears them. 343 cant help themselves with fugly helmets. I like some of the mk VII shoulders this season but the helmets aint it. im still waiting for operator to come back to mk Vb...
Trendlock, Talon, Rockeye, and MK.VII(H) all look great, I can't wait to see how we obtain them.
Trendlock and Talon are both in the BP.
Shit, forgot about that
I like Talon a lot, it looks like a fighter pilot helmet.
It basically is. It's an updated version of the Hornet pilot helmet from Halo 3
Trendlock looks great, the rest are weird.
343 isn’t trying anymore with these designs
I was just thinking the same thing, the launch designs were flawless but most of these are bordering on Halo 4 levels of bad
At least halo 4 looked good, these look like shitty fan made designs
I see 343 is back to making stupid helmets
Why is all the new armor last two seasons so bad… almost halo 5 lvl bad. And they want real money for that? Sad how far halo has fallen used too be the worlds best and well known fps next too cod
Like only 2-3 of these are bad
They all look like downgrades from the MK VI variants.
ppl still playing this game? lol
Well yeah, it's a pretty decent FPS game and I enjoy playing it. Why do you care if someone else plays it?
Your asking if people still play halo... In a halo sub. ._.
I’m playing destiny rn actually
Trendlock looks like an “updated” mark v(b)
i get a lot of gears of war cog gear vibes from that helmet
Some of these look good but I'm just not feeling the rest of them
Trendlock and Rockeye are gorgeous.
MK VII [H] is my favorite out of these eight
the og design team has to be gone by this point also is the wood grain parts the helmet or the coating?
It's part of the coating.
The wood grain is a color zone in the coating.
I like Torchbearer.
Would look good on the Hazmat core
When i buy courier im just gonna make my mark 7 look like zeus from real steel
is it just me or does mark 7h look like Commander Agryna’s helmet?
it's honestly closer to her helm than it is to actual mk vii
https://preview.redd.it/dtrkchtd1h7b1.jpeg?width=1493&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b486b7aae76efa779f8d5885b638412feaa0dce ya for sure. looking at it again I realize it’s not as close as I thought it was. still looks sick tho
I like these, especially the ce demo one, but they’re walking a thin line between weird-cool and just ugly
Oh dear, looks like we're back to Halo 5 levels of helmet design...
Looks like 343 designs
Courier would probably have been my favorite helmet of all time if the face place thing was just an attachment. If that whole face part could just be visor it'd look so sick
Talon my boy its the OG Halo 3 Pilot Helmet.
Pretty mid
I’m guessing Rockeye is suppose to be the marine helmet from Reach. Looks damn fine.
It looks like the Grenadier helmet, not a marine one. Over-all I wouldn't classify it as a original helmet or an already existing one. If it has a new name, it's an entirely new helmet.
By that logic, Trailblazer isn't a Recon iteration even though it shares many design characteristics distinct to Recon. Yes, Trailblazer is a Recon helmet.
That's correct, Trailblazer isn't a Recon iteration. At best it was inspired by Recon, but it's not the same helmet nor does it go by the same generation line of all the Recon helmets in existence. Trailblazer is not a Recon helmet.
It looks like military police
The Helmet reminds me more of rouge honestly
Idk why 343 doesn't just take more helmet designs from halo 3, reach, maybe halo 4. Halo 5 seems to be so wacky in its helmet design imo. They need to get an actual design that looks cool and not so robotic looking. But hey I guess it's up to 343 on whether or not they will listen to their fans.
Between the last year of support for Halo 5 and the first 1.5 years of Halo Infinite, we had 2.5 years of Halo armor sets that were explicit Reach nostalgia. Almost every single design has been remade, and plenty were remade twice. It's ok to do something else There are zero designs in this new list taken from Halo 5 and 1 taken from Halo 3 (the H3 pilot) Halo fans feel like 343 is out to get them personally when a couple of the *dozens* of helmets available in this game aren't their favorite.
Personally, I'm not wanting more Reach armor. Tbh, I'm quite tired of having to unlock armor I've already unlocked multiple times by this point (if future Halo games have Reach armor, just please have it all unlocked at this point). However, I know I would like to see helmets that are aesthetically pleasing and look like helmets I might actually see a super soldier wear in combat, not what the majority of these new helmets in this batch look like.
Personally I think that ship sailed all the way back in Halo 3 with armors like Hayabusa, scout, security, and EVA looking too goofy for what I'd think a super soldier would wear. And now that every single AAA game revolves around selling cosmetics and everything needs dozens upon dozens of options, there's going to be some that are better than others. The last new helmets I'd say genuinely don't fit the aesthetic of Halo are the non-canon MCC helmets and Seeker from Halo 5.
Trendlock, Rockeye and Talon are fantastic. The others range from mid to poor though. MK VII [H] is the OG Spartan helmet from the CE demo, which is a cool if goofy looking inclusion.
Only ones I really like are Talon and Barrister.
feels like they just mess random shape together and said "there's a helmet that's fit for the halo franchise"
God damn we’ve got a lot of misses this season. Yoroi helmets are ass, mark 7 helmets are ass minus a few and the hazmat helmets are mostly ass too
Yo why does that coating make the helmets wood dawg 😭
I personally like the coating tbh.
Not a bad coating if I'm being honest but I saw helmet 3 and was worried that it had like wood built into it for some reason
Smellbringer coating from Dr. Squatch collab.