PATORIKU armors never transfer from game to game historically. Part of the fun is beginning a game is that everything is new again. Your rank, armors, k/d, etc. all reset and your achieve the new ranks, armors, etc. I am sure you will like what is in Halo 4 a lot! It will be unlike Reach because it will be following the story of the Master Chief. Reach was a separate game, a stand alone if you will, that happened a very long time before Halo CE, Halo 2 and Halo 3. Kinda like the Star Wars movies that were made out of sequence. If you enjoyed getting your armor in Reach, you will like getting the armors in Halo 4.
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