Halo 5 will not have Armor Abilities

Adam91 · June 10, 2014

Speculations have been running around for a long time if Armor Abilities will be making a return in Halo 5 and in the Halo 5: Guardians teaser trailer at E3 today it said "All new Spartan Abilities", this lead to further assumption that this caption meant Armor Abilities and therefore they will be returning. But Frank O'Connor (aka Stinkles on Neogaf) responded to a concerned user refarding Armor Abilities.

Frank O'connor confirmed that Armor Abilities would not be making a return and that "Spartan Abilities" does not mean Armor Abilities but they are feature like being able to hijack vehicles.

"Not thrilled that armor abilities seem to be making a return."

Frank replies

"They aren't. The wording is confusing but it means. "features". Using h2 as an example, new features would have been dual wielding and boarding."

So Armor Abilities are not making a return in Halo 5: Guardians, could this be the beginning of Halo going back to it's old roots again? Are you happy or unhappy to hear the confirmation of Armor Abilities not making a return?

Source: neogaf.com

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Sniper0092 · June 10, 2014

If they are going back to the old roots, that's fine. I am open to change in Halo, but old school is cool, too.

HavokBlade · June 10, 2014

People are always going to complain, but I found all the Halos good in their own respect.

klima94 · June 10, 2014

I like the armor abilities, but mostly just in Custom games or in one or two game modes. I usually used them to spice things up. I think it would be the best, if they keep the Armor abilities in Forge.

Spartan abilities like hjacking, assasinations and stuff are great. Loadouts? NOT!
(one shouldn't spawn with a power weapon like the Boltshot or a Plasma pistol)

Mr Kittens and Gibberish · June 10, 2014

I'm willing to give it a go, whether they do go back to their old roots or go in a completely new direction.

My only issue with multiplayer online overall is Matchmaking, it just takes too long to find a match and to start a new match.

You do know that there will be dedicated servers right?

Imagine! New Spartan Abilities!

Mr Kittens and Gibberish · June 10, 2014

I like the armor abilities, but mostly just in Custom games or in one or two game modes. I usually used them to spice things up. I think it would be the best, if they keep the Armor abilities in Forge.

Spartan abilities like hjacking, assasinations and stuff are great. Loadouts? NOT!

(one shouldn't spawn with a power weapon like the Boltshot or a Plasma pistol)

I am positively sure that Plasma Pistol's are not power weapons...Boltshot's, yesh...

MasterChiefMEAN · June 17, 2014

Armor abilities were things that if you read the books the spartans could do all of these things with their armor. If your a fan of the books then the armor abilities going away is like a bit of a let down. I liked the Bubble Shield in 3 and in reach. I never cared to use a jetpack but I did get lot of kills on jetpackers. On Reach I stopped using vehicles almost completely because of armor lock was way overpowered, also never liked using it. I used Sprint most of the time because it should have been always on like in 4, in the books the Spartans could run at full speed for a long period of time, so they should have unlimited sprint in 5. I have only one concern that they don't skimp on the Spartan abilities they should be mind-blowing to say the least, and tons of them(Assassinations from any direction would be really cool). According to the books the Spartans could do some pretty cool stuff that none of the games even scratch the surface. Do us Proud 343i!!!!

TRF BaDInTentZs · August 6, 2014

I liked armor abilities, the real reason people were upset about them is because they were different, many people didn't like adjusting. However none of that matters now, what matters is what these spartan abilities are. What I hope it is, is something that will satisfy the people who could never accept AA's but give people like me who like fun things something to use so that halo 5 turns out to be something other than a halo 3 clone.

Just speaking as someone who's played 10's of 1000's of games of each gaming franchise, *Halo and CoD*, what I always enjoyed were the differences between the 2 games, not the similarities except in the basest form ie: FPS game.

When you build a game around the social aspect of it, you tend to end up with junk. IE: bks running standby/lag switch, host booting, afk kids, basically scraping the bottom of the MM barrel. When you build a game around the competitive aspect of things but yet still have a social side of things you get much better insights into every aspect of the game build, whether it be from the map building to weapons balance, the whole 9 yards.

I'm overjoyed to see Halo going back to being Halo as opposed to a poorly done CoD with armor.

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