Lots of good content was revealed in the Champion Bundle pack yesterday. The BONUS content however was a little glossed over, so I’m going to take a few minutes to show you and talk about those bonus in a bit more detail.
First up the Armor.
As we see if you buy the whole Bundle pack you’ll get these armors. You can also buy the first three separately should you not want the maps or weapon skins. The Ricochet armor comes with the map pack portion of the bundle if you buy that only.
Personally, I’m happy with ALL four armor sets. I know a lot of people will be happy with the Mark V. Believe it or not, this is the least favorite of the four for me, though I can see some fun throwback machinima happening with this armor set.
The ODST armor has been asked for since BEFORE Halo 4 came out. It’s VERY good to see this come to the game after so long. I have an idea for this armor for a machinima and I’m sure a lot of other people do to. Not to mention that MANY of the Spartan IVs seen in Halo 4 were formally ODSTs.
Prefect is a Forerunner-esque armor style. I’m REALLY digging this one. It looks like the visor CAN change color. Gawd, I hope so. One of my minor peeves with some of the helmets in Halo 4 is the inability to change visor color. I’m looking at you CIO… I wonder what the secondary color pattern will look like on this armor?
Finally, the Ricochet armor. You can see how this was totally patterned off of American style football uniforms. The shoulder pads jutting out, the face guard. I SO hope this is useable outside of Ricochet, but from what I understand it’s not. Hmm, guess I’m going to have to make a custom game to use this.
Next we have the weapons skins. I’ve given them names here. These names are NOT official, just my interpretation of what I see. Though it would be cool if I’m right on some of these.
So we get 2 Magnum skins, an AR skin, 2 DMR, and a BR skin.
The Magnum skins are ok. Hard to tell from the graphic though.
The “Shark” AR is definitely going to be a hit I think. I’m already maxed out with the AR in Halo 4, but I’m definitely going to use this from time to time!
The “Deep Blue” DMR skin is nice. Come to think of it, it has the colors of Fireteam Majestic. Hmmm.
The next one, Tiger Stripe, I think is likely to be one of the favorites of the weapon skins. I’m totally diggin’ it!
And finally what looks to be a Jungle camo skin for the BR. Definitely like this skin. I just wish we had a good jungle type map to go with it. Though the new map Vertigo may go nicely with this.
And lastly we take a look at the stances. This graphic is small, so I had to try and blow it up a little. Still hard to see so bear with me.
So starting from left to right here are my names for them based on what I think I’m seeing:
• Cracking Knuckles – Looks like the Spartan is cracking his knuckles ready to smash someone in the face.
• Salute – Pretty obvious one here. I’m betting on this one being used a lot.
• Arms Crossed – Again, hard to tell by the graphic, but it does look like the Spartan’s arms are crossed.
• Han Solo – This is SO the classic Han Solo pose from Star Wars.
See what I mean?
• Reload – This could also be called “Tribute” as in a 21-gun salute is a tribute to fallen soldiers.
• Stealthy – Looks like the Spartan is about to Assassinate. OR this could be “Heisman” as it does sort of look like the Hiesman pose which would work well with the new Ricochet game type.
• Kick Back – Really hard to tell what’s going on here. Kind of looks like the Spartan has a leg up on something. You can only see the top half of the Spartan. Too bad too, as it also looks a little like the “Captain Morgan” pose. Now wouldn’t THAT be cool!
There are also 3 Armor Skins, though those were not clearly shown in the panel yesterday. In fact while they showed Spartans in position front and back, the Spartans were in White, so you couldn’t tell what the skins were.
Also, while this is separate from this bundle, don’t forget there are also McFarlane Armor and Weapons skins coming around this time too. Check out THIS ARTICLE to see those skins!
-Sal
I think my favorite out of all of what you pointed out is the shark teeth weapon skin for the AR. It reminds me of the Flying Tigers design for their aircraft (for those who don’t know, just google ‘Flying Tigers’ and look at the images) The armor looks pretty cool as do the rest of the skins. Like you I like the Han Solo pose as well.
All in all, I am looking forward for this bundle!
Heh, I got a tweet back from BS Angel, apparently I was SPOT ON with the Han SOLO pose. Not sure if it’s named that, but that WAS the inspiration for it! Glad I figured it out first! (Being an old time Star Wars fan from WAY back in the day…)
I’m slightly disappoint that this extra stuff (Skins/Armor/Stances) didn’t get shipped at launch. Not because I don’t want to pay for it, but I prefer earning and unlocking aesthetics likes these rather than just buying them.
I know most of the “higher end” Commendations and which armor set they are attached to, so when I see a player who has a certain armor set, I know what kind of player they are because of the what they needed to do to get the armor.
I don’t like bringing up Call of Duty comparisons but they did it great (IMO) in the sense of obtaining the different weapon skins based on amount of kills with that weapon. I hope with the XBOX ONE we can have a lot more customizables crammed into future games and 343 make the unlocking requirements really make the player work to get the “good” stuff.
I do remember a Q&A about whether the Mark V armor would be in the game and 343i said that it wasn’t because they were already pushing the limited of their storage space and literally didn’t enough space to put the Mark V in. So this could be stuff that “didn’t make the cut” when they were deciding what to put in for launch.
All in all, I’m excited and can’t wait to play on the new maps and the new gametype.
🙂