Armor Permutations

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.

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" 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 Spartan and 2 Elite variant armors are given at the start of the game, speculated to be EVA, CQB, Raptor and Predator.

Spartan Armor Permutations

 * MJOLNIR Armor - Mark VI
 * EVA Armor - Extra Vehicular Activity armor. Mjolnir-V variant.
 * CQB Armor - Close Quarters Battle armor. Mjolnir-C Variant.
 * Unknown Armor - The earliest seen unnamed armor to date.
 * Second Unknown Armor - An Unnamed armor seen after the first unnamed armor.
 * Third Unknown Armor - Another unnamed Armor.
 * Fourth Unknown Armor - The last of the current Human unnamed armors.

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." .

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. 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.

Rendered Image (Spartan)
These are the images of the supposed leaked pre-skin rendered models below,





Finished Image (Spartan)




Elite Armor Permutations
Though unconfirmed by Bungie as of yet, Beta code modders also found the following Elite armor types:


 * Elite Combat Armor - Default Elite Armor the armor has Forerunner symbols.
 * Elite Assault Armor - "Predator" or "Raptor" (similar to Ranger Elite armor)
 * Predator - "assumed to be the Arbiter's armor"
 * A fourth has been confirmed in the Halo 3 Epsilon build.
 * A fifth has been confirmed in the Halo 3 Epsilon live feed.

A couple of images of the Elite permutations exist below,

Customizable portions

 * Helmet
 * Body
 * Left Shoulder
 * Right Shoulder