Halo 5 will not have Armor Abilities

[Adam91]

 

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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[rrhuntington]

Welp... that just made a decent number of people mad, and a decent number of people very happy. I didn't mind them either way. Bye-Bye Armor Abilities. Your time here was, well... rather short lived.

[Yoshi1176]

Well, I want Halo to continue moving forward. I myself liked the armor abilities and thought they were fun to use like the Jet pack for example. So I am a bit sad to see them go, who knows it might play better without them but I like the changes that were made in the sense of armor abilities.

[WonderWombat]

I'm honestly glad to see them go. They could be useful and fun, but most of the time I found them annoying.

 

Wonder what we will be able to do now. Maybe holding A will allow for larger jumps or something.

Edited June 10, 2014 by WonderWombat

[Ardent Prayer]

I'm fine with seeing them go. I only liked the Jet Pack, but that's it. I can live without Armor Abilities.

[Drizzy_Dan]

Armor Abilities may be disappearing but from what I saw from the Halo 5 Beta trailer was that they would be introducing Spartan Abilities.

[VinWarrior]

This could go one of two ways, and only one way would make me still believe 343i are a bunch of smart people.

 

One way is that we're back to Equipment, which was a godawful system in my own opinion and the opinion of others, or abandon abilities all together.

 

Or the other is class geared abilities, like Elite Abilities and Spartan Abilities, which would be a cool new feature.

 

You're back in my good graces 343i, don't screw it up!

[Axilus Prime]

Well, I liked AA's, but I can live without them.

[Sadly Just AL]

Equipment would be very nice to see, right now. But, I would like to see sprint remain as it was in halo 4, a default... Maybe it's a Spartan ability.

Edited June 10, 2014 by -Sparky-

[BeckoningZebra1]

Spartan abilities sound interesting, I can't help but think this will be armor abilities with a different name and purpose. I think the most likely scenario is that spartan abilities will have to do with movement, like diving into other Spartans perhaps? (Something similar happened in the trailer)

 

This is big news, great find Adam!

[Caboose The Ace]

Halo fans rejoice dis is a glorious day !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

This is exactly what I wanted, the return of equipment and armour abilities scrapped !

 

Wort Wort ! Blarg !!!!!!!!

[Unease Peanut]

I didn't mind AA's that much (Except for Armour Lock >.>)

But please let us keep sprint and don't make the 'Spartan abilities' simple things that every spartan should be able to do but can't now because you have to choose between features like dual wield or boarding.

[Zaguroth]

I'm going to laugh if they make it movement related but you still can't go underwater.

I wanna see a Halo where you can go underwater without "drowning" in a suit that was designed to allow operation in vacuum ._.

 

As for the AAs... I'm gonna miss em

People can complain about them all they like, but a some of em were rather useful when used appropriately ._.

[Gemini Dragons]

I wanna see a Halo where you can go underwater without "drowning" in a suit that was designed to allow operation in vacuum ._.

They do this because of water pressure. Now if they go a certain depth that would mean death that sounds good enough for me. But touching the water is annoying, that much I can agree on.

[Mark Merriman]

I've played every Halo since the first, and I have to say I'm disappointed in the removal of armor abilities across all of multiplayer. It was a fresh breath for Halo.

Just because the basement dwelling no life MLG Pro generals didn't like the idea that Reach and 4 became just a little bit easier for casuals with a life and who don't live in their mom's basement, and thus waste their lives "getting good" and "being pro", they trash on it. At least Reach and 4 weren't Halo's usual power weapon struggles.

After getting the armors I wanted, I never went back to Halo 3's online matchmaking. It became a lag switch, grenade lobbing, power weapon hogging, circle jerk of the no life teabaggin Generals and squeakers vs the casuals. It was mostly a rehash of Halo 2, nothing else.

"Halo 4 was just like Call of Duty"

No it wasn't.If it was, I must have missed the my C-4, Aiming down sights, claymore, AC-130, nukes, predator missiles, attachments, going prone and rehashed graphics in 4 and Reach.

Having power armor but not be able to run or do anything special with that armor was stupid, especially considering each armor served a purpose it wasn't fulfilling. They may as well have made us play as marines or ODSTs. That would make more sense. Forcing people to start with a weapon that they couldn't use very well wasn't fair at all and made the game unfair . Some people don't have the time to "get good" because of jobs.

[Frankenzer]

If that's true then I guess it's time to say good bye to my firebird style  

[Twinreaper]

So..... Crysis 3?

[HIWBC]

Thank God they're removing armour abilities, I hated them apart from Jet Pack .

[Drizzy_Dan]

There's no promising Spartan Abilities will be much better but I think getting rid of AA's was a solid choice.

[TheBritishSpartan]

343i are much like Microsoft [ Xbox ], They have and use a great idea... Some people get angry because change is bad, They then do a '180' And change it all back to how it was, With the features still there... Just not as good,

[Coldfreeze]

I mean for the love of god don't let it be a fancy name for perks.

 

Because it sounds like that.

[Vaulting♥Frog]

Halo was constantly evolving towards armor abilities and now that we had them people whined and complained. Now that they are gone the same people will end up whining and complaining about them not being around anymore, as well as complaining about the "new" Spartan Abilities.

 

Wonderful. *sarcasm*

[rrhuntington]

whining and complaining

It's what Halo fans do best.

[Twinreaper]

So... Crysis 3 anyone?

[Buns]

So... Crysis 3 anyone?

Nope. This is Halo 5 we're talking about buddy Crysis 3 is a different game

Your joke ain't going to work because well frankly o connor. The joke just won't work with our limited knowledge of SA's or what abilities SA's will provide. 

Not to mention you posted this joke twice.