No playable Elites...

[Echorion]

They have all that covenant equipment, weapons, and vehicles across all the gameplay clips but I haven't seen one person playing as Sangheli.

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense; like really you cherry picked all that but ditched the actual characters behind them? Come on.

[Kuriishi]

Those aren't Covenant weapons, they're Banished ones

[Chronomize]

Originally posted by Kuriishi:

Those aren't Covenant weapons, they're Banished ones :winter2019coolyul:

Sangheili are in the Banished

[Kuriishi]

Originally posted by Shado\/\/arden23™:

Sangheili are in the Banished

Yeah, just pointing out that it's not "cherry picking items". Those weapons/vehicles are used by the Banished too.

As for playable elites, it doesn't seem likely as it looks like their armour customisation and progression has been designed entirely around Spartans. There's even a Spartan-IV Training Academy. That's cool and all but I still wish we had playable Alien races. I was even thinking it would be cool to play as Brutes

[Quadsword]

As much as I would like playable elites to return, I understand why they most likely won't. Playing as an elite in Halo 2 or 3 is literally handicapping yourself by increasing the size of your hitbox and making you easier to see since elites are physically bulkier than spartans.

[Echorion]

I honestly care more about the lack of Elites than I do the equipment honestly.

Just bring Elite back >:O

[Echorion]

Originally posted by Kuriishi:

Originally posted by Shado\/\/arden23™:

Sangheili are in the Banished :winter2019neutralyul:

Yeah, just pointing out that it's not "cherry picking items". Those weapons/vehicles are used by the Banished too.

As for playable elites, it doesn't seem likely as it looks like their armour customisation and progression has been designed entirely around Spartans. There's even a Spartan-IV Training Academy. That's cool and all but I still wish we had playable Alien races. I was even thinking it would be cool to play as Brutes

I mean...they still did that; they just used the Banished as a means of doing that. Because they are directly covenant equipment, Wraiths and what not.
Yet they are not actually playable =(

It's a model, some animations, and some sounds. Not like anyone is asking for a re-design of the entire game- hell allow some degree of modding and someone will probably do it themselves lol.

[Sifer2]

I actually think they will bring them back later since they said they want Infinite to have a 10 year shelf life. And an expansion pack with an Arbiter campaign, Elites in multiplayer, and maybe return of Invasion mode I would buy instantly. But for now it looks like they focused more on just heavily customization for Spartans.

[Kuriishi]

Originally posted by Echorion:

It's a model, some animations, and some sounds. Not like anyone is asking for a re-design of the entire game- hell allow some degree of modding and someone will probably do it themselves lol.

It's not actually "just" that simple. This is a F2P game with content planned long-term. There are competitive and casual elements to it. You have to consider balancing with hitboxes, and the actual new content planned and delivered over time (with battle passes and events).

It's much simpler to just plan for Spartans alone because if they're doing more armours all the time they have to make it even between the two species which means double the work. (Also the new armour features like prosthetics and AI can't really be implemented with Elites).

Even then, there seems to be some story elements to the MP with the new commander and training areas etc. It looks like it has been designed around training Spartan-IVs. You can't just drop an Elite on a Spartan training range etc. Of course theoretically, you could also frame it with the Elites training on a separate environment but then that's more work again

[Psychedelic Adventurer]

Elites aren't contingent on establishing gameplay mechanics, AA's are.

I always considered Elites to be incongruent in MP. Seeing the odd Elite bopping around with his weird head hitbox. The only game that did it well was Reach, and there were separated in most modes.

[Gio]

Something something competitive community something something complaints about different hitboxes giving non-spartan players an "advantage" over default players.

[Gimli]

I always see people whine and complain like babies about playable elites so I'll bet they aren't gonna be in the game.

[Ash//Fox]

Considering the game has already been heavily delayed, what I think would be really cool is if the Elites were added as a free DLC update. I would rather they take their time and do it right instead of it being like Reach where Spartans have this robust in depth armor customization system and then you just have a handful of no-customization armor skins for the Elites to choose from. Both species should be equally customizable.

[Echorion]

Originally posted by Ash//Fox:

Considering the game has already been heavily delayed, what I think would be really cool is if the Elites were added as a free DLC update. I would rather they take their time and do it right instead of it being like Reach where Spartans have this robust in depth armor customization system and then you just have a handful of no-customization armor skins for the Elites to choose from. Both species should be equally customizable.

Yeah that would be fine. I just want em' in the game, it's not the end of the world but I can't not be disappointed about it.

Originally posted by Equinox:

I always see people whine and complain like babies about playable elites so I'll bet they aren't gonna be in the game.

Like...no one is doing any of that....
A little disappointment about something is hardly whining or complaining- and I highly doubt the devs are as spiteful as you seem to be.

[Asternshelf24]

I want Elites back. Ever since I played Halo 2 and was given the Arbiter, I was hooked. I already was addicted to Halo but now the fact that I can play as an alien, damn my 6 year old mind was blown. Now I still love it. My stuff has been set to Elite ever since with the exception of Reach because it's primarily a Spartan game. I have used a Spartan in Halo 3 but that was only to use the armour sets for ODSTs in Raven because I grinded really hard to even have them. Now for the next season of mcc, I finally have a reason to play more Halo 3. Wort Bois Content.

[Gimli]

Originally posted by Echorion:

Originally posted by Ash//Fox:

Considering the game has already been heavily delayed, what I think would be really cool is if the Elites were added as a free DLC update. I would rather they take their time and do it right instead of it being like Reach where Spartans have this robust in depth armor customization system and then you just have a handful of no-customization armor skins for the Elites to choose from. Both species should be equally customizable.

Yeah that would be fine. I just want em' in the game, it's not the end of the world but I can't not be disappointed about it.

Originally posted by Equinox:

I always see people whine and complain like babies about playable elites so I'll bet they aren't gonna be in the game.

Like...no one is doing any of that....
A little disappointment about something is hardly whining or complaining- and I highly doubt the devs are as spiteful as you seem to be.

Spiteful? Well I wasn't targeting any one person in particular, I've just observed it multiple times on the MCC forums (especially when its about the hitbox). Take it as you will I guess, just know my intention wasn't to offend anybody. Sorry mate.

EDIT: I too would like to share my concern for no playable Elites though. What if peeps want to include them in their machinima style videos?