Cut Halo: Reach armor
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During the production of the downloadable content for Halo: Reach, a number of armor permutations were developed but ultimately cut. The sets were originally teased in a trailer for the game's Defiant Map Pack, and intended to be included in the Anniversary Map Pack - though were ultimately scrapped.
Base game[edit]
Alternate Elite Minor[edit]
An alternate design for the Elite Minor armour can be seen in the UI icons for early builds of Halo: Reach. This armour design is mostly the same as the final game, with one major exception - the shoulders of the early variant are significantly more pronounced than in final. This model was used as the basis for the Minor Elites in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary the year following Reach's release.
The Elite UI icon.
The Elite Minor in the final game, for comparison.
The cut Reach Minor armour in the Library of Combat Evolved Anniversary.
A rear view of the cut Minor variant, seen in a concept paintover for the Covenant thruster pack.
A rear view of the cut Minor variant, seen in a concept paintover for the Covenant thruster pack.
Hardened External Sensor Array - External[edit]
- "Hardened external sensor array - external; standard issue for Outer Colony Beta-5 security units."
The Hardened External Sensor Array - External (HESA-E) was a helmet attachment available in the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta. The attachment is useable on the Military Police helmet, and costs 20,000 cR to buy. In the final game, this attachment is still available though under the name of the HU/RS attachment.
The HESA-E attachment in the Beta.
DLC armor[edit]
Background[edit]
These cut armour sets first appeared in promotional material for Halo: Reach's Defiant Map Pack in 2011, where some of them were worn by a player in three screenshots of the map Condemned. The player wore the AKIS helmet, with the CBRN and GRD attachments, in combination with the EXO/TSCS chest piece.[1][2] In the absence of an official name, the Halo community took to calling the then-unknown helmet "GRD",[3] a nickname that stuck and eventually became the official name for one of the helmet's attachments.[4]
A lack of official communication about or acknowledgement of the mystery helmet from Bungie or 343 Industries led to a great deal of speculation about how it might be released, with some even suggesting that it could already be unlocked through some esoteric method.[3] Eventually, these rumours were proven false when, on February 11th, 2012, 343 Industries employee David Ellis confirmed that 34