Assault harness

File:AP Assault.jpg

The Elite Assault Armor.

The Assault Armor is a variation of Elite body armor.

Introduction

The Assault Harness, is an armor set of the Elite race. It features, a dynamic recharging Energy Shield. It is an Armor Permutation, in Halo 3 Multiplayer. Bungie has confirmed, that all of the Armor Permutations, have no effect on gameplay, though a smaller helmet may help reduce the possibility of headshots.

Development and History

It is a reissued pre-Covenant Elite Harness that features reinforced aligned composites and buttress principle protective stratum to preserve structural coherence of underlying tissue, and ultra resilient deltoid protection to aid in the concussive shock force and direct kinetic energy. Much like the Combat Harness it is also designed to be intimidating and damage the enemy's psyche and morale. The armor was restricted from use when the Sangheili joined the Covenant, due to its startling effectiveness, but began to once again issue the armor after seceding.

Characteristics

Helmet Characteristics

The helmet is completely sealed unlike the combat armor and its main feature is a rounded plate around their forehead and head. It then features a pair of orange goggle like lenses. Both mandibles are protected by an angular guard and features a neck ring to the back with a pair of lights on each side.

Deltoid Protection Characteristics

The Deltoid Protection Plate is squared off with a simple set of shapes and rectangle plate with a roughly triangular form on each side.

Thoracic Cage Characteristics

The Thoracic Cage of the Assault Harness is nearly identical to that of the Combat Harness. The differences include a pair of clasps on each shoulder and a hexagonal piece armor set on the center of the chest.

Unlock

• Head: Unlocked by default.

• Shoulders: Unlocked by default.

• Body: Unlocked by default.

Gallery

• Assaultarmor.jpg

  An Elite with full Assault Armor on Snowbound.

• Assault Elite with MA5C.jpg

  An Elite, equipped with full Assault Harness and an MA5C during a King of the Hill match..

• 

  Usze 'Taham clad in Assault Armor.

• 

  An Elite in silver Assault Armor making its appearance on the outskirts of Sandtrap.

• 1208489686 Assault 1.jpg

  An Elite in the Assault Harness.

• 1208568688 Assault 2.jpg

  An Elite in Assault Armor with an Energy Sword.

• 

  a glitched assault and combat helmet together found on the level floodgate

• 

  An Elite in Assault Harness in the level Floodgate.

Trivia

• Rtas 'Vadum, wears the shoulder and body pieces of this armor permutation with the helmet of a Combat variant during the events of Halo 3.
• This is the type of armor SpecOps Officer Usze 'Taham bears (if playing 4-person co-op).
• The Spec-Ops Elites from Halo 3 use the Assault Armor.
• In the Halo 3 level Floodgate, some Elite corpses have an Assault helmet, but due to a glitch the Combat helmets are on them as well, making a combination helmet. These corpses only appear toward the end of level.
• The corpses involved in the above glitch are randomly picked by the console every time you play the level.
• The helmet has orange eye pieces, that can give away someone in an dark enviroment like Blackout.
• This helmet is one of the most popular in Team SWAT, as it is the smallest Elite helmet and that makes it harder to shoot.
• The Arbiter in the Halo 3 Machinima series "Arby' n' the Chief" uses this armor while playing Halo 3.