How do you go from this

how do you go from this

to THIS?

Different subspecies apparently.

Budget cuts, corporate mismanagement by the Hierarchs, quite a bit of outsourcing to Grunts and Jackals, plus a major lack of Engineers.
Plus the Prophets took all their really cool armor away and gave it to the monkeys.

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How big do you think their dicks are?

the 343 elite is what happens when you eat too much soy

the CHAD elites are the halo 2 elites

Different artists and leadership trying to make their mark on an established franchise.

>343 defended this by saying it's actually a different breed of elites

why the fuck do they not have gauntlets? a stray gun shot will just cut their arm in an instant

Reach > 2 > 1 >3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 343

how does that even work? are they the nigger elites?

Because they're that fucking poor. It's the literal remnants of the remnants of the Covenant. The poor stupid saps who were clinging to it years after the Ark.
I thought that was the Grunts?

They should have never gotten rid of the overly-shiny armor from CE.

Soy

Halo 2 was amazing during its day. Why does 343 have to fuck the series up?

Why the fuck are the nu elite's feet so big? Looks like they're wearing those jordan nigger shoes

pre reach elites looked threatening because they seemed agile and strong, even though the 343 elites are bulky, their design is impractical and their elephant legs make them seem lumbering and silly

>Why are these well equipped and paid soldiers better looking than the bumfuck slaves literally scavenging wreckage from Brutes?
HW2 continues to have some of the better (re)designs in the series.

The elites themselves aren't the problem, it's the armor.

4 and 5's elites; just in terms of the actual elite, not the armor, are pretty good in terms of proportions" They combine the litheness of the CE and Halo 2 design, while making them slightly beefier, but not as bulky and brutish as the 3, Wars, or the top half of the Reach design, and are overall pretty faithful to the design of 2 and 3 elites in terms of anatomy, especially around the face; only making them look slightly fiercer' unlike Reach, which almost entirely restructured their proportions and design and made them look more like demons or monsters in terms of their head and face rather then intellegient aliens. Likewise, their skin/scale texture looks better then it ever did in prior games, where it looked more like elephant skiin or wierd netting (though 4's textures are soo low quality it sort of looks ass there).

The real issue is the armor, which looks fucking retarded: It leaves tons of sections of their skin and body wide open, has stupidly ornate and unwieldly helmets, and makes them look way bulkier then they actually are. In contrast, Reach's elites themselves are shit, but their armoor is 10/10. If you actually view the models in a 3d program with the armor removed, it becomes really obvious how awful reach's elites are and how 4/5's are actually pretty decent, probably the second best in the series behind H2A's.

Pic related: 4 on the left, 3 in the middle, reach on the right. As you can see, 4's is pretty close to 3, just making them look more realistic and less stylized, wheras Reach's goes full retard

>Why the fuck are the nu elite's feet so big?

They aren't, the armor is just stupidly big around the feet. Go look at images of Reach elites, their feet are actually retardedly big.

See above, 343's elites aren't actually that bulky, only their armor is.

poor doesn't excuse having no armor, the remant's ships are even better than they were in the covenant war and they have a shitload. also 343 I believe said they are a subspecies of elites.

From Sangheili to Swahili

Another image

>can't afford good armor
>their feet armor is thicker

pick 1