In depth of Loadouts.

[iBotPeaches]

Load Outs. At the beginning of each match or round, and again every time you wait out your respawn window, you are given the option of choosing a Load Out.

 

Load Outs are not player created or defined, but rather playlist and/or game type specific. Essentially, they allow you to choose your Armor Ability, your starting primary and secondary weapons, and your grenade cache on the fly.

 

For some playlists, that might mean every Load Out features the same weapon sets with only the Armor Abilities to distinguish them. For others, it might mean that as the game goes on, you’ll have access to more and more choices based on a number of factors we can fiddle with.

 

That's just one example to the right. Many gametypes will feature more uniformity in the initial selection.

 

What it doesn’t mean is that you will be creating your own custom Load Out to bring into Matchmaking. You’ll be choosing from our prefabricated offerings, based on what’s best suited for each gametype.

 

Don’t worry about power weapons being available right from the start, either. In most cases, you’ll still be finding those distributed via a number of methods throughout the battlefield, though if circumstance warrants it, we certainly can start you with, say, the Rocket Launcher.

 

And, of course, you can still loot the corpses of your fallen foes and you’ll still find sweet stashes of weapons strewn carelessly about the map for you to find and acquire.

 

 

It seems instead of having custom classes, you will pick your loadout prior to the game starting. All playlists control the starting loadout options. This screenshot explains it.

 

 

 

source: http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=25376

 

[Curtis]

gay.

 

i like halo because its a perfect, fair, and balanced first shooter.

 

This looks more like cock of doody

[iBotPeaches]

You'll be either in the Arena or Hardcore playlists then

 

No loadouts there, or armour abilities. Just regular old Halo.

[Lazorz]

Great. Now all the little kids are going to choose the shotgun class every time and corner camp, and all the MLG people are going to choose the single-shot BR thing class and own me up.

[Quinn]

Thats.... rather dumb. (The classes)

[lostmodz26]

I'm glad that you can't make your own loadout. Thats exactly why CoD is unbalanced.

[gruntmods]

Great. Now all the little kids are going to choose the shotgun class every time and corner camp, and all the MLG people are going to choose the single-shot BR thing class and own me up.

Except most playlists wont have either as a loadout.

[Randomrocket]

It would make better custom games if you can make the players capable of choosing their own classes.

[Rogue Modder]

There better still be weapons on the map like BR's and not JUST power weapons you can't spawn with. -.-

[Randomrocket]

I hope they have a way to make a classic halo gametype. Where there arent loadouts, no reticule bloom and no armor abilities.