Anti white stripes (preemptive)

Choices felt limited in halo 5x because of white stripes or a forced color, or massive amounts of pale secondary color.

Going to ask everyone early...

Zero white markings / forced colors?
Or keep them minimal like h3 / reach ? (1-3 small stripes)

when there are 3-5 variants of good armor.
But they all have white stripes or forced color recon, helljumper etc..

Instead of flooding the menu with loads of duplicate pieces with different textures or stripes etc, just make each variant of armor one of each set, and provide the players with some sort of armor paint system where we can create our own designs, in which we could save and utilize whenever we want. Obviously a system would need to be in place to weed out anyone making inappropriate designs, but that would probably be the easy part. (Think Forza's decal and design system)

I'm onboard with you- forced color/pattern elements on armor sets should be almost entirely nixed. They don't do anything but restrict how the player can customize their armor, in my view. The Pathfinder armor in Halo 5 was one I actually liked a fair amount, but couldn't make myself rock on account of how much forced white stripes and patterns were on it.

I would also like to see the return of some patterns they seemed to have completely removed, like the X pattern on the Locus helm. I loved the look of it and was sad to see in Halo 5 you only get a blank white face plate or the Edge variant.