: I have a question about this actually. I've heard for so long that the armor
: variations are stored within the maps and that's why before we couldn't do
: DLC armors and such. I'm assuming this is maybe the same reason why these
: new downloaded armors won't work in SpOps.

: I guess my question is why is this something that's even done? Is there not
: some way to have the armors "separately" accessed from the disk
: for multi, SpOps and more? Wouldn't that also pave the way for more DLC
: armor skins?

: - MacGyver10

Armour data was stored in the map files to reduce loading times when loading it from the disc (same with weapons and vehicles). Halo 4 however requires a mandatory install right? So they can be assured that they can load MP map data from the much faster harddrive and so can store that stuff separately. (And just once)

Or that's the basic theory. I don't know why they'd not be doing the same thing for Spops.