: In older EU material, it was explicitly shown that each suit of Mark-V the
: Spartans received was identical. Spartans all having identical suits of
: armor (well, each suit of a given Mark was identical, anyway) was the rule
: for the longest time, but it's become increasingly common to have them all
: be unique little snowflakes with their own sets of custom armor. 343I kind
: of waffles back and forth on this. The opening cinematic of Halo 4 has all
: the Spartans wearing identical armor (though it's all inexplicably the new
: set of armor the Chief magically received while in cryo) as does the new
: cover of The Fall of Reach, but then you get other material like the
: Forward Unto Dawn miniseries, The Package from Legends, and these
: terminals which all have the Spartans wearing unique custom armors.

Well the armor he has in H4 is the same armor story wise that he got at the start of H2, and then wore in H3. The scars on the chest are still there too. It's kind of annoying that they did that huge a retcon on the armor, but the classic look from H2+ is disproportionate with the new armor, which they created with the idea of using mocap for cinematic.