does he have the original 49 halo 3 achievements or just 1000 gamerscore with some of the new ones too? the only way to keep your armor from disappearing is to get the original 49 achievements that shipped with the game. People on here will tell you that might not matter but i got all the achievements in 0ct. 2007 and have never had an armor problem, same with everyone i still game with from back then [Edited on 10.27.2012 4:31 PM PDT]