One of the small touches that 343 has done is the evolution of red v blue. We’re in an era of gaming where the skin you use is almost as cool as the clips you can put out. Most games now do a lot with the skins whether its just adding new colors or straight up reskins.
The character skins and color choices matter.
I always loved creating color combinations on my Halo skins showing off my favorite teams colors or some other color combo I thought was cool only to see it get buried under a full red or blue paint job in every team based game. We’ve definitely reached a point where gamers are used to seeing multiple color combos on the field with some other identified of friendlies or enemies than a full body suit that’s one color.
It’s going to create freedom in customization that matters and make for clips and videos that are a lot more visually pleasing this way.
Has this topic already been discussed? Probably, but I’ve been off the forums for a minute and my excitement for this game has got me back here like its 2010 again.
I’m still skeptical how it will work exactly and if it will work well.
In FFA games, it was easy because you knew you just had to shoot anyone who is not you.
If you get rid of the easy identification in team-based games, I’d like to play a few matches and see if it’s not detrimental to gameplay.
I’ll cheat a little and pick one feature from campaign and one from MP.
For campaign: true open-world map.
For MP: addition of bots.
It’s going to be better than a CoD game where I admittedly get confused all the time. Just having a different colored name bar isn’t enough. I think the outlines are going to work great but then again, I use a lot of Overwatch replay viewers and watch the Overwatch league so I’m used to seeing this model.
I’m really optimistic that we’ll all eventually see it as a non issue.
It’s definitely a gambit of a move. I will be very curious to see how the end of the RvB era will play out for Halo, although in the end it will probably only have so much of an overall effect. Customization is important like you said, so I think it will probably be worth it and work out. Won’t know until we know, I guess.