I use Machinima Mode/Theater Mode quite frequently for the sake of my YouTube channel. Halo Infinite’s free camera mode is quite frustrating. In theater mode, I can’t find any way to raise or lower the camera without looking up and going in a straight line. In Halo 5, right bumper would raise the camera and left bumper would lower it. Also, the camera motion is very clunky. Halo 5 managed to make most motions look smoother. Instead, in Infinite, everything comes to an abrupt stop when you stop moving/turning the camera.
Also, both Machinima Mode and Theater Mode have a similar (and very frustrating) issue that Halo 5 had, where randomly the camera will go into lightspeed mode. It’s so fast that you can barely control it to get the shots you need.
Machinima Mode and Theater Mode are very important aspects of Halo, as they allow us to create unique videos, and produce high quality content. Right now, Halo Infinite is hindering content creators. I hope that 343 addresses this, and finally makes improvements to Theater Mode and Machinima Mode.
I’m pretty sure you can use the d-pad in machinima mode to adjust the camera speed. It took me a while to figure that out but hopefully that helps. As far as I know there is no way to lower your weapon like you could in prior games which is a huge shame. I hope they bring back that feature. Theater mode itself is still completely broken and is in a worse state than Halo 5’s theater mode was at launch. Of the times I tried using theater in Infinite, it crashes my game every time and the game will auto delete saved clips after each major update.
I miss Theater mode in Campaign. Of all the things that got scrapped post Halo Reach, that’s the one I miss the most.
One of the key things they need to fix is how kills are recorded in Theatre mode, because it’s completely unreliable vs video capture.
I use the keyboard to navigate because the controls are just bad. But there are some bad design decisions too, for example most people want to view themselves, so why are you not preselected when you open Theatre?
When you die, you disappear from the player list, so it shifts to another player perspective and you have to wait til you spawn to be able to view your own perspective again.
Theatre desperately needs an overhaul, because it’s a pain to create even small clips.
This theater mode was amazing! I would definitely cheer and root for this to come back fellow Spartan!
I hope they realize that if the video i watch in theater mode doesn’t accurately show where my reticle is placed when in game - then it’s pointless for me to even watch!
The main reason i go back and look at clips is to see all the desync and bloodshots that don’t register so i can at least justify my own eyesight and keep a shred of sanity lol.
They also need to fix this same issue for observer mode, it makes viewing any online tournament from observer mode pointless! I want to see where they are actually aiming!