Customization: Dancing, Callouts, Blood Color

Games Halo Infinite
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Dancing: Very recently I learned that the Halo 5 beta had a feature where your spartan would perform an emote specific to what you customized. I’m not saying I would want some straight up Fortnite dancing in Halo, but I feel like if they could have really done something with this. At the beginning of each match, your spartan just walks forward and stands. Like, the same exact thing every single game. How on earth could you go from something unique to something so boring. I mean, maybe they though it would create a culture of unsportsman-like conduct in the game, but this is Halo we’re talking about, where there very own “pros” constantly body disrespect and T bag in major tournaments. I say just take out the whole intro/outro spartan line up if it’s going to be the same thing every time.

Callouts: The first time I played Halo 5 I found it kind of weird that my spartan and others were just talking to each other. It almost made me feel uneasy, but then I got used to it and it made the game feel more immersive. However, after awhile, it just got and annoying hearing the same things over and over, and made me realize what a huge missed opportunity this was. Why not make the callout voices customizable? Heck, why not make Legendary and Mythic requisitions of voices like Cortana, Sgt Johnson, and so forth? Like the spartan intro/outro it was just something that could have been something more.

Blood Color: Now this is a long stretch, but it would be pretty unique to have your own special blood color for your spartan. Halo 5 didn’t have blood for whatever reason, but since we still don’t know if Halo 6 will be rated M, we can maybe hope that blood will be reintroduced. To me, blood is something more than just violence, but an indication of what you’re doing to the other player. Want to know what I mean? Go ahead and play Gears of War with the gore turned off, and you’ll find how much more difficult it is to see what you’re doing to the enemy players since every shot looks the same. Imagine: having players with elite blood, grunt blood, jackal blood, hunter blood. Heck, maybe even throw some promethean blood in there too. I mean it’s a game about shooting and killing each other, so idk what the big deal is when asking for blood.

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Dancing: Where did you find that? In any case, no. We’re playing as SUPER-SOLDIERS. Not kids with nerf guns.

Callouts: Eh, maybe. I think I’d have to see it in action to judge it appropriately.

Blood color:… What? I mean… I could probably dig that but… uh… I don’t even know how to react to that request XD.

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I don’t think you could customize your emotes in the H5 beta. I didn’t play it, but I’m pretty sure the team just gave each other high-fives at the end and something else at the beginning. I don’t think you could customize anything. People didn’t like that because, like the guy above said, we’re super soldiers, not kids with nerf guns. It would be absolutely ridiculous to see your Spartan doing some dumb emote. Save the D-pad for more productive actions, I say.

What WOULD be cool is if you took the stances from retail H5 and made your guy do whatever stance you chose at the beginning of the match. For example, if I choose “Look Skyward”, the H5 stance where your spartan looks off into the distance with a sniper rifle over his shoulder, then he would do that stance at the start of each match, as well. Give the stances more use than to just look at your spartan in the customization menu.

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> I don’t think you could customize your emotes in the H5 beta. I didn’t play it, but I’m pretty sure the team just gave each other high-fives at the end and something else at the beginning. I don’t think you could customize anything. People didn’t like that because, like the guy above said, we’re super soldiers, not kids with nerf guns. It would be absolutely ridiculous to see your Spartan doing some dumb emote. Save the D-pad for more productive actions, I say.
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> What WOULD be cool is if you took the stances from retail H5 and made your guy do whatever stance you chose at the beginning of the match. For example, if I choose “Look Skyward”, the H5 stance where your spartan looks off into the distance with a sniper rifle over his shoulder, then he would do that stance at the start of each match, as well. Give the stances more use than to just look at your spartan in the customization menu.

hmm. so it’s more “super soldier” like to just walk up and stand still? What part of the intro and outro from the current Halo 5 arena makes you feel like a super soldier? and I never said that I wanted the spartans to dance or any of that, I just said that it would be interesting if the spartans did something other than just walk forward two steps at the beginning and end of each match. I mean, they clearly had the tech and interest in making something of it, so the fact that they did absolutely nothing with it is what’s awes me. Yeah, it wasn’t customizable in the beta, but if they continued down that path, it was inevitable that

As far as the “we are super soldiers” nonsense goes, remember that you’re playing Halo, the game where crouching up and down on an enemy and spartans head’s exploding with confetti while children cheering is the norm. Also, remember when Sgt Johnson hugged the elite before they both died at the end of Halo 1? Or how about the man showing in his boxers and the creepy monkey family in Halo 3? If “being a super soldier” is your goal when you play Halo, idk where you’ve been these past 17 years, because in most of the games satire and humor have been a big part of why I enjoyed them, and Halo 5 probably ranks last on the humor scale. Having personalized emotes for the beginning and end of the matches could have been hilarious and a great way to taunt your enemy and basically mock him or her for losing, but just in a humorous sportsman like manner.

Also, idk why you think I said anything about in-game emotes through use of the directional pad. Go ahead and read my entire post and you’ll find nothing that mentions that. Honestly, the fact that you said something that inaccurate suggests you didn’t even read my post at all.

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> Dancing: Where did you find that? In any case, no. We’re playing as SUPER-SOLDIERS. Not kids with nerf guns.
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> Callouts: Eh, maybe. I think I’d have to see it in action to judge it appropriately.
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> Blood color:… What? I mean… I could probably dig that but… uh… I don’t even know how to react to that request XD.

Like I told the other guy, go ahead and actually read what I wrote. Each statement you made just tells me you didn’t read more than one word in each paragraph I wrote.

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> Dancing: Very recently I learned that the Halo 5 beta had a feature where your spartan would perform an emote specific to what you customized. I’m not saying I would want some straight up Fortnite dancing in Halo, but I feel like if they could have really done something with this. At the beginning of each match, your spartan just walks forward and stands. Like, the same exact thing every single game. How on earth could you go from something unique to something so boring. I mean, maybe they though it would create a culture of unsportsman-like conduct in the game, but this is Halo we’re talking about, where there very own “pros” constantly body disrespect and T bag in major tournaments. I say just take out the whole intro/outro spartan line up if it’s going to be the same thing every time.
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> Callouts: The first time I played Halo 5 I found it kind of weird that my spartan and others were just talking to each other. It almost made me feel uneasy, but then I got used to it and it made the game feel more immersive. However, after awhile, it just got and annoying hearing the same things over and over, and made me realize what a huge missed opportunity this was. Why not make the callout voices customizable? Heck, why not make Legendary and Mythic requisitions of voices like Cortana, Sgt Johnson, and so forth? Like the spartan intro/outro it was just something that could have been something more.
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> Blood Color: Now this is a long stretch, but it would be pretty unique to have your own special blood color for your spartan. Halo 5 didn’t have blood for whatever reason, but since we still don’t know if Halo 6 will be rated M, we can maybe hope that blood will be reintroduced. To me, blood is something more than just violence, but an indication of what you’re doing to the other player. Want to know what I mean? Go ahead and play Gears of War with the gore turned off, and you’ll find how much more difficult it is to see what you’re doing to the enemy players since every shot looks the same. Imagine: having players with elite blood, grunt blood, jackal blood, hunter blood. Heck, maybe even throw some promethean blood in there too. I mean it’s a game about shooting and killing each other, so idk what the big deal is when asking for blood.

I played the beta, but as mentioned I don’t recall being able to customise the pre game high fives. I could be wrong, a long time and a lot of games have dimmed my memory. However I’m not against them, I think there are fans that like them, so why not have them ? Doom 2016 had just about every dance you can imagine from the carlton to jazz hands lol. Some were hilarious imo.

Customised voice packs ? Check, definitely up for that.

Not too sure about changing blood colour, but I’m on board with the addition of blood, and I like the fact you used Gears as an example. I want blood and gore back, and I don’t see why they cannot make it like Gears where you have the toggle on / off option. Blood was always a part of Halo, and another thing that was removed without any explanation given (that I’m aware of).

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> Now this is a long stretch, but it would be pretty unique to have your own special blood color for your spartan.

I played a third-person shooter game on the N64 called Jet Force Gemini (it’s on Rare Replay if you want to try it). In that game, you could put in a “cheat code” that made all the blood in the game rainbow colored. It was wacky and fun. I never thought about Halo having something like that, but now that you mention it, I think it would be pretty entertaining.

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> I played the beta, but as mentioned I don’t recall being able to customise the pre game high fives. I could be wrong, a long time and a lot of games have dimmed my memory. However I’m not against them, I think there are fans that like them, so why not have them ?

If Halo Infinite has those, they have to be customizable/toggleable because I did not like the nonsense that was in the beta at all. I wouldn’t mind them being in the game as long as I could choose for my own Spartan to not act that way.

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> > Dancing: Very recently I learned that the Halo 5 beta had a feature where your spartan would perform an emote specific to what you customized. I’m not saying I would want some straight up Fortnite dancing in Halo, but I feel like if they could have really done something with this. At the beginning of each match, your spartan just walks forward and stands. Like, the same exact thing every single game. How on earth could you go from something unique to something so boring. I mean, maybe they though it would create a culture of unsportsman-like conduct in the game, but this is Halo we’re talking about, where there very own “pros” constantly body disrespect and T bag in major tournaments. I say just take out the whole intro/outro spartan line up if it’s going to be the same thing every time.
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> > Callouts: The first time I played Halo 5 I found it kind of weird that my spartan and others were just talking to each other. It almost made me feel uneasy, but then I got used to it and it made the game feel more immersive. However, after awhile, it just got and annoying hearing the same things over and over, and made me realize what a huge missed opportunity this was. Why not make the callout voices customizable? Heck, why not make Legendary and Mythic requisitions of voices like Cortana, Sgt Johnson, and so forth? Like the spartan intro/outro it was just something that could have been something more.
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> > Blood Color: Now this is a long stretch, but it would be pretty unique to have your own special blood color for your spartan. Halo 5 didn’t have blood for whatever reason, but since we still don’t know if Halo 6 will be rated M, we can maybe hope that blood will be reintroduced. To me, blood is something more than just violence, but an indication of what you’re doing to the other player. Want to know what I mean? Go ahead and play Gears of War with the gore turned off, and you’ll find how much more difficult it is to see what you’re doing to the enemy players since every shot looks the same. Imagine: having players with elite blood, grunt blood, jackal blood, hunter blood. Heck, maybe even throw some promethean blood in there too. I mean it’s a game about shooting and killing each other, so idk what the big deal is when asking for blood.
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> I played the beta, but as mentioned I don’t recall being able to customise the pre game high fives. I could be wrong, a long time and a lot of games have dimmed my memory. However I’m not against them, I think there are fans that like them, so why not have them ? Doom 2016 had just about every dance you can imagine from the carlton to jazz hands lol. Some were hilarious imo.
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> Customised voice packs ? Check, definitely up for that.
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> Not too sure about changing blood colour, but I’m on board with the addition of blood, and I like the fact you used Gears as an example. I want blood and gore back, and I don’t see why they cannot make it like Gears where you have the toggle on / off option. Blood was always a part of Halo, and another thing that was removed without any explanation given (that I’m aware of).

Ya i know that blood color is a long stretch, but honestly I think isn’t all that unusual compared to floating hearts and confetti emerging out of a Spartans head after a headshot, or a thunderstorm or stinky green clouds surrounding the helmet. To me, the more customization the better. Gears 4s customization towers over Halo 5 when comparing the variety and creativity of the content. I mean, have you seen the Day of the Dead skins? Freaking amazing. Some of the weapon skins are a bit much, but the fact is that there are people who like them. The fact that people want to actually limit customization and creativity in Halo for the sake of “being a super soldier” is just ridiculous. Halo isn’t and has never been a game that aims for realism, so idk why people are acting like it is.

And honestly, I just really want to see Hunter blood spilled in the area where I got a close call or reversal. Haha

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> > Now this is a long stretch, but it would be pretty unique to have your own special blood color for your spartan.
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> I played a third-person shooter game on the N64 called Jet Force Gemini (it’s on Rare Replay if you want to try it). In that game, you could put in a “cheat code” that made all the blood in the game rainbow colored. It was wacky and fun. I never thought about Halo having something like that, but now that you mention it, I think it would be pretty entertaining.
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> > I played the beta, but as mentioned I don’t recall being able to customise the pre game high fives. I could be wrong, a long time and a lot of games have dimmed my memory. However I’m not against them, I think there are fans that like them, so why not have them ?
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> If Halo Infinite has those, they have to be customizable/toggleable because I did not like the nonsense that was in the beta at all. I wouldn’t mind them being in the game as long as I could choose for my own Spartan to not act that way.

Lol, Jet Force Gemini is one of my favourite games, Rare was putting out a lot of original titles in those days, I forgot about that cheat code. I also agree with emotes being customised and on toggle, they’re not for everyone, that’s for sure.

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dancing/stances: i would take them out entirely. the stances in the beta i thought were more than just embaressing. they looked like what 12 year olds think look cool. just standing and staring looks better imo, but i don’t need that either. i would be fine with just showing the scoreboard with everyone on it for 2 secounds and then start the game. dancing and showing stances just takes unnecessary time and looks ridiculus. it doesn’t fit the halo style imo.

callouts: to customize the voice is a nice idea. but i don’t like them overall. i would rather have people have to talk to each other. or make the spartans only make callouts with the push of a button, like in battlefield. i don’t think it’s fun that the player is taken by the hand all the time (automatic callouts and big announces when wich weapon spawns and where). but if there are callouts, to customize the voice isn’t a bad idea

blood colour: yeah, why not be able to change it. could be fun and takes nothing away.

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I don’t want there to be dancing in HI it could make the the game silly which I don’t want it to be silly

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I believe they took the intro/outro animations out because everyone hated them in the beta. I wouldn’t mind different stances but I’d rather not have actual dances.

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Dancing? Please, no.
Callouts? Not from my actual teammate’s coms? No thanks.

Besides that, at least Reach level customization and I would be satisfied.

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> > I don’t think you could customize your emotes in the H5 beta. I didn’t play it, but I’m pretty sure the team just gave each other high-fives at the end and something else at the beginning. I don’t think you could customize anything. People didn’t like that because, like the guy above said, we’re super soldiers, not kids with nerf guns. It would be absolutely ridiculous to see your Spartan doing some dumb emote. Save the D-pad for more productive actions, I say.
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> > What WOULD be cool is if you took the stances from retail H5 and made your guy do whatever stance you chose at the beginning of the match. For example, if I choose “Look Skyward”, the H5 stance where your spartan looks off into the distance with a sniper rifle over his shoulder, then he would do that stance at the start of each match, as well. Give the stances more use than to just look at your spartan in the customization menu.
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> hmm. so it’s more “super soldier” like to just walk up and stand still? What part of the intro and outro from the current Halo 5 arena makes you feel like a super soldier? and I never said that I wanted the spartans to dance or any of that, I just said that it would be interesting if the spartans did something other than just walk forward two steps at the beginning and end of each match. I mean, they clearly had the tech and interest in making something of it, so the fact that they did absolutely nothing with it is what’s awes me. Yeah, it wasn’t customizable in the beta, but if they continued down that path, it was inevitable that
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> As far as the “we are super soldiers” nonsense goes, remember that you’re playing Halo, the game where crouching up and down on an enemy and spartans head’s exploding with confetti while children cheering is the norm. Also, remember when Sgt Johnson hugged the elite before they both died at the end of Halo 1? Or how about the man showing in his boxers and the creepy monkey family in Halo 3? If “being a super soldier” is your goal when you play Halo, idk where you’ve been these past 17 years, because in most of the games satire and humor have been a big part of why I enjoyed them, and Halo 5 probably ranks last on the humor scale. Having personalized emotes for the beginning and end of the matches could have been hilarious and a great way to taunt your enemy and basically mock him or her for losing, but just in a humorous sportsman like manner.
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> Also, idk why you think I said anything about in-game emotes through use of the directional pad. Go ahead and read my entire post and you’ll find nothing that mentions that. Honestly, the fact that you said something that inaccurate suggests you didn’t even read my post at all.

Yes, it is. Not counting the S-IVs, the S-IIs basically had no childhood. Regardless, a soldier doesn’t dance around in the battlefield. Much less a super soldier. Dancing or emotes were never in Halo nor were ever needed and we will never need them, especially since it’s now so popular to have a dance emote to “express yourself”. Even DOOM had it and is a reason why I just don’t play it’s MP. Still, S-IV or Marine, not even Marines dance around. If anything, just a little cheering of enthusiasm, but never go beyond that. Again, they’re not grown kids with nerf guns. They’re soldiers trained for war, and war should NEVER be taken lightly.

The confetti from headshot are simple funny gimmicks for the players. The Spartans still maintained their posture, they didn’t salute because he killed the enemy nor hit a dab or anything.
Do you know what easter eggs are? How does THAT even match with emotes? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The Johnson scene in Halo 1 isn’t even canon and was a fun alternate ending for the accomplished. The monkey family and man in shorts are simple EASTER EGGS, only meant to be found by those who dare to. In normal means (in a regular gameplay) we would NEVER find them.

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If it hasnʻt been explained yet by the other few comments above, fans voted to change the match starting animations for your teams from “taunting to the enemy” to a “stance at dramatic angels” because it showed immaturity. In my opinion, I think having a mature, professional emote customization just for the start and ending intro of a game would be nice. Like you cocking your shotgun instead of standing there.

I donʻt like callouts. I feel like its time consuming when you can use your few seconds on calling out someone on something better.

Id like blood back, different colors is nice. But I donʻt want that to be a main focused. Just a few general colors like red, blue, green, purple would do. Not a multiple of light green, pink, indigo, cyan, black, ect. Its not that important.

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I’m all for emotes tbh

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> > > I don’t think you could customize your emotes in the H5 beta. I didn’t play it, but I’m pretty sure the team just gave each other high-fives at the end and something else at the beginning. I don’t think you could customize anything. People didn’t like that because, like the guy above said, we’re super soldiers, not kids with nerf guns. It would be absolutely ridiculous to see your Spartan doing some dumb emote. Save the D-pad for more productive actions, I say.
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> > > What WOULD be cool is if you took the stances from retail H5 and made your guy do whatever stance you chose at the beginning of the match. For example, if I choose “Look Skyward”, the H5 stance where your spartan looks off into the distance with a sniper rifle over his shoulder, then he would do that stance at the start of each match, as well. Give the stances more use than to just look at your spartan in the customization menu.
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> > hmm. so it’s more “super soldier” like to just walk up and stand still? What part of the intro and outro from the current Halo 5 arena makes you feel like a super soldier? and I never said that I wanted the spartans to dance or any of that, I just said that it would be interesting if the spartans did something other than just walk forward two steps at the beginning and end of each match. I mean, they clearly had the tech and interest in making something of it, so the fact that they did absolutely nothing with it is what’s awes me. Yeah, it wasn’t customizable in the beta, but if they continued down that path, it was inevitable that
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> > As far as the “we are super soldiers” nonsense goes, remember that you’re playing Halo, the game where crouching up and down on an enemy and spartans head’s exploding with confetti while children cheering is the norm. Also, remember when Sgt Johnson hugged the elite before they both died at the end of Halo 1? Or how about the man showing in his boxers and the creepy monkey family in Halo 3? If “being a super soldier” is your goal when you play Halo, idk where you’ve been these past 17 years, because in most of the games satire and humor have been a big part of why I enjoyed them, and Halo 5 probably ranks last on the humor scale. Having personalized emotes for the beginning and end of the matches could have been hilarious and a great way to taunt your enemy and basically mock him or her for losing, but just in a humorous sportsman like manner.
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> > Also, idk why you think I said anything about in-game emotes through use of the directional pad. Go ahead and read my entire post and you’ll find nothing that mentions that. Honestly, the fact that you said something that inaccurate suggests you didn’t even read my post at all.
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> . Regardless, a soldier doesn’t dance around in the battlefield. Much less a super soldier. Dancing or emotes were never in Halo nor were ever needed and we will never need them, especially since it’s now so popular to have a dance emote to “express yourself”. Even DOOM had it and is a reason why I just don’t play it’s MP. Still, S-IV or Marine, not even Marines dance around. If anything, just a little cheering of enthusiasm, but never go beyond that. Again, they’re not grown kids with nerf guns. They’re soldiers trained for war, and war should NEVER be taken lightly.

Okay, here’s where you’re wrong and why you’re taking this way too serious. First of all, if you actually read my posts, I never asked for dancing spartans, I simply said that they should have done something with the intro and outro of each match other than having the spartan there. Second of all, you’re dead wrong when say “soldiers don’t dance around in the battlefield.” I was in the Army for 5 years, and I can tell you the number one thing soldiers do to pass the time is mess around and act stupid. I’m not saying they “dance around the battlefield” mostly because that wasn’t even part of my OP, but slaps on the back of the head and on the butt, constantly insulting each other, messing around with Government Issued equipment, playing stupid games, etc. were an everyday thing. I can tell you haven’t been around much military personnel seeing as how you said “They’re soldiers trained for war, and war should NEVER be taken lightly.” To me, that’s just the typical civilian misconception of all soldiers being super bad-a** stoned faced PTSD infested battle machines, when the reality is that isn’t true at all. We are all humans just like anyone else.

The fact is, it’s basically been proven that Halo’s multiplayer is just a war game simulation, so why wouldn’t the spartans mess around and goof around in something that doesn’t involve actual death and only a battle to see who’s better? I’ll tell you one thing, when the army, marines, and so forth conduct mission training, messing around is the norm.

“but wait, it’s based in the far future and the spartans had no childhood and are super depressed and messed up in the head!” Well, if your’e perfectly fine with having a spartan that has no personality, no humor, and is just a grimace, depressed and mentally broken down, then so be it. It’s just a game bud, and people just want it to be fun. It’s not a war simulation lol You sound like those guys who play airsoft and take it more serious than soldiers deployed in Afghanistan.

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> > > > I don’t think you could customize your emotes in the H5 beta. I didn’t play it, but I’m pretty sure the team just gave each other high-fives at the end and something else at the beginning. I don’t think you could customize anything. People didn’t like that because, like the guy above said, we’re super soldiers, not kids with nerf guns. It would be absolutely ridiculous to see your Spartan doing some dumb emote. Save the D-pad for more productive actions, I say.
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> > > > What WOULD be cool is if you took the stances from retail H5 and made your guy do whatever stance you chose at the beginning of the match. For example, if I choose “Look Skyward”, the H5 stance where your spartan looks off into the distance with a sniper rifle over his shoulder, then he would do that stance at the start of each match, as well. Give the stances more use than to just look at your spartan in the customization menu.
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> > . Regardless, a soldier doesn’t dance around in the battlefield. Much less a super soldier. Dancing or emotes were never in Halo nor were ever needed and we will never need them, especially since it’s now so popular to have a dance emote to “express yourself”. Even DOOM had it and is a reason why I just don’t play it’s MP. Still, S-IV or Marine, not even Marines dance around. If anything, just a little cheering of enthusiasm, but never go beyond that. Again, they’re not grown kids with nerf guns. They’re soldiers trained for war, and war should NEVER be taken lightly.
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> Okay, here’s where you’re wrong and why you’re taking this way too serious. First of all, if you actually read my posts, I never asked for dancing spartans, I simply said that they should have done something with the intro and outro of each match other than having the spartan there. Second of all, you’re dead wrong when say “soldiers don’t dance around in the battlefield.” I was in the Army for 5 years, and I can tell you the number one thing soldiers do to pass the time is mess around and act stupid. I’m not saying they “dance around the battlefield” mostly because that wasn’t even part of my OP, but slaps on the back of the head and on the butt, constantly insulting each other, messing around with Government Issued equipment, playing stupid games, etc. were an everyday thing. I can tell you haven’t been around much military personnel seeing as how you said “They’re soldiers trained for war, and war should NEVER be taken lightly.” To me, that’s just the typical civilian misconception of all soldiers being super bad-a** stoned faced PTSD infested battle machines, when the reality is that isn’t true at all. We are all humans just like anyone else.
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> The fact is, it’s basically been proven that Halo’s multiplayer is just a war game simulation, so why wouldn’t the spartans mess around and goof around in something that doesn’t involve actual death and only a battle to see who’s better? I’ll tell you one thing, when the army, marines, and so forth conduct mission training, messing around is the norm.
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> “but wait, it’s based in the far future and the spartans had no childhood and are super depressed and messed up in the head!” Well, if your’e perfectly fine with having a spartan that has no personality, no humor, and is just a grimace, depressed and mentally broken down, then so be it. It’s just a game bud, and people just want it to be fun. It’s not a war simulation lol You sound like those guys who play airsoft and take it more serious than soldiers deployed in Afghanistan.

“Dancing” as an expression. Emotes or anything still work.
We shouldn’t really compare our military with Halo’s. In Halo, you’re fighting for the survival of the Human race. We, as real Humans, don’t.
MP games being simple simulations doesn’t mean that everyone can just suddenly start waving at everyone or anything. It’s a simulation to test and improve your combat prowess. It would be weird for someone to, for example, start doing the Kazotsky kick in the middle of an evacuation, or challenge someone for a game of rock, paper, scissors.
Just because they can’t wave at someone or salute doesn’t mean they’re heartless, depressed, inhuman characters. Just the appearance can already say something about you, and your actions further prove it. You don’t need an emote of you firing a imaginary pistol with your hand when a -Yoink!-, which has been around since even before Halo, already does the trick of taunting or humiliating the opponent. You don’t need a waving emote to say hello to someone when a -Yoink!- already does that as well. “Oh, neither you nor you opponent can’t kill each other. Awkward stare, then both start teabagging for the time being until they can slaughter each other again.”

You’re right about something: It’s common for a civilian to have misconceptions about soldiers, but I wouldn’t go as far as to say that they’re:

> super bad-a** stoned faced PTSD infested battle machines

as you described it… that’s just me however. But, again, we really shouldn’t compare Halo’s Universe with ours. Yes, “it’s just a game”, but it would be simply weird if, for example, Fal 'Chavamee said something disrespectful for the victims fallen by his blade during that huge battle he had… and that battle IS canon. The same goes for when Sgt. Ghost used that prototype suit in “The Prototype”. It would suddenly be just as weird if Spartans started emoting during simulation battles especially since:

  • All the simulations we do in Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo 4 and Halo 5 all take place in the Infinity, which leads me to point number 2; - The Infinity was once attacked from the inside. Episode 7 of Spartan Ops; - They never emoted during simulations in the 3 games above. Why would they suddenly start doing it in Infinite? “New game, new mechanics, new everything”. “New game, same type of soldiers, same continuity.” - This point, number 4, is more personal, but the thing is that I don’t want Halo’s core to be corrupted, at least further. Emotes are now so common in games, it would just be a cherry on top of the hate to add them. It were the generic additions of ADS and such that divided the community. Adding in emotes would be just as bad as adding the very controversial Sprint.However, I’m starting to feel that I may be misunderstanding what you want to tell.
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  • Dancing - absolutely not!!! I don’t want Halo to turn into fortnite or something. That kind of stuff in games in my opinion is a complete waste of time, money and resources. - Callouts - well the reason the callouts don’t sound like x,y or z is because your not playing as those characters. I guess they could make different voices you can choose from for your character, but I don’t really see this as a high priority and a lot of people also turn off this function. As far as the whole intro/outro stuff, it was changed from the beta because the majority of people including myself, couldn’t stand the whole hi-5/fist bumping bro garbage. It was super lame and just gave off a really bad vibe. I actually had two friends who said if this stays in the game they couldn’t play it because it was just so laughable (as in bad) I do agree that they could have done much better with the whole intro/outro stuff though. Like many people have said, they should have integrated the stances or something in those or something. - Blood color - I guess this isn’t a bad idea. No different really then say the headshot confetti stuff from Halo Reach (which I found annoying lol) but this type of stuff should definitely only be in firefight or soical or something. Not ranked…But to all these ideas, ask yourself this… would you rather have dancing, different colored blood, emotes etc. or say, i dont know… more different types of assassinations depending on what weapon you’re holding, living environments and say a much deeper armour customisation? I think we know what the majority would choose. I’m not trying to be harsh here, just being honest and saying my thoughts.

Anytime developers work on this kind of silly stuff it takes away time that they could be working on other things that i would say the majority of people think is much more important and it makes the game that much more polished.

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> dancing/stances: i would take them out entirely. the stances in the beta i thought were more than just embaressing. they looked like what 12 year olds think look cool. just standing and staring looks better imo, but i don’t need that either. i would be fine with just showing the scoreboard with everyone on it for 2 secounds and then start the game. dancing and showing stances just takes unnecessary time and looks ridiculus. it doesn’t fit the halo style imo.
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> callouts: to customize the voice is a nice idea. but i don’t like them overall. i would rather have people have to talk to each other. or make the spartans only make callouts with the push of a button, like in battlefield. i don’t think it’s fun that the player is taken by the hand all the time (automatic callouts and big announces when wich weapon spawns and where). but if there are callouts, to customize the voice isn’t a bad idea
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> blood colour: yeah, why not be able to change it. could be fun and takes nothing away.

I pretty much feel like Serg here, dances and poses just don’t fit the Halo style at all imho. Than again, SIV are pretty much the clowns of the UNSC. Therefore… It IS canon I guess? :sweat_smile:

However, Nate already said it earlier:

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> If Halo Infinite has those, they have to be customizable/toggleable because I did not like the nonsense that was in the beta at all. I wouldn’t mind them being in the game as long as I could choose for my own Spartan to not act that way.

It’s all a question of personalization. If I can toggle poses, weapon skins, callout and even blood (including color settings for Elites and Spartans) why not having it in the game? The more options we get the merrier!