With Season 2, 343 improved the Friend or Foe system by allowing you to change the opacity and thickness of outlines. These changes are good, but let’s not stop there. I have some suggestions to improve friend or foe system customizability.
1: Each team has a different color option - Instead of the outlines being limited to allies, squad mates, and enemies, instead add more options to change the color of the teams themselves. For example, Eagle team is Blue and Cobra is red, and another team is yellow. This change allows for easier identification of enemies in Multi-Team game modes, which is important if you are trying to prioritize killing one opponent over another. If you want your team and your enemies to stay the same color all the time (like your teammates are always blue and enemies always red), there would be a toggle to switch to the original friendly/enemy system.
2: Separate Shield and Team colors - This is more personal preference, but this would make the game visually more enjoyable for people. This option would be selected through a toggle button on the UI/Accessibility options page. This change will make it that if selected, a player will have the outline and color chosen for their team, but their shield would be colored like Master Chief’s shield in campaign.
For example, imagine an enemy in Cobra team has a red outline and a red motion tracker dot, and a red name when you aim at them. If you were to shoot them, their shield would flare up as a bright yellow color, like the campaign’s, rather than flaring up as red, as it would currently in multiplayer. This feature is definitely not a priority, but It would always be nice to have more options, as I personally dislike the red and blue shields that pop up when someone is taking damage, and I also don’t want both teams to be yellow colored as that would cause confusion in identifying them through outlines and the motion tracker.
I hope these suggestions are taken into consideration. Please feel free to discuss this below and add your own suggestions if you have any.