Like, you have an ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK AT YOUR DISPOSAL and yet we have the same monotonous, Monk-chant “light” on a 45 second or so loop. How about some rock riffs like Halo 2, or loop the Infinite soundtrack while the game or multiplayer map loads OR the ability to watch theater highlights while the BTB map is stuck loading on “54%” for INFINITE minutes ???
AND how about a Multiplayer menu more EXCITING than my Spartan with their hands on their hips next to a few boxes, crates, pine trees and a Pelican…
You, know, some actual effort to make being in the Menus less than actual Water Torture ???
SIMPLE. COMMON. SENSE. DECISIONS.
You have an ENTIRE 3D HALO RING IN SPACE AND HUNDREDS OF PIECES OF CONCEPT ART THAT COULD BE AN ACTUAL AAA QUALITY LOADING SCREEN INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT GRASS, ROCKS AND METALLIC HEXAGONS WHICH WE ALREADY SPEND WAYYYY TOO MUCH TIME DOING IN CAMPAIGN
This isn’t rocket science. "Unreal" from 1999 had a flythrough of the level accompanied by a powerful soundtrack choice for the menu that was AWESOME, so in 2022 the bar could AT LEAST BE SET THAT HIGH for Quality.
The Infinite Menu song makes me wanna go to sleep, it’s THAT boring. The game is literally called INFINITE yet can’t even make something as simple as the menus feel exciting.
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I hate how my spartan just stands there looking left and right with the hands on the hips lmao
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The home page music is so forking annoying
1/20 I get the halo monks singing which is nice, but the rest of the time it’s “bing bing bing bing, bing bing bing bing” 4 notes-drop lower 4 notes, change scale repeat. Over and over
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Lol the lobby music is driving me nuts. It’s not even the best version of the Monks singing, it’s the equivalent of Halo Elevator music
The Infinite Soundtrack has PLENTY of great songs they can cycle for the menu songs.
Black Ops Cold War even let’s you choose the menu music you want with a Menu Song playlist, you can UNLOCK new songs for it, and you can skip the songs if you want. When even frakin Call of Duty is doing some stuff better than Halo, you know they need to improve.
I’ve seen features like this in game cube games if I recall correctly. Would be nice to see, but I know 343 has trouble with features that have been around multiple decades, I never hold my breath
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You would think that in 2022 that you could walk around with your Spartan in a test or practice map while the game loads…
SplitGate has that feature.
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You’d think any game with the resources and time this studio had would be a freakin’ slam dunk, but here we are!
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Lol you’re right. Freaking Xbox games had lobbies you could walk around in while you looked for matches.
The Mechassault sequel had that if I remember right.
At least if there are gonna be long load times I shouldn’t have to be annoyed, especially with the removal of lobby Chat and map/mode voting which they removed
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I mean hell, fortnite has that. While players are loading in they had a lobby you could run around and play in with other people.
That was ages ago when I played that, I have to assume it’s better now lol
I casually enjoyed that game, cringe I know, but it has to be said, they actually rotate their shop, have multiple events a week, and actually give the game content
Fortnite is a direct competitor that does everything better lol
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Ohhh yeah, you’re right. I only played Fortnite a few times but it does have that, pregame lobby before the map fills with players.
Pub-G has that as well.
“This game isn’t like the other games, it’s worse”
-Probably Master Chief
Fornite has good gun and movement Mechanics, but the players that do “fast building” is annoying and the cartoon themes are kinda cringe.
If the game didn’t have such corny art style and cosmetics and the building mechanic in multiplayer I’d probably play it
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Post and pre-game lobbies is a MUST.
Remember the Halo 3 days, half of the multiplayer was waiting in the lobby, chatting with random people and the excitement for what maps you would get to vote on.
Now, I give a yoink about using mic.
So this is a must.
And it would be awesome to have some music and loading screen options.
Love all the seasonal live backgrounds in MCC that got released with each update.
Made the game feel fresh.
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I use to play with a friend a lot from work. We’d do a lot of duos and then four man’s when his friends got on. I was always really good at the gun play but sucked at building lol I could usually hold my own pretty good lol loved that golden brust AR oh man.
It was pretty fun
EXACTLY.
post and pregame lobbies let you meet new players and teammates, add the good ones or fun ones to your team and build clans for Ranked and meet people for Forge and Customs.
The social experience of Infinite is like tryna Butter Stale Bread or the plasticy taste of Great Value brand water compared to Spring Water from a glass bottle.
They finally picked a better art style, good movement and smooth feeling gunplay, and ruined it with non-existent lobbies.
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why not a shooting range where you go if you are waiting?
i remember good in Cod AW that if you are waiting in the lobby when the match was starting you can enter a shooting range more since you are waiting when the next match start so why not something like that also.
or a small slayer game type match more without time limit or score to deal with the waiting time more where all the players join and its then more FFA then?
Shooting Range is a great idea.
They could have a lobby/hub with shooting range and you could try and get a better score than your teammates while the game lobby or map loads.
And a place to drive the Warthog around on and race around while the map loads in the same space as the Range.
Like a base hub for players to chill at.
Just something, anything to mitigate the long load times, Esp for big Team battle.
Split-Gate has that. If it takes awhile to load the map or find players it loads up a practice game with a few players.
It’s AWESOME !
do you remember BLACK? you could upload music to your XBOX (the first) and then listen to it while playing
its more one basic map more with Slayer FFA rule’s without time limit or score.
and its more with other players that join and leave.
about this then its better to keep the vehicles out off it more.
and keep it more a basic shooting range more where you can pick up all the weapons and test then out.
and its still better then music chance since you do sometime.
and its need to be small and more easy thats why more a basic FFA slayer room or shooting range with only weapons is the best thing since your are not staying to long and its need to be also for a short off time more.
I turned off all the music. I don’t need it! 
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