How did you screw up something so simple?

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I’m aware you all know what I’m going to be ranting on about. The white X. How anyone could have screwed this up is beyond me, yet it happened.

First off, it’s white. Why white? IDK. Seems like 343 has a tendency to try to fix things that weren’t broken and end up having it either gone or just not work. Red was better because it sticks out more than White. Especially in a game where the light from the Heavens always shines down on you.

Second, it follows the players dead body. Welp, better get used to saying “Where my ‘X’ was” because with all the grenades being thrown around you might be lucky enough to know where the body was before it get’s either launched across the map or falls off it.

Third, why was it gone to begin with? (That’s pretty simple).

343, I know this is your first Halo game, and I know you want to stick out from Bungie. But you don’t do it by taking out features that should just be mandatory in the first place. It’s like taking out the burger in a hamburger.

Another thing! The ‘X’ disappears whenever a player respawns, and is not on a set timer.

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I don’t think the White X in its current state is going to be efficient for Halo 4.

First off, it’s white. A lot of Halo 4’s maps have a lot of light, especially Haven. A White X makes it hard to see. Red was better because it sticks out more than white. Especially in a game where the light from the Heavens always shines down on you.

Second, it follows the players dead body. This can be a problem because of physics. A body normally won’t stay in the same place upon death. It’ll be tossed around by grenades or explosions, which will decrease its effectiveness. Saying “On my X!” won’t work as well if the body is in a different place.

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Another thing, the X dissapears too fast to be effective unless already looking at the player’s position. I think the past Halo’s system of Xs dissapearing on respawn works better for its purpose. For Halo 4, perhaps it should even be an increased timer due to instant respawn.

This is important for competitive Halo, and I think some improvements would make it work great.

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Well in the end the color doesn’t -Yoinking!- matter.

The thing we should focus on bringing to their attention is that we don’t want the X following the body off a cliff.

I can’t see why the color matters so much to some people.

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> I’m aware you all know what I’m going to be ranting on about. The white X. How anyone could have screwed this up is beyond me, yet it happened.
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> First off, it’s white. Why white? IDK. Seems like 343 has a tendency to try to fix things that weren’t broken and end up having it either gone or just not work. Red was better because it sticks out more than White. Especially in a game where the light from the Heavens always shines down on you.
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> Second, it follows the players dead body. Welp, better get used to saying “Where my ‘X’ was” because with all the grenades being thrown around you might be lucky enough to know where the body was before it get’s either launched across the map or falls of it.
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> Third, why was it gone to begin with? (That’s pretty simple).
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> 343, I know this is your first Halo game, and I know you want to stick out from Bungie. But you don’t do it by taking out features that should just be mandatory in the first place. It’s like taking out the burger in a hamburger.

The red X not being red is a perfect example of what Halo 4 is. You have a game series that has sooooo much potential and has about a million ways to improve it but they still mess up.

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> Well in the end the color doesn’t -Yoinking!- matter.
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> The thing we should focus on bringing to their attention is that we don’t want the X following the body off a cliff.
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> I can’t see why the color matters so much to some people.

It isn’t so much the fact that it’s not red, it’s just that it had always been red and so why the -Yoink- change it? Don’t fix what isn’t broken.

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> Well in the end the color doesn’t -Yoinking!- matter.
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> The thing we should focus on bringing to their attention is that we don’t want the X following the body off a cliff.
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> I can’t see why the color matters so much to some people.

Red is a better color to choose than white, because it’s much more noticeable. Why do you think we use it in a lot or alarm systems, or as a color of warning?

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Oh my god, thank you so much!! Finally somebody that has a brain . It was so simple i agree. I dont know who gave the green light to the x being white but who ever it was should be fired immediatly or go under psych evaluation and work evaluation. 343 knew what we wanted and yet since they hate us they give us the opposite of what we want after telling us that we gonna get the x back and the old halo feel. I feel violated and lied to.

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To be honest. I dont care what color it is.

What I care about is the fact that it only stays on the screen for a millisecond and it follows the body.

But what really bothers me, Is the overpowered DMR and THE RANDOM, UNFAIR GAMEPLAY.

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like u say it ‘‘very simple’’

like when sometimes we play the game and we make a fail, lol

in my case, i can see the X, and it’s good enough for me

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> like u say it ‘‘very simple’’
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> like when sometimes we play the game and we make a fail, lol
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> in my case, i can see the X, and it’s good enough for me

It might work fine for you, but wouldn’t you rather have it work for everyone?

> To be honest. I dont care what color it is.
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> What I care about is the fact that it only stays on the screen for a millisecond and it follows the body.
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> But what really bothers me, Is the overpowered DMR and THE RANDOM, UNFAIR GAMEPLAY.

I’m aware of this, but one thing at a time.

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So the x is a different color. Is this what the community has come to?

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The color of the X.

That’s what we are centering all of our attention on now? A pair of lines that doesn’t outsize a square of 3x3 cms and only appear during 2 seconds?

AND WE’RE WHINING ABOUT THE COLOR OF IT?!

I’ve played in almost everymap since it got (re)introduced, and haven’t have any problem with it yet.

And even if I had had, remember that 343i added it just to answer to your petition, and it doesn’t add anything in 80% of the games played by most people.

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> The color of the X.
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> That’s what we are centering all of our attention on now? A pair of lines that doesn’t outsize a square of 3x3 cms and only appear during 2 seconds?
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> AND WE’RE WHINING ABOUT THE COLOR OF IT?!
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> I’ve played in almost everymap since it got (re)introduced, and haven’t have any problem with it yet.
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> And even if I had had, remember that 343i added it just to answer to your petition, and it doesn’t add anything in 80% of the games played by most people.

If anything the ‘X’ should be bigger. And yes, the color does matter. If you read one of the other posts I made you’d know.

> So the x is a different color. Is this what the community has come to?

Not contributing to the Topic. Is this what the community has come to?
See, I can do it too.

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“Waaaah the X is not red, 343 y uno liek us?!?”
“Waaaah it follows the body y u so dum?”

Don’t like it? go trade your Halo 4 copy for something else, maybe Call of Duty will fit you, since you like the same things being recycled for every game.

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You do realize that complaining is the only reason the X is back at all? So telling someone not to complain is pretty dumb.

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> “Waaaah the X is not red, 343 y uno liek us?!?”
> “Waaaah it follows the body y u so dum?”
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> Don’t like it? go trade your Halo 4 copy for something else, maybe Call of Duty will fit you, since you like the same things being recycled for every game.

Hurr Durr, I like it when features don’t work, and I like it when essential content is removed.

Oh please, you know how many times I’ve heard that one before? You’d at least know by now that I’m obviously dedicated to the game. And which of us is doing better? The one giving out criticism or the one telling me to go buy CoD?

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> “Waaaah the X is not red, 343 y uno liek us?!?”
> “Waaaah it follows the body y u so dum?”
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> Don’t like it? go trade your Halo 4 copy for something else, maybe Call of Duty will fit you, since you like the same things being recycled for every game.

Great constructive post.

/sarcasm

Anyways, the X being white is not that big of a deal. The real problem is that it follows the body, and only lasts for a very short amount of time.

BTW, the X was white in Reach.

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> You do realize that complaining is the only reason the X is back at all? So telling someone not to complain is pretty dumb.

Well if they did it right then I wouldn’t be complaining.

> > “Waaaah the X is not red, 343 y uno liek us?!?”
> > “Waaaah it follows the body y u so dum?”
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> > Don’t like it? go trade your Halo 4 copy for something else, maybe Call of Duty will fit you, since you like the same things being recycled for every game.
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> Great constructive post.
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> /sarcasm
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> Anyways, the X being white is not that big of a deal. The real problem is that it follows the body, and only lasts for a very short amount of time.
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> BTW, the X was white in Reach.

But everything else around it was Red.

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Maybe its white for colour blind people, like how everything is now grey/white in forge items.

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> > “Waaaah the X is not red, 343 y uno liek us?!?”
> > “Waaaah it follows the body y u so dum?”
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> > Don’t like it? go trade your Halo 4 copy for something else, maybe Call of Duty will fit you, since you like the same things being recycled for every game.
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> Hurr Durr, I like it when features don’t work, and I like it when essential content is removed.
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> Oh please, you know how many times I’ve heard that one before? You’d at least know by now that I’m obviously dedicated to the game. And which of us is doing better? The one giving out criticism or the one telling me to go buy CoD?

I don’t see any criticism to be honest, just a bunch of people complaining about a feature being reintroduced after they asked for it. All you guys do is ask and ask and ask, saying that 343 has no originality and when they give you what you asked for you complain because it isn’t like it was with Bungie. So please, make up your mind.

And yes, I am telling you to go buy CoD, because you obviously don’t like Halo enough if you complain about something as minuscule as an X that appears when you die (and has no purpose really, since you are perfectly capable of seeing the names of your teammates on the screen, unless of course you are dumb enough not to realize they died when their name suddenly disappears and the text "____ was killed by/committed suicide/betrayed _____ shows up on the screen) appears.

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> You do realize that complaining is the only reason the X is back at all? So telling someone not to complain is pretty dumb.

Complaining about complaining about complaining isn’t very constructive either.

And yes, I realize I’m complaining about complaining about complaining about complaining.