The bots on the flight were definitely funny. I think weĀ“ll have a few, like the stances at the start of a match
I think first person gestures like in MW19 could work (waving, salute, middle finger etc)
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Personally do not like emotes in games. to often they are spammed or abused.
I mean every game with emotes has some jack sitting in the middle of the battlefield dancing or pointing at a chicken for the whole match.
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To me, Halo should stand apart rather than being just another copycat, so Iād rather not have dances and emotes.
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Could you contribute something else?
There will always be trolls looking to be funny. It is inevitable, whether or not there are emoticons. And to avoid spam, you can simply set a limit on how many times you can put an emoticon every x seconds or minutes.
Haaaha I automatically imagine a spartan dancing when he kills another spartan and gets shot with a skewer. 
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I have never seen a middle finger in Halo, ever.
On a blog post they said there will be none unless Joe makes Master Chief dancing cannon. But I mean Master Chief doing a tpose and Never Going to Give you up that I have seen because I have the Master Chief skin and Never Going to Give you up is cool. Also Master Chief doing blinding lights is funny af tho. But emotes donāt need to be in halo. Arby playing the halo theme on a flute would be epic.
I donāt super agree with the idea that emotes would be unrealistic. MP is essentially a military wargames training simulation featuring highly trained soldiers. Youāre telling me soldiers never show boat and do goofy stuff to rub it in the other squads face when they win?
Thatās kind of what I was thinking. So maybe some hand gestures etc., but Iād rather them not do the orange justice etc.
Dances are silly IMO, but as someone else said, tactical gestures or even weapon poses could be appropriate.
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Emotes do not belong in halo, IMO.
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I meanā¦ Weāve kind of got our own set of community-defined emotes already without needing dances or any new system. Weāve got T-bagging as a way to brag (not condoning just pointing out), jump spamming/Ghandi hopping to say hello, melees for high-fives, etc. Iād rather Halo be innovative in places where it actually matters than requiring 343 to backtrack and invent a whole new system when their time could be spent making the game as polished as it can be on launch day and improving the game after that.
As for tactical emotes we already have a soft callout system provided in Infinite via the voices of our Spartans and personal AI (even if āover yonder!ā isnāt that helpful ).
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I would like for funny/meme stuff to be confined to armors and weapon skins. I donāt really want emotes. I just donāt think theyād fit Halo very well.
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If you want Spartans dancing, along with Butlr, and other whimsical stuff, you can play Destiny 2
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If you teabag after getting kills, you are not against emotes.
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I dont want emotes in any capacity, aside from T-bagging as thats linked to a in-game action, crouching.
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I donāt see how they could be implemented in any meaningful way. Maybe a way to use the spartanās voice in the game rather than just scripted lines?
Disagree.
Normal in-game actions should be the only way to communicate with other players. In Halo multiplayer, rapid crouching is a universal sign of friendship. Unless, of course, itās over a dead body.
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Well yes I kinda am. I donāt need an animation or set of animations that will likely be very cringy to communicate with my team. Like I said, thereās already a bunch of ways to do that that are faster, more well-known, and easier to use than to pull up a new menu or use up a perfectly good keybind.