I feel like the in game menu UI for customisation in particular needs some refinement to be less cluttered and more clear what everything does and is for.
Navigation is sometimes confusing.
There’s also occasional lag in the menus (particularly around customisation of spartans, AI, weapons and vehicles) but I expect that is normal for a technical test of this nature. The prosthetics tab is especially laggy and takes a moment to update to your choice.
I’m incredibly pleased with most of the UI and how simple it is but the Customisation/Battle Pass UI is littered with stuff to navigate.
Keep up the good work 343, but please make the UIs simple and easy to navigate. Sorry if that’s a vague request/complaint.
Hovering over a Button Layout should preview the hovered button configuration on the UI. It’s a pain to browse the button layouts when you’re required to select each one to view the changes.
Would much prefer an option to edit the voice of my spartan myself in the Body and AI menu, instead of having it be randomized. It would be nice to have the Male and Female options back with multiple body type options for both.
The white box/text in the top left corner gets hidden pretty easily by the bright sky in the current main menu background.
There needs to be a way to mute teammates’ mics in the roster/scoreboard in a match. There was no way to select and mute a teammate with a lot of loud background noise on their mic.
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As someone who works in IT and is in charge of making sure apps are user friendly and easy to navigate, I feel like the UI needs some
tweaks to maximize its use. Here are some notes
Battlepass
I would list your seasons vertically in a list (season 1, season 2, etc,) once you select it, depending on how rewards are unlocked, you should orientate them in a logical way. Destiny does this best, since it’s XP based and is unlocked one at a time it’s in a linear fashion. If it’s challenge based, it should be vertical and explain the challenge on the right when highlighted. As of now. I can’t tell heads or tails how they are unlocked or what to do. I literally just get lost. It’s actually a huge reason I never purchase battle passes except for destiny because I can see what is going on and understand progression.
General Navigation
for PC, back should be escape, rotate should be a click and drag feature, equip should be E, lore and options should be F.
Other than those quick notes, the UI is pretty good. I could see some different shading for for better visibility.
Love that your Friendly color choice decides the color of your energy shielding! Keep it!
I see our old classic yellow/ orange shield color shows when it recharges anyway so thats fine.
Some Battlepass items dosent show up inside their squares for each numbered tier.
The Epic Chest: UA/ Relikt Cuirass have NO noticable differences from the standard/ basic UTIL/ Enav Beacon.
Would be nice to select your Team Animal etc. Say I want my team, at least from my perspective be Cobra or even Wolf instead of Eagle.
Sometimes after a match. And on the mainscreen with someone in your party, the spartan models dosent always show. Going back and forth from the menu options etc fixes this.
Having a settings option to lower or rise the crosshair position would be great!
Changing combat/ battle/ kill feed TEXT colors to reflect Friendly/ Enemy/ Fireteam choosen colors in the settings menu.
-The buttons on the main menu are hard to see. The 3 tabs at the top left blend in with the background.
-in the challenges section is there a place to see completed challenges for the day/week? I couldn’t find one but there should be one so you can see your progress
-at the end of a round when it shows how much xp you gained and what challenges you completed you should be able to select through the challenges to get more details on them.
-in the battlepass some of the “tiles” that you scroll through are blank. They should have little pictures of the item, or at least text saying what it is. I think some of them do have pictures but some are blank
-while scrolling through the controller settings menu while in a game or in the training drills the screen flickers every time you scroll.
-red and blue highlighting of teammates and enemies should be removed. I don’t know if this is just in the bot mode but that is very distracting and should be removed asap. Just do it the old way with a tag above teammates heads and nothing above enemy heads.
-i don’t like how the overshield changes colors for teammates vs enemies. I don’t know if a damage boost is coming but in previous halos there was the damage boost and it was red and so seeing an enemy glowing red makes me think of the damage boost. All of the boosts shoukd be the same color no matter who uses it. That will help to be able to identify what the enemy has and how to best navigate your encounter with them.
Probably already reported but…
Platform: Xbox Series X
Version: 199229.21.07.20.0001.flt002int
UI Bug: After equipping an AI model, if you change AI color, the model immediately changes back to BUTLR (confirmed with all available AI models)
Edit: The inverse is true too. Equipping color and then going to the model also undoes the color selection.
On pc, scoreboard keybind removed itself. Attempting to rebind it back to TAB in the main menu results in the player roster pulling up, while rebinding in-game causes it to immediately crash
Really like the option to remove the HUD, but would it be possible to remove specific HUD elements as opposed to just the entire HUD (ammo counter, health, etc)? One thing that especially came to mind for me was if we could have the option to remove hitmarkers. Great work everyone!
Menu ui would be nice if maybe you can custom move your tabs. Or put thr news feed closer to bottom right and or shrink it a little. Season pass up right a bit more. I really enjoy seeing the details in the background such as your avatar and pelican with gear.
Game play ui is clean. Very easy to register.
It’s not obvious which Body Type choice (if any?) determines if your Spartan is Male, Female or even neither. Main thing would be to make it obvious what voice they have (either as a separate option, or tooltip.)
Helmet attachments should probably have its own box in the customization menu. Currently you have to inspect a helmet then go to another tab. I feel like they’re gonna be missed by a lot of people this way.
The AI customization menu could do with a voice test option, so you can hear what they sound like.
None of my customization items seem to save since my initial switches. Maybe just an issue after the games running long enough.
Hi, I can’t find where to submit a bug. It is 100% reproducible. When looking at the helmet lore in the Armor Hall, if you press the X button to see the Battle Pass and then B to come back to the lore page, everything is bugged, helmet won’t load, UI element won’t load, etc.
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> Hi, I can’t find where to submit a bug. It is 100% reproducible. When looking at the helmet lore in the Armor Hall, if you press the X button to see the Battle Pass and then B to come back to the lore page, everything is bugged, helmet won’t load, UI element won’t load, etc.
Haven’t had a problem navigating the menus, everything worked for me correctly in the shop. Love all of the graphical and control customization options on Series X.