So 343 just put out a blog on the flight preview outcomes and it seems most of the impactful feedback is not coming until as you guessed after launch.
The blog talked about most feedback players gave from the flight. Some of the larger things being medals, ui, menus, HUD, and the outlines. Of course some more big things are talked about but I feel like these things were pretty big points in the community.
Now some news is great. New medals. Better needler sound, better shield fx, and random other stuff. But I’m pretty disappointed personally that stuff like the player outlines are practically getting no change for launch even though it seems many people didn’t like them. The menus as well will have no change for launch. No HUD changes either.
Some of these like the HUD customization maybe can be understandable but having the option to disable outlines or changing the menus to a better layout are too difficult to get in by launch. I’m no game developer but like really. 3 months and you can’t do something as small as those. I understand they are trying to just get those bugs fixed but like how far behind are they if some simple stuff like that can’t be fit in until after launch.
I personally feel like the outlines will not be changed for people who dislike them. It seems like many in the community thinks they are ugly and too intrusive and rather just have friendly player waypoints and the names above the heads of enemy’s. People do not like the look of the outlines but I do not think they will go anywhere because 343 doesn’t want people saying the game has a visibility problem. There are many more creative ways to fix player visibility other than making people glow but I doubt anything will change. If 343 was serious about taking feedback from the community then they should try disabling outlines in the next flight and see how people react. I know they are there for accessibility but you shouldn’t keep something that only benefits a few when the majority doesn’t like it. And if they have to stay just give us a toggle I know that is not that difficult to do in 3 months.
Thank you for reading.