Left handed Spartans

Games Halo Infinite
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Why isn’t there an option to be a left handed Spartan?

Also there should be a flipped Xbox controller for lefties as well.

I can make a whole list of things that leave lefties to have to convert to being right handed.

I think if 343 wants to add something different to an FPS they should look into this matter. I’m sure you can map out your controller so that your left trigger is for shooting so why not have your Spartan be left handed as well? Not everyone is righty so I don’t know how lefties put up with this on a daily basis.

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This is a good idea I think. I have to ask, does anyone know of it’d be hard to do? Naively it seems you could just mirror everything even the hitbox, but maybe there’s something more to it.

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I don’t see anything wrong with asking for mirrored HUD for guns but mannnnn do people need THAT level of customization?

Again, nothing wrong with asking for it, ultra cool if 343 does add it but it feels really low priority to me, compared to fixing the servers.

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They’ve added in prosthetics for each limb. Do people need that level of customization? Maybe not, but they seem to be trying to be inclusive, and how hard would this be to implement?

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its a low priority but also a super easy addition that would make the game look a lot more natural to 10% of the population.

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Yeah I know right? They couldn’t even do the HCS on a land party without it bugging out :skull_and_crossbones:

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Yeah I remember a long long time ago playing COD modern warfare 2, some random I played with claimed that he was in the military and said he was lefty and thought it was -Yoink!- that fps games we’re all righty.

Now that I think about it… he also mentioned that people who shoot lefty have specially made left handed guns. That’s because the bullet shoots out the other was. So I guess they would have to add a left handed battle rifle to the game and then my right handed Spartan would pick up a left gun and have bullet shells flying in his face :thinking:

Now I guess I see why fps give in to the righty way of things :unamused:

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You use both hands on your control, I don’t see why veing left or right handed would change anything

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Yeah I guess you’re right. Now that you can at least swap your the shooting trigger from left to right in infinite, that’s pretty accommodating for left players.

So yeah I guess all they would need to do is at least have the option to flip the screen and then lefties can have a win for once :+1:

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So firstly my personal opinion - the most difficult part of it would be the animations - particularly reload on some weapons but if they could then shouldn’t have any impact on gameplay so yeah low priority but yeah.

However secondly - if you’re in the military in real life and left-handed - tough :poop:. The triggers, levers, flaps and switches are not removable or customisable. You learn the right handed way and do it that way. So if you’re a lore person and believe equal rights for lefties won’t be improved in the future then it’ll have to be right handed :joy:

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I imagine it overcomplicating things. There is such a thing as right hand advantage (typically used with poking/strafing) and this would throw that out the window.

Its not game breaking or anything, just not worth the time in my opinion.

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As far back as Counter-Strike Source had this functionality. Not a new concept.

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Super soldiers are not left-handed😄

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this is something that lots of games ignore, especially considering the real mechanic is all weapons simply shoot from the center of the screen not the real weapon model. I 100% agree there should be a left handed version.

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I fully agree. You get all kinds of inclusional stuff but in the future, apparently everyone is right handed lol.

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Funny fact: The designer of counter strike is a lefty and designed all guns for lefties and flipped the models to have a right handed version.

This can easily be seen when shooting the m4a1 (right handed) and have the casing flying over the screen towards the player and not outwards. If you use it left handed, the casings are flying outwards away from the player.

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To expand on this. What if a right handed player drops their right handed weapon on the floor and you left handed person picks it up. Are the levers supposed to flip to other side so you can do your left handed reload animation or are they going to be left and right handed knobs on all weapons?

Not saying it shouldn’t happen - just pointing out the things that will need to be looked at.

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Most militaries exclusively use right handed weapons I don’t see why the UNSC would be much different. Would be a nice QoL feature.

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Being left handed myself I didn’t realise how much I loved this until I got really into Counter Strike, and some other pc shooters, a few years ago.

Every shooter should really have this.

If people with missing legs can be represented and trans people can have gender options changed to just type 1 and 2 then surely left handed people can have something.

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While that use to be the case in Australian military, these days they accomodate left handers, just gotta let the armoury know you got one of those lefties coming to get a weapon. they will give you a weapon with the ejection port blocked out on the other side and open on the other, nothing else is swapped over as they are designed right handed with an ejection port on both sides.

They do some weird hand over weapon -blam- to -Yoink!- the weapon but haha. Mind you all drill is done right handed.

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