I think I speak for a sum of the Community when I ask you this 343I, Please allow us to lower our weapon in Customs and Forge, in the Game period. Just please take this into consideration, And Please make it easier, as Machinima Creators and Screenshot takers, we would Appreciate it. Please and Thank you.
Why not go one step further and have a default gametype with no weapons? Also make it so that in the gametype you actually walk like a normal person and dont hold your hands up like a muppet as if you were holding a sword/hammer.
As 343i are fans like us, I’m sure they understand the need for weapon lowering. All I can say is:
Please make it work online like in Halo 2. And please let it just be Down on the D-Pad.
PS: It would be nice if you could lower EVERY weapon, not just a few. And if the animations all looked clean. No more “Pointing Rockets at the floor” animation.
> Why not go one step further and have a default gametype with no weapons? Also make it so that in the gametype you actually walk like a normal person and dont hold your hands up like a muppet as if you were holding a sword/hammer.
Agreed…
> > Why not go one step further and have a default gametype with no weapons? Also make it so that in the gametype you actually walk like a normal person and dont hold your hands up like a muppet as if you were holding a sword/hammer.
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> Agreed…
Or take two steps, and allow you to also “select” poses. Each press of the down button cycles through different natural looking poses. With weapons it would go from a combat stance, to a naturally lowered weapon, to holding the weapon one-handed over your Shoulder, to simply standing with your arms at your sides one-handing the weapon etc.
Without weapon it could go between standing like you are in a fight, standing normally with your arms to the side, crossing your arms and leaning back etc.
Heck, why not just use the whole D-Pad at once and assign a pose to each direction 4 or 8 including diagonals. Poses change depending on type of weapon. No weapon, Sidearm, Rifle, Heavy, Turret, Sword, and Hammer.
Diagonals could even be used as animations, which are different depending on what pose you are in.
People have complained that they have not been able to lower their weapons during online play for various reasons, may it be machinima’s or just the fun of it. Do YOU want to lower YOUR weapon? vote yes or no… yes is perfered.
-Grave
We already have one of theese threads. Just scroll down and you’ll find it 
yes, but it wasn’t poll.
Nevermind I was wrong. but more the better! XD
yes.
All of the above! We’ve been asking for this for a while now. Also, I hope it’s not as complicated as it is now with the button combos. Make it simpler.
I honestly don’t care. It will have no gain at all for machinima making (because it would be impossible to film in the middle of the match, but then, it could have some amazing gloating possibilities, and it is porobably a click of a button away from being available. Then again, accidentally lowering your weapon (yes, I know it’s unlikely with all the random buttons, but still) would be extremely annoying. If they make it a quick menu option I wouldn’t mind it and would probably even use it occasionally just for the sake of it.
It should just be a simple menu option in custom games, would make everything a whole lot easier.
Good, Good! keep it coming guys! and don’t forget to vote!
-Grave
Animations would take up alot of space on the disc, but the whole concept is nice. I agree.