Every time I see a screenshot of this game’s multiplayer (assorted group of Spartans engaging in what looks like a fun multiplayer experience) I get excited to play (Prior to uninstalling the title because it’s not fun)
But whenever I would load up the game and play, I’d be shocked at how much the player outline not only is pointless from a gameplay perspective, because seriously you could just do red vs. blue, give us the option, or just not do the outline and put service tags over teammates heads. (like seriously, we’re not stupid.)
But really the outline, despite all of 343’s harping over Canon and universe armor and coatings, makes the game look ugly. It rips you out of the grit of the title by inserting what appear to be Tron-like glowing color lines around a comic book character on paper in the midst of this supposedly gritty space opera franchise that I believe ruins the aesthetic of the Spartans and maps alike.
It’s really hard to appreciate somebody’s cat ears and unoriginal armor coating that they paid for that twenty other people have when I can barely see it under the immensely distracting glowing line hovering just outside of it.
Not to mention the fact that the outline utterly destroys player information in regard to somebody’s shield strength considering you can barely tell the difference from where a player is health wise because of this glowing outline that also mimicks their shield color.
Not a fan of this.
You can’t on one hand overhaul the system to benefit your microtransactions so people can give you their money so they can look how they want, and then on the other hand, completely dilute that same armor they bought by intrusively sticking SOMEONE ELSE’S preferred outline color over it. Thus diminishing player expression.
I chose red because I wanted my spartan to be red. Now Joe shmoe with purple enemy outline conflicts that everytime he looks at me. Thus rendering my armor color choices pointless.
I’d deal with this better in a traditional Halo system because RVB was there for pure team distinction and Bungie never sold their armor to us, so I can’t complain.
But you guys literally have that we have to pay for how we want to look. This was a literal selling point to us that we could show off our armor in all modes. And to top it off, I’m putting money down on a title I already bought for said armor. But the outline hinders this leaving players frustrated on numerous fronts.
And it’s really left me personally scratching my head at the thought process. Base point, the outline doesn’t need to be there. And you’d benefit from taking it away or atleast providing the option. But this just makes the game look very unappealing. And it sort of slaps people in the face who spent money.