IMO Halo 4 is already much better than reach, but I loved the reach main menu. In reach you can see all of your friends playing the game, the amount of people in their party, and the details of the game they are in (time remaining/leading score).
In halo 4 you have to press X to see your friends list, you cant see the players in their party unless you press on their name and click party details(annoying because i want to quickly know who’s playing by themselves), and the party details won’t show the time remaining/score leading.
Other things to point out are:
-If you are party leader you cant see who’s in your lobby unless you press X
-When messing with loadouts or armor, you won’t know if the map voting is in progress unless you look at the top right (im preoccupied looking at the loadouts so its easily missed). Reach had a noise when you are about to vote for maps.
-Gamertags are sideways. The only reason I can think of for them doing this is so people can easily see each others armor. However, if there is 8 people you can only see their arm. The only way to view their whole armor is to go over their gamertag which is what reach did. I think it would be easier to make the gamertags vertical instead of horizontal.
This is just nitpicking but the interface could be a lot better in this game.