Is anyone bothered that the red vs blue limits the spartan customization? Should the game let us pick our own colors ?
Yes or no?
Definitely, definitely, DEFINITELY NOT. It would be chaos in matchmaking if everyone had a different color. Leave different colors for rumble pit.
Yeah but there are other ways to identify your enemies and teammates other games have done it.
No, I think colors are fine. Other games rely on either different player-models, or just looking at them to notice what team. And that may cause confusion. Plus, team colors have always been something Halo’s used, and it would definitely be weird without them.
please, no. never. ever.
red vs blue is something iconic and i hope that they’ll never change it.
Red vs Blue is super iconic for the Halo multiplayer. Changing this would be like having the Chief change from being sage to being purple. Red and Blue are very easy and simple ways of distinguishing what team a player is on, and is super handy for longer ranges. If you are on Red team, and a Warthog is barreling towards you full of Blues, you know to shoot them, but if a Warthog starts barreling towards you with a Green, a Yellow and a White, it suddenly becomes a lot harder to figure out whether or not you are safe, or if it is time to get out your rockets and grenades.
Other games, like Battlefield for example employ a faction method, where each faction would have a particular design for each class. Take Battlefield 4 for example, the Chinese Engineer class dresses in all-black, and has a gas mask over a hood, whereas the US Engineer class dresses in tan, and has a baseball cap, with a headset and a pair of goggles. If Halo were to employ a tactic like this, it could go two ways:
- Allow whatever colours the player likes, but have a very strict set of armour permutations to distinguish what team the player is on, thus reducing armour customisation even more.
- Spartans vs Elites, much like the Halo: Reach invasion way of things, however, some players dislike playing as Elites, it doesn’t really make sense for an Elite to be running around with Human weapons (assuming there are no loadouts), and 343 canonised the multiplayer, and it doesn’t really make sense for an Elite fighting force to be stationed on a Human ship, or in a Human training facility.
All in all, it is a very complicated “fix” for something that was never broken to begin with. Red vs Blue is fine.
Did you seriously make a suggestion to change something? You know how that always goes. Now you’re just asking for it. Heck, they were annoyed that in Halo 4 the red & blue weren’t red & blue enough.
I could see maybe selecting what shade of red or blue you can be, but not just any color. If they did that, then they would have to add something like a red or blue aura around players just so you can identify what team they are on.
I don’t want to sound like a huge nostalgic fanboy, but removing the Red v. Blue color scheme would break a simple, yet great, Halo tradition. Plus, ever since the introduction of War Games in Halo 4 it has become canon.
That being said, I really hope they darken up the two colors. I wasn’t too fond of the ‘salmon red’ and ‘baby blue’ used in H4 multiplayer.
No I think they should keep it the same
it should stay as it is. individual colors for rumble. team needs to stay the same.
> Is anyone bothered that the red vs blue limits the spartan customization? Should the game let us pick our own colors ?
> Yes or no?
No, and I hate it when people make such lame poll options by adding some text to create a certain bias to one of the option, changing colors has nothing to do with moving on.
> Definitely, definitely, DEFINITELY NOT. It would be chaos in matchmaking if everyone had a different color. Leave different colors for rumble pit.
Flood gets no love…
> Yeah but there are other ways to identify your enemies and teammates other games have done it.
And other games also disabled Friendly Fire which no we won’t do either as it ruins Halo making people less carefull with power weapons and it would ruin competitive if not an option.
If you like to parade in your own colors then do Rumble Pit.
> I could see maybe selecting what shade of red or blue you can be, but not just any color. If they did that, then they would have to add something like a red or blue aura around players just so you can identify what team they are on.
The red and blue arua would give away the player more then it should, with the shades I can agree but nothing extreme.
Red vs. Blue is an iconic conflict. Look at all the great stories, where there are the white armies vs. the black armies. Red vs. Blue is the same type. Their opposite natures make them…useful for conflict.
I like the red vs blue color schemes because it offers such a quick visual indication as to who is friendly and who isn’t. Individual colors would be awesome for invasion though.
> I could see maybe selecting what shade of red or blue you can be, but not just any color.
Agreed, the furthest I could see this going is just choosing a selected shade of that color.
The only time different colours should be involved is when playing the game modes that already have individual options. Having said that Halo 4 made us all use that green colour for flood, which was disappointing. As far as red vs blue goes though, it should stay.
> Is anyone bothered that the red vs blue limits the spartan customization? Should the game let us pick our own colors ?
> Yes or no?
NO to individual colors that just ensures chaos. The current colors are and easy way to identify who is friendly and who is enemy. Customization or simply visual things should be things that affect gameplay, but things that help immersion. Other games have different player models that is easily identifiable and most games have no friendly fire, but with current Spartan models that their are so many different combinations of armor it would be hard to tell who is who if we could just pick any color.
Also what does changing colors have to with moving on?
> I could see maybe selecting what shade of red or blue you can be, but not just any color. If they did that, then they would have to add something like a red or blue aura around players just so you can identify what team they are on.
The shade is actually a good idea. This is about as far as they could go without turning into a chaotic mess.
> Is anyone bothered that the red vs blue limits the spartan customization? Should the game let us pick our own colors ?
> Yes or no?
NO to individual colors that just ensures chaos. The current colors are and easy way to identify who is friendly and who is enemy. Customization or simply visual things shouldn’t be things that affect gameplay, but things that help immersion. Other games have different player models that is easily identifiable and most games have no friendly fire, but with current Spartan models that their are so many different combinations of armor it would be hard to tell who is who if we could just pick any color.
Also what does changing colors have to do with moving on?
> I could see maybe selecting what shade of red or blue you can be, but not just any color. If they did that, then they would have to add something like a red or blue aura around players just so you can identify what team they are on.
The shade is actually a good idea. This is about as far as they could go without turning into a chaotic mess.
That’s a fat NO. lol
Big no no. Plus what would Rooster teeth do then 
I think choosing the shade of red or blue MIGHT work, but it would have to be distinctive, and maybe confuse new players. But no keep the RvB