The latter is an excellent suggestion. I remember the number of friends I made in lobbies back in the day
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Both suggestion are basically me thinking about the evolution of what we had in Ce,2,3 and reach and then improving….
Right now all that matters in our pre game lobby is our (not mine) purchases from the shop.
Nothing about the pre game scenario incorporates game play or ways of encouraging positivity.
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It’s definitely not a loading screen. The game is fully loaded in once the sequence plays… well it is for sure on anything other than the x1. I did notice when I first would play at launch on my x1 that it would usually show the game once the sequence plays. It would skip the map intro sometimes, but usually played the full Spartan team intro. So the game should technically be loaded once the intro plays sooo… yeah not a loading screen.
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lol, yeah, it’s not a loading screen.
It’s just a way to show off the gear of who you’re playing with.
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LOL. Anyone else want to tell me it’s not part of the loading?
I guess the loading finishes after it cycles through the power weapon locations repeatedly.
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That would be correct.
Ey why not.
It’s not a loading screen buddy.
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It’s not a loading screen
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I have noticed that the animations are not the same. Meaning that on my screen the first player might be doing the punching animation, while on your screen they are doing the arms folded animation.
I figured it would be a good customization, but maybe because it is not consistent it would be harder to implement.
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I think it would be cool if they had emotes you can earn or buy. Masterchief knows how to dance in Fortnite, so why not in Halo?
Halo is not Fortnite . There too different types of games aimed at different types of players. Halo trying to be something else is what got us in this mess in the first place.
Thats true, before a game starts in previous Halo games, I always looked at other players profiles in the pre-lobby. That was very showcase enough already.
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If I was able to select a series of emotes I liked, and shuffle between them, or even just one, I would like the feature. As it stands, it makes my spartan look cringe. Not every fight has to have the cool-guy-over-the-shoulder-glance or random shadowboxing. There aren’t enough to keep variety anyway, half the time the entire line will do the same emote and look like a set of dolls.
I could see other Spartans well enough before, I don’t need to see who wasted money on HCS crap. As someone suggested, only having our 4 person party stand around by the pelican is a waste, if the whole thing is just a VR sim again anyway why not show every spartan in the match as they load? It would make the world feel denser, and show the comeradery that Lone Wolves tried to pretend was real.
Just my theory but I can do it on purpose every game(back when I still played infinite). Could be attributed to various hardware differences playing together. Playing on PC with an SSD my game might load in a moment before others, or it could be the server waiting for everyone to load in… But on the black screen right before the posing I can audibly hear my Spartan’s feet on the ground and I can move around. Sometimes it can enough to grab a weapon off a rack before anyone else, and just as many times I’m facing backwards and confused.
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We can’t even see K/D. No way we’ll see stats in game pre game.
K/D was dropped in favour of KDA as it is a more useful stat for post-game.
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there’s no way to see player/progression stats in the game at all… its been like that since halo 4 … I had friends that stopped playing due to moving everything on a website… but now app campanion is pretty much standard across most games.
id settle for progression or mmr - just a quick snapshot of my team. (although with low population it would drive players to quit if they get matched up with lower skilled players.)
Maybe the endless is a fully fledged halo game and I get more luck.
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I like seeing everyone’s goofy outfits before my Big Team Skockets game starts.
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You’re right! Halo isn’t fortnite. You can have emotes without being Fortnite, you know.
This guy gets it.
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You can also remove the annoying map overview intro screens. I only have 20hrs and I’m already sick of the player showcase and map showcase before every match. Just get to the game!
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