Why can I see all of my enemies glowing bright red all the way across the map?? Who thought this was a good idea and why? Here’s another idea to make the game easier: just let all of the bullets lock on to enemies and all you have to do is squeeze the trigger to be a pro gamer. Maybe attach that to a $50 cosmetic item, that seems like it would fit in great with this game.
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I mean I appreciate the glows intention to allow us to use whatever armor color we want in team matches. I dont mind the glow but I see many do so maybe another system could be used to allow a similar result
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Yeah I find the team colors actually hard to spot in close quarters. Sometimes when there are a lot of players close up, moving fast, I can’t quickly determine colors. Like you say, across the field it can easily be seen what color a person is. I would say it makes them a lot more visible than the old colored armor, which is your complaint I assume. Maybe the intensity of the glow should be diminished a long distances and made brighter close up.
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The irony is that, because of the red outline, enemies actually stand out more on night time maps like Deadlock. Completely defeats the purpose of having a night time map in the first place.
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I personally hate that players can choose their in-game armor color. All it does it add confusion, and if making everyone glow a mile away is the answer then it’s a pretty bad answer. The reason why they allow customizable colors to show up in-game is because they want to make money on cosmetics. They’re afraid that if you enter into a game and your armor turns red/blue (as it should) then players won’t buy battlepass levels or items in the shop. They’re sacrificing good gameplay to make money.
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I mean it clearly has a profit incentive but I personally enjoy every player feeling like a unique spartan. There is no denying customization need some work over time though
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It’s for accessibility and it’s not a bad feature at all… I’m glad it’s included. There are much worse features to take aim at than this. Are you really that upset about it?
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Well considering stealth is all but impossible now, yeah it’s understandably annoying to some people.
You used to be able to sneak by people in larger maps even if you were technically “visible” to them, by hanging on the edges of their vision etc. I was particularly good at it, it made getting flags out much easier. Now they night aswell have arrows over the top of everyones heads.
All for some perceived “unique snowflake Spartan” BS. Who the hell cares if you want to look different, red blue worked fine, all they should have done was add colourblind options so people could make the teams whatever colours they liked.
This whole gimmick about looking unique is complete tripe. And it’s alarming how many people are willing to literally “buy” into it.
It’s nice, but gameplay should come first and this hinders gameplay in minor albeit negative ways.
Besides, no one is going to stare at you or your armor in game, besides the opening cutscene so who cares about it? No one can see it with the red tint all over it anyway so it’s redundant and your teammates certainly won’t be looking at you
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I like it, it cuts down on cowards who linger on the edges of maps with precision weapons
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As opposed to the run and gun Chad’s?
Who’s cares about your playstyle, I don’t even despise campers, they’re easy to kill
But the game actively forces movement which is wrong. Although the nugamers seem to think if you’re not constantly moving 100mph you’re too slow and the game is boring and you’re a camper.
Nothing wrong with being off to the side picking people with no awareness off.
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The strong highlighting right now definitely hides armor uniqueness/colors. It has been a self-defeating idea in that sense. I hope they either tone down the glow or just take it out altogether. There can just be names over teammates heads but not enemies.
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I mean, isn’t bright red armor also highly visible across a map?
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People are making stuff up as they go when they say it’s for profit. The outlines and much of the gameplay design make it more difficult than previous Halos to see the armor permutations.
They could have easily just during the intro, have the players armor transform to their team colors.
The confusion is also very noticeable in spectator mode, like watching HCS Open this weekend. You are watching a Blue spartan look at Red teammates thinking those were enemies, and then they fight Blue enemies. It was actually hard to follow at times.
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I don’t know about the biggest mistake, but yeah i’d prefer the red/blue (or whatever static color you want) team colors instead of this. Sometimes I find myself shooting at a teammate because we all look the same. I actually think this is why they turned friendly fire off for the social playlists.
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I would love to return to the traditional RvB. If you wanted to show off your Spartan you went into FFA, Infection, or Firefight.
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That depends on what you think the purpose of having a night time map in the first place is. It’s not like bright red and blue spartans would blend into the night like ninja’s in older Halo games. The purpose of a night map in Halo is generally because it’s cool, that’s about it.
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Yeah, and if you didn’t like those couple of game modes then you literally couldn’t show off your spartan lol
They did that because they wanted everyone to have default skins of whatever color they wanted in btb its 12v12 thats so many people you really cant tell whose who unless your paying attention to the name tags of your teammates. the color is only bright when the shield is being depleted. and theres really only a slight tint if you look closely at them. sometimes it not even there at all i believe. the funnest way to play is to turn the color yellow for both teams and remove the nametags and you can barely tell whose who.
All they need to do to fix the issue while still doing their crappy corporatization scheme is the following:
Remove enemy outlines from the game, make the nametags above friendlies a bit larger and easier to read, provide an option to have teammates outlined (not mandatory). Problem SOLVED.
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You’d be surprised, the blue and red draws a bit less attention than an actual glow
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