every halo game ive played made by 343 just always has really bad uis. they take forever to load (sometimes up to minutes) and just bug out tons of times too. ive seen the store ui bug out and display anything like 5 times now
the designs suck too. armor customization is all horizontal, so the more armor gets added to the game the more annoying its gonna get to find one specific piece (the pics they use for helmets also look really ugly)
For me, the best UI was in Halo:Reach and it bugs the hell out of me that 343 can’t just swallow their pride and copy it. Seriously, no one would be mad if they did that. Well, maybe some people would complain about it… …
H4 and MCC have nice UIs, mostly because they have vertical selections rather than the awful horizontal selections. But I don’t know why 343 didn’t just take MCC’s or H4’s UI and use it for infinite. As for loading, I’d assume you have problems with that because you’re on console. On my pc at least, I haven’t run into the UI taking minutes to load, though sometimes it’ll take a few seconds.
Hard agree. UI is one of the few things in game design that, imo, is 100% okay to completely recycle from game-to-game.
It’s maddening, why does everything need to be a single lane of item selection
Anyone with a good sense of design knows its better to have multiple rows and multiple columns as a way of selection
It’s really reminiscent of a lot of Microsoft products UI, which leads me to believe there might be some influence there? I hope I’m wrong
hell even recycling their own UI from MCC would be a huge upgrade.
maybe because it wasnt kbm friendly
To me they’re just like The Coalition for Gears. Trying to reinvent the wheel instead of leaving what makes the game the game.
Like Gears, it’s backfiring.
343 has lost a lot of players over the past 2 weeks.
true bro i can’t stand infinite’s UI. it’s so bad i honestly don’t get the decision making tbh
im on pc
mccs customization on pc sucks btw, and the back button just dissapears sometimes for reasons
Yeah, I wish they were more comfortable just straight ripping old systems - nobody would complain about that. Reach’s UI was brilliant; why can’t they just remake that same exact thing?
UI is for sure, without a doubt, horrendous. Just take a look at the post-game stats when you play FFA. They really need to cough up the dough and pay some competent UI/UX designers to come in and fix this mess. MCC is great, why couldn’t they just port that over???
I thought for a minute you were talking about how the pause and settings menu glitches out or flickers like crazy sometimes, but you’re right about the overall menu design. They already copied so much from Destiny, I wish they copied the UI too. The Destiny 2 character customization screen is very nice imo. Bungie still knows exactly what they’re doing. 343 is absolutely clueless. I’ve seen plenty of fan concepts that were leagues better. As for their art direction, I mean, almost all the coatings are dirty greenish brown or gray, and all the emblem palettes are also equally ugly and low effort. 343 just sucks at art direction. Even the maps and campaign is just so dull and not designed for vehicles at all. Idk who is in charge of the art and design department over there, but they’re doing an awful job all around. I miss Bungie honestly.
They feel like overcrowded phone games.
yes i came here to talk about the UI… very ugly. Please make it like the good old days like Bungie use to make.