This is jus a nit pick, though it has been bothering me ever since the “beta”.
I know it’s not a gamebreaker, but the overshield looks like garbage. It looks as though it’s a test effect.
I know it doesn’t matter, but it just takes away from the immersion, every time I see it.
It just looks old gen and just tacked on for the game.
I know there are other more pressing issues, but this just reinforces to me, how it seems they have taken many short cuts in this game.
With the lack of forced red vs blue and customizable shield colors, I don’t see how else they could’ve made overshield as distinguishable as it is now. It’s ugly but it’s balanced, all things considered.
It’s to make it super obvious, flight complaints was that it wasn’t clear enough. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the change as now it’s impossible to not know they have it now.
Imo Halo 3 had the best overshield and I kinda hope they would change the current overshield to look something closer to it
I liked H3 overshield too.
CE Overshield with Fire footprints tho 
I mean we already have flaming footprints without needing an os but if you combine it with a change to the os that makes it closer in line with 3’s os boom best of both worlds
It’s 343’s art style / lighting / textures. All their “effects” have that stupid rubbery, plastic fake look to them. Including the little colorful trails behind spartans as they run. What is that?? Also the explosions. But I agree, the OS looks absolutely terrible. Amazing how the overshield from h3 in 2007 looks better than this one does in 2021. I don’t think it’s nitpicking because you’re right, it takes away from the immersion of the game
I kinda agree.
The overshield effect makes the player look like a walking Vex Conflux.