INFINITE TECH PREVIEW – UI & LIVE

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Welcome to the eagerly awaited Halo Infinite technical preview! We are looking for feedback on specific areas and have threads dedicated to each one right here on Steam.

This thread is focused on collecting feedback on UI & Live (Battle Pass, Challenges, Store). To provide feedback on other aspects of the flight, please use the dedicated threads for each key feedback area:

• Bot Slayer
  
• Weapon Drills
  
• PC-specific feedback
  
• Xbox-specific feedback

For bugs or technical issues, please utilize the Halo Insider Support site’s knowledge base and submit tickets as necessary. To reiterate, if you encounter a bug, please submit a ticket via the Halo Insider Support page[aka.ms].

Thank you for participating in this Halo Infinite technical preview, we hope you have fun and please share your thoughts with us below!

[Touki0]

I don't think having XP boost be timed is a good idea. I feel like XP boost should apply per match completions, not 30 minutes of use. For example, have an exp boost last 5 completed matches.

[Juniper]

There is no way to change the player voice to female and the armor on the feminine player model doesn't fit at all.

[Tophat_Dynamite]

I still have no idea where the front end button for the battle pass.... Okay, just found it as I was typing this. It's not super clear that the large windows on the Season Progress window were actually buttons (on PC). Could use a touch more clarity. My first instinct was to look in shop or customization, but it looks like you can't access it through the Customize window (not including clicking on an item you do not own)

[Riftor]

Originally posted by AEtherr:

There is no way to change the player voice to female and the armor on the feminine player model doesn't fit at all.

Its a beta, those will be added later. Thats not an important issue that NEEDS to be fix rn. just pretend its a women lol

[Jet Sreym]

My Rig
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Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19042)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32768MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
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The issues I found

1: Game crashes when buying and using level-ups for the battle pass.

2: Assets don't load sometimes, usually after a match, and when they do load they are glitched out and you can't see what they are suppose to be.

[LunarDave]

There are a few times where it was hard to keep track and see the UI, if we could have an option to make the font and outlines thicker that would help. A lot of options with the customization didn't load in immediately or just didn't load at all and it was hard to tell whether I had a custom skin on with the ui itself.

[iFr0z3n]

My Rig
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Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 19043)
Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K Processor
Memory: 32Gb RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
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Adjusting HUD Horizontal Display Margin causes the crosshair to disappear from the screen

[FappleDapple]

- The UI can be a little slow to load but that could be because I'm on a HDD instead of SSD
- The armor coatings is a big change; I can see why they did it because of multiplayer being free to play but the possibility of not being able to mix and match some basic colors unless they add it to the battle pass is a little weird.
- The first game I played I completed three to four challenges, definitely enough to level up, but it didn't contribute to my battle pass at all, like the XP just disappeared.

[hezecut]

I feel the UI and menu is quite easy to navigate, however in the customization menu, having to click on something than press "F" feels counter-intuitive, just let us double click to equip or something. I still don't understand the purpose behind armor cores but i assume that will be built upon further in later builds. Lastly, the menus themselves are very pleasing to look at and the soundtracks behind them are refreshingly new and it just screams halo. I'm loving this.

[killall -q]

• The game crashes when resetting custom controller mapping to default, and controls are not reset after restarting the game. I am using a PS4 controller through Steam, and I have not modified Steam's default configuration for it.
  
• With some default controller mappings, the same button is mapped to multiple controls, e.g. for Bumper Jumper, LB is both "Vehicle Descend/Tricks" and "Vehicle Switch Seats". However, when attempting to customize controller mappings, I am not allowed to create such duplicate mappings.
  
• Custom controller mappings are lost every time another default controller mapping is selected. Selecting "Button Layout: Custom" again overwrites the custom mapping with the previously selected default mapping. It would be better if we could name and save custom mappings/settings, so that if I want to let a friend play, we can switch button layouts back and forth easily.
  
• Please add a "Flip Triggers" controller setting to swap the upper trigger buttons with the lower ones. Shooting with RB is much more comfortable because it is a digital, not analog, button.
  
• There is a lot of single-line horizontal scrolling in the available menus, e.g. in armor customization. I hope this trend does not continue in other unreleased parts of the game, such as the custom games menus, as MCC's horizontal selection UI for custom game maps/gametypes is horrendous compared to Halo Reach's UI. Horizontal lists are bad at showing many items on the screen at once or things with long names. Armor coating selection in particular needs to be a grid on the left, preview on the right.
  Criticism of horizontal scrolling: https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/otlc5y/with_all_the_armor_and_coatings_that_will_be_in/
  Better UI mock-up: https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/ov9p1l/i_really_dislike_infinites_ui_so_i_redesigned_a/
  Better UI concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_cwfJow7o

[Leah]

The UI is undersized and feels like it was not meant to be navigated by a PC.

Clickable buttom prompts are inconsistent, sometimes it allows you to press to go back, sometimes the only clickable one is "select"

Double clicking an item should equip it, clicking the tiny checkbox,

List UI being 1 tile high 9 tiles wide is unacceptable for the armories, consider a more compact one, with smaller icons but taller and longer grids.

The store is atrocious, do NOT go the lane of Fortnite/Apex Legend item shops, just let people buy things from the Customize menus, the coatings we've seen for weapons so far in it is lacklustre anyway.

Put a Battle Pass option in the menu, instead of the box in the top right, if the Store is there, the Battle Pass should be too, and put the Battle Pass onto the overview when you open it instead of the challenge menu.

When you level up a Battle Pass tier in the post game recap, once it fills the bar it should reset the bars location and then place it relevant to your progression through the next tier, and then afterwards show you the rewards you just earned, instead of forcing you to go back to the Battle Pass menu.

Consider moving the Free track rewards of the Battle Pass to a second row of tiles, but shrinking the UI so it's roughly the same size.

Previewing weapons in a bundle is a nightmare, the scroll bar for selecting which of the 3-4 you want to preview is clunky, and the weapon being previewed is hard to turn and covered in a blue light from the surface below.

In general, please consider a more Bungie-Era Vertical design for the menus, by the rate we're going I very well know the custom game menu is going to be a nightmare, as it's going to be just like MCC, Tiles will consist of a Map Thumbnail, description, and mode icon, instead of a long compact list with the details showing on the right after you preview them,

The Bungie UI was immensely better at scrolling through things, as it didn't need to show you everything at one time, and instead showed you on the right hand side, or was something you can easily just swap around back and forth.

Armor Coating should be applicable per piece, no question about it, this is a downgrade from the system Destiny implemented quite well.

Battle Pass should be progressed not only by Challenges, but just regular play as well, I'd assume this is already the plan, but being sure, I do not want to play the game for a few hours a day then burn out when I run out of challenges and realise I'm gated off from the progression system for not pacing it out like a mobile game.

Probably the wrong form for this but, the In-Game HUD feels a bit too small, and the medals should be larger but display ontop of the killfeed.

[Stean]

-The battlepass icons desapear when you navigate them.

-The armor shaders sometimtes show a diferent color when you put the mouse pointer over them.

[Argorath]

Ultrawide works perfectly in game from what I can tell, however in certain menus like the customisation screen the spartan is way too zoomed in, seems like it's cropping rather than actually expanding on the edges in certain menus.

[DSA]

When I accidentaly (to change grenade and forward) press ALT + SHIFT game instantly crashes, in menu or in game, no matter. Even in LIVE login menu, because I tried to change my keyboard language.

[Mr Cool Pants]

Tutorial messages that relate to actions by pressing a button (such as to ping/mark) do not show the controller button to press (on keyboard it shows).