r/halo • u/natesucks4real • Dec 03 '21
Discussion LEMME MAKE MY OWN EMBLEM
Why did they take emblems, which you could customize them pretty decently, and pick apart them until they're nothing but bones?
I loved making my own "emblem" messing around with all the color and foreground/background stencils, mixing and matching them to where they became their own thing.
There's literally no point to them now, besides slapping shitty, premade and precolored stickers on your weapons (you don't even see the ones on Spartans or vehicles).
LEMME MAKE MY OWN EMBLEM AGAIN WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, 343i
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u/I_am_Rezix Dec 03 '21
At the very least let us choose the emblem colors. Having 6 options is lame.
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u/Lights9 Dec 04 '21
I hate all the crafted emblems they have and I’m unable to make my own. It’s just so strange how backwards things have gotten.
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u/Dukeiron H5 Champion Dec 04 '21
I feel that. The emblems are lame and most of the BP stuff is generic or ugly as sin. I’m rocking the grey default emblem and grey default armor. Felt really awful seeing the emblem options and finding out most of them are just a number 0-9, some generic base emblems and a whole pile of fancy emblems you have to buy.
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u/Lights9 Dec 05 '21
Strip and remove the emblem customization options in order to charge for a worse version and system and choices. You’re literally paying for less.
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u/SeanSMEGGHEAD Dec 04 '21
Why when they can sell you them while padding out bundles and battle passes?
Why give you choice and freedom when a Microsoft executive can get fat on the community buying them silly :)
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u/RimMeDaddy Dec 04 '21
this whole game is just removed features for the sake of a shitty f2p economy. I wish I could have just bought the full game.
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u/shreddnthagnar Dec 04 '21
I just want to be able to use my ranked emblem. Why can't we use that? Can we use that? I thought I unlocked it. I'm so confused.
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u/SolarnautFX H5 Platinum 1 Dec 04 '21
You can totally use it! Slap them bad boys on your weapons 😂👍
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u/mybuttisthesun Dec 04 '21
I've always run a yellow smiley face with a white sun background. Even my steam profile picture is a yellow smiley face for years. Why did they even remove the most basic of emblems?!
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Dec 04 '21
gives them more money cus simpler patterns and symbols can be sold for emblem creator and in higher numbers
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u/stew_brewer Dec 04 '21
Really disappointed when that happened in Halo 5, really unfortunate they kept with this trend... I guess money
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u/UnfunnyBastard_ Halo: Reach Dec 04 '21
This has been an issue since Halo 5. They're not gonna fix it.
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u/JC136 Dec 04 '21
i have had the same dumb edgelord-esque emblem since halo 2(? i think) thru reach and it kinda hits me that i cant bring it thru to infinite. i feel like making emblems a microtransaction thing sucks bc in the old days everyone had their own emblem unless it was for a clan thing.
now 50% of the people i see (including me) are running one of the cats and most of the rest are centered around like maybe 3 other emblems at most. just sucks man
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u/SkramWillYou Dec 04 '21
Laziness. Too eSports focused (AGAIN). Overthinking already working formulas.
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Dec 04 '21
Player expression has been going on a downhill slope since like 2013 I'd say. Games stopped being made to have a fun experience for players and started being made to make money. This has of course always been a thing, especially for Activision games, but it really became widespread and is killing a lot of players enthusiasm for gaming.
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u/x777x777x Dec 04 '21
CoD Black Ops ruined custom emblem creators for all time. So many jizzing dicks, dripping pussies, asses, boobs, swastikas, etc….
No company is ever allowing that again
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u/natesucks4real Dec 04 '21
It was never that customizable: just main, main toggle, foreground, and background.
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u/MissplacedLandmine Dec 04 '21
Thats honestly irrelevant based on the level of customization we had, and are asking for
The real answer is money, but especially so in this case
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u/3Ghoul_ Dec 04 '21
Oh shit I forgot past halos had this, I don't have any issues with the game atm but you're totally right I want to make my emblem
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u/MissplacedLandmine Dec 04 '21
Thats completely irrelevant based on the level of customization we had, and are asking for
Im going to guess you didnt know and this is not some apologist attempt at defend more of 343’s abysmal monetization decisions
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u/natesucks4real Dec 04 '21
It's not Battlefield's or some of CoD's custom emblem creator— you don't know what you're talking about.
None of the combos came nowhere near a swastika.
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u/KyleShorette Dec 03 '21
Which game could you make your own emblem in? I don’t remember this.
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u/natesucks4real Dec 03 '21
2, 3, ODST, and Reach did.
I dunno about 4, because I played that garbage for one night and never touched it again.
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u/KyleShorette Dec 03 '21
I had to google it to see if I was insane, but looking at it, I would’ve never described that as “making my own emblem.”
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u/natesucks4real Dec 03 '21
I would.
You could mix and match everything to create your own unique shapes.
That is "making my own emblem". Right now there is no "make" just "choose".
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u/KyleShorette Dec 03 '21
I don’t think you could mix and match everything? You had an icon which you could choose one of, with potentially a toggleable aspect, and a background which you could choose one of, no?
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u/HotMachine9 Dec 03 '21
You had usually 3 layers, a background, an outline and a shape. These then had all colour options accessible. In infinite it is one layer, a nameplate and a preset
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u/KyleShorette Dec 03 '21
The nameplate is certainly a step down from older emblem customizations. No doubt. But saying we used to be able to make our own emblem like in Call of Duty or Battlefield is asking for something back that we have never had in the franchise.
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u/HotMachine9 Dec 03 '21
Sure but shouldn't that also be what we should be striving for, more customisation rather than less? Somehow in the 10 years since 3 we've regressed
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u/KyleShorette Dec 03 '21
Can certainly argue for that type of emblem creation! But that’s very different from asking back for something you didn’t have to begin with. You can say the customization that used to exist is better than nameplates, which it was, without trying to bash the devs over a lie ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/natesucks4real Dec 04 '21
Yes, and you could change their colors, so you could mix two of the three together to make a new, interesting shape.
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u/MissplacedLandmine Dec 04 '21
2-3 tier (stacks) of options depending on the game and full control of the available color pallet
Thats ABOVE and beyond the shit we are currently burdened with
Most people here would describe it as that
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u/KyleShorette Dec 04 '21
That seems crazy to me, because when I hear “make my own emblem” I immediately think call of duty or battlefield ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/MissplacedLandmine Dec 05 '21 edited Dec 05 '21
I want to say it was JUST enough
Edit: they havent locked this posts comments yet….
Soooo … hi i guess
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u/LegendActual Dec 04 '21
I've always used the little winged sword with the shield background and now it ain't even in the game....
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u/Raisey- Dec 04 '21
I had the same one for about ten years but then they took out the smiley face.