Good news! After
years of 343 never even publicly addressing this issue, they're finally going to fix it. They're even going to add in leader controls of some kind to make custom games easier to manage. From the
September MCC Developer Update blog post:
Quote:
Another big piece we are looking at is the community's ask that we add the ability to change teams in the pause menu during a game. You can’t play infection for Halo 2 without this and this is a big deal for those players. With our Custom Game Browser, we're also going to have some leader controls for it so it ties in nicely with that feature. It's not going to be immediate, but it's definitely in the plan.
I have been wanting this feature badly since day one, so I'm over the moon that they're finally going to get to it.