After coming back to Halo 5 after almost a year, I played some infection. Now the last time I played infection there was only one mode and that was infection, but when I got into the playlist my first game was Alpha zombies. I didn’t even know they added different modes in infection so this was a surprise. In round 1 I started off as an infected and the first thing I notice is that I couldn’t thrust. This made it hard for me because when I play infection I always thrust to try to infect someone. I knew I could run but you can’t swing your sword while running so I really didn’t like it. I rather have thrust then run as an infected. During round 2 I realized that there were no weapons on the ground that you could pick up. All of this made me hate alpha zombies.
After a couple of days of playing infection and alpha zombies I realized that survivors has double the shotgun ammo in alpha zombies. After realizing that I started liking alpha zombies more than infection. But I still didn’t like the no thrust zombies. I still thought that thrust was better then run. And then I finally realized why running is better then thrust. It was sliding. Now when I play Halo 5 I never slide. I think it was an ability that the game can run without and I still think that. But in alpha zombies sliding as an infected is great! With the speed boost that the infected has in alpha zombies you can slide, then jump and cover lots of ground and then you can zoom in and infect a Spartan. This is very useful at least for me. Running itself is pretty useless for infecting someone. It just helps you move around the map faster, but since you can’t swing your sword while running you have to stop sprinting in order to infect someone. But if you slide after your run and then jump you can maintain your speed while still being able to swing your sword. I knew you could do that with any sword but in any other mode, you can swing your sword while running so you didn’t really have to do a slide jump. But since you can’t swing your sword while running in alpha slide jumping is your best friend. Before I hated alpha zombies but now it’s my favorite infection mode.