I had been thinking about this for a bit and after watching someone’s video about how Halo doesn’t need sprint, I thought about it even more. The guy in the video brought up how Halo back in the Halo CE-Reach days it had its own style of fast paced combat by taking advantage of Man Cannons and Teleporters on maps like Guardian, Beaver Creek and other maps so it didn’t need sprint.
So basically I wanna ask do you guys want maps back that had Man Cannons and Teleporters but you couldn’t sprint?
i always liked man cannons, and thought teleporters could be useful
Man cannons and teleporters don’t “replace” sprint. They act as unique pathways for which ever map uses them. They don’t get you there quick or slow, they just get you there. If the teleporter or man cannon is active than the pathway is available, if it is not active the pathway is unavailable.
Teleporters have a problem of being easily camped and don’t really add much depth. The only map to really use them well was Warlock, because of how suicidal it was to stay at the teleporters too long. Any other instance was pretty cheap. Blood gultch you could be easily sniped going through the portal, and in beaver creek you could easily walk face first into a shotgun.
Man cannons are a bit better than teleporters because you have a chance to secure a safe landing. The larger the map the more useful they are, but most arena maps are tiny, which makes their usage limited. I think the only true man cannon in arena is on riptide.
I’m fine with their current usage. Purposely putting more in for the sake of removing sprint seems like a bad idea.