First off, many things are already ridiculously bad with Halo 5. This mainly includes, but not limited to: Thruster, charge attack, smart scope(ADS), and sprint. I will explain briefly on how these can be implemented in a more suitable way.
1). thruster breaks the gameplay, and is just downright unnecessary. When everyone has thruster it makes it more of a nuisance than a great aspect of the game. It makes the gameplay too fast paced, and adds unnecessary mobility to the game. Halo has always been more of a slow paced game, while also being great at map control, and player positioning. This ruins it. Being able to get across half the map while using thruster and sprinting as well just doesn’t go well together. Instead of it being a default mechanic for the game, make it a pick up item, along with the over abilities like speed boost, invisiblily, and over shield ect. This way instead of everyone having it, it gives an advantage to a team.
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Charge attack- this is an ability used by the thruster & sprint. But it would be better balanced if it were only available when picking up the thruster pack, again, to add to team advantage.
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smart scope- smart scope of ADS isn’t necessarily the problem. It’s adding it to certain weapons that makes it a problem. For example: the assault rifle and SMG. These are the only examples I can give but if they added it to these guns I can only assume they added it to the plasma rifle as well as other weapons that are meant to be used from the hip. Not only does it make these weapons Over Powered, but also break the feel of these weapons as well.
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sprint- let me clarify that I am not saying get rid of sprint, I’m just saying that halo was not built around sprint. It was built around map control. Since sprint is already a part of halo now, then make it work! You can’t rebuild classic maps ( i.e the one in the beta) and expect it to work the same with this mechanic! It destroys the flow of the map! So how can this be fixed? A huge fix to this problem is to make maps that are better suited to sprint, instead of maps that were meant for the older games. Sprint (in my opinion) isn’t for 4v4 arena maps, but are better for BTB maps, maps that cover a huge area and sprint in this case would actually not break the balance.