CTF needs a pickup cooldown for the flag

Yes, I’m here ruining your valuable cheese strat.

I don’t think that flag juggling should be a thing, it’s an exploit that needs to be fixed.
You want to carry the flag back to back? Walk or Sprint, one is safe-ish and the other is not.

Juggling the flag should not be an appropriate tactic for getting the flag back to base.

Add a cooldown timer that requires players to wait 2-5 seconds before they can pick up the flag again after dropping it.

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Juggling was always a thing, and it is just slightly faster than sprinting with the risk to mess it up. So it seems fine and balanced to me.

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Then players would just start an assembly line where one player drops it, another picks it up then drops it, then a different person picks it up and so on.

The trade off with juggling is that the enemy team can see where the flag is and the person juggling the flag risks screwing up their momentum every time they drop the flag.

To be frank i dont agree with you but i also think youre right about what youre saying. Ah what a feeling of conflict.

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What an utterly stupid idea… go ppay cod if you don’t like halo core gameplay elements

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You can’t call it an exploit when it’s been in Halo since CE. Personally unless you perfect it with sliding, I don’t find it much faster than sprinting with the flag.

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How about no. Flag juggling makes carrying the flag more fun and involved than simply walking/sprinting. There’s also the potential to make a mistake when doing this which will slow you down so there’s an element of skill involved.

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I would like to carry the flag on the back like 90% of the fps games on the planet that run CTF games!

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Are you serious? Flag juggling is a skill

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just another dated and weak mechanic that the community doesn’t want changed.
This franchise is purposely broken and flawed because the community never wants the game to surpass the original game.
This franchise is just meh when thinking about it sometimes and the community. just broken game mechanics that got adapted into the game and now can’t be removed due to being there in the past.
simply silly and pure stagnation of gameplay.

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i dont agree or disagree. i find flag juggling a hassle actually so i rarely do it. the only problem i have with it is fools in ranked doing it all the way back to base and revealing our position the entire time.

Do you like shields? What about melees? Grenade Jumping? A first person shooter game?

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This thread is ridiculous… yeah while we’re at it let’s just add a cooldown to slides!!

No.

Why remove flag juggling when clearly flag grappling is more OP anyway?? Did you even think before writing this?

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Sounds to me like you’re just bad and salty that you keep losing to well organized teams that flag juggle. Adapt, Halo isn’t like other FPS titles, if you can’t handle the uniqueness Halo brings to the table than maybe you should try something else.

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Time for you to go find a new game to play, or go play Halo 4, where you were locked to the flag with a magnum and it sucked. You can flag juggle, repulse the flag, grapple the flag, push the flag with a vehicle, and if you’re really good, you can slide toss the flag. Don’t like it? Drink tea. Flag juggling is a core part of Halo.

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These poor poor noobs. Having to learn something more advanced than throwing nades or shooting their guns.

Flag juggling should never leave Halo.

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Juggling in Infinite can stay. It’s no where near as prominent in Infinite since the Flag is so heavy and doesn’t travel far at all after being “thrown”

Completely disappearing from the radar and the map if you are walking with the Flag is downright annoying on the other hand.

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Good lord you people are boring. God forbid emergent gameplay form in the game and players find creative ways to do things more efficiently. Flag juggling with Infinite’s movement is sick in this game. It’s enormously satisfying to use sprinting, sliding, jumping and the Grappleshot to pull out a run that would otherwise be impossible. Let players express themselves with the tools they’re given. We don’t need to arbitrarily place hard limits on players with some “Hurr durr durr you can go fast or slow two speeds nothing else” nonsense. This is an absolute obvious case of mad cuz bad.

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Flag juggling is my favourite part about the Halo franchise.

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How about you got back to COD instead that has been a thing since halo began, you must be new to halo, or you just don’t have enough skill to do it…

I beginning to think most if not all of the complaints on the forums here are from newbs who have no skill who came to halo infinite from COD.

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LOL absolutely not, you are probably the only person that says this. If you weren’t dead stuck on respawn you could have controlled the map and not need to worry about this anyway.