So many people who grew up playing Halo like myself, do not like sprint. I myself am ok with it, advanced movement in general is all right with me but Halo 4 and 5 did not do it right. So the problem is that we have people wanting sprint and some people despising it, and others that don’t lean on any side of the spectrum. A very simple and easy fix to this would be a no-sprint toggle. When no-sprint toggle is on, your walking speed is increased and sprint is taken away. You could do this for campaign, but I feel that people care more about sprinting in the multiplayer. On the multiplayer side, you could just have different variants of game modes that has no sprint in it. Or have a toggle that matchmakes with people that don’t want sprint, and likewise for people who do want it. I feel that it would be easy to pull of, other than the fact that level and map design would rely heavily on movement, so it would be hard to create maps that work for both. But all and all it seems easy to do and I don’t see how 343 couldn’t do it.
What is everyone’s opinion on this? I’m really curious to hear your thoughts!
The problem with sprint is that you cannot simply decide to opt out because maps are designed bigger in order to accomodate it. If you just raise base movement speed of people who toggled no-sprint, then those people would have a major advantage, since they would be able to move faster without losing their ability to aim and through nades, as sprinters would – hence nobody would use sprint and that would not be a compromise, but a definite win for no-sprinters.
Separating playlists would divide the playerbase, which could become a problem if the games eventually get underpopulated and 343 either would have to design two separate sets of maps or the maps would become unbalanced for one of the groups.
I think the best solution is what it looks like 343 is doing: make sprint barely faster than BMS, just to enable some manouvers, like sliding.
I think the biggest issue with having a sprint toggle for multiplayer would be like you said; the map design would suffer. 343 did have mythic arena in Halo 5 where there was no sprint and the base movement speed and jump height were increased. They also had several forge maps that were made specifically for mythic arena as well. If they do something like mythic arena for Infinite but with more official maps then I think that could be exactly what you’re looking for!
If it’s to use the sprint thread linked below then that’s a good idea.