Personally I could go either way with Sprint, and the debates about it staying or going. But what I can’t stand is the way it’s implemented here. Sprint is useful for things like the shoulder charge, but at this point, I would rather just see the whole mechanic scrapped than how it is currently. I thought initially that a shield recharge block while sprinting wouldn’t be so bad, but now, I hate it. When you’re outnumbered, your first instinct is to get away ASAP when you start taking damage, so you sprint. Well, we all know how that turns out, you just die tired.
So as it stands now, I would rather it stay, without the shield block, or make it so shields recharge a little slower, or just get rid of it. I know that it’s something that will more than likely never change, so I’m not holding my breath, just venting a little.
No one has given a legitament reason for why you shouldn’t have the ability to run. Very very few games can get away with no sprint, halo isn’t one of them, especially when you make a wrong turn and you see 4 guys at once. Or campaign as well. The spartan charging, ground pounding is a little much, but running is basically standard in most games in general, especially shooting ones.
Sprint makes competitive gameplay less enjoyable since it takes away the prediction time of enemy movement. In Halo 3 for example, I could count seconds in my head after seeing an opponent run behind cover and calculate the exact time he would arrive from the other side to line up the perfect headshot. You could also count the seconds it would take for someone to respawn and arrive at a certain location, overall adding more strategic aspects into the gameplay. With sprint there are so many variables that it becomes impossible to calculate all of the enemy movement perfectly in your head.
For casual gaming, I guess it’s good. Get to spawn kill alot of noobs.
I’m sure 343 will release a playlist with no sprint.
We should be able to sprint, the shields not recharging in my opinion is fine, as you are not supposed to rush into things, especially not the entire enemy team. But one thing I dislike about sprint is that you slow down, which makes sense in a way that bullets are hitting you, but the fact that we ARE Spartans in power armor with shields should probably negate the slowing down. But the slowing down thing is only ever a problem I notice when I try to sprint at someone, I’ve never really thought about how overpowered a charge is if the spartan doesn’t get slowed when I shoot them, so I don’t want the slow down to change unless the majority of people agree.
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> No one has given a legitament reason for why you shouldn’t have the ability to run. Very very few games can get away with no sprint, halo isn’t one of them, especially when you make a wrong turn and you see 4 guys at once. Or campaign as well. The spartan charging, ground pounding is a little much, but running is basically standard in most games in general, especially shooting ones.
Come on dude, this is just pure provocation at this level.
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> No one has given a legitament reason for why you shouldn’t have the ability to run. Very very few games can get away with no sprint, halo isn’t one of them, especially when you make a wrong turn and you see 4 guys at once. Or campaign as well. The spartan charging, ground pounding is a little much, but running is basically standard in most games in general, especially shooting ones.
Halo IS one of them. How popular was halo 2 and 3 online?. You are not going to see 4 guys at once close range unless you are stupid. And I’ve gotten away from 4 guys by staying close to cover or corners. You can’t always run away from trouble.
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> Sprint makes competitive gameplay less enjoyable since it takes away the prediction time of enemy movement. In Halo 3 for example, I could count seconds in my head after seeing an opponent run behind cover and calculate the exact time he would arrive from the other side to line up the perfect headshot. You could also count the seconds it would take for someone to respawn and arrive at a certain location, overall adding more strategic aspects into the gameplay. With sprint there are so many variables that it becomes impossible to calculate all of the enemy movement perfectly in your head.
> For casual gaming, I guess it’s good. Get to spawn kill alot of noobs.
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> I’m sure 343 will release a playlist with no sprint.
Oh I get it now. People hate it because it levels the playing field somewhat. They want they advantage. Typical. Just like everybody that complains about one gun or another.
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> > The no shield recharging while sprinting is just stupid and I really see no reason it should exist.
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> It exists because people who hated even mentioning sprint got their jimmies in a bunch and managed to raise enough of a ruckus to get that changed.
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> > The no shield recharging while sprinting is just stupid and I really see no reason it should exist.
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> It exists because people who hated even mentioning sprint got their jimmies in a bunch and managed to raise enough of a ruckus to get that changed.
Yea that is true. I read all the arguments against it, and the only reason that I found that made sense is that you are a Spartan so you should be running at full speed all the time.
That said, games need to evolve, for many reasons. To stay competitive with other games, to change things up so it’s not just the same game, with the same mechanics every release, etc. However I don’t get why people hate on games for not changing things up, like CoD for so long, but then in the same breath hate when things are changed in a game, like Halo.
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> > No one has given a legitament reason for why you shouldn’t have the ability to run. Very very few games can get away with no sprint, halo isn’t one of them, especially when you make a wrong turn and you see 4 guys at once. Or campaign as well. The spartan charging, ground pounding is a little much, but running is basically standard in most games in general, especially shooting ones.
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> Halo IS one of them. How popular was halo 2 and 3 online?. You are not going to see 4 guys at once close range unless you are stupid. And I’ve gotten away from 4 guys by staying close to cover or corners. You can’t always run away from trouble.
and when out in the open, what then, you can’t always stay close to cover. So either shoot and die, walk and die, or run and possibly die. Also do you ever play CTF or Assault, cause you will run into 4 guys if dropping on bomb off. I gotta walk in, drop it off, and book it, walking never cuts it when you need to get somewhere fast, either to flee from enemies, or to help an ally. Running helps far more than stupid fast walking. Plus it allows for giant maps too and quicker to traverse them. Now unlimited run i see your point, but normal sprinting should be fine. Unlimited sprint should be restricted to those fun custom games. You will never outwalk a rolling killball, but you can outrun it.
My problem is this: Quite simply, I SHOULDN’T BE FORCED TO LOWER MY GUN TO RUN. I should be able to run at breakneck speeds (ok, im exaggerating, but you get my point) while shooting my enemies, because I am -Yoinking!- Spartan.
im not a fan of sprint but this comprimise is not the best deal. but we got a deal. it needs to be nerfed more though. taking damage or shields low= no sprint
Sprinting on most maps and not recovering ends up making it a clean up fest all game. Gets tiring after a while when anywhere you go there will be someone around the corner to clean you up and allows even the worst players to chase for the kill.
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> im not a fan of sprint but this comprimise is not the best deal. but we got a deal. it needs to be nerfed more though. taking damage or shields low= no sprint
That’s kinda how igt works right now, if you take damage in the 2 or so seconds it takes to get up to top speed, you drop out.
Yeah no. Sprinting while shield recharging? It’ll be a sprint CoD fest. No thanks. If you can sprint away and recharge shields then you deserve to live and the attacker deserves the missed kill for failing to clean up. Balance.