How To Balance Sprint and make it competitive[Read OP]

Sprint is sparking alot of contreversy amoung the halo community but it can be made to work competitively.

My Idea to balance

Two big problems with sprint is running away from a battle and rushing up to someone and pummeling them. Now how to we solve this problem? Its so easy that 343i may overlook it!

When someone is sprinting and they get shot or receive any from of damage they stop sprinting and going back to normal speed. Thus people can’t run from battles and it allows players to stop sprinters who wish to pummel. When a player is shot out of sprint they get a 2 second penalty before they can start sprinting again.

Of course give the sprinters a tool to fight back like strafing so they can dodge their enemies shots because strafing in Reach sucks and its to easy to shoot someone.

I really like this idea and feel it would effectively stop the abundance on double pummelers.

Or maybe instead of knocking them out of sprint completely it would just slow them down a little.

One Problem…

Sprint = Slower Player Movement Speed = Slower Strafing

When else would you use sprint…?

Plus team mate trolls would abuse it.

Why can’t we have two sections like Halo 3

Ranked Playlists

Social Playlists

Rank Playlist doesn’t have sprint

Social Playlists does

In Social Playlist, sprint defracts for damage each player takes. Grenade takes out the sprint meter completely, a headshot takes out 50%, and a sniper shot takes out 75%.

Easy Fix

What if we adjusted sprint. What is being shot while sprinting slowed you down and detracted from your sprint meter.

Detraction could maybe work like this:

-Full grenade blast takes out 100%
-Partial grenade takes out 75%
-shots detract from sprint based on damage.
-sniper takes out 75%
-BR takes out 25%
-Assault rifle takes 10%
-Maybe plasma weapons could detract more like the plasma freeze from CE

This IMO would woulk better than one shot completely stopping you.

> Why can’t we have two sections like Halo 3
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> Ranked Playlists
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> Social Playlists
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> Rank Playlist doesn’t have sprint
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> Social Playlists does

That was awesome

> > Why can’t we have two sections like Halo 3
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> > Ranked Playlists
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> > Social Playlists
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> > Rank Playlist doesn’t have sprint
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> > Social Playlists does
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> That was awesome

Thank you. I try

> One Problem…
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> Sprint = Slower Player Movement Speed = Slower Strafing

We could make the base player speed faster with out the “sliding on ice effect” and we could get rid of strafe acceleration.

> > One Problem…
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> > Sprint = Slower Player Movement Speed = Slower Strafing
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> We could make the base player speed faster with out the “sliding on ice effect” and we could get rid of strafe acceleration.

Excellent. But I’m still against sprint but this would be the way to go if it absolutely must return.

> One Problem…
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> Sprint = Slower Player Movement Speed = Slower Strafing

Seemed to me that halo 4 has a pretty good base speed, Judging on the gameplay.

> > > One Problem…
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> > > Sprint = Slower Player Movement Speed = Slower Strafing
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> > We could make the base player speed faster with out the “sliding on ice effect” and we could get rid of strafe acceleration.
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> Excellent. But I’m still against sprint but this would be the way to go if it absolutely must return.

Same here. But sprint was already introduced and game developers are real stubborn and won’t probably remove it so I guess we’re out of luck.

This is the best we can do so sprint can be a good part of the game. Dividing people up into playlists is a bad thing for the community so we need something that can fit the shoes of casual and competitive player and my changes to sprint work the best along with other necessary changes.