Halo Reach for me had one of the best multiplayer experiences(halo 4 is still my favorite). Halo Reach had Armor Lock and i loved using that ability. It was clearly designed to help a dying player survive an assault and it was really successful at doing that. What i also love about armor lock is that it helped with the pacing of the match feel fast and smooth and absolutely no slow downs. Armor lock was really good at balancing the game and it was fantastic seeing everyone using it as a defense and it really prevented the probability of an oponent from scoring a kill.
I really do wish 343i can bring back Armor Lock to their new upcoming Halo games. Everyone i knew that played Halo always talked about armor lock. We want armor lock back! We want well balanced multiplayer to our Halo games! Who else agrees?
While I didn’t really have an issue with Armor Lock, I didn’t really see it all that helpful. All I seen it as was just something that would delay my death. Yea, it could stop me from getting killed outright and maybe give me a slight chance to get away. But more often than not, all it did was just give the enemy team of a chance to pin me down or surround me so all it would really end up doing is just stop my death for a few seconds over all. The only time Armor Lock really helped me was the few rare times people in Covenant vehicles tried to go for a quick splatter or if I was playing the Campaign. And since I got tired of playing normal Slayer and ended up sticking to mainly just SWAT for a more balanced game, I mostly ended up just sticking with Sprint overall in the end.
the issue i have with armour lock is people just spamming the grenade and i don’t find that fun at all, but its a good ability to use for defence