I think that armor abilities are a great addition to the halo franchise, they add so much more strategy to the game. I’m annoyed when they are unbalanced, I could not stand armor lock in Halo reach, it made the game so much frustrating and slow and am worried that promethian vision could also become a nuisance. My advice is 343 needs to give larger disadvantages to some of those overpowered abilities. For instance maybe players who choose prometian vision have a smaller range of vision on their HUD or cannot sprint. I’m excited for these new abilities in H4! They just need to keep them balanced and continue to patch like Bungie to make for a more balanced experience with much more variety of abilities being used.
You can’t make balanced AAs though. It just doesn’t work. They are designed to give you an advantage, and yes, advantages can be balanced, but you spawn with AAs and you get infinite uses. It takes no work to get that advantage.
If they feel that some sort of advantage must be put into the game, I’d prefer equipment come back. There was 1 use per item, and you had to go and find them on the map.