No Parry on Sword vs Melee

Why can we not parry a sword throw with a well timed melee shot like in Halo: Reach?
That was a key feature in both the campaign and the multiplayer to give the guy without a sword a fighting chance.
We’ll be facing Elites with swords in the Campaign again so this would be great to have so that we don’'t die in 1 melee hit. As for multiplayer, anyone will tell you Infected on Halo Reach was unmatched.

P.S Probably so you can make parry a paid add on in the battle pass? JustKidding please don’t do that 343 -_-

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there was a parry for just punching?
I mean, sounds cool, but doesn’t make much since imo
and no, no paid add ons like that

I didn’t know that was a thing at all. What halo was that in?

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Yeah it gave the person without a sword a fighting chance.
The person who parrys the sword will have low health afterwards.

It’s probably a strong cornerstone for the Infected game mode where survivors will only live if they manage to parry in a well timed fashion.
Extremely useful in the campaign against high level Elites and Firefight if they have swords. 1 hit your dead on most difficulties but if you parry you could live…

Check the video out from Halo reach, was perfect in the campaign too - prevents you from dying in 1 hit from elites on most difficulties. Awesome for multiplayer 1v1 melee intense encounters too.

A lot of people hated the parry. I kinda liked it. But it was only in reach.

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Oo didn’t realise it was only in reach, played that one most - good feature

I don’t really think this feature was very useful… the sword user would either finish you off with a second strike, or switch to a different weapon to finish you off. I’m indifferent about this feature.

I’m under the impression if you let a sword wielder get close to you then you probably deserve to die.