Seriously, there have been too many cheap deaths because of that thing. Even in Reach the ‘Evade’ AA wasn’t always there, so this is just plain annoying.
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That’s at least two threads created on this subject today.
The thrusters are not the problem with flood mode, because without it they wouldn’t be flood. Think about it, flood combat forms are fast and agile when they want to be. If you ask me it’s the shields. Forget all weapons; Spartans only have shields as a defense, but the Flood have both TP and shields.
I agree. It’s really not fair. They need to just give flood sprint instead of TP.
I just don’t like thrusters, period. They seem useless in normal matches, and the 3rd person view is…well, it sucks really. What was wrong with Evade? Sure, Infection in Reach was more fun (for me, anyway) when it was Sprint instead of Evade, but Evade was still better than Thrusters…and that’s just when playing as the Flood! The 3rd person swap is stupidly jarring and really unnecessary IMO.
Saw this mentioned a couple times yesterday. Yeah, the thruster is pretty busted. The biggest problem I’ve seen with it is you can thrust past/over a player and it will practically double the range of the sword lunge to compensate if you interrupt the thrust with a sword lunge aimed at an enemy. It’s kind of hard to get the hang of, but it’s extremely cheap and all the more reason to just remove the thruster pack from Flood. Or you know, just revert it to the first-person flashbang thrust it once was.
And for those who would argue that Flood need it to cover more ground, that’s what sprint should be for.
Agreed