SPRINT + SWORD IS A BROKEN MECHANIC

Games Halo 5: Guardians
1

Its too powerful. Enough said. Its a completely uncounter-able mechanic that the second I see someone on my radar they are dead because I can just sprint at them until i’m in sword range and kill them. It’s too easy to do, and too hard to stop, it doesn’t belong in the “competitve esport” that they’re trying to create.

-Put a delay between the time you stop sprinting and when you can lunge/melee with the sword out.
-Decrease the sword lunge length

Those are two suggestions for fix off the top of my head. Might take more thought than that, but it needs to be looked at

2

I disagree.
About 50% of the time I sprint towards someone with the sword they tear me me up. Usually because they are skilled with the BR. You must be playing against bad people if you can do it that easily.

3

I 4 shot people who run at me with sword all the time. In fact it’s how I usually come to be in possession of the sword.

4

> 2533274936032899;2:
> I disagree.
> About 50% of the time I sprint towards someone with the sword they tear me me up. Usually because they are skilled with the BR. You must be playing against bad people if you can do it that easily.

No offense, but you must also be using the sword too much in situations where you’re not ensured to have the kill if you die so often. It’s not because you got the sword that you must use it at any cost, be sure to make your opponent come in a CQC situation before changing to sword ; )

And OT, yes, I have never really appreciated this combo, since Reach.

5

I’m in Onyx 2-3, and I play against semi pro and above pretty often so I don’t think it’s a case of bad people. There are very few areas open enough on these maps that you can’t sprint around a corner and kill someone before they can even get 4 shots out of their BR.

6

It isn’t much of a problem in my experience. I only use it when I am close and not in lines of sights (round a corner) etc. If I run at people I get shredded, especially with the BR starts.

7

If someone knows what they are doing (which many do) evading the sword guy is fairly easy

8

It is a problem.

don’t expect people to agree with you, these are the people that are tearing you up with the combo.

you can’t expect them to objectivley look at the mechanic and throw away their 3 cheap kills a game lol.

9

Idk, it’s pretty easy to sidestep a sword lunge with the thruster. Granted it’s a one trick pony against a sword opponent due to cooldown, but more often than not I’ve been able to pull it off if they don’t get the jump on me.

10

Half the time I have the sword in in lunge distance of someone and it doesnt go through with me pushing the button, I see them possibly fixing that but nothing else.

11

The extra range while in ADS is much further than previous Halos, but I actually like it. The sword is a power weapon and should be strong.

An easy solution to balancing the sword would be to just put a shotgun on any map that has a sword.

12

i dont see how its to powerful… you just have to use the thrusters at the right momement before he lunges at you… so stop complaining

13

That my friend is why its called a power weapon. Honestly Halo 5’s swords come no where close to Halo 2’s sword, which had infinite ammo, ridiculous lunge and could be drawn and lunging basically instantly.

14

Plasma Grenade puts a stop to it fairly quickly.