Sprint has completely split the community right down the middle in recent years with the people who like sprint and people who hate sprint. Now I am perfectly aware of the sprint discussion thread but I want to stress my opinion with both facts and my opinion so I will try to make this thread as non-subjective as possible.
- Firstly, sprint does not belong in a halo game because it breaks the golden triangle. This is 100% FACT. (For those of you who don’t know what it means the golden triangle was the three core gameplay mechanics : weapon, melee and grenade). When sprinting you can’t shoot thus it breaks the golden triangle. Dual wielding also broke the golden triangle and that’s probably why is was nerfed in Halo 3 and scrapped in Reach and future instalments which also suggest that Bungie tried to break the golden triangle but that’s an entirely different subject because if dual wielding was removed then why wasn’t sprint? - Secondly, sprint is responsible for the mediocre map design. Note that other abilities like ADS, Clamber and Thruster are also responsable for this. Now this is partially opinion but lets see the facts here :
- Fact : the presence of sprint requires the maps to be bigger so that the map flow isn’t ruined - Fact : the maps don’t play/flow like the maps from previous games as sprint and other Spartan abilities make them feel a lot more fast paced
- Sprint also leaves players unprepared for battle and due to Halo 5’s much quicker TTK than previous games its basically whoever shoots first wins. - Another point that is a fact is that sprint allows players who are being shot at to simply run away. Now with shields being tied to sprint sort of helps but since sprint is now infinite that kind of doesn’t really matter anymore.Now I want to ask you a question that I’ve been asking myself for quite some time. Why is sprint in a halo game? Actually think about it for a second. All it does is increase player speed and that’s it. I do know that it gets rid of the problem of slowly traveling from one side of the map to the other but in previous games there were plenty of vehicles, man cannons and teleporters which fixed this problem.
Also we don’t want a halo to be another modern/generic fps rip off. If we wanted to play a game like that we would play COD. We play Halo and we want a halo game! And just because Halo 5 has even starts doesn’t make it a halo game. Now I understand a good portion of the halo community actually like sprint and I respect your opinion but at least try to understand where I’m coming from. Also please use to poll to show your opinion on sprint and whether you like it or not.