Why Sprint is Bad for Halo

Sprint supporters, I ask you to sit down and have an open mind, please listen to the entirety of this post. You will see why sprint is bad, and I'm sure you won't be able to find any positives to counter against my reasons. This isn't putting you down, this is so you will gain knowledge about competitive FPS. Here is a brief summary of my reasons as to why FPS sucks.

• They lower the base movement speed to compensate for lack of sprint, thus reducing gameplay emphasis on strafing (aka rapidly randomizing your movements to throw off your enemy's aim). Less strafing means the game is less skillful, thus taking away a lot of competitive depth.

• It allows players to run away more easily, pretty much delaying death. In classic Halo, retreating used to be about map knowledge, planning your routes, as well as using grenades to cover your tracks and hold off pursuers, but now you can just tap a button and go into a lengthy dash. If your enemy wants to chase you, they cannot shoot you while doing so.

• Halo used to also be about positioning, but nowadays you receive no consequence for how you choose to run into battle. It used to be strategic, now you aren't punished by death for bad positioning, even if you're playing mindlessly. In Halo 1-3, you couldn't get away with crap that you could in Halo 4, and it's because the classic games lacked sprint.

• Using sprint takes away your ability to participate in combat, so it doesn't really make the game faster-paced, rather this feature completely interrupts the action and destroys the flow of gameplay entirely. The FPS genre is one that is centered around combat. Mobility and combat should not go against each other, rather they should be intertwined.

• They made the maps larger to compensate for sprint, so it doesn't really help you travel faster.

• Sprint also runs out often, serving as a major pacebreaker, immediately killing all of your speed. this serves as another reason as to why it doesn't make the game fast paced.

Conclusion

343i, just bring back speed boost and have it come with sprint. This way it'll further encourage map control and give people what they want, without destroying the game. It does work fairly well as a pickup (I've tested it in Reach, and it's also been done that way on Promod). No matter what though, DO NOT bring it back as a starting ability.