You are the vocal minority at this point in regards to sprint. How are people still not getting this?
Feedback from H5 beta said people wanted sprint as well.
You know sprint was in Halo Reach as well, right? Also in Destiny. Odds that Bungie would've kept it the same if they were still working on the franchise are insanely high.
I disagree. The vast majority of pro players do not want sprint. To name a few Naded, Roy, T2, Hysteria, Walshy, and more. Naded has gone on record to say Halo should have went the Counter-Strike route with further refinements and content beginning from Halo 3. Roy has said he wants to see how Halo 5 plays without sprint and Halo 3 for competitive was the best Halo and had everything the players asked for. There is more details about 343 and pro player feedback.
I do think the survey is valuable for input but I don't think a survey, where most discontent people are not even going to open, not to mention, a select survey is a proper form of measurement. The people who enjoyed Halo 5 are likely more eager to participate in the survey than those less enthusiastic, especially since the franchise has taken a hit since 343. Lets make the survey a bit more all inclusive, eh? How about listening to player feedback after Halo 4, where Halo interest was still high, and not shit on us with Halo 5 by shoving changes down our throat so we can 'like it'. Make a survey that anyone can participate in. After Halo 4, there was literally an outcry of Halo fans for not wanting sprint or abilities, that has left such a bad taste in many Halo fans that they have just moved on from Halo since 4, with many casual Halo fans leaving the franchise and disappointed in Halo 5 that they stopped caring to do surveys.
People have every right to be annoyed. Part of the problem with the underlying issue is its inconsistency. You're having a good experience. We have players who don't encounter any issues at all (outside of long matchmaking times) but plenty of players encounter real issues. That underlying weirdness is what we're fixing and what's at the root of the vast majority of the problems. Untangling it and re-engineering it was vastly more complicated than we expected.
Again one day I hope we can do a tech post-mortem - but the big fix is making rapid progress. In the meantime, people who're having engative experiences have every right to bitch. I support them in this.
I'm not trying to be disrespectful but I think this is a pretty outlandish statement - that there are players who are not seeing issues. At best, the game is wildly inconsistent with numerous issues to many. To name a few from the many friends who play Halo, here are some widespread examples I am seeing -
*I know people, not one or two, but a lot who have had their rank reset randomly. Check your forums
*Dedicated servers have not been established and not consistent, in fact they are extremely RARE
*4v3 matches occurring in HCS but are less rare in the H2A playlist, which is good
*Numerous connectivity problems to parties with more than 1 person is common. More time has been spent connecting to parties and resetting Xbox's than playing.
*The game stops finding matches in solo or in a party, and a Xbox reset or game reset fixes
And again, this is many people who are experiencing and not a few. I understand there might be a port connectivity thing going on that you will argue affects a sample of people but again, I think the vast majority of people are experiencing wildly inconsistencies with the game and the issues above. How did 343 not beta test this?
Stinkles I do appreciate your community involvement, that a lot of people in your position do not do despite it not seeming like 343 is listening to us. While you're here, please relay the need to include more maps in MCC particularly in HCS, where only 3 maps are played.
