: It's supposed to help you get around quicker, right? But they make the maps
: much larger, so what's the point in the first place? Sprint makes maps
: significantly harder to design, which is why the majority of Reach and H4
: maps aren't very good. Sprint makes it very easy to escape encounters
: (which actually makes the game SLOWER), meaning there's less strategy in
: choosing what engagements you want to participate in, since there's not as
: much of a risk of death.

I don't know about in general, but for me it comes to it being fun. It's fun to sprint. More than that, it's un-fun to suddenly not be able to sprint. Unfortunately being fun isn't always the best thing for making a fair competition, that's why there's such a divide over power weapons and the power of starting weapons, and I see how it can slow things down and some people don't like that-- but then I'd say a more drawn-out fight is more a matter of fun than fairness. That's what I think it comes down to, whether you want an uneven experience that's more fun on average or one that's more consistent and therefore bland but more fair and dependable and conducive to straight competition. It looks like 343i is trying for a fun, uneven experience-- unfortunately (again), I feel they're failing to even provide that. Now that I think about it I'm really surprised, Destiny's multiplayer is much more of a mess than this beta's and by all rights it should play like a mess but once you get into it it feels good and it's surprisingly even, while this... doesn't, and isn't-- maybe I just haven't gotten into it yet, but the only other things I had to put effort into on this scale before to enjoy Halo are the DMR's bloom in Reach (which I still like but don't want to have to get used to again) and not hitting X in Halo 3.