: Invasion is a flawed gametype.
: the very nature of a large multi-stepped game-type with specific asymmetrical
: objectives necessitates large purpose built maps to maintain and push
: forward the "drama" or narrative of the game-type. the story of
: the game-type always needed a beginning,middle and end and map design has
: to reflect the three phase nature of the game-type. Which resulted in
: Bone-yard, Spire and Breakout being all largely useless outside of slayer.
: which even there because of the amount of time spent between death,spawn
: and return to action were almost always inexcusably long. Even with the
: segmenting of the map during other game-types
: Now add to it that it is Spartan Vs. Elite but these two characters behaved
: wildly different. different sizes, speeds, health, and shields. that being
: as much of a tenant of the "drama" as the phases and map design.
: then there is legacy. why remake someone else's attempt at innovation when
: you can make your own

: 343 is very much aligned to the Spartan VS. Spartan style of
: "drama" that even they were to remake the game-type the usual
: suspects would still have hate for it. Time is the king of development.
: developing large maps that have limited use for a game-type with limited
: appeal for a community that will hate on it for lacking elites because you
: as the developer prefer S v. S and have also heavily differentiated
: Spartans from elites to the point on even having elites as playable would
: be a hard sell or akin to reinventing the wheel or going with a character
: model in universe that can canonical match the movement versatility of
: halo 5 Spartans i.e knights and no one wants to play as knights. so time,
: design intent, purpose built maps are the downfall of the adoption of the
: game-type by the franchise's new parents .

Wow, good points! Even as a fan of Invasion and one that desired to see it come back, that makes sense.

- MacGyver10