Halo 5 gameplay is on Youtube now. Everywhere I go, there's heated discussion about what's good, what isn't, and whether or not 343's dun goofed. I don't want to continue the debate about whether or not halo 5 is going to be good. It's a boring debate, guys. I want to see what you think they should have done, and see if you agree with anything I have to say. First, I'll talk about core gameplay mechanics. I may make a reply later about cool shit that should be in Halo by now. Bungie introduced permanent AAs in Halo Reach. 343i followed suit and added them into Halo 4 so naturally it would have made its way into Halo 5. However, people complained about armor abilities in both Reach and Halo 4 and naturally that's something for 343 to think about. I'm glad that they did at least think about it, because they shouldn't have ignored it like they did in Halo 4. However, there are always other options. Personally, I just want equipment back. But it's not about me. Yeah, the adaptation of armor abilities into spartan abilities made sense. It was an attempt to kill 2 birds with 1 stone: give equal starts without alienating a new part of the fan-base. That much, I understand. But these new movement mechanics... seriously 343? They may actually alienate another part of your fan-base. So I get that they don't want to go back to unequal starts. I also get that they like armor abilities, like a good portion of the fan-base does. But wouldn't that make the logical option... putting in armor abilities as limited pickups on a map instead of starting out with them? This was supposed to be an arena game after all. And about sprint... I'd like that to be a BTB only thing. The way 343 nerfed it doesn't make sense to me at the moment. Thoughts? [spoiler]Halo 5 is [i]ok[/i] in my book. This is just a discussion of possible alternatives that they could have resorted to. Please keep it that way.[/spoiler]