-Extreme lack of gametype and Forge features. I don’t know how 343 did it, but they made custom games regress back a few years. Some modes, like Flood, were so bad that you could literally do nothing to it except change the human starting weapons. Forge was also severely gutted, albeit not as much. In place of precision editing and monitor zoom, we got magnets, which would have been a lot better if they actually aligned with coordinates. The dynamic lighting was nothing but a nuisance. Plus, 343 had to pump out a new canvas map four months after release just to appease the forgers who were pissed about the launch “forge” maps. -File share and theater mode. These two were so poorly executed that it’s not even funny. Theater mode was incompatible with an entire game mode (campaign) and still lacked party viewing. File share didn’t even exist for three months after release, and even when 343 put it in Halo 4, it was absolutely littered with problems. -The inability to disable sprint. With Reach, you could at least turn off sprint like the other armor abilities. However, in Halo 4, it was permanently turned on. In turn, 343 felt the need to really inflate all the maps in a Halo for the first time (Reach’s maps, while pulled straight out of campaign, were still somewhat similar in size to older maps). Even with a switch to disable sprint, the maps were already inflated relative to, say, CE’s maps, and would have been very difficult to play balanced, sprint-less gametypes on. -Loadouts. Reach was much more predictable than Halo because loadouts usually only differed in the armor abilities, but Halo 4 just went off the deep end with loadouts. Almost every single playlist in matchmaking was loadout-based because 343 decided to piss all over the idea of equal starts. Players could even pick two damn perks each match. Most of the perks were even identical to COD’s perks (Dead Silence, Danger Close, Marathon, Bandolier, etc.). But the worst part of loadouts was easily its progressive unlock system. If 343 really wanted loadouts, they should have given everyone everything when they bought the game (I applaud them for doing this in the MCC, though). -Ordnance. Initial ordnance wasn’t so bad; personal and random ordnance are where the complaints are, though. How could anyone at 343 have thought that having a random weapon spawn at a random time was a good idea? ROD had the power to steal a win from a team by spawning a rocket or binary rifle at the losing team’s spawn. POD was just as bad, if not worse. 343’s idea of trying to level the playing field backfired on them, as the better players would get more kills and thus more ordnance. But you didn’t even need to get kills to get ordnance. Why should you ever be rewarded for not doing anything? -AA’s. Don’t even get me started on that bull -Yoink-. -Controversial and game-changing mechanics. The only good thing 343 did mechanically was getting rid of bloom. Yet they offset a brilliant move by introducing grenade indicators and flinch to Halo. Some people may like indicators, but I just think they add to the cluttered mess-of-a-HUD that Halo 4 has. I don’t need a blue icon next to my reticle telling me if I’m close to a grenade. However, flinch was almost universally hated. Descoping existed to ensure that long-range weapons like the sniper and the DMR were not too powerful. Adding flinch completely undid the balance that descoping created and stifled movement. The long sight lines and the stability perk, of course, stifled map movement even more. Bullet magnetism was also a severe problem, but I won’t go into detail about it. -Ranks. You may say that a skill-based rank is just a number, but you wouldn’t be any farther from the truth. A dedicated visible in-game rank (VIGR) system makes matchmaking better in every way. The trueskill that all games on Xbox Live servers supposedly have isn’t enough to really filter players into their respective skill groups. Halo 2 and 3 both had VIGR systems that worked beautifully; to this day, the latter’s ranked playlists still give you games with players with ranks relatively close to yours. Even Reach had some form of ranks (Arena). -Search filters, or lack thereof. Halo 3 and Reach both had filters to make searching and matching better, like the options to only search for good connections or similarly skilled players. Even if they didn’t help, the ability to customize search options gave people a little more control over the game. Do you need more reasons or is this enough?

Halo 4 disregarded map control, power weapons, the "holy triangle" of grenades, melee, and guns, etc. It nearly destroyed everything the made the original Arena-style gameplay so good. Please watch this video on what went wrong with Halo 4's multiplayer; he explains it better than I can (in writing at least). ( Don't be thrown off by the title, he only talks about Halo 4 MP; also, this was posted way before the Halo 5 MP Beta).

343 made it! [spoiler] >Progression system rather than trueskill ranking >No equal starts >Armour abilities >Custom load outs (ability to equip a plasma pistol from start, enabling you to disable vehicles from the off, therefore making them useless). >Ordinance drops Sprint personally I have no problem with it but a lot felt this made the game feel less like Halo and made it less competitive. Doesn't mean I personally didn't enjoy it and I had a lot of fun playing it with friends and solo. I liked some of the new game types such as Dominion and Regicide, the maps weren't bad either most of them. Thankfully 343 due to feedback and no matter what some haters may say, have listened to the communities feedback and reversed everything above. Sprint remains but there is a penalty to using it, your shields don't recharge until you are stationary. Whoever tells you that the Halo 5 beta is like COD AW, never actually played it or are just trolling. I played both and its total BS what some people will say. Oh well haters will hate and some will hate anything post 2007/10. [/spoiler]

"BUTH SPRUNT WAS SOO BADH!" So you're saying that we're physically augmented super soldiers from 500 years into the future, who have been extensively trained in how to move around in and operate the suit... but we can't run?

Sprinting Ordinance Personal Loadouts (Spawn with camo and boltshot wtf?) Armor Abilities Vehicles no longer mattered (spawn with plasma pistol + sticky nades) No longer needed to memorize weapon spawns, instead they are given to you No equal starts etc.

People need to stop living in the past.

>Sprinting ruined pacing >Loadouts rendered certain playstyles useless >Game was severely unbalanced for about 6 months >No true skill ranking. I'm fine with that level up stuff to give bad players a sense of accomplishment, as long as there is also a true skill ranking system in place.

I don't even know where to begin The golden triangle of halo was destroyed

People say the sprinting ruined it. But your gonna tell me that a super human can't run? Please that's ridiculous