Keep Sprint in Halo moving forward, but only the animation. Remove slide. Change nothing on functionality or speed. Make it a toggle. Your spartan lowers their weapon and to other players you're in the sprint animation but you still move the exact same speed
So the Guardian is the Gardener’s Champion, or at least in the eyes of the Winnower.
The Traveler not running suggests it’s ready to play the game?
Fucking hell. WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN
During Reach's early development, I made the original proposal to have George sacrifice himself in orbit and then have the covenant fleet show up, giving the unspoken implication that "You sacrificed your best guy and barely made dent. You can't win this war".
But my original pitch was "You leave Jorge in the Covenant bridge, he locks the door and is defending this room to ensure the ship stays on course, and the player runs back to the hangar and jumps" (all in game), we'd then transition to a first person cinematic while the player was falling.
The story team pushed back with a counter-proposal insisting Jorge get this monologue. I didn't agree at first so we debate/argued/etc. That happened a lot. In the end, it was the right choice (I was wrong), and it made the moment so much better.
That was the cool thing about old school Bungie. All the best moments were an amalgamation of proposals and counter-proposals, to ultimately arrive at the best version of the idea.