- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The nice thing about powerups is that they force the action. They also make it easier for a team to go in and "break camp," or take out some campers. Think about playing Chill Out on Halo. How many times have you seen the other team camp the invis room. Its hard to break camp on decent players in that room, especially if they have the rockets. Now, when you pick up the OS in Chill Out, you have a considerably better chance of cracking that room when you go in, because you have the health of almost two Spartans.
Powerups make it easier to control the map, and when you have two good teams going head-to-head, its guaranteed that they'll be fighting to control the powerups. Good teams know that you have to control them, and as a result, a lot of heavy fighting goes down in rooms/areas that contain powerups.
I hope they stay...