Why to ppl keep dropping and picking up the flag??

It's a risk-reward tactic.

Makes ya move across the map faster BUT also reveals yer trail :p

Its more quickly

MrMartini85 wrote:

We did it in the older game because flag juggling allowed you to move faster. But in Halo 5, like you said, it gives away your position. So I only do it once I hear "you've been spotted" and I say "oh -Yoink!-" (since my position has already been given away) and I start juggling my butt off to get the flag as far as I can.

Halo 4 had a weird thing where you automatically picked up the flag by touching it and you couldn't drop it until you either captured it or you died. It was annoying because it limited your ability to fight with it (you couldn't set it down and fight off an enemy then pick it back up) and it showed the enemy team where you were the whole time with a big marker saying "Hey, the enemy is right here with your flag" the entire time you had it.

CE was awesome because you could carry the flag and drive yourself in a Ghost at the same time like a boss. Which was WAY too OP but kinda necessary what with those magnums sniping people out of Warthogs. It was not only legit, it was so legit that it was legitimate.

Well said

HERKFOOT21 wrote:

So far none of these reasons are legit. You don't win by being "faster" you win by being smarter. It's just like the game of football, just because your faster doesn't mean your better and are gonna score all the time. You gotta be smart and sneaky. When i see enemies doing that i aim right for them, whereas when idk where they are i panic when trying to find it

Your an idiot. Flag juggling is a very effective strategy. It was even removed in Halo 4, and because of how many requests there was to bring it back, 343 did.

OneShot5186 wrote:

HERKFOOT21 wrote:

So far none of these reasons are legit. You don't win by being "faster" you win by being smarter. It's just like the game of football, just because your faster doesn't mean your better and are gonna score all the time. You gotta be smart and sneaky. When i see enemies doing that i aim right for them, whereas when idk where they are i panic when trying to find it

Your an idiot. Flag juggling is a very effective strategy. It was even removed in Halo 4, and because of how many requests there was to bring it back, 343 did.

actuallly being smart will help you cause if your an idiot youll probably kill urself

You can sprint while juggling the flag.

HERKFOOT21 wrote:

So far none of these reasons are legit. You don't win by being "faster" you win by being smarter. It's just like the game of football, just because your faster doesn't mean your better and are gonna score all the time. You gotta be smart and sneaky. When i see enemies doing that i aim right for them, whereas when idk where they are i panic when trying to find it

What if being smarter means being faster?

HERKFOOT21 wrote:

So far none of these reasons are legit. You don't win by being "faster" you win by being smarter. You gotta be smart and sneaky. When i see enemies doing that i aim right for them, whereas when idk where they are i panic when trying to find it

Do you play by yourself in games because that's the vibe I'm getting? When by yourself, it can be better to be sneaky sometimes because you don't have communication and you may have to pull flags at the wrong times due to teammates not working together.

When playing with a team, you juggle a flag more because you're more likely to run the flag at the correct times due to having map control which is also communicated by your teammates. You don't have to worry about being sneaky or getting shot and dying because your teammates are controlling the spawns and you can juggle the flag on a safe route to your base which is the smart way to play, btw. It's also the faster way to move the flag which has already been pointed out numerous times.

its quicker

I usually try to stealth walk it back because, like the OP said, dropping it gives away your position. I only drop the flag if either I get spotted or trying to fight off enemies, or I'm in a situation where I'm trying to fast-break it and want to prioritize speed over stealth. Each has pros and cons, speed vs stealth.