That already undermines the kind of "balance" you're talking about. A utility weapon is inherently more useful and therefore more powerful than a...
Really? Let's experiment. Let's play a ten-game series with out-of-the-box Reach settings where you get any regular non-power weapons you want...
Balance doesn't mean that every weapon is equally powerful. Some weapons are at best situationally powerful, and it's been that way since the...
To be fair, it's also not that fun to get teamshot by four guys with DMRs simultaneously any time you go in the open because your teammates are...
...Actually, I think I'd be in favor of that. That **** would be hilarious, watching spartan corpses fly all over the place.
Jetpack is OK, it just needs a counter. How about 15% of the time, it makes you fly down instead of up?