The 3 or 4 extra features doesn't make up for he fact that the features taken away makes alot of gametypes impossible to create as well as not having full possibility of game variants as in previous titles. You found a new way to create a gametype, what about all the rest of the gametype everyone else wants to create that they have played in previous games or would of been able to make in previous titles, Well they would of thought halo 4 as a newer game which would make those more possible, yet even being a newer game which is suppose to add features not substitute features makes most gametype obsolete and impossible to make.
Seen your new edit about weapons. The weapons do not show up on a flood map, they do show up in other gamemodes, when playing flood they will not show up on the map. So i would really like to see who got them to work on flood, if they even did get them to work and if so how.