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Subject: ***Why does the plasma rifle not show up in the gametype rifles?***
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Anyone know?

  • 05.20.2007 3:14 PM PDT
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It's not actually a rifle, it's an automatic weapon w/ no RIFLING. It's like an SMG. Carbine is called a rifle because even though it doesn't fire solid projectiles and doesn't have rifling, it is very accurate. Same with the Beam Rifle. Plasma Rifle really isn't a rifle. To me it's an automatic, plasma SMG

  • 05.20.2007 3:29 PM PDT
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Well why is it called a rifle??

  • 05.20.2007 3:32 PM PDT
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IDK, Bungie felt like it. But do you consider it a rifle because if you do, write Bungie and ask them to change the name. I've thought about this too but I simply don't consider the Plasma Rifle a Rifle. I use it as a Dual

  • 05.20.2007 3:41 PM PDT
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I DONT consider it a rifle, im wondering why it is called one, and why it isnt used in rifle gametypes.

  • 05.20.2007 3:47 PM PDT
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I give up, I am left answer-less. I believe only the almighty one, aka Bungie can answer this one. The weight is too much for me to bare. Take it AWAY! It hurts! I give up!!! NOOOOOOO!

  • 05.20.2007 4:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Luness909
It's not actually a rifle, it's an automatic weapon w/ no RIFLING. It's like an SMG. Carbine is called a rifle because even though it doesn't fire solid projectiles and doesn't have rifling, it is very accurate. Same with the Beam Rifle. Plasma Rifle really isn't a rifle. To me it's an automatic, plasma SMG

hey the battle rifle and the carbine are rifles cuz one they are very accurate, two the have SCOPES attached to them and three they can be considered short-medium-sometimes long distance weapons. the plasma rifle is called a rifle cuz it too is a short-medium weapon, and what else would they call some blue red thing that shoots bolts of plasma at you? also it can be considered a rifle cuz it shoots off plasma one bolt at a time. yes its automatic, but its still shooting off the bolts ONE at a time. just how a machine gun is sometimes called an automatic rifle. its still a rifle cuz its shooting the bullets ONE at a time. a shotgun shoots lil b-b's from a lil cartridge that holds all these b-b's. its called a shotgun cuz it shoots MORE than one projectile at the target

but probably the main reason why it isnt used in rifle game types is because it doesnt have a scope attachment and it is at its most extreme effectiveness at close range, while all other rifles are effective at almost any distance, excluding sniper and beam rifles mind you. plus you cant see the bullets coming from a carbine/battle rifle/beam rifle/sniper rifle, while you can easily dodge a simple plasma rifle because you can see it coming at you.

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  • 05.20.2007 5:07 PM PDT
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The Plasma Rifle isn't really a rifle.
That's why.
I mean, think about a plasma rifle in a Rifles gametype. It'd be totally useless.

To the poster above me, the Battle Rifle fires three shots at a time, and it's considered a rifle. Otherwise I agree.

  • 05.20.2007 5:23 PM PDT
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no... its because halo 1 was unbalanced and the plasma rifle was suppose to be the covenant equivalant of the assualt rifle. they just decided not to change the name in halo 2, but they made the game balanced by adding the covenant carbine and taking the assualt rifle out.

  • 05.20.2007 5:28 PM PDT
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Mostly because its a short range gun, not a mid to long range like the other rifles so it would just be useless in the gametype.

Also, another thing to think about, the maps would be unbalanced because where would you destinguish between where a Plasma Rifle would spawn and where the Carbine would spawn, instead of it just being all alien weapons (except Beam Rifle) become Carbines.

  • 05.20.2007 5:29 PM PDT
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I'm guessing what they mean by rifles are the accurate guns with scopes (yeah Rocket doesn't count)

  • 05.20.2007 5:38 PM PDT
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Well I don't consider a plasma rifle scoped and accurate.

  • 05.20.2007 6:03 PM PDT
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the same reason an assault rifle is called that.
for no good reason.

  • 05.20.2007 6:06 PM PDT