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pistols are cheap in halo....

  • 07.02.2007 8:11 PM PDT

Posted by: hedrought
pistols are cheap in halo....

Only among those who aren't any good with them.

  • 07.03.2007 4:11 AM PDT

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Cheap, everybody are "good" with pistols, just point and press press press and you got a kill, from anywhere against anyone.

  • 07.03.2007 7:06 AM PDT

Posted by: kalle90
Cheap, everybody are "good" with pistols, just point and press press press and you got a kill, from anywhere against anyone.

I prefer to play against people who aren't standing still, but whatever floats your boat.

  • 07.03.2007 8:12 AM PDT

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Posted by: kalle90
Cheap, everybody are "good" with pistols, just point and press press press and you got a kill, from anywhere against anyone.

I prefer to play against people who aren't standing still, but whatever floats your boat.


Thats sadly true mostly, many who i play with dont know how to jump and move efficently, they dislike Halo and its rarely played. But its still true that pistol is almost everyones choice and its always a great weapon.

  • 07.03.2007 8:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: kalle90
Cheap, everybody are "good" with pistols, just point and press press press and you got a kill, from anywhere against anyone.

I prefer to play against people who aren't standing still, but whatever floats your boat.


Thats sadly true mostly, many who i play with dont know how to jump and move efficently, they dislike Halo and its rarely played. But its still true that pistol is almost everyones choice and its always a great weapon.

I was being glib, but the point is made I think! If someone isn't moving all that sharply, a three-shot kill is pretty easy. The point is though when you have two people who know what they are doing, a pistol confrontation is anything but cheap - the strafe speed is higher than in halo 2 and single shots make it trickier to pull off the final headshot on an unshielded opponent. A pistol battle can become pretty epic. The speed of the 3-shot kill is a sticking point for people as well, but if you try out the other weapons on a stationary target in their best effective range you can see that all the weapons kill pretty darn fast.

I think a lot of people remember either playing against their friends who weren't into it as much and so weren't very good, or being one of those people and playing with one or two guys who were much more capable. The pistol is devastating if there is a skill gap and I think that counts against it in most people's mindset.

The pistol had problems but it's a shame that not everyone got to appreciate the system when it worked properly. It was a funny kind of working but work it did.

  • 07.04.2007 3:44 AM PDT

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Posted by: kalle90
Cheap, everybody are "good" with pistols, just point and press press press and you got a kill, from anywhere against anyone.

I prefer to play against people who aren't standing still, but whatever floats your boat.


Thats sadly true mostly, many who i play with dont know how to jump and move efficently, they dislike Halo and its rarely played. But its still true that pistol is almost everyones choice and its always a great weapon.

I was being glib, but the point is made I think! If someone isn't moving all that sharply, a three-shot kill is pretty easy. The point is though when you have two people who know what they are doing, a pistol confrontation is anything but cheap - the strafe speed is higher than in halo 2 and single shots make it trickier to pull off the final headshot on an unshielded opponent. A pistol battle can become pretty epic. The speed of the 3-shot kill is a sticking point for people as well, but if you try out the other weapons on a stationary target in their best effective range you can see that all the weapons kill pretty darn fast.

I think a lot of people remember either playing against their friends who weren't into it as much and so weren't very good, or being one of those people and playing with one or two guys who were much more capable. The pistol is devastating if there is a skill gap and I think that counts against it in most people's mindset.

The pistol had problems but it's a shame that not everyone got to appreciate the system when it worked properly. It was a funny kind of working but work it did.


I dont really hate pistol as much i whine about it here, it rarely is a problem but it had problems and perfect game doesnt have those. Pistol can kill anybody almost everywhere and fact that almost everyone chooses to use and almost always you can take it so that proves it. I can imagine that pistol isnt as big problem when played with 16 players because every weapon is useful sometime, but i remember Blood Gulch fights with 4 players tops and pistol always works way too well, Shotgun isnt useful when enemy is 200 feet away, Covenant weapon bullets are seen from far away and easily dodged and its hard to spot someone with sniper and when i get hit and i cant zoom im dead before i know where im shot at so only vehicles and pistols give chances to win. When that close fight with pistols happen i rarely would say that epic, its fun to keep shooting and try to hit enemy but usually it looks stupid, not epic (i wouldnt like enemies jumping and strafing in campaign that much) and when other kills other we just have to wait it to happen again, but thats fault of player amounts and quality.

I say all weapons are "too" good (Shotgun range is really big too which makes Pistol-Shotgun combination God Combo, frags have huge kill range and much else) in HaloCE and id like to have little more POWERFUL SPARTANS (not weaker weapons), but if you could use only one weapon in Halo i think 95% of answers would be pistol because no one can really think why its bad: huge range, accurate, much bullets, common, powerful, hard to see, who wants more?

Carbine is my favorite weapon in Halo2 so i guess that means i like pistol too, but Carbine has weaknesses: Clearly visible bullets (really important, i may have never completed campaign on Legendary if i couldnt have seen where im shot from, pistols in HaloCE arent that common so it isnt problem), less bullets, better and realistic looking and somehow it just isnt as annoying.


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  • 07.04.2007 5:38 AM PDT
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assault rifle and pistol

  • 07.04.2007 6:49 AM PDT

From what I've read, most people like to snipe their enemies with explosive rounds. I however, like to use the MA5B Standard Issue Assault Rifle with what I affectionately call, "My Boom Stick". Aaannndd a couple of frags here and there don't hurt.. usually. ow.

  • 07.04.2007 9:30 AM PDT
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Assault rifle with a full payload of rockets. Use the scope on the rockets to find the enemies, snipe with the assault rifle, or just throw a nade or use a rocket. I always played the artillery in co-op if that helps. Though shotgun and rockets is my only other combo.

  • 07.04.2007 9:50 AM PDT
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Pistol n' sniper, or Pistol n' Shotgun.

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  • 07.19.2007 6:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: kalle90
Cheap, everybody are "good" with pistols, just point and press press press and you got a kill, from anywhere against anyone.






wow, sorry to put it this way but think before you post. The pistol was the only weapon that required skillz.

  • 07.19.2007 6:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: ChirpinSquirrel
wow, this transformed from friendly weapon chat to a "im gunna rip your throat out, my pistol is better than you".
put it like this, no pistol is that powerful, all assault rifles are more powerful in actuality. a .30 cal assault rifle will put a equally as large as a .50 cal handgun, and sorry to break it to you but the M6D is not just less than .50 cal, but not even real. no offense to bungie but they got the gun apsect wrong. the AR shoots 7.62mm rounds.... that equals .30 caliber, when you shoot an elite with no shielding, or even a spartan, they should just melt away into pieces with the first couple rounds.

hopefully this may help your dispute, or you will just start b-wording at me.



You need a lesson on firearms. a 50 cal pistol will tear an assault rifle up. Automatic weapons have bad accuracy, a Pistol is better. And besides, people dont use 7mm ammo much anymore due to the fact that it produces ALOT of recoil. You have the gun aspect wrong,

  • 07.19.2007 6:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Elite_swordsman
Posted by: ChirpinSquirrel
wow, this transformed from friendly weapon chat to a "im gunna rip your throat out, my pistol is better than you".
put it like this, no pistol is that powerful, all assault rifles are more powerful in actuality. a .30 cal assault rifle will put a equally as large as a .50 cal handgun, and sorry to break it to you but the M6D is not just less than .50 cal, but not even real. no offense to bungie but they got the gun apsect wrong. the AR shoots 7.62mm rounds.... that equals .30 caliber, when you shoot an elite with no shielding, or even a spartan, they should just melt away into pieces with the first couple rounds.

hopefully this may help your dispute, or you will just start b-wording at me.



You need a lesson on firearms. a 50 cal pistol will tear an assault rifle up. Automatic weapons have bad accuracy, a Pistol is better. And besides, people dont use 7mm ammo much anymore due to the fact that it produces ALOT of recoil. You have the gun aspect wrong,



I dont know... after you shoot a 50 cal pistol, the recoil is so massive that your not going to be firing multiple shots accurately. Who cares though, people who like the CE pistol use it and the people dont like it use something else... no biggie.

  • 07.19.2007 8:37 PM PDT
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Assault Rifle and Pistol/Sniper Rifle depending were im at on the map.

  • 07.19.2007 10:03 PM PDT
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assault rifle and pistol

  • 07.19.2007 10:35 PM PDT

I am responsible for dividing the Covenant. I shall end this war.

In lvls 6-10 I have RL for destroying longrange targets and Shotty so I can kill flood in one shot.

  • 07.21.2007 11:44 AM PDT

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Depends on what i am playing. Campaign, i usually use an AR/Pistol combo, till i find a sniper or shotty. then i use one of those and pistol. any flood levels shotty/ pistol or AR shotty. just keep mowing them down till amy amo counter is 0, then start balsting them with Good'Ol shotgun

  • 07.21.2007 5:07 PM PDT

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