- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: GezaB
Actually, yes the plasma rifle is on their weaponlist. While not a default spawning weapon, you can give it to them in other campaign missions as the Arbiter. It was probably just a screw up with your disk, althaugh it's really odd.
Nah, it's not a "screw up". Those Jackals always have the Plasma Rifle which, on Legendary, they can kill you extremely quickly with. I'm not sure why they are the only Jackals that wield them but, it may have been scripted that way or not.
Some Brutes, when removed from a vehicle, wield Elite Plasma Rifles. This, also, isn't what the Brutes are supposed to carry. Since the Brute Plasma Rifle was a late addition to the game, maybe they (Bungie) didn't bother changing their spawning weapon as they spawned within a vehicle and, probably, thought no one would see them out of it. Also, the Brutes in the Banshees, on the Great Journey map, spawn without any weapon at all.
My point is, perhaps the developers did forget to change the Jackal's default weapon. After all, you don't usually see them because you're normally in a Scorpian blasting away at the structure they appear on; they die before you get anywhere near them. Perhaps, during some test runs on the level, they missed this incident because of the reason I just mentioned. It's possible.
Anywise, those Jackals are always there, whether or not they were planned to wield the Elite Plasma Rifle is unknown.
[Edited on 07.28.2007 5:45 AM PDT]