- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
My first point would be, if its anything like Halo, if you can't get your hands on the BR you won't get your hands on the pistol (assuming its there) cos it would mean there were no human weapons lying around at all.
My second point is that the books are not gospel. I don't know how much influence Bungie had on them (presumably somehwat) and whether ideas flowed from Bungie to the authors or the otherway round (eg BR and Brutes). So anything you have in the books won't necessarily be in Halo 2 is what Im saying. The whole its only a book and a game thing ties into your refitting an army. Im sure physicicsts can tell you of a hundred and one things in halo that aren't possible. Im gonna have a guess at light bridges for example.
My third is that you don't want weapons that heavily overlap (eg SMG and MA5B) in a game, it would make them pointless. So they would have to differentiate them to make them both of use, such as increase the power of the MA5B and slow its rate of fire (stop me if I'm designing the Battle Rifle...).I feel there is scope for a different pistol to make it an acurate close range weapon (ie good for head shots) compared to the shotgun which is all power no accuracy being a shotgun. Personally the pistol is cool, just seems to make no sense to have a pistol with zoom thats as accurate as the sniper rifle.