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Subject: Battle rifle
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Ya know the way everyone says because u have a battle riffle u dont need pistol anymore, first in the book fist strink he used both. second think old halo........... Bungie did their best (no1 could of done better) to make the game so u had a hard choice to pick what weapons to bring, and what to leave behind, You WILL NOT have the battle riffle all the timeso in my opinion there will still be a pistol, and because of the fact everyone loved it. also think the old MA5B will still be somewhere also because it was in first strik at the same time the battle riifle was and also you cant refit an entire army that has limited resorses and spread across the better part of half the gallaxy

  • 06.01.2004 2:13 AM PDT
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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.

  • 06.01.2004 2:33 AM PDT
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Alot of things are possible in the future as halo is set. the mroe guns the merry, but pllease dont take my pistol

  • 06.01.2004 3:21 AM PDT