- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Recon Number 54
It's all about gameplay balance & realism. The AR was hopeless, take a look at the size of the aiming reticle and point it at a wall sometimes. At medium range, in full-auto, most rounds stray outside of the already too large "sweet-spot". It sounded nice, it was big, but it didn't do anything at range. Once you got into effective AR range, the shotgun is/was far more effective.
The pistol was overweighted and completely unbalanced the game. That is why everyone loved it. It was the "magic" ticket to raising your kills without really relying on learning the use of any other weapon.
The 3 round burst for the BR is realistic. Ask anyone who's fired a current model M16. Spray and pray (which full-auto rifles encourage) is not an effective nor succesful combat technique. In the real world, if you fire magazine after magazine in full-auto, your barrel overheats and can really ruin your day.
Bottom line? Bungie may bring them back and will only bring them back if THEY decide to. So far other than "I wanna" I haven't seen a reason that Bungie would find it reasonable or worthwhile to do so.
owned all of you, and i completely agree.