- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well, although I normally hate seeing you post, I will admit that this was a very well-written post. You have good points on most everything, but I disagree with your views on 9 and 11. I think that the BR would (and does) make a game of "why pick up anything else?" In most BR games, from low-level customs to professional gameplay videos, it ends up as constant shooting at anything and everything that moves, even if they have absolutely no chance of killing their target. This is partially because they have so much ammo to start with, but also because no matter where they are, they can tag someone from a great distance (on small maps, any other point on the map).
I think this is strongly related to point 11, because when you spawn with the BR, you really don't need another weapon to be an effective killer. From spawn, you have the grenade combo the the ability to 4-shot kill someone, not to mention the vast array of button glitches which make the BR even more powerful. (No, I'm not making this a glitches thread). I'm saying that despite what you say about the BR not being too powerful, it is probably the single most powerful weapon in Halo 2. Other weapons have their limitations (you can't rocket a guy easily at long range, snipers generally aren't close-combat weapons), but the BR is extremely useful at all but the most extreme ranges where lag and connection strength (or a sniper rifle) become the dominant factors. If you're tooling around midship with a shotgun an your BR start, and someone kills you, I know that you won't go for the shotgun unless you spawned mere meters from your death. You can kill just as effectively without your shotgun, or any weapon you might of dropped.
About the video... I would definitely not call it conclusive proof, nor even slightly persuasive. They took an over hyped quote from bungie and stuck in their own message: "Everything bungie is saying about the Halo 3 assault rifle magically applies to the Halo 2 battle rifle too! Then, with extreme suddenness, they cut off the dialogue at the end about SMG spawns, the way sleazy politicians do to their opponents speeches. I think you could do this thread much greater credit by removing the video link from the opening post. Your words are convincing, but that video reeks of poorly edited, ill-concieved thought stolen from others. Apologies if you made that video.