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The BR is the best weapon to spawn with for Halo 2, but it's not the perfect spawning weapon.
Halo is about grenades, weapons, melee, yadda yadda, smg starts ruin this, we've all heard this before. So fast forward to BR start games which promote the use of all three, and it's also a weapon that you can hit anyone anywhere on the map.
It makes for good competitive play because you have to always be on your toes. You can't venture out anywhere without being targeted, and against a team that knows what they're doing, it's possible that you'll never have full shields at any given time (I have actually witnessed gameplay where a team on Warlock got demolished and were always half shields because of getting hit off spawn.)
Is spawning with a good weapon a bad thing? No. Well, not always. But the SMG is not a good starting weapon. People who say they can use the SMG just fine haven't played against teams that know Slayer inside and out. Granted, even the team slayer gods had to put up with the SMG, but they immidiately switch to a better weapon and gradually develope map control. Basically, slayer games aren't won with SMG's, but the SMG start is taken advantage of because the other team has a pea shooter when they spawn, while you have BR/Rockets.
So considering the emphasis of teamwork in this game, a seperate organization found that BR starts provide the most fair and balanced gameplay. Basically, it does. Even if the BR is sometimes too a good a weapon to spawn with, it's the best spawn weapon for this game.
[Edited on 08.31.2007 10:14 AM PDT]