- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: EternalDisdain
I think the main problem is it's over powered. A heat seeking charge that knocks your shield down completely and leaves you vulnerable to die from even the slightest damage. Granted they balanced this with the fact that the pistol is utterly useless if it's not charged. The abuse of this weapon comes from the fact that when you fire off a charged shot, it over heats, but you don't have to wait for it to cool down. Instead you can quickly switch weapons ( or if you are duel wielding shoot the gun in your other hand ) and easily take out your opponent. If Bungie implemented the "down time" of the plasma pistol, and forced us to wait before we can switch weapons, and not made it duel wieldable ( notice you hold it with BOTH hands when it's not duel wielded) it would be much more balanced and would not rival power weapons such as rockets and the sword.
With this in mind the plasma pistol would become more of a support weapon and encourage team work. For instance you fire off a charged shot while your team mate finishes him off.
I agree with what EternalDisdain said. I think the noob combo sucks, and should only be used in loosing situations to bounce back into the game, but it should definately have a downtime when switching weapons, which would give the opponent at least a chance to cover, because without the downtime, then there is no chance. I wouldn't mind if they duel wielded it and had like an smg in the other hand, because you would have to be close enough for the smg to actually effect you.
I especially liked how he was talking about the fact that the PP should have downtime and then their teammates can finish, that would be nice.
[Edited on 09.19.2007 5:34 PM PDT]