- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Info is never in short supply with you, is it, Hikaru? Anyway, he said it best why the pistol will probably be making it back. Of course, I have a few doubts. The 'new pistol' may take the old pistol's place, and I wouldn't put it beyond Bungie to stab our old friend, M6D in the back.
Anyway, I'm pro-pistol. I think it may have been a bit powerful, but I saw it as an overall balanced weapon. It was dominant at medium to fairly close range because there were no other medium range weapons. Plus that's where most of your fighting took place. People use it all the time because it's most potent at a range people fight at the most often. It's hard to say it's that unbalanced when you have nothing to compare it to. Besides, somebody with the pistol, unless a master with it, doesn't have a chance against the plasmarifle at close range.
[here's where it gets a bit psychotic]
Remember the old song children, "Make new friends, but keep the oh-old. One is silver and the other gold! *repeat several times and throw in some other lines I've forgotten*"
Don't sell out old weapons when they're still functional and have their own place in the Halo weapons-rack.