- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Scipio
Shadow, get over yourself. Winning a few games in LAN parties, Halo PC especially or on XBC doesn't mean anything. Besides, trying to impress me over the internet is downright pathetic.
Now, I'll explain why people use the pistol so much, since it is just so terribly hard to understand.
The pistol is what you'd call a mid range weapon. You can shoot up to 120meters and it remains very accurate at about 100 meters. Other weapons are capable of shooting up to similar ranges (AR has the same range and shotgun and plasma rifle go up to 100 meters). These weapons, with the exception of the sniper rifle, however are rarely effective past 50meters. Ok, you know all these ranges and you're thinking 'Ok, so what?' well I'll tell you.
Where do the majorities of gunfights start? Mid to long range. Most of the time the people you see are out of the effective range of the majority of weapons. Is this sinking in? People use the pistol so often not because it's 'uber powerful' (you won't stand a chance at close range against somebody with a plasma rifle unless your name happens to be Ogre-1), but rather because it's the most effective weapon at the most common range people engage one another. The pistol is the ONLY weapon effective past 50m besides the sniper rifle. It's not the pistol's overpowering, but because the other weapons can't hit anything past your nose. Now, please, stop calling the pistol unbalanced because there is no other weapon intended for its range that you can compare it to.
Alright, so there you have it. People like the pistol, which is actually a well rounded weapon, because it's the only one that is ideal for the range most shootouts are at. Other weapons are balanced out with it (with the possible exception of the AR or needler, both of which have pretty much gotten the shaft from Bungie) because they can demolish somebody with a pistol at close range. Likewise, past 120M you'll never hit a sniper with a pistol nomatter how hard you try.
There are no overpowered weapons in Halo. There are only the AR and needler wich are in desperate need of some help. The stopping power of the pistol makes sense considering it's explosive nature and high-calibur, and it's effecacy at range is a moot point because no other weapons are designed for long range but the sniper rifle.
You prove my point its the ONLY weapon that suceeds in mid range combat and in halo 1 mp maps there's few maps (BG and sidewinder) were the sniper rifle takes advantage of this range advantage you speak. And you have to be nuts to think it's not overpowered only the shotgun is more powerful up close, PR overheats needler sucks and the AR takes a whole clip to kill someone yet the pistol can kill with three shots if your good. Perhaps it's not the pistol being overpowered more than it is that everything else is underpowered (In Halo 2 with dual wielding and improvements to the AR needler and new guns like the brute nade launcher and carbine) in fact if you read the first strike novel the pistol is MORE powerful. I trust that bungie will balance things out.
And me being "full of myself" someone attacked my skills based off a FORUM POST ON THE INTERNET!!!!!!! thus I was only defending myself as a Halo vet. Speaking of which how else can you judge your skills? besides playing other ppl other than some local n00bs (trust me I USED to think I was good at the local LAN but then I decided to try my skillz online against other ppl over XBconnect and I was humbled I then spent the next 6 months to pratice and now I can say I hold my own against other Halo players that play all the time). By the way if I cant impress ppl over the internet then why can ppl who have never played me judge me over the internet?