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Subject: The BR replaces the pistol, the SMGs replace the AR.
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All of you people think that the BR replaces the AR, but it doesn't! The AR is replaced by the SMGs! With a pair of those you have the same thing as an AR, except with more ammo. And with the BR, you have the same thing as a pistol, except 100 times better at close range. I hope they take out the AR and the pistol, it would simply be redundant to keep them in the game.

I will agree that the BR does replace the AR as MC's main or official gun. I think this is because Bungie realized that the pistol was more effective than the AR in the original HALO, so they beefed it up into the BR and made it MC's main weapon.

  • 06.08.2004 7:34 PM PDT
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They don't replace anything.

  • 06.08.2004 7:36 PM PDT
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Alright, D von. I've noticed your posts in all these different rooms. Your Mr. Know-it-All so I'm not gonna argue

  • 06.08.2004 7:37 PM PDT
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All I'm saying is Bungie themselves said that the old guns would be back. Also, to borrow an argument from Hikaru-119, An army cannot refit all it's men with new weapons in a matter of months. Not to mention how impractical it is to replace a sidearm with a rifle and an assault rifle with sub-machine guns.

  • 06.08.2004 7:45 PM PDT
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Riiiiiiiight, because videogames are soooo realistic . . . next time we get invaded by an alien race, then you can laugh in my face and start using real life military examples.

[Edited on 6/8/2004 7:46:38 PM]

  • 06.08.2004 7:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: D von
All I'm saying is Bungie themselves said that the old guns would be back. Also, to borrow an argument from Hikaru-119, An army cannot refit all it's men with new weapons in a matter of months. Not to mention how impractical it is to replace a sidearm with a rifle and an assault rifle with sub-machine guns.


When did Bungie say that? And it's not impractical to do if you add another sidearm, the "magnum" pistol described in First Strike.

Anyway, this topic should probably be discussed on the New Mombassa forum.

  • 06.08.2004 8:52 PM PDT
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i read in a game magazine interview of a guy that had played Halo 2, that the pistol no longer exists, simple as that, so therefore it would be pretty stupid to have the AR make a return when there are two completly new human weapons that do its job, only better...

  • 06.08.2004 8:55 PM PDT
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I agree scum people take the game a little to serious.

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lol, yeah, ive heard that rediculous "the humans couldnt replace all the marine's weapons in two months" arguement b4, wow.......realism is not an extreme focus of this game, otherwise the game wouldnt exist in the first place.

  • 06.08.2004 8:59 PM PDT
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hey skum, that wuz funny rotflamo

  • 06.08.2004 9:27 PM PDT
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they cant take the pistol, thats the best weapon in Halo! NOOOOOOOOO. they wont.

  • 06.08.2004 9:45 PM PDT
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they already did


and........the battlerifle IS the pistol, EXACTLY the same...rate of fire, i think even the zoom is the same, maybe more, it might be a little less powerful than the pistol in sngle fire mode, but it really is just like the pistol only it looks like an assault rifle and has a three-round burst setting

  • 06.08.2004 9:53 PM PDT