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After reading multiple paragraghs about Halo 2, I heard of a Covanent sniper rifle. No matter how may times I try, I just cant picture a plasma sniper.

[Edited on 4/16/2004 6:43:41 PM]

  • 04.16.2004 6:43 PM PDT
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I have a hard time picturing it too but i hope they include it cause it could cause some interesting situations.

  • 04.16.2004 6:45 PM PDT
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yea. a game isn't complete unless the enemy uses tactics like sniping.

  • 04.16.2004 6:47 PM PDT
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Aren't those things the Elites holding in their hands (the purple guns) the Covenant Sniper Rifle? You'll have to look in the screen shots section to find what i'm talking about. But I have to agree that a covenant sniper rifle is a must. I would use it in no time

  • 04.16.2004 7:57 PM PDT

I hate everything, but it's not my fault.

No thats not a sniper because they are inside guarding a door, so they wouldn't have sniper rifles.

  • 04.16.2004 7:58 PM PDT
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i only get on late so sorry my post is, but you need a pic of the sniper?
http://www.bungie.net/SlideShow.aspx?Path=/games/Halo2&Sl ideshow=Screenshots&Slide=26

theres the gun, but i dont know what the fire would look like

  • 04.16.2004 7:59 PM PDT
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I can't picture it either.

But maybe it won't be plasma. How about the Covenant develop some kind of beam weapon using stolen Forrunner technology. Something like what the Sentinels use, but alot more powerful.

Now that would be a kick-ass weapon!

  • 04.16.2004 8:20 PM PDT
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Using plasma for a covie sniper rifle does sound dumb but don't forget the needler. I could see something that uses the same type of ammunition but shoots it at a really high rate of speed. that would be cool. It would even be cooler it it stuck in you and you had to wait a second before it exploded.

  • 04.16.2004 8:31 PM PDT
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I like the way you think Tartarus!

What you describe sounds almost like a rail gun.

  • 04.16.2004 8:37 PM PDT
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The Covanent warships have laser weapons (read the halo books) so it could happen.

I can see it now: Multiplayer Sniping with a Covanent weapon getting loads of kills by the minute. WAIT! What if it doesn't run out of ammo? That might make them kinda cheap...

Oh well.

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i have trouble comming up with how the needler works

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That picture where they are gaurding a door is in fact, the covie sniper. Well at least as close to one as they have. The weapon there is the only scoped rifle they have, but isnt a true "sniper" rifle. Its more comparable to the battle rifle. If you look closely you can see the scope also. The main reason covenents dont use sniper rifles is that they use a form of combat called the "blitzkrieg", which is what the germans imployed in world war 2. Its a type of advanced guerilla and charge fighting. Its just not the kind of thing a covenent would do, sniping that is.

  • 04.16.2004 9:41 PM PDT
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check out my forum on weapons man

  • 04.16.2004 9:43 PM PDT
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If the unlimited ammo thing was true...they'd find another way to counter-balance it. Like a lot of time in-between shots, or having to leave zoom after every shot. Anything that would be a small disadvantage.

  • 04.16.2004 9:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: CuriousJoe
That picture where they are gaurding a door is in fact, the covie sniper. Well at least as close to one as they have. The weapon there is the only scoped rifle they have, but isnt a true "sniper" rifle. Its more comparable to the battle rifle. If you look closely you can see the scope also. The main reason covenents dont use sniper rifles is that they use a form of combat called the "blitzkrieg", which is what the germans imployed in world war 2. Its a type of advanced guerilla and charge fighting. Its just not the kind of thing a covenent would do, sniping that is.


Check out my thread for my theory on that gun, and supporting evidence.

  • 04.16.2004 9:47 PM PDT
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When I saw it first, i thought it was a plasma flamethrower. See the holes all along the barrel? I thought the plasma came out of there.

  • 04.16.2004 9:52 PM PDT
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Well, in my post that I linked above, it shows why this is like the battle rifle. A quote from a past update says that a covenant weapon that's been shown but not explained has a zoom mode. The only covie weapon that hasn't been shown is this one....and a flamethrower wouldn't have a zoom mode...

  • 04.16.2004 9:55 PM PDT
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for the covie sniper rifle i would have to go with the lazer idea, it's fast and inflicts damage. it just make sence.

  • 04.16.2004 10:06 PM PDT