- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
It is my belief that the pistol in Halo 1 was too good. Pistols are as a rule (due to short barrels and short cartridges) less accurate than rifles. And a pistol can't take as large cartridges. The pistol in Halo 1 was like a .68 cal or something like that. It was 12.something mm. This is thoroughly insane. Only the spartan would be able to hold it. Its accuracy would be trash due to a big kick. Although the kick won't enact as much on a Spartan, for everybody else this weapon is a piece of garbage. The scope would not work with that kind of accuracy. In Halo 2, the battle rifle fulfills the role that the pistol was supposed to do in Halo 1. The BR has more weight, and would thus be able to handle larger cal. cartridges. It should have a scope: Many military rifles are now equiped with scopes - this only makes sense - and you won't ruin your eye from the scope hitting it with the kick, because the rifle is more controlable. The AR is now the spray as you want, as you are, gun. I think that the new set up is more realistic.