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Subject: The M6D Pistol
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Why are we still bickering about real life weapons and their connections to Halo? I'm pretty sure if the weapons we had now had 500 years of improvement, they really would be that powerful.

  • 03.05.2005 8:42 PM PDT

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yup, but why is the pistol adavanced but the other weapons in the future arnt?

  • 03.06.2005 9:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: EAGLES5
yup, but why is the pistol adavanced but the other weapons in the future arnt?


The other weapons aren't advanced for gameplay reasons.

  • 03.09.2005 12:14 AM PDT
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How exactly would you know that a desert eagle would kill an elite in one hit? Have you ever seen one and traveled forward in time "sir Newton"

[Edited on 3/16/2005 7:47:52 PM]

  • 03.16.2005 7:46 PM PDT
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You can say the pistol in halo1 is cheap, but its takes alot more skill then locking on and lunging with the sword from 20 feet away, or point blank kills with the rocket in halo 2.

  • 03.16.2005 7:55 PM PDT
Subject: Why did you hate the M6D Pistol?
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M6D was an innovation. Finally, an FPS that required skill. Any seasoned player would get pwned by a pro but waste a freshie. I didn't see it as a weapon that was "cheap", but a weapon that allowed everyone to start on an equal playing field. While I was a TSK machine, I didn't use it exclusively. Give me a sniper and I will no scope you until my eyes fall out. Why don't people complain about this, the one hit kill? It is quicker to kill someone with the sniper yet you complain about the pistol? Perhaps you just didn't have the skills required to take out someone who was better with the pistol than you were, so instead of getting better you complain. Every weapon in Halo is good (the Needler doesn't count) if used correctly.

I don't understand how you complain about the pistol and love Halo 2. SMG's are NOT fun. Now the game I once played habitually has been watered down to nothing more than a game of chance. Whoever has the better combo wins. Instead of being able to take down the shotgun guy dancing around me, coming ever so close, I can spray him with half a clip of an SMG (roughly the time it takes to fire 3 M6D shots) and just get pwned into oblivion.

Great work Bungie. Now I don't even play Halo 2. UC2 will completely destroy the pro fanbase of Halo 2. I am glad it happened.

  • 03.17.2005 11:02 PM PDT
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Great work Bungie. Now I don't even play Halo 2. UC2 will completely destroy the pro fanbase of Halo 2. I am glad it happened.

Me too. I'm so sick of "pros" thinking that they are the only ones that matter or play this game. (Not directing this towards anyone so please don't get bent out of shape about it.}

  • 03.18.2005 9:28 AM PDT
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I personally think it sucked ass in the campaign mode, but that's just me.

  • 03.18.2005 12:15 PM PDT
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Out of all the four pages in this thread, only one person hated the pistol! I know a lot more people hated that weapon. I even have the question quoted in my sig. What's going on?

  • 03.18.2005 7:27 PM PDT

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It wasnt hated persay. It just wasnt loved

  • 03.18.2005 7:36 PM PDT
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who hated it? everyone loves the pistol ^^

  • 03.19.2005 9:47 AM PDT
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I love the M6d pistol io love that ita amazing pistol but removing the awsome pistol into a normal pistol was a good choice because then that leaves more guns to be added into the game like the carbine so stop -blam!-ing abou it!

  • 03.19.2005 2:53 PM PDT
Subject: Why did you hate the M6D Pistol?
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i didnt hate the pistol, mostly people hate it cause they suck with it (ie, they cant shoot someone 3 times anywhere before they get shot three times). normally when i played mp with my friends and we got into a dog fight, %70 of the time we were using pistols to kill each other, or the first to throw a plasma on the other person (and that could take a while sometimes).

the pistol was the best weapon if you knew how to use it.

  • 03.19.2005 3:09 PM PDT
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Ok retard, it's more along the lines of YOU'RE NOT USING SPEC-OPS WEAPONS ANYMORE!!!

  • 03.19.2005 3:32 PM PDT
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I don't know why everyone is saying that the pistol is overpowered because EVERYBODY SPAWNED WITH IT and therefore nobody had an advantage (unless the gametype was made by a crackhead).

  • 03.20.2005 10:27 AM PDT
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First of all, the time between Halo CE and Halo 2 is relatively short. You're just getting diffrent weapons, not newer ones.

Yes. In just under 550 years, we will have made significantly better weapons, but that doesn't just mean pistols. It includes rifles, etc. The M6D was too powerful in comparison to the other weapons. The AR took what, 40 rounds to kill someone? Does that make sense?

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The M6C may very well be the same weapon but without a scope. The Mark VI armor undoubtedly gives better protection to the wear than did the Mark V. Notice how the same shotgun does less damage? It's a lot shorter range now if you want to kill something. The Plasma Pistol overcharge can't even scratch the Chief, at all. That's due to a layer of dispersive material woven into his armor. After it takes down his shields, it is completely useless. This carries over to the Plasma Rifle not being able to slow him down. Mark VI armor lessens the effect of plasma bolts- as well as conventional rounds.

Originally the Batte Rifle was going to be single shot while zoomed, taking very few actual bullets but a lot of time to kill someone, like the pistol, but then bungie realized that up close, the three shot burst was much too powerful and you could kill somebody much more quickly than you should be able to. A pre-release Battle rifle could easily dominate the SMG even at point-blanc range.

The M6C shoots MUCH more quickly than the M6D. You can kill someone in almost the same amount of time.

Plus you can freakin' dual wield the things!

  • 03.20.2005 10:20 PM PDT
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Still no pistol hate...

  • 03.21.2005 4:17 PM PDT

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why? do you want us to hate it?

  • 03.21.2005 5:26 PM PDT
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No. I want those who hate it to post in here and tell me why they hated it.

  • 03.21.2005 6:36 PM PDT

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It wasnt cheap. I admit it was stronger then weapons that it shouldnt have been. STill in MP games everyone either had it or almost noone did. Its like an all sword match, cheap weapon, but fair game

  • 03.21.2005 7:23 PM PDT
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When i read through this form i noticed alot of arguments about the technological advancements of weaponry and how they should be stronger.
I am not saying i disagree but couldn't they make the same advancements in armor?
think about it maybe in the gap between halo and halo 2 the mark 6 armor was able to absorb more damage than it's predicesor. maybe the M6c is just stripped of a scope.

  • 03.22.2005 11:41 AM PDT
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Nothing is wrong with the HaloCE pistol. From playing Halo 2 you can obviously see how much the pistol is needed to make the game fair and skill based. When Bungie took away the pistol, they took away the skill needed to win.

  • 03.22.2005 2:16 PM PDT

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. And it is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves the flag, whose coffin is draped in the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag.Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC

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When i read through this form i noticed alot of arguments about the technological advancements of weaponry and how they should be stronger.
I am not saying i disagree but couldn't they make the same advancements in armor?
think about it maybe in the gap between halo and halo 2 the mark 6 armor was able to absorb more damage than it's predicesor. maybe the M6c is just stripped of a scope.


I dont know if you read the books or not but The spartans had there armor years before HALO, so its not to wierd that the new set was ready

  • 03.22.2005 3:49 PM PDT
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I love the Halo1 pistol. It is the awsomest weapon of the future.

  • 03.22.2005 4:07 PM PDT
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Hate the M6D? Goddamn n00bs.

  • 03.22.2005 11:07 PM PDT