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Subject: Why did you hate the M6D Pistol?
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i love how everyone says the pistol was unrealistic and that it could never do that in real life...Seriously it blows me away how anyone can be that stupid. It's a video game kids, that's all. The pistol made it fun, made it a challenge. If you sucked with the pistol you hated it, i mean i would hate it if i got raped by it 24/7, I on the other hand chose to get better instaed of whining to get a game that is ten times easier...

  • 04.13.2005 4:15 PM PDT
Subject: The M6D Pistol
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It was the only weapon anyone used. I thought it got really boring after a while.

  • 04.15.2005 1:48 PM PDT
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i loved the pistol, i was a master, and everyone complained about it. i actually wish they had left it in, everyone has it, so its not like its unfair. we also have to remember that it is the future, and we play as super soldiers with super-wepons( fin stableized sniper rifle, rocktlauncher, and oh ya, plasma and needler)

  • 04.24.2005 3:50 AM PDT
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Ok, since everyone is chiming in, I'd like to tell the pistol haters what they are saying and explain why they are stupid.


1. The pistol is cheap/overpowered.

How is a weapon overpowered when everyone spawns with it? Sure, it didn't in slayer. But who played slayer. Everyone played slayer pro. It was more skill based and more fun.

Equilant in H2: If everyone spawned with a sniper rifle, would it be cheap? No, because everyone has it.

2. It is the only gun in CE.

If all you use in CE is the pistol, your either a godshot or a complete noob. If you can get 3 shots kills every time on a moving target, who is shooting back, then all you have to use is the pistol. But no one actually could do that. So people used other weapons that were effective. Which was just about every gun except for the needler.

Equivalent in H2: If everyone spawns with a battle rifle that takes 9 bullets to kill someone, would you still use the sniper/rocket/sword?

3. It's not realistic.

Maybe it will be realistic 500 years from now. Your not Notradaumus, don't tell me what is realistic 547 years from now.







  • 04.24.2005 7:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: realmadridpride

Maybe it will be realistic 500 years from now. Your not Notradaumus, don't tell me what is realistic 547 years from now.


Good one.

  • 04.25.2005 5:42 PM PDT
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If you have read HALO: First Strike, it says the "new" pistol can kill an elite in three bullets and was heavier. Also the Battle Rifle could kill an elite in 1 burst.
So according to the books, the M6C was much more powerful.

[Edited on 4/30/2005]

  • 04.30.2005 2:30 PM PDT
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i wouldnt know cuz ive only read The Fall of Reach

  • 04.30.2005 7:45 PM PDT
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Ppl dont realize that you rarely kill someone with a pistol in three kills. Heck its easy to kill someone with a pistol. Now, i know like on blood gultch it was about the only weapon used beside rocket and sniper but every other weapon was still used. I even use the needeler alot.

  • 05.02.2005 4:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: KoOtZ 42
Plus no one can beat me in a swords match on HALO2. hahah

Lol, that part was completely random. I agree, look how much we've advanced over the past TWENTY years. We've accelerated our advancement rate and still are, damn, we'll probably be shooting guns more powerful than the tank weapon on our LITTLE SMALL GUNS by the time 2552 rolls around. Wow, that thought amuses me to no end. Think how much we are laughing at weapons in the 1400 and 1500's, think how much they'll be laughing at ours. Also, if there is one thing that pisses me off about the Halo series, consider this. In HALO 1, we had the M6D. In HALO 2, we have the M6C! Why would we have an older issue of a pistol LATER? I think they should have made the battle riffle like they were going to. One shot in zoom, full auto out of zoom, and SCREW the pistol. Have the damn BR take the MA5B Assault Rifle's spot as well as the M6D Handgun's spot.

  • 05.03.2005 9:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: MasterChief487
If you have read HALO: First Strike, it says the "new" pistol can kill an elite in three bullets and was heavier. Also the Battle Rifle could kill an elite in 1 burst.
So according to the books, the M6C was much more powerful.

Yeah, I've been wondering what happened to THAT magnum! I was all excited when I read that part, I was all like BADASS!

  • 05.03.2005 9:11 PM PDT
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How can anyone say the M6D was overpowered? Everyone started with it. Also it is a gun that gives you a decent chance in all situations but never a point-blank-with-the-shotgun or all-the-way-across-the-map-with-the-sniper chance. We don't have that in Halo 2. You can all preach the Battle Rifle, but it is FOUR shot kills with a slower rate of fire, and it's as useless as hell against an elite with his back turned to you (in MP) because it seems that elite never dies, and it is hard to headshot an elite from behind. Even IF they managed to make the BR just like the M6D it wouldn't depend on skill anyways with the foot-from-the-head-headshots we have now. The indisputable fact is the pistol was the best weapon in ANY fps EVER! Who gives a -blam!- about realism IT'S A GAME! I'm willing to bet no poor bastard is even gonna bother to argue with me on these facts. THEY ARE INDIPISPUTALE! And Bungie I'm pissed off at your for making such a mediocre sequel to the GREATEST GAME EVER MADE! OK now you weapon-whores can start arguin' if you dare...

  • 06.05.2005 4:00 AM PDT
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Im to lazy ti read through all of the posts pasts the first page but what the hell Im still gona post.

The Pistol is a great wepon bar none it was well thought out, just over used as any person would if they had it to use.

now is it to strong in the future to use? no not even close for example lets look at the desert Eagle sense it was mentioned. it comes in sevrel diffent calaburs, it also comes in sevrel differnt sizes of a barrel, they can range from a standerd 4 inch all the way up to a 13 inch barrel. now the more a round weighs the more its going to drop but its also going to have more mass upon impact with eather flesh, sheilds or armor. Now is when we get into differnt types of rounds explosive, hollow point, full jacketed, armour periceing, incendery ((makes stuff catch on fire)). the desert eagle is a vary powerfull wepon its 50 call rounds with armour peirceing can go through body armour.

but lets look at a more recent wepon that is in production. the Sig series of fire arms there is a good amount, 38 sig, 357 sig, and my personal favorite the 44 sig.
The Sig takes fire arm desighn on a whole new level by useing advanced compasites makeing the gun lighter and more stable adding into how well it can be used by a skilled marskmen.

Now the really intresting thing about the Sig is the way the rounds are made they are basicly minature rockets in their desighn. Any one that has seen them are haven taken a class in physics and ambey Chem will knwo what Im talking about..........or if they saw some movies where a bunch of kids made rockets I thinkt he name was October sky.

Any how at the bottem of the round there is a pinch in the caseing this pinch focus's the explosive blast of the black poweder giveing it a tighter stream. tighter stream=more speed and more power.
now the 357 Sig witha full jackted round cane go right through the engine block of a Deisel big rig, any one that has seen those things knows its a masive hunk of metal.

people that are against the scope have never been to a marksmen compatation. many of these things People will actully have a scope on their fire arms these scops can range froma small x2 and up to a massive x15 this means pin point targeting a laser would have trouble matching these guys.

now give wepons a 200 year advance the Halo Pistol will seemed under powerd by real standerds. the wepon they showed is vary possible even by todays standerds.

so yea I heart the pistole

  • 06.05.2005 11:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: Three_Shot_Burst
If you have a problem with the Halo 1 pistol in multiplayer, then you have agility problems. I never experienced anyone dominating a map with the pistol.


Yeah, it is stupid that people are not fast enough to get out of the way of a 1400 mile an hour bullet. Oh, and if you haven't experienced that before, then you must only play against people exactly to the wire your skill.

  • 06.05.2005 4:36 PM PDT
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Why was Halo 1's pistol cheap you ask? 4 words! BAM BAM BAM dead...

  • 06.05.2005 5:08 PM PDT
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This argument is pointless, you know what we should be talking about? The AR being replaced by the BR,

Here's why

1. AR>BR in terms of looks

2. That kewl AR noise

AR: blblblblblblblam!!!

BR: pewpewpew

  • 06.05.2005 9:55 PM PDT