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Posted by: Mr Smiley117
Posted by: Nokterne
I still don't understand why the BR isn't the main starting weapon. Starting with a useless weapon (ever try killing a guy holding a power weapon while using an AR?) does not make the game balanced, but on the contrary, makes it un-fair and frustrating.
If I had my way, every ranked playlist would have BR starts.
Then there would be no use of an AR even existing..
Exactly, and that speaks VOLUMES about how poor Bungie's weapon balance actually is. If a common weapon (BR) makes the other weapons obsolete, there's something wrong with the weapon balance. Even in Halo CE, where the pistol was supposedely this overpowered killing machine, every weapon except the needler was used. Each weapon had a role, big or small, and it fit that role and was useful. Sure, you could use the pistol up close, but it was difficult, and very difficult to do well, especially when up against a player using a close range weapon.
The problem with Halo 3 is that the BR is too easy to use, especially up close. The players move and strafe too slowly, and the bullet magnetism and reticle stickiness is too great. Comine that which a melee system where you do even need to look at the enemy to hit them, nad it gets ridiculous pretty fast. It really takes little skill to use the BR up close, so why should a player switch? Generally, a precision weapon, like the BR, should require just that, precision. Instead, the BR has the balancing characteristics of a close-range spam weapon, where the reward isn't high, but neither is the skill requirement.
Additionally, you have about 30 close range weapons that are pretty much all the same, so you have about 29 weapons that become obsolete, and that no one uses. Its a very poor balance, considering the major focus on the weaponry is on close-range spam weapons.