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Subject: The Only BR Thread

Posted by: MINION223
The battle rifle breaks the balance of the game in a number of ways. In halo ce the only long range weapon you had to worry about was the sniper rifle. In halo 2 the BR was powerful but was limited and the game was balanced, now in Halo 3 most maps have little in the way of cover, and if your getting shot at by a BR out in the open right when you spawn with only an AR, you don't really have an option but to die again and hope you don't get killed next time. If they removed the BR as a start weapon and only had it in the maps the game would be more balanced then it is now. It would make it a weapon to race for and I would have a little more respect for the BR if this was how they did it.


You are a moron. Halo 1 had the pistol for long range. The pistol could shoot from one side of Hang em High to the other. The reticule didn't have to be red in order to hit your target.

In H2 the BR was not balanced. You had all the X-glitches which made it a close range beast as well. I had no problem with the X-glitches and thought H2 was the best game in the trilogy.

H3 is the biggest cluster-blam!- of A game I've ever seen. The only reason you seem to get spawn killed is because the spawns themselves are garbage. And if the BR is the starting weapon, EVERYONE starts with one. How is a map where everyone starts with the same weapon unbalanced?

Bungie tried really hard to make H3 the worst game in Bungie history. They succeeded in every possible aspect. They gave us garbage spawns, a random spread BR(Which they fixed in H2 because they realized it was unfair and a mistake, but somehow in H3 it's how it's supposed to work.)All of this campquipment and an AR that will cut you down before you have a chance to turn around. At least in the other Halos you could at least turn around and defend yourself if shot first. In H3 you just auto die.

  • 06.24.2009 7:38 AM PDT

Regret. Regret. Regret.

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  • 06.24.2009 7:54 AM PDT
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I personally love the BRifle. This weapon is just so friggin awesome. Brr Brr Brr ! ! !

  • 06.24.2009 10:26 AM PDT

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  • 06.24.2009 12:02 PM PDT

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Yeah. . .I am loving the BR. I'm sorry but after 3 hours of playing a ton of BR starts, it has become an extension of my body. The spread acualy helps with headshots, three bursts is all I need. Sometimes I lightly tap on the trigger to fire a single bullet. In my opinion, the BR is a well crafted, multi-dimensional weapon.

What do you want to say, noob eliminator?

[Edited on 06.24.2009 12:06 PM PDT]

  • 06.24.2009 12:05 PM PDT
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i realyy dont use the br that much but when i do use it i do pretty good i like it but i dont use it that much

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  • 06.24.2009 2:20 PM PDT
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Whilst the BR is an amazing weapon to use for any situation. i myself would like to see bungie put it into a semi-automatic single shot mode. even better be able to switch between single shot and the three round burst we all know and love. i just think that would be cool and also make people double think alot of strategies that they use every match.

[Edited on 06.24.2009 5:04 PM PDT]

  • 06.24.2009 3:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: siahsargus
Yeah. . .I am loving the BR. I'm sorry but after 3 hours of playing a ton of BR starts, it has become an extension of my body. The spread acualy helps with headshots, three bursts is all I need. Sometimes I lightly tap on the trigger to fire a single bullet. In my opinion, the BR is a well crafted, multi-dimensional weapon.


4 shots is the minimum for a kill, and
you can't just fire ONE bullet.

you can only turn while shooting to separate the burst.

  • 06.24.2009 6:26 PM PDT

MINION222

Fine, I'm a dumbass and the BR is the best weapon in the history of any video games. Is that what you wanted to hear. The BR should be the only weapon in halo.

[Edited on 06.24.2009 7:54 PM PDT]

  • 06.24.2009 7:53 PM PDT

personally, i like the BR for the lethality and look, my only opinion to change it is to get rid of the thin barrel at the end, but thats just my opnion

  • 06.24.2009 9:56 PM PDT

Posted by: coolhandLB
Posted by: siahsargus
Yeah. . .I am loving the BR. I'm sorry but after 3 hours of playing a ton of BR starts, it has become an extension of my body. The spread acualy helps with headshots, three bursts is all I need. Sometimes I lightly tap on the trigger to fire a single bullet. In my opinion, the BR is a well crafted, multi-dimensional weapon.


4 shots is the minimum for a kill, and
you can't just fire ONE bullet.

you can only turn while shooting to separate the burst.


actually if you shoot and melee at nearly the same time you can fire 1 bullet, i did it in swat the other day :)

  • 06.25.2009 5:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: R10Tz0r

actually if you shoot and melee at nearly the same time you can fire 1 bullet, i did it in swat the other day :)

Yea, i must agree on that. I somehow ended up with one bullet left in the clip once,

So this is the one and only BR thread eh?
I wish Achronos made a permanent poll to it.
Hmmm, I think Im gonna' do a thread about that... Inthe community,.

  • 06.25.2009 10:05 AM PDT

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3f ileid=69886496

The BR kicks ass, could be slightly more accurate over significant range, but still the most versatile weapon in the game

  • 06.25.2009 12:52 PM PDT

Posted by: Sultan of Splat
The BR kicks ass, could be slightly more accurate over significant range, but still the most versatile weapon in the game

More accurate?! if it were more accurate at long ranges then you might as well make it a sniper rifle

  • 06.25.2009 2:09 PM PDT

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Haha, sniper rifle; pretty much. If not for the spread it would be. I love it. BR + nade = own

  • 06.25.2009 5:35 PM PDT
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yep that sounds like a good solution.

  • 06.25.2009 9:40 PM PDT

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If the BR had no spread and was a five-shot every single time (lower the damage from 6 to 5) then it would be a perfectly balanced weapon. However, Bungie seems to think that luck = balance. I'd rather get a five shot every time and have my opponent also have this same chance than have one of us die because the spread caused a bullet to miss, requiring another precious burst to kill.

  • 06.25.2009 10:55 PM PDT
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The Battle Rifle is fine just the way it is. I think it'd be excellent to keep it the same.

  • 06.26.2009 12:32 AM PDT
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I don't understand why Bungie doesn't just make the crosshairs of the BR bigger. Always seems when I respawn with AR some one can spawn kill me cause the BR's crosshairs are small and manageable, while the AR crosshairs are quite big and also doesn't have a scope like the BR. Bungie should also fix the spread of the BR. One thing that gets annoying when I'm in a BR vs BR battle, I get the first burst to his head but since its spread is random he kills me. It almost seems as if the BR is no longer medium range weapon since its spread.

[Edited on 06.26.2009 12:56 AM PDT]

  • 06.26.2009 12:44 AM PDT

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the br is perfect :)

  • 06.26.2009 12:17 PM PDT

i love halo 3 and i only play custom games so if your doing a big custom game plz inv me gt=xiX DrPePpeR Xx

br DOES TAKE ALOT OF SKILL TO USE ITS BETTER THAN ASSAULTS HERES A TRICK TO USING A BR
back up as your geting fired at with assault or another br but with br if they start to back up two just depends on how much u hit fire and distance yall are but assault rifle it workes like 90% of the time ive killed ppl wit a assault doing this trick

  • 06.26.2009 3:03 PM PDT
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ok everyone dont get ticked off at me when i say GIVE IT UP AND LETS GO PLAY SOME SOCIAL SLAYER!!!!!!!!

  • 06.26.2009 3:22 PM PDT

The next person to assume I am talking about ranked, do us all a favor and look at what I play!

[quote]Posted by: SPARTAN 0340
Whilst the BR is an amazing weapon to use for any situation.quote]
Not point blank. At very close range, like in base storming scenarios, AR is the way to go.

  • 06.26.2009 6:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: Crosfire5
Posted by: Sultan of Splat
The BR kicks ass, could be slightly more accurate over significant range, but still the most versatile weapon in the game

More accurate?! if it were more accurate at long ranges then you might as well make it a sniper rifle


I said SLIGHTLY and over SIGNIFICANT range, not perfectly accurate over long range

  • 06.26.2009 9:26 PM PDT