- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well, I have to say, the BR is significantly flawed. It is random, and as such, is not a very usable weapon. Now Bungie says: Its random for everyone, which makes it the same for everyone. That makes no sense, if it is random for everyone, then luck becomes the deciding factor and skillful aiming is not rewarded with a kill.
Bungie misinterpreted what the MLG community wants. We do not want button glitchs. We dont want the BR to be a hitscan weapon (leading your shots a bit does in fact increase the skill gap between noobs and pros). We dont want the BR to shoot faster, like it does in Halo 2. We want the BR to be more accurate,and more consistent.
We also dont want our bullets, that we shoot out, to be refunded back into our gun. Now I know some of you, including even Bungie staff, are going to say, oh thats just lag. Well, why would you even allow the game to commence, if it is going to be laggy. It's not like people have fun in laggy games.
And for you people thats say "Oh, its just one or two shots, no big deal". It is really in the grand scheme of things, no big deal. But it is the deciding factor of whether or not I, or anyone else will get a kill. I want to be rewarded for skillful aim, and I want to be sure that I will in fact get a kill for aiming well.
Also fo those of you who say " Well dont use the BR". Even though it has these huge flaws, it is still the most effective mid range weapon in the game, pretty sad eh?
Bungie, your sandbox design is flawed. It is not the way you describe it, and it doesnt make sense the way you decribe it. If there truly was no, one weapon to rule them all, then nobody would pick up other weapons. Also, in fact, a lot fo your weapons are gimmicks and as such, do not get used by most.
Why do you want us to use all weapons anyways? I would never think about picking up any duel weildable weapon, besides the mauler, because they are underpowered and ineffective. On the flip side, people pick these weapons up because thet seem cool, and they're there and they "might as well".
You dont want people using weapons, because "they might as well". You want people to use weapons because they know they are going to consistently get kills with them, and are going to consistently be rewarded for their skill at your game.
Bottom line, I know you dont see the BR as being a problem, but I sure do. It basically ruined Halo 3 for me, because I no longer know whether I am going to for sure get a kill, and the absolute worst part is, there is nothing else to play. I have yet to pick up UT:III, and CoD4 was fun, but it is a joke competitively. Gears of War, has barely anyone playing, and RSV2, even though is fun, just lacks an overall sense of satisfaction out of getting kills.
Halo 3, while can be fun at times, is not the laugh-out-loud joke Bungie made it out to be. I remember a certain Bungie employee, chuckling in a VoD, when he said, "Oh the forge, their going to love the forge, because they can spend hours dropping tanks on each other". I remember thinking at the time, "My god I hope hes joking, because I dont want some piece of crap editor not made for designing maps, but made for stupid things like that".
Who does Bungie think we are. I dont have fun using the Forge for what I want to do with it, because it is so tedious let alone dropping tanks on people. Making maps is hard enough on that extremely touchy editor, and now that I think about it, it was made to be some sort of joke? Wow is all I can say. I can no longer take Bungie seriously as a developer because of what they have done to my beloved Halo franchise.
But what does that mouthful have to do with the BR. Well, since Halo 3 was obviously designed to be a joke, they needed to make the BR function terribly, while maybe not on purpose, they had to do it because if it was any better, it would be unfair for people without one.
Now Bungie says "If you dont like th BR, dont use it". Meanwhile I want them to say " If you dont like being pwned by the BR, pick one up".
Hopefully one day they come to their senses and make some changes to their flawed game. And hopefully buy the time they do I will still be playing Halo 3. Hopefully....