- TehAttak
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Well, here's some new math and theories I ran across...
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It has been stated that the Spartan model's head target area is approximately .094 WU across, or about 11.5". Assuming it's a circular target, this means that the radius of the target area is only .047 WU, or slightly less than 6 inches. This means that if your aim is 100% accurate to the center of the head, you are only guaranteed a four-shot kill inside of 7 WU (70 ft.) That is also with 99.99% accuracy (100% being the exact pixel being the center of the head.)
y=dtan(x), where d is distance to target in WU and (x) is bullet deviation in degrees...
.047=7.1tan(.38)
Seventy feet? My paintball gun on full-auto can put down a tighter than six-inch spread at that distance. Also note I am not an expert marksman by any means, heck, my aim's not good at all; nor am I using a hyper-advanced, long-barreled, sighted, burst-fire rifle. Therefore, I agree with the bullet spread being this way for realism is absolute bollocks. Halo Three's primary concern needs to be with fun and fair gameplay, NOT realism.
Also a notable fact is that latency indeed can screw with hits and misses, on top of good old human inaccuracy. As I previously stated, the effective range of the BR is only .75 of it's theoretical machine LAN play; after all, it is humans on LIVE.
Furthermore, at a range of say, 15 WU, if my aim is dead-centered, but causes my last bullet of twelve to miss, but yet, my opponent is NOT dead centered, but the spread takes his inaccuracy and makes it score by sheer luck, something that neither player, nor any amount of tactics and skill can control, results in subprime skill yielding a kill? Really.
That's why I'll make this pitch again... Please decrease the BR's spread to a maximum of .11º off of the aiming vector for all three bullets. Also, please make this spread variation the same for all bullets fired, so that scoped bullets have no less spread on average than unscoped. Finally, please make all headshots incur 50% extra damage to shields per hit, so a three-shot kill is possible with all headshots.
Changing the BR would NOT harm the balance of the game; nor would it impact the 'realism' factor of the game. The bullets still fan out, in fact, these values are MORE realistic considering the type of weapon being used and the distances they're covering. The scoped versus unscoped spreads being the same is more realistic; find me a gun that physically fires more accurately over 10/100/1000 yards not sighted versus sighted (machine fired.) Bullets would still need to be led; that's not changing. The auto-aim and magnetism aren't changing, the game isn't going to be giving you more or less help to hit your shots; hence there's still a large skill gap. There's not going to a button glitch that incurs instant or faster death; that's Halo Two.
Three headshots is much harder to do at close range, meaning certain close-range weapons are going to be even more effective in their intended ranges. The Carbine will now have a unique role: the range between AR and BR. (~5 to ~17 WU.) The Sniper will now have to make longer-range shots to be safe; no more camping at 20 WU and nailing AR spawners (or even BR spawners,) and being almost invincible because their weapons cannot even touch your position with an ounce of accuracy.
Sure, the BR may be better than many weapons in the game. The mêlée feature is too. But that was fixed. Why not the BR? What's wrong with making it more consistent and IMO, better? I understand that those with much more skill will win much more often; but when it's close, it shouldn't come down to only pure luck. Luck can have a place, sure, (hence there's still a spread,) but luck shouldn't be such a end-all be-all answer.
For certain, competitive people, the current set-up has a negative effect on gameplay. For those of you who say it's fine, or you don't notice it, or don't care; why do you have an impetus on its changing? You're not likely to notice or care either way.
PS: I encourage any Bungie employee to contact me privately and discuss BR specifications and why you or your organization prefer whatever design and why, etc., either via. PM or some other communications method.
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I appreciate your reading this. Cookies are down the hall to the left. Thoughtful, well-written replies always welcome.
[Edited on 07.25.2008 9:04 PM PDT]