- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Nightshade000
what do you mean by the sniper rifle being "a joke to use"
edit:
most people that dont like the pistol dont like it becasue they get owned by it online....
Don't assume everyone "gets own by them". I've taken down entire teams with that one pistol without dieing. People complain because compared to the pistol, the weapons look like -blam!- threw 90% of the situations you can be in in Halo... The only real situations where the pistol is overpowered are:
Sniping with a sniper rifle past the pistols range
Rocket Launcher Up Close
Shotgun up close
Vehicles
Other then that the pistol is either decent in compairison with the other weapons or like 5 times better), no other weapon is like that at all in Halo... and that is what makes it overpowered...
Matches get turned into pistol wars and then the game starts becoming not as fun... It really does too...
As for the sniper rifle, I've been sniping in FPS since the first mod/game to actually have them (I believe, I haven't played EVERY game mind you). In those days the sniper rifles were a PAIN to use... 70% to 95% of the people that sniped were horrible.... But for those of you who actually put effort into it to learn how to snipe well, those people will all agree it was a very effective, but time consuming weapon... and all will agree it was a skilled player that could use the weapon effectively...
You see, I went on like 150 and 13 deaths games in Quake Team Fortress, I was better then every HPB I ever played and better then the majority of LPB's as well.
Now, if you compared that gun with Halo's Sniper rifle, you'd down right laugh at anyone that considered themselfs a "Elite sniper" that totally used Halo's sniper rifle... It is simply just a joke compared to use who obtained real skill during the older games, and I feel that it should feel the same in Halo 2 so people will actually become godly snipers and won't be filled with little wanna be's...
Oh, and don't even mention TFC... That game was a bad port IMO...