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I respect your opinion, I'm probably just going to disagree with it.
Posted by: snoozy9420
Brute plasma rifles are and always will be the greatest.. if they had stun effects like in the first game, they's be almost too good.
Bungie made them wayy too weak in the third game. They burn through people.. you'd think that'd be damn effective on a person.
Haha, definitely too good then, but you know, I still preferred the Elite Plasma Rifle... dunno why.
It would be ultra effective in 'real life' (aka. in the books), but they have to balance the game, so I guess it wouldn't be fair otherwise!
Halo 1's PR sounded godly. Not all high pitched and pathetic. It was like 'scheaumph scheaumph!' not 'pew pew!'. Having said that though, this weapon is still a force to be reconed with in Halo 3. It takes but a few shots and a melee to kill someone.
On the needler, I'd like to establish something.
Halo 1: Takes 7 needles to cause the super explosion. Impact from needles do no damage but they detonate moments later, doing individual amounts of damage.
Halo 2: Fire rate is slowed, more ammo per...um...set of spikes? Takes 8 to superexplode now. Impact and secondary explosion do damage. I think it homed less too, to allow for dual weilding.
Halo 3: MUCH faster ROF, less ammo, takes 7 needles in a fairly close proximity to each other to cause a super explosion. Impact of needles do damage, but they remain embedded for a long time and individual detonations do no damage, giving a greater chance of causing a super explosion later. Needles move faster and home a bit more. Also, none of the AI can cause a superexplosion with this weapon, making it useless in their hands.
Just as a side note, I don't think the needler is over powered. It's amazing in confined spaces at short to medium range, and open spaces out to medium range, but very close, very far away, or areas with intermittent cover and it is damned near useless. If you are careless around it then it punishes you very very quickly; I think people find it overpowered because people don't use it when it isn't any use, and so they only experience it in it's full glory.
[Edited on 08.12.2008 6:46 AM PDT]