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Subject: Mod. the weapons please! The pistol is cheap!
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I have played and owned Halo since the beginning! I am not a whinning 12 year old. I am an experienced gamer who is pissed off at the cheapness of a weapon. How is it that in Legendary you can drill an Elite 6 times in the head with a pistol bullet and not drop him? Especially the Golds and the Black Elites! If you are a Spartan and you run off the same energy shield platform how is the pistol so effective in multi-player? It should take the same amount! Any FPS I can think of has pistols as secondary weapons!
I guess I sound bitter, but I'm sick of people leaving games because I don't have pistols and radar on. Does anyone ever use plasma, or had a good old shoot out with assualt rifles? I want to have fun, and I want people to have fun! Dying in 2-5 sec. is not fun, especially for Noobs! I want Bungie to fix this. -blam!- the "trusty pistol!" I want to have fun again at a game I love...

  • 07.03.2004 11:48 AM PDT
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umm...bungie knows the cheapness of the weapon and will most likely take it out. If they do n't they will make it weaker like no scope and not as powerful.

  • 07.03.2004 11:51 AM PDT
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Here Here I hate the pistol but to answer your first question throughout the different levels of difficulty they not so suttly make the Covies stronger. I personally like close range weapons...

  • 07.03.2004 11:53 AM PDT
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You two are awesome! I love K.O.T.H. (King of the Hill) a lot! There is nothing more intense than 16 people playing with assualt rifles, trying to kill to get to the Hill! I love close range assualt weapons too!

  • 07.03.2004 11:55 AM PDT
Subject: Mod. the weapons please! The pistol is cheap!
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cause the yellow and black elites use 200% shield the purples and dark blue use 150% and the light blue (mostly invisible)dont have any shield thats why there the easyest. and spartans only have 100% shield unless u get a double shield which increases ur shield to 200%.

  • 07.03.2004 11:55 AM PDT
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It has been replaced with the battle rifle so quit complaining!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 07.03.2004 11:55 AM PDT
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We dont know that Helljumper the only reply to that question was.. "No Comment"

  • 07.03.2004 11:56 AM PDT
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I agree with you Xolleran, they should take it out. I also play Halo CE on XBC, and i love playing CTF w/ no sniping it brings whole new strategy and fun to the game.

(Halos_Death_Squad) <----my tag for XBC

[Edited on 7/3/2004 11:58:28 AM]

  • 07.03.2004 11:57 AM PDT
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I personally favor the shotgun and RL I dont use the zoom on it I mean why would you?

  • 07.03.2004 12:00 PM PDT
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I'm pretty sure that it has been replaced by the battle rifle so that you can't dual wield it. I mean what would be the point of having two weapons that are almost exacty the same except for dual wielding? The pistol wasn't in the E3 version but that doesn't mean much.

  • 07.03.2004 12:02 PM PDT
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Wow, I love the hand gun. Just remember, in order to take out someone in 2-3 sec (actually, 3 shots) is get head shots, and since the head is one of the smallest targets on a body, that means you still need to aim.

I also remember in "First Strike" the there was a new handgun that had a larger cailber, I hope that gets in the game.

  • 07.03.2004 12:03 PM PDT
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Well there is a big difference one shoots 3-6 round bursts depending on if its zoomed or not. And one shoots one bullet after another slower.

  • 07.03.2004 12:04 PM PDT
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I love the pistol keep it in!! Make the other weapons stronger not the pistol weaker

  • 07.03.2004 12:05 PM PDT
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That sounds like whinning...But if you didnt notice the elites have armor...that is bullet proof so you have to shoot the elites a lot to penatrate the armor sprartans have armor to ...you dot want the game to easy

  • 07.03.2004 12:30 PM PDT
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And there going to make the pistal weaker in halo2...but someone said you were going to have dual pistals...so

  • 07.03.2004 12:31 PM PDT
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You guys...the MC armor is better than an Elite's. It's supposed to be amzingly restistant to plasma/bullet based weaponry, just like an Elite. It also has sheild systems that haven't been fully explored yet. Keep in mind the Earth tech's barely understand the armor and 343 make comments to MC about upgrading his suit! A pistol should not be that effective...

  • 07.04.2004 9:58 AM PDT
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Ya, pistol is good. If you cant deal with it, go play killzone or some such -blam!-. I dont mind the pistol at all, cuse I can use it, and if they did replace it with the battle rifle, then it better be just as good if not better.

  • 07.04.2004 10:02 AM PDT
Subject: Mod. the weapons please! The pistol is cheap!
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well, the pistol in my opinion is one of the most well balanced wepaons in the game, its only whining (note the spelling) 12 yr old noobs who cant use it who complain. I use plasma, and the assault rifles, i even use the mother of all weapons, the needler! heres a tip, when someone tries to headshot you with the m6d, circle strafe them with the needler and then feel the satisfaction of the cool kill and they blow up in a purple glow.

and ur obviously a sh.ite shot if you "hit" and elite in the "head" and dont kill him. You did know that you have to take down their shields first dont you?

[Edited on 7/4/2004 10:04:51 AM]

  • 07.04.2004 10:04 AM PDT
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Its part of the game deel with it...we didnt do it dont tell us...call bungie. If you dont like it to bad stop playing the game.

  • 07.04.2004 10:04 AM PDT
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From what I know, the pistol is kinda like a medium range weapon. Its fun to use on enemys with shotguns beacuse at medium range the pistol is one weapon that really kicks the enemy in the face.

  • 07.04.2004 10:10 AM PDT
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I like CTF close range weapons only. (That is my specialty/favorite. I rock at close range!) :)

  • 07.04.2004 10:11 AM PDT
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Bungie had a short time to make Halo, so they didn't have much time to balance everything out. It's been, what, 3 years that Bungies been working on Halo2. I believe that with that much time, they've made the game as balanced as possible. (which with all the new things they are adding, is harder then you think)

  • 07.04.2004 10:13 AM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

i never put pistols on. i love ARs and shotguns and plasma rifles =)

[Edited on 7/4/2004 10:13:40 AM]

  • 07.04.2004 10:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: Lifeforce
I like CTF close range weapons only. (That is my specialty/favorite. I rock at close range!) :)


I got a CTF where the only weapons are shotguns, which is just amazing, sending in a "death squad" to try and grab the flag! And I'm a sniper but I still love this gametype!
Anyway about the pistol, I wouldnt say its "cheap", cheap is getting on the top of stages and shooting people and backing up so they cant see you, or getting three people to get the overshield at the same time! The pistol is just a weapon that if used in the right places and effectively kicks ass, like the shotgun in close combat or the rocket launcher on multiple targets!

  • 07.04.2004 10:16 AM PDT
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Posted by: Lifeforce
Bungie had a short time to make Halo, so they didn't have much time to balance everything out. It's been, what, 3 years that Bungies been working on Halo2. I believe that with that much time, they've made the game as balanced as possible. (which with all the new things they are adding, is harder then you think)


actually they were working on Halo for 4 years!

  • 07.04.2004 10:18 AM PDT