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Subject: Halo 2 Pistol GONE?!?!?!
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I gotta ask all those who love halo and make it, are you kickign out the pistol in the second??? you just cant do that!!!!! plzzz respond if u got ne info on this subject!!!!!

  • 04.22.2004 8:37 AM PDT
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Many people hold their own opinions (however controversial) about the pistol. Mainly about being on the wrong END of one.

This feeds their wanting or banning of the pistol in Halo 2. Some even say the pistol and AR will be replaced fully by the Battle Rifle, but (most) know this is impossible. Two of the most common weapons of the UNSC can't up and DISAPPEAR in one sitting.

The pistol may be modified , as described in Halo: First Strike with the new prototypes, or just toned down in sheer POWER.

Or just left alone.


All we can do is WAIT.

  • 04.22.2004 8:42 AM PDT
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there will be no original pistol in Halo 2. Bungie felt it was to overpowered, so, if there is a pistol in Halo 2 it will be signifficantly different from the original. My guess: no scope, less rounds in the magazine, possibly more damage per shot.

but really, no one knows for certain, we'll all just have to keep waiting

  • 04.22.2004 8:44 AM PDT
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In First Strike, Fred finds a box full of pistols with enlongated barrels anf bullets that are 3.5 inches long.So maybe they changed em to this. Hey could be better than original

  • 04.22.2004 10:38 AM PDT
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The pistol should be unchanged, just take the scope off. why you ask? double weapon combos. you will be able to go pistol needler, one in each hand, cant do that with a battle rifle. but to put the scope on might still over power it, even if the battle rifle is better, which I am betting on, it will still be cheap in multiplayer, the first shot wins. take the scope off.

  • 04.22.2004 11:06 AM PDT
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The pistol was great however with the addition of the battle rifle and the removal of the pistol I think the guns will be more balanced...and like most of you guys already said there will probably be a new more powerful pistol with less range, accuracy, and rounds (probably the magnum pistol from First Strike)...also according to one of the Alpha testers from the GI Halo 2 feature the battle rifle is less acurate and has less range than the pistol (but it obviously has more rounds and is probably more powerful).

[Edited on 4/22/2004 12:00:04 PM]

  • 04.22.2004 11:56 AM PDT
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I say they just modify it, ever so slightly. I loved it in halo, but there was one thing i didnt like. Ok, say your playing in multiplayer and u suddenly see your shield start to drop, VERY SLOWLY. Then like a second later your dead. Come on! Thats one thing they need to fix. As for the scope....how is bungie doing double wielding scope guns, like the battle rifle???

  • 04.22.2004 12:07 PM PDT
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the battle rifle most likely will not be dual weilding.

  • 04.22.2004 12:09 PM PDT
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to answer all of your questions young ones. they will have a pistol but the battle rifle will replace it however they will have a fully automatic sniper rifle and the magazine will hold 320 rounds and it will prove to be the dominating force in Halo 2. how do i know this you ask i work for bungie. if that didnt satisfy you then i developed a time machine and traveld 120 years in the future then backtracked 119 years and played it and that is how i know this.

Ps your skills remind me of Durchfall Grossen durchfall that is.....

  • 04.22.2004 1:16 PM PDT
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no, there will be a pistol, the one from "First Strike" by Erik Nylund. it will be a new, updated one though.

  • 04.22.2004 1:19 PM PDT
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Okay, my opinion is that they will keep the pistol and it won't get replaced by the battle rifle. The battle rifle is not a dual wielding weapon because it is too heavy. If they do make the pistol dual wielding than while you have 2 you won't be able to use the scope, only if you have one, or they just might remove the scope. As for the idiot that said he works for Bungie, he's lying which is pretty obvious. And this is for the person who said "they can't get rid of all the UNSC's most popular weapon." that isn't what he said, but it was something like that, heres news for you, its a game and they can remove or add any weapon they want, and i doubt their trying to make is that realistic by doing that or else they wouldn't have a ring world inhabited entirely by aliens known as the Covenant or zombie-like creatures known as the Flood.

  • 04.22.2004 1:31 PM PDT
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My way of thinking is...the pistol and AR and both gone. The type of gun they were remains, but made better. The good-at-any-range gun with scope is now the Battle Rifle (it should have been a rifle in the first place...barrel length=accuracy). However, now it has more ammo per magazine. The close-quarters bullet hose is now the SMG, made better by the fact you can have two of them. Is that really so bad?

  • 04.22.2004 1:48 PM PDT
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I'll be pissed if Bungie ditches the old pistol. I always used that to snipe instead of using the Sniper Rifle. It was so good. Best weapon by far. If they change it, they had better keep the scope. Change anything else you want Bungie, just leave the scope.

  • 04.22.2004 1:54 PM PDT
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Personally I think that the pistol should stay in the game because it was sweet for one shot head shots on grunts and jackals, but i think the scope was a little much. And I think if it is in the second halo it should be like bigger insize...cuz the old one looks so tiny and its sometimes hard to find on the ground. But if they don't bring it back oh well no biggie i'm sure bungie will make up for it with some other sweet ass weapon. I think the battle rifle is going to KICK ARSE! have you heard the sound it makes on that E3 real time demo trailer, so rad...it echoes. I know when halo 2 comes out if the echo is still there for the battle rifle i'm just gunna stand in one spot and waste rounds admiring the kick ass sound effects.

HALO 2 IS GOING TO KICK ASSSSSSSSSSSS

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  • 04.22.2004 1:55 PM PDT
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I really hope they just take the MA5B and the M6D out of the game. I say this because if you had two M6Ds it would be too unbalanced no matter how much they changed it. I think the best weapon in HALO 2 should end up being the Battle Rifle because it would be better in real life and they should make it better in the game.

  • 04.22.2004 2:25 PM PDT
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I say keep the pistol, but make it less powerful.

  • 04.22.2004 2:26 PM PDT
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I am so damn sick of people thinking the pistol will be gone in Halo 2. Now hear this, straight from the mouths of Bungie: ALL OF THE ORIGINAL WEAPONS FROM HALO WILL BE IN HALO, AS WELL AS SOME NEW ONES (the different one from First Strike is most likely the SMG, but definately not the M6D pistol.) Message me if you have ANY doubts!

  • 04.22.2004 2:30 PM PDT
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but from the e3 demo it looks like the battle rifle shoots exactly the way the pistol did, it zooms in 2x like the pistol so why wouldnt it replace it? and if they did put in the halo 1 pistol it would be wayyyyyy to powerful for duel wielding, i say keep the pistol just for another gun to have but not as powerful and especially not as powerful if it does duel wield!

  • 04.22.2004 2:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: BLACK HAWK990
...if they did put in the halo 1 pistol it would be wayyyyyy to powerful for duel wielding...especially not as powerful if it does duel wield!


Chances are, the duel wielded weapons will be FAR less accurate, plus have no zoom ability, so if this is the case, why would they change it?

  • 04.22.2004 2:36 PM PDT
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I will be pissed off so pissed off if they take the ar off fine take the pistol but if they are going to take the pistol make another 1 because what sort of future doesnt have pistols but leave the ar otherwise......................hmm about those elites i know i mean

  • 04.23.2004 2:06 AM PDT
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The pistol will definatly be in the game, Bungie said they weren't taking any guns away. I think it will be modified though. The scope may or may not still be there but one thing I'm sure they will change is the accuracy. Anyone who has fired real weapons knows two things about pistols.

1. On average, pistols have a much bigger punch than rifles do.
2. Pistols are much LESS accurate than rifles, due to their shorter barrels.

For those of you saying "Why keep the pistol, we have the battle rifle now!" The battle rifle as I've seen it in halo behaves much like an M16 with a scope, granted it look slightly like an Aug or maybe an FA-MAS, but anywho. The M16 is accurate, only fires in three round bursts or semi-auto fire(since the A3 upgrades), and uses 5.67mm ammo. Even with all this the Army still issues eather a 9mm or .45 cal. side arm to all its officers, they do this for a reason. The Battle Rifles is an excellent all purpose weapon, but sometimes nothing will beat that CQC heavy hitter you get with a pistol.

  • 04.23.2004 2:23 AM PDT
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Read my singanture. It's staying. And as for those of you that say it is replaced because they said it was in the Game Informer magazine, well you are an idiot. Lots of stuff was intentionally left out on purpose. Including weapons, vehicles, game modes, and did I mention weapons? Yeah and it was also an Xbox live test, not a full game test, so eat that.

  • 04.23.2004 4:29 AM PDT
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I really hope the old pistol will be modified and you could take of the scope if you wanted.

  • 04.23.2004 4:34 AM PDT
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Better yet keep the scope, so it makes some military sense, and make it a bit more inaccurate and less powerful. That's all that is really needed.

  • 04.23.2004 4:51 AM PDT
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I want them to return to Halo 2, but toned down... Take the scope away and make it have the Halo: Combat Evolved's AR accuracy...

If they left them the way they are and allowed them to be duel weilded with another pistol server would ban people that use them (if there is an option to pick specifically what weapon you wanted in your server, they'd just not have pistols in their games)

  • 04.23.2004 5:04 AM PDT

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