Posted by: sarge430
The H2 BR was an over-powered death machine, and that's how people liked it. It was a hit scan weapon with no spread, so you didn't have to lead your shots. It was also topped off with the button glitches, that made anyone who didn't have a BR a dead man.
The H3 BR was not nerfed, but made harder to use. It's no longer a death-machine to everyone, and takes much more skill to use. It has a bullet spread, which can cause a bullet out of the 3 in a burst to miss if you aren't accurate. You have to lead your shots at medium to long range.
All button glitches were removed, so somebody who deserved a kill won't have their enemy turn around and quad-shot them anymore.
If the halo 3 BR wasnt nerfed then I dont know what was....the gun even sounds nerfed. With issues like lag etc a hit scan burst weapon is a neccessity. The halo 2 weapon still wasnt incredibly accurate at long range, and it took 4 HEAD SHOTS to kill every time. Halo 3's BR actually doesnt take more skill to use. If anything it takes less. I do like not having the button glitches though. Halo 3's br needs 110% damage before it even starts to feel as good as the halo 2 BR did....and halo 2's gameplay was so much more fast paced and intense. Part of this is that halo 2 has about 112% of the speed of halo 3. The whole entire game with the exception of a few weapons (human sniper, carbine, needler) was nerfed down. Look at the AR, look at the plasma pistol, look at the regular pistol. All Nerfed. Well guess what. Nerf guns suck.
[Edited on 05.25.2009 3:19 PM PDT]