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Subject: New Weapon Spotted

The large character on the left is holding a new weapon, at FIRST GLANCE i thought it was the rocket launcher, however on further inspection you can clearly see an ammo belt hanging from the rear of it along the left hand side of the characters right leg, as you can see it obviously isn't the turret gun normally found in Halo 3 as the protective shielding is seemingly gone, as well as the normally associated multiple long barrels, instead having a very short barrel, more accustomed to that of the turret gun from Halo 2, however the design of that had a large ammo container/clip not a ammo belt and a single barrel.

My first impression is that it could be a more portable, lighter "turret gun", as you can see the character is holding it with only one hand as opposed to the turret gun we all know which is held with two hands due to it's shear weight

Possible traits could be that it packs a bigger punch than the tradition turret gun but with a slower rate of fire without slowing down the character or the third person view

Any other suggestions would be appreciated, as well as a name for this new weapon, my suggestion for a nick name for it would be the bruiser

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Apologies if this information has already been posted, i would be a little surprised if it hasn't , (i couldn't find anything in my search of the forum topics), so thought i'd post anyway



[Edited on 06.24.2009 9:32 AM PDT]

  • 06.23.2009 9:11 AM PDT
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Its a torn off turret, not a new weapon, just a redisigned turret, and anyone who thinks it looks like a rocket launcher should get their eyes checked

[Edited on 06.23.2009 9:13 AM PDT]

  • 06.23.2009 9:11 AM PDT
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Yeah... still looks like a normal turret to me.

  • 06.23.2009 9:13 AM PDT

im more interested in the second guy to the right. who's holding a knife! who brings a knife to a gun fight?

  • 06.23.2009 9:16 AM PDT

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Left reminds me of a shotgun. Maybe it's a FlaK turret?
Center-left is some sort of holstered Pistol.
Middle is a new Rifle.
Center-right is a combat knife.
Right is a Sniper Rifle.

  • 06.23.2009 9:18 AM PDT

OMG the assault rifle has a suppressor on it! Seriously, that doesn't look anything like a rocket launcher. But at least one of them is female.

  • 06.23.2009 9:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Left reminds me of a shotgun. Maybe it's a FlaK turret?
Center-left is some sort of holstered Pistol.
Middle is a new Rifle.
Center-right is a combat knife.
Right is a Sniper Rifle.


It has the exact shape of an AR

  • 06.23.2009 9:25 AM PDT

"you may laugh at me for being different, but i laugh at all you -blam!-s for being the same!!"

Ive never noticed it till now. It cant be a turret because it doesnt have the guard on top. mabey they (bungie) were thinking of the mini gun and there turret and put it togather. the mini gun really does look like that. yea, It might be a re-designed mini gun. look it up on google images. mini gun,......

  • 06.23.2009 9:25 AM PDT

Its a torn off turret, not a new weapon, just a redisigned turret, and anyone who thinks it looks like a rocket launcher should get their eyes checked

Why would bungie so drastically redesign it, it has changed so very litlle since Halo: CE
The protective shielding is completely gone, the multiple long barrels are gone. It is abled to be carried one handed. There are two many changes for it to be a simple redesign, it is obviously a new weapon.

As for me mistaking it for the rocket launcher at FIRST GLANCE, it makes more sense that you think, as it shows two protrusions which could be misinterpreted as the barrels of the rocket launcher.

[Edited on 06.23.2009 9:30 AM PDT]

  • 06.23.2009 9:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: ArchedThunder
Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Left reminds me of a shotgun. Maybe it's a FlaK turret?
Center-left is some sort of holstered Pistol.
Middle is a new Rifle.
Center-right is a combat knife.
Right is a Sniper Rifle.


It has the exact shape of an AR
I think it looks new. Check out a pic of the AR then compare the two.

[Edited on 06.23.2009 9:33 AM PDT]

  • 06.23.2009 9:32 AM PDT

Let's think for a second here. If it has an ammo belt it has to be full auto, otherwise a chain feed is just unnecessary bulk. It has 2 barrels that we can see. They may fire one after the other to prevent to overheating of one barrel. Put, all this together and it points to some sort of vulcan cannon. It will be extremely similar to the current turret.

  • 06.23.2009 9:33 AM PDT

Let's think for a second here. If it has an ammo belt it has to be full auto, otherwise a chain feed is just unnecessary bulk. It has 2 barrels that we can see. They may fire one after the other to prevent to overheating of one barrel. Put, all this together and it points to some sort of vulcan cannon. It will be extremely similar to the current turret
The only thing wrong with that is the two barrels are signicifcantly different in size, and doesn't look as if it is designed to rotate

[Edited on 06.23.2009 9:40 AM PDT]

  • 06.23.2009 9:40 AM PDT

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Maybe it's an older model of the turret.

  • 06.23.2009 9:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: KALAMAZO
Its a torn off turret, not a new weapon, just a redisigned turret, and anyone who thinks it looks like a rocket launcher should get their eyes checked

Why would bungie so drastically redesign it, it has changed so very litlle since Halo: CE
The protective shielding is completely gone, the multiple long barrels are gone. It is abled to be carried one handed. There are two many changes for it to be a simple redesign, it is obviously a new weapon.

As for me mistaking it for the rocket launcher at FIRST GLANCE, it makes more sense that you think, as it shows two protrusions which could be misinterpreted as the barrels of the rocket launcher.


are you dim? it had a complete redisign from Halo 2 to Halo 3, way bigger than this redisign, also it looks nothing like a rocket launcher at first sight, the barels are way to thin and the shape looks nothing like one, you have terrible eye sight

  • 06.23.2009 9:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Posted by: ArchedThunder
Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Left reminds me of a shotgun. Maybe it's a FlaK turret?
Center-left is some sort of holstered Pistol.
Middle is a new Rifle.
Center-right is a combat knife.
Right is a Sniper Rifle.


It has the exact shape of an AR
I think it looks new. Check out a pic of the AR then compare the two.

i did, the only difference is the barel is longer

  • 06.23.2009 9:44 AM PDT

Posted by: KALAMAZO
Let's think for a second here. If it has an ammo belt it has to be full auto, otherwise a chain feed is just unnecessary bulk. It has 2 barrels that we can see. They may fire one after the other to prevent to overheating of one barrel. Put, all this together and it points to some sort of vulcan cannon. It will be extremely similar to the current turret
The only thing wrong with that is the two barrels are signicifcantly different in size, and doesn't look as if it is designed to rotate


Now that I look closer I don't think the bottom barrel is a barrel at all. Looks like some kind of light or targeting device. If that is so then this would be some sore of HMG (heavy machine gun).

As for the AR argument. It just looks like they put a suppressor on the end.

[Edited on 06.23.2009 9:46 AM PDT]

  • 06.23.2009 9:44 AM PDT

I have to agree with you MattRam08 on both the AR issue and the new weapon on the left. The bottom "barrel" doesn't look like one at all. It looks like a light or laser mounted at the bottom. You see this many times on current weapons. I'm sure hoping there are new weapons for this game. I know technology doesn't really go in reverse but I'm hoping that they're were weapons only the Spartans used and are no laid to rest with them.

  • 06.23.2009 10:15 AM PDT

Posted by: Ghosts0f0nyx
im more interested in the second guy to the right. who's holding a knife! who brings a knife to a gun fight?


A spartan.

  • 06.23.2009 10:17 AM PDT

If you look at the angle of the knife based on the Spartan's hand it could be much longer than it appears. Possibly be a sword although not very probable since military don't usually use swords. Also the weapon in question could possibly be a new type of battle rifle with a grenade launcher. After looking closer at what I thought was a light or laser may be the the battle rifle barrel. Normally grenade launcher barrels are mounted at the bottom but it could be at the top unless he is holding the weapon upside down just to carry then it would be as they are traditionally. How sweet would a multifunction weapon like that be?

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Posted by: BLUEelite52
Posted by: Ghosts0f0nyx
im more interested in the second guy to the right. who's holding a knife! who brings a knife to a gun fight?


A spartan.

That guy looks like a normal Marine.

  • 06.23.2009 10:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Fugmonkey
If you look at the angle of the knife based on the Spartan's hand it could be much longer than it appears. Possibly be a sword although not very probable since military don't usually use swords. Also the weapon in question could possibly be a new type of battle rifle with a grenade launcher. After looking closer at what I thought was a light or laser may be the the battle rifle barrel. Normally grenade launcher barrels are mounted at the bottom but it could be at the top unless he is holding the weapon upside down just to carry then it would be as they are traditionally. How sweet would a multifunction weapon like that be?

AR's have flashlights on the bottom you nit, and the shap is exactly the same as an AR, the only difference is the barrel

  • 06.23.2009 10:38 AM PDT

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Posted by: ArchedThunder
Posted by: BLUEelite52
Posted by: Ghosts0f0nyx
im more interested in the second guy to the right. who's holding a knife! who brings a knife to a gun fight?


A spartan.

That guy looks like a normal Marine.


I wish people would look at the blow up of the banner...
You can clearly see a MJOLNIR Visor on all of them.
You can clearly see armour which looks like MJOLNIR.

The guy who is wielding the turret is a massive Spartan, if an ODST can use one with 2 hand, do you think he can't carry it around with one?

The gun looks like a turret and has ammo like a turret.
It's probably a turret.

  • 06.23.2009 10:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: Toxik King
Posted by: ArchedThunder
Posted by: BLUEelite52
Posted by: Ghosts0f0nyx
im more interested in the second guy to the right. who's holding a knife! who brings a knife to a gun fight?


A spartan.

That guy looks like a normal Marine.


I wish people would look at the blow up of the banner...
You can clearly see a MJOLNIR Visor on all of them.
You can clearly see armour which looks like MJOLNIR.

The guy who is wielding the turret is a massive Spartan, if an ODST can use one with 2 hand, do you think he can't carry it around with one?

The gun looks like a turret and has ammo like a turret.
It's probably a turret.

Visor? you can see a visor on a black silhouette, man you must have some sort of super power
also every one needs to shut the blamming hell up about ODSTs carrying turrets, they only do it in firefight, which isn't canon

[Edited on 06.23.2009 10:54 AM PDT]

  • 06.23.2009 10:53 AM PDT

Posted by: ArchedThunder
AR's have flashlights on the bottom you nit, and the shap is exactly the same as an AR, the only difference is the barrel


I'm talking about the weapon in question on the left. Not the AR in the middle. I already said I agreed with MattRamon08 that the one in the middle looks like an AR.

  • 06.23.2009 10:55 AM PDT
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Well think about it if in Halo Wars there were AR's and it did take place before Halo F.O.R. Then maybe there just one older weapons or two just upgraded weapons that only the Spartans can use.

  • 06.23.2009 11:02 AM PDT

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