- StormyHeart
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Lollollol.
Funny how people reject this idea, but when you fire up Halo: CE, pick up the Pistol, and start shooting with it, it functions fully automatically.
WUT?!!??!?
Yap.
Players can just hold down the trigger and the weapon will cycle until the clip is empty.
(I'd be willing to bet that the vast overwhelming majority of you didn't even know that little fact.) As a result, when players talk about the qualities of the Halo: CE magnum which make it overpowered, nobody in the history of the internet has cited its fully automatic qualities as one of the causes -partly because nobody knows, but mostly because it isn't a factor.
Go. Put the game in. Try it.
It shoots like three and a half rounds per second, the bullets are dead accurate until maybe the sixth or seventh one, and it reloads ridiculously fast. Its got a scope, it kills people in three bullets and the bullets hit just about instantly. At least that's how I remember it.
Compare that to what Feign Suggests, and you'll see that the SCAR, as a starting weapon, is totally reasonable. Its definitely a weapon I'd love to start with. Most importantly, its also a weapon I wouldn't mind one or two freshly spawned players coming at me with.
All in all, this is a pretty solid idea. I think some of you are misunderstanding the gameplay concepts behind this weapon, or when you're imagining it, you're not taking into account the all of the aspects of the design at the same time. Fully automatic does not have any relation to rate of fire. It simply means that once the trigger is depressed, the weapon will cycle until the trigger is released, or it runs out of ammo. This weapon is designed to allow a group of freshly spawned players to accurately team shoot established players, while still allowing an established player to build a decisive advantage for any 1v1 scenario he encounters. Provided, of course, that the established player can maneuver himself into position where whatever weapon he's using is going to be more effective than the SCAr.
[Edited on 07.15.2009 4:07 AM PDT]