- Hylebos
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Posted by: Hylebos
Of course there will be a weapon to fill the medium range niche. It doesn't need to be as easily adaptable as it is in Halo 3 however. I'm sure Bungie has already decided what areas they are going to target, and its up to them to balance it out over the course of the designing of Reach and the multiplayer beta.
no...there needs to be a utilitarian weapon that works best at mid range
not just a mid range weapon
This is how I understand how Halo was designed.
There are four ranges: Long, Medium, Close, and Melee.
Each weapon is designed for one particular range, and it has an advantage at that range over weapons from other ranges.
I never said Halo should become Rock Paper Sissors. In a way, things already work a bit like this.
If you have a BR at close range, and you don't have a close range weapon and find yourself facing a close range opponent, you can improvise and possibly overcome the disadvantage you find yourself at using grenades and headshots or melee and headshots or by simply having better aim than the AR user (Yes, the AR needs to be aimed, please don't make me launch into that speech).
If you have an AR at medium range, and you don't have a medium ranged weapon, and you find yourself facing a medium range opponent, you can use a grenade to take out the shields and burst fire to take him out.
All the guns are utilitarian at ranges adjacent to their own. Naturally an AR can't do much against a sniper from long range, nor can a BR do much against a shotgunner at melee range.
The abillity to adapt these weapons to ranges they weren't designed for is what seperates the good players from the bad. Due to your limit of two weapons at a time, you can never fully cover all your bases, so players are forced to improvise.
When I say that something is a mid range weapon or a close range weapon, I leave out the utillitarian part because I know that all the weapons in this game are already utilitarian in some form.
[Edited on 07.18.2009 12:58 PM PDT]