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Posted by: banshee_ace44
Definitely AR. All the other weapons are great in some area but the AR has no good use whatsoever.


What are you talking about? The AR is very good on the grunts and the flood. What halo do you live on?

  • 07.21.2004 1:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: tmone17
Personally i find the pistol to be a great weapon, and no one can argue that, a good rof, alrite clip size, deadly accurate, and powerfull. It rules almost all the rest, and is great for sp. But when you croos over to mp, it begins to get a little too good. You can kill with 4 shots, from across most maps. Death to all!! While killing people is great, i dont like how powerfull it is. Being one who plays online a good amount of time, i loathe the pistol. The fact that its has the most powerfull/accurate ratio, and you start off with it 9 times out of 10, makes it very easy to use. And almost all the time it turns into a strafing back and forth, fire fight, at long distances. And it forces you to use it. Mabye the sniperrifle, or rocket launcher u can use, But even with the sniper rifle, if you dont get the drop on them, its useless. Your roaming with a shotgun, and begin to get fired on by a pistol, you have no choice but to switch to the pistol. Pistol, pistol, pistol. Always the friggin pistol. You always have to have it with you. A plasma rifle shotgun combo? Hell no. Without a pistol you have no chance, even in a stand still fire fight with and ar, or plasma rifle, the pistol will frag you.Its just too good. Ironicly it is the best, but that's its downfall. Making it far too unballenced. Hopefully the battle rifle is differnt, and better.


That is a lie! The pistol is BY FAR the worst weapon I've ever used, it's the first weapon I dump in SP. The best weapon is the needler. I don't get what the people mean by it has a slow rate of fire, it has a fine rate of fire and you just need to pump a elite full of the crap and he dies, by far the best!

  • 07.21.2004 2:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: shadedhalo
In Multiplayer the worst weapon is the Needler, followed by the Plasma Pistol. All the other weapons can be used very well, yes, including the AR. The AR actually is a great weapon for up close battles, circling around an enemy spraying them with the AR is an easy way to score kills.

Ok to the guy who was putting down the pistol, it doesn't take 4 shots, it only takes 3... and the reason you don't like it in online play is cause people are better with it than you and own you, forcing you to have to use it. But just for the record you don't have to have a pistol to beat a pistol, it's called mastering different weapons and using strategy. There is a way to take out the pistol with every weapon, and yes I said EVERY weapon. If you can't do it and wanna nag about how much it's used then get better with it or learn how to take it out, I promise you, it's not that hard. If you wanna -blam!- about someone beating you cause of the pistol rest assured they would beat you if there was no pistol, because if they are better with the pistol, they will be better with other weapons cause they've had more practice, they're smarter, and just better than you so you'd still get owned even if there was no pistol.



Yeah, if you haven't noticed I hate noobs who put down the pistol cause they can't use it. There will be a new type of pistol in Halo 2, even though it may be the Battle Rifle it will have a similar effect and in online play and tournaments the pistol will be used number one, if you don't like it and can't hang, then shut your noob mouths and don't play, plain and simple.


The needler and PP are great weapons! The PP is really great when facing jackles. Just charge it up and shot their sheilds. The shield gets blown to bits so you can pull out an AR and mow 'em down! The needler really shines when facing the elites. As for the Human Pistol, it's the WORST weapon ever. Sure it's good against the idiotic AI but against a human player it sucks!

  • 07.21.2004 2:12 PM PDT
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Has to be the AR. It's uses are: close range combat (almost any other gun is better, including sniper rifle lol), against infection forms (melee them, no ammo and no matter what gun), killing things (is generally bad at this) and shooting lots of bits off the combat forms without them dying (that is all it can do, but that will do when there are no other weapons... shotgun and pistol though).

I agree, the plasma pistol is a brilliant gun! If you are good enough to fire rapidly of course. then it's just like the Plasma Rifle but each shot does more. Also you can charge it up and take out a jakal's shield or an elite's (but i do rapid fire against elites, it is quicker and doesnt overheat). It is good on multiplayer at releasing a spray of ionised particles beside the enemy aswell as where they are so they dodge into your fire. It isn't the best but it is useful. It's only weakness is the flood but on ledgendary, most of the time, a charged up shot can cause a combat form to fall down and lose it's weapon.
The needler is good on campaign and is also fun on multiplayer. It's always fun to see your opponents go up in a few explosions of pink but for that to happen they have to not know you are there!

[Edited on 7/21/2004 2:25:06 PM]

  • 07.21.2004 2:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: flamedude


Though the worst weapon in the whole game are the shade turrets. Has anyone been killed by one before, even on legendary?? They're more of a letdown than hunters.


You have to remeber, we're dealing with Ai here, they're very dumb most of the time. Oh and the shades are dengerous if your in a gost and aren't being very attentive.

  • 07.21.2004 2:16 PM PDT
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100% AR is worst its best to melee with it than shoot but the good thing about it is ammos everywhere

  • 07.21.2004 2:35 PM PDT
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The AR is a good weapon when used with a PP, one shot to remove Elites shield, followed by a burst of AR fire to put him down for good. Its also good against Grunts and Jakals!
To the guy who said the PP is the worst weapon and that its only good for "getting rid of shields", what is wrong with that? In one shot it can remove the shield of an Elite and getting rid of the shield is about 3 quarters of the battle, as once the shield is gone they are easy meat (they stagger back so you can whip out any gun and mow them down before they recover!). I always have a plasma weapon as they tear through shields like a child through wrapping paper!
The needler is also a great gun in SP, especially when you are pinned down. You can pop out from cover, fire off a magazine of pink death and hide while it rips apart the ELite that was to stupid to get out of the way!
So in conclusion I dont think there are any bad weapons in SP you just gotta know how to use them!
In MP the AR and Needler are pretty poor though!

  • 07.21.2004 3:55 PM PDT

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hey elite elite are u dumb? the pistol kicks ass man so just stfu ok and the needler isnt a bad weapon i just dont like it but i heard it is "worth" picking up in halo 2

  • 07.21.2004 4:46 PM PDT

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