- Toad117
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Posted by: IIPhalanXII
There are two reasons.
The first reason can be because of the nature of the ODST's original mission. To infilitrate Regret's supercarrier. Like stated before, in the small halls of a covvie capital ship, there'd be a need for cqb weapons, and not a long barreled weapon such as the BR.
Buck gave Romeo a sniper rifle assuming that he would die with it on the ship, haha!
The second reason is that Bungie wanted to try something new and return back to a pistol that was similar to that of the M6D HE Pistol. Having the BR would interfere with this concept, as well as duplicate weapons.
Why have the need for two weapons that both zoom in and have the same level of versatility in terms of accuracy and rate of fire? (BR's 3 rd burst compared to the pistol's 'as fast as you can pull the trigger' pretty much evens out).
I personally like the BR because of its versatility and looks. ACOG scope and digital ammo counter, and its role as a combat rifle as UNSC marines weild it just look cool.
But if the pistol provides just as much versatility, or even more, then I'll be happy. Besides, having four weapons with scopes would be just a little too much...
Almost a copy of my first post but you got it right :D