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In Halo 1 the plasma pistol and rifle had a feature know as plasma stun (or plasma freeze as some people call it), which greatly reduces the victim's ability to move and dodge the incoming shots. Now Since overcharging the plasma pistol can stun vehicles I don't think it should have any plasma stun. The plasma rifle doesn't have any special ability making it unique so adding the plasma stun could be a cool addition.
I'm going to talk about ways that the plasma rifle could have plasma stun reintroduced. Well for one the plasma rifle could just have plasma stun added when continually fired fully automatic like in Halo 1. An idea I came up with is that the plasma rifle acts normally when fired with the trigger, but whenever you press the reload button with the plasma rifle it fires specialty plasma rounds that do plasma stun but use more battery. An idea someone had in another thread was for the plasma rifle to have plasma stun whenever it gets a headshot, I think that this idea is the most reasonable and would involve the most skill by rewarding people with better accuracy. So what do you guys think, should the plasma rifle have plasma stun, how should it be reintroduced in Halo Reach? Thoughts?

  • 07.29.2009 4:04 PM PDT

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I like the idea of pressing RB to use a secondary fire. I think that if a Plasma Rifle shoots and enemy in the head it should slow down reflexes and constitute the "stun" effect.
Using the stun charge should use up about 4% of the battery.

  • 07.29.2009 4:14 PM PDT

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Remove dual wielding and increase the range and power of all plasma weapons, cecrease their ROF (for balance) and make them stun on headshots only. This would make the plasma weapos worth using for something other than making your melee more effective.

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you guys want something that can KILL, don't you? Not "lets shoot the guy and make him walk really slow like he just got hijacked out of a vehicle."

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I like the idea of a stunned shot when player shoots at the head of another.

  • 07.29.2009 4:31 PM PDT

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The Plasma Pistol and Plasma Rifle were great in Halo CE. They should go back to that.

  • 07.29.2009 5:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: Jack Slater
you guys want something that can KILL, don't you? Not "lets shoot the guy and make him walk really slow like he just got hijacked out of a vehicle."
The stun was not that powerful. The PR and PP in Halo 1 had WAY more killing power that the -blam!- versions of the same weapons in Halo 2 and 3. Pr in Halo 1 killed in 10 shots (or 8 headshots).

[Edited on 07.29.2009 5:37 PM PDT]

  • 07.29.2009 5:37 PM PDT

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The Plasma Rifle went like this:
5 for shields, 5 for flesh (non headshots)
5 for shields, 3 for flesh (headshots)
Boy it was nice, but it still had balance (they never should have added Dual Wielding, and nurfed it.)

The Plasma Pistol on the other hand did no extra headshot damage... I think it was 13 shots to kill, or 3 charged shots. And it was a nice weapon if you had nothing else to use (great starter on Blood Gulch)

  • 07.29.2009 5:42 PM PDT

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In Halo 1 campaign if I didn't have the pistol handy I would charge up a plasma pistol to kill grunts, now in Halo 2 and 3 the plasma pistol barely does a thing to any non-shielded target. I guess this was done for balancing but I still do miss plasma weapons doing body damage.

[Edited on 07.29.2009 6:33 PM PDT]

  • 07.29.2009 6:09 PM PDT

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In Halo 1 campaign if I didn't have the pistol handy I would charge up a plasma pistol to kill grunts, now the plasma pistol barely does a thing to any non-shielded targets. I can tell that this was done for balancing but I still do miss plasma weapons doing body damage.

In my most recent run through of Halo CE on Legendary, I found the Plasma Pistol EXTREMELY effective in terms of Anti-Grunt and Jackal ordinance. The Plasma Rifle MESSED UP Elites.

  • 07.29.2009 6:22 PM PDT