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Subject: Have they made the pistol TOO powerful?

bring the flame

I remember playing CE multiplayer many years ago (them were the days!) and the pistol was without a doubt a power weapon. After watching an interview with Joseph Staten, praise be, he said that you could fire the pistol as fast as you could pull the trigger!
I also noticed in the firefight footege that most players were using it exclusivley.

So ehat do you think, too powerfull or not?

  • 08.02.2009 1:40 AM PDT
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its fine. and you should have made it a poll.

  • 08.02.2009 1:41 AM PDT

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No. The pistol has had all it's hitting power taken away. In the firefight footage they are playing on normal and using a full clip to take out a brutes shields. It is powerful, but it needs to be used in combination with another weapon (plasma pistol, SMG ect.) to take out brutes on higher difficuilties.

  • 08.02.2009 1:48 AM PDT

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think you are a odst not a spartan the pistol can not be to powerfull unless it can take down a scarab

[Edited on 08.02.2009 1:57 AM PDT]

  • 08.02.2009 1:56 AM PDT

bring the flame

Posted by: Insane AlphaBeta
think you are a odst not a spartan the pistol can not be to powerfull unless it can take down a scarab


lol! Anyway I did'nt know they were only on normal so maybe I was wrong? How do you know it was only on normal?

  • 08.02.2009 2:03 AM PDT
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because they had a larger chance to die on heroic or legendary

  • 08.02.2009 2:04 AM PDT

I don't think so.
Just wait until you play on Mythic difficulty.

  • 08.02.2009 2:10 AM PDT

I don't think so.
Just wait until you play on Mythic difficulty.


Me too... The pistol is perfectly balanced ...

  • 08.02.2009 2:16 AM PDT

Posted by: Deniz093
I don't think so.
Just wait until you play on Mythic difficulty.


Me too... The pistol is perfectly balanced ...


Indeed.

  • 08.02.2009 2:20 AM PDT

i agree about the halo 1 pistol but odst i disagree. the pistol is pretty balanced in the fact that it lacks power but has a silencer, so i belive that it is powerful until they realise where you are.

  • 08.02.2009 2:23 AM PDT

I'll save my judgement until ODST drops.... shouldn't make too much of a difference as long as everyone's got one!

  • 08.02.2009 2:29 AM PDT

I am a Halo 3 Failure.

If what the video said was true, saying that it firing armor piercing rounds, meaning that it's effective against Wraith's, then yes, it's overpowered, but if they meant Brute's power armor, then no, it isn't.

  • 08.02.2009 2:31 AM PDT
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can we save topics like this till WE HAVE ACTUALL PLAYED THE GAME! I'm sure bungie can put in an update if its out and out too powerful/weak.

Your discussion is pointless...............

As for the word balance, i hate that, "balance" unbalances a game and tones it down. Halo's best balancing tool was always the ability to only carry 2 weapons.

  • 08.02.2009 2:32 AM PDT

The pistol is fine

  • 08.02.2009 2:32 AM PDT
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No, if the Pistol is too powerfull then what is the BR?

  • 08.02.2009 2:32 AM PDT

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  • 08.02.2009 2:34 AM PDT
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You're a lone ODST who's mission just got effed. And you can't talk.
You deserve the pistol.

  • 08.02.2009 5:01 AM PDT

I'm the cult of personality,
I call it like i see it, if i feel the need to be blunt and to the point, then i will, if i feel the need to be very detailed, i will, im here to stay and im here to do things my way, if you respect that or not is your choice, not mine,
and don't worry, while i don't agree with everyone's opinion, i do respect everyone's opinion.

wait are you asking me? or was you asking someone else

  • 08.02.2009 2:05 PM PDT

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  • 08.02.2009 2:06 PM PDT
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Why should we care? We can't use it in matchmaking cause there's no multiplayer other than firefight. We'll only be using it to kill the Covanent and they aren't going to come on the forums to complain about how much they're getting killed.

  • 08.02.2009 2:10 PM PDT

Posted by: Sweet williams
I remember playing CE multiplayer many years ago (them were the days!) and the pistol was without a doubt a power weapon. After watching an interview with Joseph Staten, praise be, he said that you could fire the pistol as fast as you could pull the trigger!

If anyone has actually played Halo: CE, they should now that the pistol then did not fire as quickly as you could pull the trigger. The Halo 2 pistol most certainly did. But the HCE pistol only fired about 1.5 times as fast as the Halo 3 pistol. And since it's most certainly not as powerful, it should be more conclusive to be like the H2 pistol.

  • 08.02.2009 2:16 PM PDT

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Yes! Puts the damn rifles to shame. Who needs a shotgun/sniper rifle, I got me a pistol!

  • 08.02.2009 2:17 PM PDT
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think there is no br

  • 08.02.2009 2:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: Crimson Kenny
Why should we care? We can't use it in matchmaking cause there's no multiplayer other than firefight. We'll only be using it to kill the Covanent and they aren't going to come on the forums to complain about how much they're getting killed.


lol, so true. If anything, if it's more powerful people won't be complaining once they rack up the score on higher firefight waves.

  • 08.02.2009 2:19 PM PDT

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