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Posted by: RabidNutCase45
Posted by: urk
Hat. No hat.Urk? I will worship you if I could use that.
Okay, time for my inner Super Nerd to pop out like the weiner he is. The BR is a marksman's rifle. It's pretty much a medium range sniper rifle. You have to be specially trained to use them. So, that's why not many Marines would have them. They'd have a closer-ranged bullet spraying Assault Rifle instead, good for urban close-ranged environments (i.e. New Mombasa). The real world says that soldiers would get the crappier rifle because it's effective, cheaper, and better in this perticular setting. ODST's could have them, but their original mission has instead the closed hallways of a ship, so they wouldn't have sniper rifles and BRs.
The more obvious answer is that bringing back the pistol would mean that there's a ridiculous amount of headshot weapons in the game. So, Bungie brought back the original rather than the imitator.
I don't care for the BR, but I must point out that Romeo received a sniper for that mission.