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Subject: Silenced? I think not...

They took the idea from the books to Halo 2 FOR VISTA to O.D.S.T.
Just in case anyone cared.

[Edited on 08.10.2009 5:41 AM PDT]

  • 08.10.2009 5:41 AM PDT
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it appears you have fallen into a sarchasm...
its the gap between someone making a sarcastic comment, and you picking up on that sarcasm...

Posted by: Lambinator
Because the word silencer implies that the sound is completely gone. Suppressor are designed for close quarters fighting, indoors, where damage to the ears could be done from the gunshot otherwise. The loudness of a suppressed gun firing is likened to that of a car door slamming.

The Covenant would hear you.

Win.

  • 08.10.2009 6:16 AM PDT

Posted by: Lambinator
Actually, "silencer" is just a non-technical term for a suppressor. Suppressors suppress as much sound as is possible without making the gun ineffective. For a silencer to truly exist, it would (A) have to make the bullet motionless (sound is caused by the movement of the bullet), (B) have to completely remove the sound of the expansion of gases.


the sound comes from within the barrel/chamber, its the compressed gasses that make the sound, why do you thing silencers have holes in the side, for gas to escape to the side and be spread appart

  • 08.10.2009 6:40 AM PDT

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Posted by: Ninja Patty
Have you actually heard a silencer in real life? You can still hear them pretty easy. Silencers are used to not alert people in the surrounding area, you can hear a silenced weapon from up to 100 metres. Guns without silencers are extremely loud, you can hear them from up to 1 to 6 kilometres.

That's why the weapons in ODST are silenced, so you don't alert all the brutes miles away


This leads me to believe all enemies in all other Halo games were deaf.

You seem to have ample knowledge of suppressor/siliencer (honestly, doesn't make a difference to me)

  • 08.10.2009 6:56 AM PDT

My pet frog once attempted suicide but I saved it.

about suppressed weapons still being loud: this game takes place 500 years in the future. think about it.

  • 08.10.2009 7:40 AM PDT

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