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Posted by: A7XEric
Posted by: ThreeSixXero
Posted by: A7XEric
Posted by: ThreeSixXero
...The ODST pistol IS the Halo CE pistol....with a silencer (in other words, its BETTER)
No it's not. Watch videos of it. It takes over an entire clip of this new ODST pistol to take down a brute. It takes 3-7 shots to take down an elite in halo 1 depending on your aim of course, not AN ENTIRE CLIP. Also the ODST pistol is basically the Halo 2 pistol which fired as fast as you could pull the trigger, only with a scope attached to it and a silencer. And the fact that the silencer doesn't affect the gameplay but makes the pistol sound weaker makes it worse if I say so.
You just compared two different aliens. Brute are harder to kill (just plain shooting wise) than elites. Take the assault rifle for example. Stand there headshoting an elite. do the same thing with a Brute (if he lets you). Same distance, same everything, and you'll find it takes longer to gun down a Brute. And don't do it on easy. Easy is........easy. now, if given the chance in Reach, and i hope the have thsame specs, Ill try the pistol on an elite, and see how that goes.
The reason I compare the brutes to elites is because the brutes in Halo 3/ODST compare in difficulty to the elites of Halo 1 and 2. They take pretty much the same amount of damage to kill each one of them. Just BR an Elite in Halo 2 and a brute in Halo 3 on the same difficulty to compare how close in health they are. So to take between 1 and 2 clips of pistol ammo to take down a brute with this new silenced pistol just seems a little ridiculous to me. And it also encourages n00b comboing which is not something I'd like to be encouraged.
Again I just don't see what would be so wrong with a scoped version of the Halo 3 magnum. It's stronger than the ODST pistol, and weaker than the CE one, not to mention still retains the same iconic look and sound of the CE pistol. But that's just me.
Bungie SAID that it as almost identical to the Halo CE pistol, its on just about every review on the game! Take OXM (Official XBox Magazine). I read their review and it said that:
"..we were anxious to try out the Magnum pistol, which Bungie promised to restore to its near-godlike Halo: CE state for ODST."