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Subject: M6D pistol or Battle Rifle?

Poll: M6D pistol or Battle Rifle?  [closed]
M6D pistol:  55%
(12 Votes)
Battle Rifle:  9%
(2 Votes)
Both, just count as different skins:  36%
(8 Votes)
Total Votes: 22

M6D pistol (halo CE) and a version of it is coming out in halo 3 ODST.
Battle Rifle (halo 2&3)
These weapons are basically the same (it would be pointless to have both in the same game)

  • 09.08.2009 9:52 AM PDT
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that's why we won't have an M6D.

because it was unbalanced pistol.
if bungie wanted to include it in another game, I think they'd have done it before... they changed it since H2 for a reason.
the BR replaces the M6D. forever.

  • 09.08.2009 10:26 AM PDT

Posted by: z0rgy
that's why we won't have an M6D.

because it was unbalanced pistol.
if bungie wanted to include it in another game, I think they'd have done it before... they changed it since H2 for a reason.
the BR replaces the M6D. forever.

Well do you think the BR was balanced?
Anyway its just a weapon skin so they could easily lower the amount of damage it does.

  • 09.08.2009 10:41 AM PDT

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Posted by: z0rgy
because it was unbalanced pistol.


lol, just lol. One weapon can't dominate unless you factor in every single element of gameplay and it just completely rules the battlefield.

I know nothing about Reach gameplay, so I don't know if either will fit. But I would prefer to see both, just because there are so few options as far as mid-range weapons go.

  • 09.08.2009 10:43 AM PDT
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yes, the BR is much more balanced.

what's more realistic? a 5 shot pistol with as much range than a sniper, or a 4 shot rifle that can't snipe? hum, I wonder...
besides, if it were SO unbalanced then bungie would have removed it or tuned it like they did with the M6D. they didn't. weird, huh?

and it's not a skin. it's a different weapon.
if you reskinned a br into a M6D then you'd have a 3 burst firing pistol. you'd need to change it's stats, and that is NOT a skin.

  • 09.08.2009 10:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: z0rgy
because it was unbalanced pistol.


lol, just lol. One weapon can't dominate unless you factor in every single element of gameplay and it just completely rules the battlefield.


I suggest you play HCE online a bit.
nobody use another weapon. sniper and pistols, that's all. EVEN AT CLOSE RANGE.

  • 09.08.2009 10:47 AM PDT
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A new single shot BR with a smaller clip. The current BR is too powerful and has too large of a clip. You can beat all of Halo 3 Legendary only using a BR. It makes gameplay stale.

  • 09.08.2009 10:51 AM PDT

Posted by: z0rgy
yes, the BR is much more balanced.

what's more realistic? a 5 shot pistol with as much range than a sniper, or a 4 shot rifle that can't snipe? hum, I wonder...
besides, if it were SO unbalanced then bungie would have removed it or tuned it like they did with the M6D. they didn't. weird, huh?

and it's not a skin. it's a different weapon.
if you reskinned a br into a M6D then you'd have a 3 burst firing pistol. you'd need to change it's stats, and that is NOT a skin.

Yeah sorry its not a skin but it has basically the same firing mechanism, the burst shot is basically a one shot but sounds different, has a different animation etc.
Yes you could say you might only hit with 1/3 bullets (but how likely is that).

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Posted by: iwanneatchips
Posted by: z0rgy
yes, the BR is much more balanced.

what's more realistic? a 5 shot pistol with as much range than a sniper, or a 4 shot rifle that can't snipe? hum, I wonder...
besides, if it were SO unbalanced then bungie would have removed it or tuned it like they did with the M6D. they didn't. weird, huh?

and it's not a skin. it's a different weapon.
if you reskinned a br into a M6D then you'd have a 3 burst firing pistol. you'd need to change it's stats, and that is NOT a skin.

Yeah sorry its not a skin but it has basically the same firing mechanism, the burst shot is basically a one shot but sounds different, has a different animation etc.
Yes you could say you might only hit with 1/3 bullets (but how likely is that).

once, in campaign, I have killed 2 grunts with one burst in H3 with a BR. and me and my friend got killed by one person in one burst (we were both shieldless). it fires three bullets, not one. such things wouldn't happen with a pistol.

  • 09.08.2009 10:55 AM PDT
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Just so you know, the M6D was a three shot pistol back in halo 1, but their was little aim assist at the time, so it wasn't that big of a factor.

Anyway, i'm up for both weapons returning, the pistol should replace BR's current purpose, (assuming bungie want's to have a tool of all trades weapon) and the BR would be tweaked, so that it can still dominate at medium range, but when scoped, it becomes a weak, accurate, single shot with no aim assist.

The M6D can kill in five headshots from any range, the BR can kill in four headshots unscoped, but it can only kill with seven headshots scoped.

  • 09.08.2009 10:59 AM PDT
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I'd rather have the M6D; just make it a five shot kill and it's good.

  • 09.08.2009 11:00 AM PDT

Why not a BR that shoots like the M6D?

  • 09.08.2009 11:01 AM PDT

Posted by: Kasith
Just so you know, the M6D was a three shot pistol back in halo 1, but their was little aim assist at the time, so it wasn't that big of a factor.


There was still aim assist, it was the humongous hitboxes added in Halo 2 and 3 that killed it.

In Halo: CE, you could be aiming down scope half an inch off a person's head and miss them; in Halo 3, you can aim half a foot off the head and hit every time.

  • 09.08.2009 11:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: z0rgy
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Posted by: z0rgy
because it was unbalanced pistol.


lol, just lol. One weapon can't dominate unless you factor in every single element of gameplay and it just completely rules the battlefield.


I suggest you play HCE online a bit.
nobody use another weapon. sniper and pistols, that's all. EVEN AT CLOSE RANGE.


Maybe your doing it wrong, because CE is made to be played on LAN (hence no XBL support) and not on -blam!- XBC where host means god mode and everyone else is SOL? I don't know about you, but I feel comfortable using pretty much every weapon in CE as a means to kill someone.

Lets keep in mind that the pistol is a pretty hard weapon to aim, especially compared to some of the other guns in CE. For some reason I have doubts that your getting TSKs all the time. Even in H2 and H3 the average player isn't getting 4 or 5 shot kills the majority of the time. I'm a far above average player and I'd say on average it takes me somewhere between 5 and 6 shots to kill with the BR. So stop acting like its some god weapon. It may be more powerful than the battlerifle, but it is exponentially harder to use than any gun in Halo 2 or 3.

Lets look at some of the other weapons in CE shall we? Plasma weapons are actually useful because of plasma freeze, and they kill quick (as compared to their successors) when an enemy has no shields. The rockets have a MASSIVE blast zone, I mean, I expect people to be able to kill a moving vehicle even though you can't lock on because its utterly massive. The shotgun is plenty useful. Even the AR is more powerful than the current version. Pretty much every weapon is stronger, and there are useful glitches (like in H2) that can be utilized with many different weapons.

  • 09.08.2009 11:22 AM PDT