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Posted by: UL7IM4 G33K
Posted by: Lies
The BR is versatile, and it takes more skill to use effectively than any other weapon aside from the Sniper/Beam Rifle and the carbine.
Many who played the Halo 3 Beta would beg to differ. If I remember correctly, the BR was shut down by the Carbine since the weapon was so much more effective and skill oriented. The main reason for this is it performed exactly like a modification of the CE pistol. Five shots to the head was a kill, and you actually had to aim every shot. The only reason this changed for Halo 3 on release is cause they added significant spread to the Carbine which destroyed its consistency.
I'm not sure what relevance the beta version of the carbine has, but I did play the beta and it took 7 carbine shots to kill in the Beta, not 5. The reason it was so powerful was that it shot much faster than it does now. The Halo 3 carbine kills in 8 shots and its ROF is comparable to the Halo 2 version. Carbine
Posted by: UL7IM4 G33K
And about the BR taking skill. Anyone can aim. If anyone here has played any shooters for more than several months they know that aiming is second nature. I'm tired of elitist FPS players who think aiming is everything skill is when aiming isn't even something they think about anymore. A subconscious ability is not a skill at all. The BR's dominance proves it, cause if aiming were so horribly skill defining, then more people wouldn't pick them up since they would suck with them. Yet the BR doesn't gauge aiming ability, it gauges who sees who first.
You are right that anyone can aim, but not everyone can aim well. This is evident because there is a skill gap in how well people can use the weapons, please don't insult my intelligence and expect me to believe that everyone has the same effectiveness with the BR, that is just wrong.
Aiming is a skill, and to think otherwise is ridiculous. A subconscious skill is still a skill, and the better you become at something, the less you have to think about it and the more you feel it. I play soccer and I am good at it, and when I pass or shoot I don't think about what I am doing, I just feel it. The same goes for any skill, whether it be in sports or video games, if you become very good at something, then you will eventually get to the point where you don't have to think about it and your subconscious does the work for you. Moving from consciously doing something to subconsciously doing something is a natural transition when you get better at something, and that means you are more skilled.
I agree that the BR isn't that hard to use and I would like a starting weapon like the Halo CE. That weapon had a huge skill gap and rewarded players for having proficient aiming much more than the BR. It also emphasizes certain gameplay elements that I believe are critical in making a balanced game, but I won't go into that.
Posted by: UL7IM4 G33K
Posted by: Lies
How many weapons in Halo 3 emphasize headshots? Just 4, the BR, Carbine, Sniper Rifle, and Beam Rifle. Obviously, that means they take more aiming skill than every other weapon, because head shots are harder than body shots.
Ah, you forgot the Pistol. The Pistol is by far THE most skillful weapon when it comes to aiming. It has a slow rate of fire, so you need to constantly adjust your reticle, it has a lower clip than the BR forcing you to make every shot count and it lacks a scope which means precision aiming at a distance is even more skillful. And headshots are harder but tactically stupid when it comes to a gunfight. Why waste shots shooting something small when you can make every bullet count by hitting the center of mass? That's gun tactics 101 my friend.
You are correct that I forgot the pistol, but that really doesn't matter too much. Saying the pistol is the most skillful weapon is wrong, because weapons like the Sniper and Beam rifle are much harder to use to their full effectiveness.
As for comparing it to the BR, it is harder to get kills with, but that rise in difficulty is more related to the plasma pistol's difficulty in getting kills than say, the Sniper's. The magnum is hard to get kills with simply because it is not a very good weapon. Sure, it can be used fairly well in certain situations, but those situations are pretty limited. The magnum has the same random deviation that the BR has except its range is much worse. This makes the outcome of Magnum battles more random, and anyone who has played SWAT Magnums should be able to attest to this. Just because a weapon is harder to get kills with, does not make it more skillful.