- Eliper
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My problem with it is that it's too fine, even in Campaign. The BR is excellent in just about any encounter; close-range, mid-range, long-range. . . As long as you have alright aiming and ammo, you probably won't need to pick up any other weapon. That's my problem with it.
I want the other weapons to be useful in their own right - allow them to do something that other weapons can't. The BR pretty much mashes all the other weapons together and makes a superweapon fit for just about anything.
The Automag of ODST was a great replacement for the Battle Rifle - it didn't completely dominate, it was only very good when you had another weapon of a different type (like the Plasma Pistol or Sniper) and had only a single purpose: to take down weak or unshielded enemies, and it did it well. It was more of a "finishing-off" weapon, something that the BR should have been.
The replacement of the BR should be a mixture of the Assault Rifle (which should also be scrapped) and the BR - it would have no scope, would fire three shots with each pull of the trigger, would have a smaller clip size and would kill slightly faster than the old BR did. Maybe it could be a sort of prototype-BR, as somebody suggested in another thread.
I guess I'm just thinking out loud. As long as the BR we know and "love" is gone in Reach, then I'll be happy.