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When I spawn under a base with an AR and theres a guy top mid and pink 3 with BRs im like so happy because it gives me a chance to adapt and play for fun.
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Or just accept that halo has always been the same and has always been very popular because of it. Completely changing the balance of the game because some people that suck at the game are butthurt makes no sense.
Theres no way I would play this game if it wasnt centered on a ranged headshot capable weapon that encourages teamwork and strafing gameplay with a skill gap.
Spray melee=me playing COD.[/quote]
The most ignorant comment ever and I am really tired of seeing it. It is funny how having your gamertag unlinked can pull out all the morons to start talking crap about how people suck with the BR so they don't want it. I played a game of SWAT last night on Halo 2. I had 20 kills, no one else on my team had over 8. I play Halo 3 and many a time my tool of destruction is the BR. Does this mean I have to like the weapon? Hell -blam!- no.
And your "skill" gap is a joke, since the BR is entirely based on who's lucky enough to have latency grant them with the blessing of having all three shots from all four bursts land. Most BR battles don't come down to who is better, but who has better luck with the BR's nasty spread. Halo 3's slower walking speed already makes the BR a cinch to aim with.
The gun isn't all that "skillful" since it is a crutch for people who don't understand that Halo is not about aiming only. It is good at most everything, so you people won't put it down for anything else. Why? Because the gun has a simple function for you to grasp: Shoot at that guy. Sure, some of you mix it up with grenades and melee, but honestly the BR does nothing more than what shooters have been doing for ages. Strafing and headshots. Any moron who has played an FPS for more than 3 months can understand this concept and probably perform it fairly well. You are fooling yourselves if you think something most FPS players can do in their sleep should be the determining factor of the game.
its skill gap might be small, but its all relative. In comparison to the other guns in this game its skill gap is as big as the grand canyon.
People dont put it down because they have no other options. Its either PWs or CQC spray weapons. Why would you ever want to pick up a weapon that will inevitably place you in random melee battles? Anyone with half a brain will try to stay as far away from H3 melee as possible and hte BR does this.
I loved HCE, why? Because it was fun to get into mid range pistol battles but it was also fun to get into close range plasma rifel melee battles.Because melee actually had a skill gap and was fun and took thought.
I find it hilarious that everyone blames the BR for H3's "variety" problems when in reality the BR is the only gameplay element besides the PWs that provide any kind of dynamic gameplay. Sorry but spray spray auto lock melee is not fun or "variety".
i have had a game when almost no one was using the BR i it was one of the funnest games i had if it was't for a person taking the rocket and the sniper and trying to sporen kill us
Good for you, judging by your literary skills youd be entertained by a flashlight to though.Okay, maybe Halo 3 was bad when it came to close-range combat. That doesn't mean that to make up for it all those weapons should be useless compared to one uber weapon (The BR). Mid-range combat was nothing but "Headshot, headshot, headshot, headshot, win!" Unless you miss, whoever fires first wins. I have more fun in games without the BR because the BR is always the center point of a game. Battle Rifle = Win. Games become expectable when you know exactly what gun will win. Some weapons miss, or aren't powerful enough in that instance, or don't have the range, but the BR doesn't have those problems. It fires quickly, powerfully, and accurately. There's no point to having another weapon and that shouldn't be the case.
I'd be a lot happier if there was more than one weapon that'd give me great success in this game. Skill should mean that you can win a fight with any weapon, not that you can strafe and score headshots with the BR at the same time (Which 85% of us can do just fine, even if some are better than others).
ok...
You guys are all making the same point. What else are people supposed to do? In halo 3 its either BR or nothing. Thats an issue with that nothing not the BR.
When your options are BR or CQC randomness anyone with half a brain will choose BR. Fix CQC randomness and people will have more options, and gametypes like ARs on heretic wont be seen as unplayable by half the community.