Posted by: bungieisbroken
Posted by: maxzy
Posted by: bungieisbroken
You admitted that it's your favorite weapon so your obviously going to be biased towards it.
I've also seen games where people achieve 20+ kills with the spartan laser counting towards half.
Also, if you shoot at the right spot, it only takes 1 shot to take out the tanks.[/quote]
Im def biased towards it, but not necessarily opposed to it being altered. Im just saying the vehicles are just as powerful, and toning down the laser will give them even more of an advantage since the other weapons you mentioned aren't as powerful hog deterents as the laser is. I don't doubt people get 20 plus kills with lasers a game, hell im that person, but I also know how to maximize the laser potential, th people who get 20 plus laser kills probably also got 8 double kills from blowing up hogs alone, thats 16 k right there. Hit the banshee three times and four people running around aimlessly and your there. It's not the laser its the man behind the laser. Same thing with the hog, if your driver sucks, your not going to do well, if your driver is pro- like me- the gunner will get lots of kills unless they are BK. I get the sense yo u love to hog, which is cool cuz I too, but I like to drive more than gun, but I admit the second I see a laser when Im driving I get out just b/c I don't want to die, that's just using good judgement. I know what you mean about the tanks, I have killed them in one shot before but I dont know where that spot is, and think when it happens its becuase its already been weakened to the point that it only takes one to kill. They def take two rocks to bring down when not damaged at all.
The only anti-vehile weapon in Halo 2 was the homing rocket and vehicles were pretty balanced.
In Halo 3 they added the laser, missle pod, trip mine, and power drainer.
Weakening the laser will give vehilces a chance without having them overpowered.
The Gauss Hog is one hit kill, just like the laser. How is that not fair? The Gauss hog can also shoot three rounds in the amount of time it takes to get off one laser blast. The guass hog has infinite ammo, the laser has five shots. the warthog turret, within a certain range, which is ample, can kill a laser user faster than the laser can charge. I bet it takes less time to kill two people within a certain distance with the machine gun hog than it does to charge one shot. If anything, tone down the whips and make laser more powerful. Laser should have ten rounds, shoot as fast as the shotgun, people take one hit, warthogs take two shots, tanks take three. unless weakened.
The only gametype where the gauss is used is heavies and is overpowered as well.
There are many weapons that are anti-vehicle while at the range that the spartan laser is normally used, the onyl weapon that can take it out is the snipers.