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Subject: Model 99 Special Application Scoped Rifle in Halo Reach?

Its a trap!!!

For those of you that dont know the M99 is a Gauss Rifle

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M99_Stanchion_Gauss_Rifle

I think the weapon could add virety to the game. But as many of you experienced the gauss hog is very powerful shooting instant shots that are pretty accurate. If this weapon is put into the game a bunch of balance issues would need to be worked on

So my question is how should we make it balanced and not too much of a power house?

Should we make it have low ammo?
A large reticule
High Recoil
Low fire rate (this could make sense since its on a mobile rifle less power)

Which one would you choose one or up to all? If not tell me your own ideas?

I think this weapon should be considered because it is in the canon and could be fun if done corectly

??Ideas??

  • 11.18.2009 8:51 PM PDT

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Low ammo
No aim assist at all
Need to lead your shots (like Warthog Gauss Cannon)
Inaccurate when un-scoped, highly accurate when scoped
Slow RoF
Overheat after one shot
Kills most vehicles in one shot (tanks if hit in the cockpit)


And remove the Spartan Laser. The Laser is too simple to use against vehicles. It's a hitscan weapon with the power of a Rocket Launcher.

[Edited on 11.18.2009 8:57 PM PST]

  • 11.18.2009 8:55 PM PDT

It's basically a Sniper Rifle that can be used against vehicles. It would need a really low fire rate to be balanced at all. It'd kick like a mule too.

Sounds a bit like a certain laser is taking up that role already...

  • 11.18.2009 8:55 PM PDT

Death to escape artists.

Hard sound rifle is what we need.
-5 shots, no extra magazines
-long reload
-Instant kill
-no trail
Its a people laser! :D

  • 11.18.2009 8:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Low ammo
No aim assist at all
Inaccurate when un-scoped, highly accurate when scoped
Slow RoF
Overheat after one shot
Kills most vehicles in one shot (tanks if hit in the cockpit)
I'll take that as a no. Seconded.

  • 11.18.2009 8:56 PM PDT

Its a trap!!!

except it would be the same strenght as the hog. The hog doesnt kill vehicles in one hit. Like lets say the M99 fought a tank it would need multiple shots maybe the whole battery to kill one. It still take like what 3 shots to kill another warthog if i remeber.

It would be useful vs vehicles but not an imediate death sentance. Even more useful vs infantry but I would make it so its not easier then using a sniper because a guass with no drawback could reck a sniper 80 percent of the time since its really fast, a larger projectile, and doesnt require a head shot

  • 11.18.2009 8:59 PM PDT
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WOW 15,000m/s I could see this being awesome.

what if it had thermal vision like the rail gun in RFG and you could shoot people out of scorpions, wraiths and trough walls?

In campaign it would be rare, and in MM it would probably pop up once on a BTB map with 4 shots and have a 2 minute re-spawn

[Edited on 11.18.2009 9:02 PM PST]

  • 11.18.2009 8:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: Xharpan
it doese'nt look nextgen , looks good but not nextgen
If by next-gen you mean crappy, dark and colorless, I agree. It doesnt look next-gen at all.

Make it a 1 shot kill type of deal. It can go through armor and if it hits the player it automatically kills him. Make it have low ammunition, make you go real slow with it so that you cant really follow a vehicle that is close by. If it hits a vehicle but misses the player it should fully lower the player's shields by 50% or something like that.

  • 11.18.2009 9:00 PM PDT
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This rifle is a Certain Scienfic Railgun, right?

If so, sure, I love railguns. Maybe for a special mission, yeah. In normal gameplay there is nothing that the normal sniper can't handle.

  • 11.18.2009 9:09 PM PDT
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I would like the Stanchion very much please.

  • 11.18.2009 9:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: BTE
Posted by: Xharpan
it doese'nt look nextgen , looks good but not nextgen
If by next-gen you mean crappy, dark and colorless, I agree. It doesnt look next-gen at all.

Posted by: FleetAdmiralBob
This rifle is a Certain Scienfic Railgun, right?
No, that's an anime series.

Posted by: FleetAdmiralBob
If so, sure, I love railguns. Maybe for a special mission, yeah. In normal gameplay there is nothing that the normal sniper can't handle.
But yeah, its like a railgun/gauss rifle.

  • 11.18.2009 9:13 PM PDT

Its a trap!!!

Posted by: FleetAdmiralBob
This rifle is a Certain Scienfic Railgun, right?

If so, sure, I love railguns. Maybe for a special mission, yeah. In normal gameplay there is nothing that the normal sniper can't handle.


yeah its basically a rail gun

Well if they made it with a bit of a weakness it would have an advantage and disadvantage over a sniper

  • 11.18.2009 9:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Madara Umezawa
For those of you that dont know the M99 is a Gauss Rifle

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M99_Stanchion_Gauss_Rifle

I think the weapon could add virety to the game. But as many of you experienced the gauss hog is very powerful shooting instant shots that are pretty accurate. If this weapon is put into the game a bunch of balance issues would need to be worked on

So my question is how should we make it balanced and not too much of a power house?

Should we make it have low ammo?
A large reticule
High Recoil
Low fire rate (this could make sense since its on a mobile rifle less power)

Which one would you choose one or up to all? If not tell me your own ideas?

I think this weapon should be considered because it is in the canon and could be fun if done corectly

??Ideas??

Why not just fix the SpLaser?

  • 11.18.2009 9:15 PM PDT
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How is the SpLazer Broken?

It takes time to charge, and it give you a warning in the form a laser sight. which dose any one ells find it silly that the laser uses a laser sight?

[Edited on 11.18.2009 9:19 PM PST]

  • 11.18.2009 9:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: Xharpan
it doese'nt look nextgen , looks good but not nextgen
If by next-gen you mean crappy, dark and colorless, I agree. It doesnt look next-gen at all.

Posted by: Madara Umezawa
Well if they made it with a bit of a weakness it would have an advantage and disadvantage over a sniper

- Low ammo
- Makes you go slow like support weapons
- Horrible accuracy when not aimed
- Slow reload time
- Main use as an anti vehicular weapon that kills the driver without destroying the vehicle itself?

  • 11.18.2009 9:18 PM PDT

Its a trap!!!

Posted by: Methew
Why not just fix the SpLaser?


1. I want another weapon.
2. Not all people think that there is something wrong with the laser (that includes I)
3. My only problem with the laser are maps that have more then one and ones that dont spawn in the middle for equal opportunities. And I think that if a lasers on a map then a sniper should be at each base kinda like valhalla. Unless its a not vehicle map like construct


  • 11.18.2009 9:19 PM PDT

Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Low ammo
No aim assist at all
Need to lead your shots (like Warthog Gauss Cannon)
Inaccurate when un-scoped, highly accurate when scoped
Slow RoF
Overheat after one shot
Kills most vehicles in one shot (tanks if hit in the cockpit)


And remove the Spartan Laser. The Laser is too simple to use against vehicles. It's a hitscan weapon with the power of a Rocket Launcher.
I'd rather have a 2 hit kill weapon. The first shot would most likely make the vehicle flip, and would kill whomever it hit that's riding in the vehicle. (For example in the warthog, if you shot the driver's seat from the side, it would hit the passenger and the driver and kill them.)

  • 11.18.2009 9:40 PM PDT