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Posted by: mortabunt
Posted by: Kotastrophi
Well, I think Bungie had in mind that they were making the ODST seem different to Spartans. So they have specialist weapons (silenced) in place
What you said. The ODST team wasn't all about strength and overwhelming power. It was aboutprecision and tactics. Besides, the silenced weapons really gave the game a nice special ops feel. Remember that also the UNSC is pretty big. The BR was experimental and doing its final in-field development during the timeframe of Halo 1, and Halo 2 takes place only months after that, so they wouldn't have had time to have distributed BR's around the entire military. This also occurs in real life. For example: The M-1 Garand was used in WW2. It was mostly replaced in the Korean War with the M-14, which in turn was replaced mostly with the M-16 in Vietnam. However, the Garand continued to be fielded until partway throug the Vietnam War. The point is that it takes time and resourced to develop, distribute, and train a military with a new weapon. As a result, the BR's were only given to frontline units that saw a lot of action. Meanwhile, the older weapons were distributed to backwaters, such as Earth. Another reason why the BR wasn't in ODST is because the forces on earth were there as a last resort defense force; not fighting a lot of battles reguarly. In modern military terms, the BR is like the DM, or Designated Marskman weapon, so it's only given to the squad's DM. The new AR was in ODST, but that's because it was much more of a general-purpose weapon meant for usage by the regular infantryman.
Excellent point, except one problem, these are ODSTs the elite UNSC infantry (not including spartans) who are gearing up for an extremely important mission. Remember that all the marines on earth had BRs before the covenant attacked (Halo 2).
I think that the BR wasn't in ODST was because it would seem redundant with the new pistol and the carbine. It was also to change the feel of the game, like the silenced weapons.