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Subject: Why the BR isnt in ODST
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  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

But still, somehow it doesn't feel like halo when you can't shoot grunts in the head with the battle rifle. Just play halo 3 and then halo odst. But if it's true that odst is just a try-out for Reach it's not that bad. I hope that means that Reach is getting better than Odst, because i kinda enjoyed Odst, but it was not as brilliant as playing with the MC.

  • 03.09.2010 2:08 PM PDT

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Its cuz you already have the pistol

  • 03.09.2010 6:40 PM PDT

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I can sum up what has been said already by a lot of people. The pistol kicks huge ass and bungie discovered what it had done a little too late. It then tried to make the game more difficult by taking the BR out at the last minute, but they accidentally passed over a cutscene with a police officer using one in the game. Despite their best efforts, Bungie failed in making ODST harder because they had just made the silenced pistol way to good, thus explaining how a simple experienced player has no problem beating the game on legendary in no time at all.

  • 03.09.2010 7:07 PM PDT

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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.

Makes sense but bungie wouldent pay attention to that..


Makes sense, but how do explain the Police Officer holding it in the NMPD HQ cutscene?? If the military can't get it, what the hell is a Police Officer doing with it hmmm?? Sure, he might have got if of some dude that got killed, but why would anyone on Earth have been issued one, if we followed your theory??

On top of that, explain why you could use the BR in H2. That was set in the same time frame as ODST, and nearly everyone had the BR. Just sayin...

It simply didn't fit the gameplay in ODST, not because of some technicality...

  • 03.09.2010 7:22 PM PDT

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I know they had the pistol, but other than headshotting grunts it was pretty bad. Like i said, the BR is great against brutes. Talk about that plox.

  • 03.09.2010 7:51 PM PDT

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  • 03.10.2010 9:31 AM PDT

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Place an MA5 down by my feet!
Don't cry for me, don't shed no tear!
Just pack my box with PT gear!......"
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Posted by: thatguyaknow
I know they had the pistol, but other than headshotting grunts it was pretty bad. Like i said, the BR is great against brutes. Talk about that plox.


What are you talking about? just use the plasma-pistol-EMP and quickly pull out the pistol to land a headshot on brutes. For, grunts see the target as a triangle using there meth-tanks and shoot in the middle of it. Jackels actually are much, MUCH harder!! You wanna hear how hard? *you shoot the opening to the bottom right of their sheild and then.. GASP! move your gun up a little to land a headshot! You can kill every enemy that isn't a brute chieftan or a hunter in ODST only using the plasma pistol and human pistol! Ever EMPed an Engineer before?!

  • 03.23.2010 2:17 PM PDT

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