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Subject: the smg's and battle rifle how strong are they?
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So you can have double smg's(sub machine guns) dont you think you can kill a elite faster than with a Ar,pistol or shotgun?
If the battle rifle fires off powerful rounds with semi-auto(like a pistol) could you pull off a head shot with one round on a elite or brute?

  • 04.30.2004 7:17 PM PDT
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well since ive played the game and tested both guns, let me just tell you...

  • 04.30.2004 8:36 PM PDT

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I would say you might get away with a head shot but it all depends on it's power. The BR sounds like something I would like. Semi-auto, close to long ranges. Sounds like the perfect secondary weapon for a sniper. SMG's are most likely going to be good for close quarters. I'm excited to here about other human weapons. Yet, aren't we all?

  • 04.30.2004 8:39 PM PDT
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dude u cant head shot an elite unless u use the sniper rifle. if u could with just the battle rifle it'd be way too powerful, i think the battle rifle will replace both the old assault rifle and the pistol. that saddens me though cuz i was so looking forward to a new, more manly looking, slightly less powerful pistol, like in the third Halo book

  • 04.30.2004 8:40 PM PDT

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Yea, my hope is that the pistol in FS will be in Halo 2.

  • 04.30.2004 8:43 PM PDT
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I think they said they were bring back all the old guns.

Reasons they might get rid of:
If the BR replaces anything it would be the pistol, just cause its like the pistol but with a bigger clip. The power will definitely be less than the pistol though.
The AR would be replaced with the SMG since it does basically the same thing and you can carry two of them. I believe that the SMG will be much less powerful than the AR just because of the sound the SMG makes.

Reason they will keep:
The pistol is an officer's weapon and a great back up weapon. Would be powerful than the BR.
The AR is weak, but possibly strong than the SMG. Puls, you can't throw grenades when dual-wielding, so the AR could still have a tatical advantage.

  • 05.01.2004 12:16 AM PDT
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Remember that the sound and "strength" of guns in the E3 demo are not final - They have been tweaking with sounds, strengths, etc for almost a year now... so expect changes...

  • 05.01.2004 12:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: aZn_Mc_SpRtN_117
So you can have double smg's(sub machine guns) dont you think you can kill a elite faster than with a Ar,pistol or shotgun?


No. I would have though they'll'd be quite weak in compairisant with other weapons though the speed of which they fire would make up for it

Posted by: aZn_Mc_SpRtN_117
If the battle rifle fires off powerful rounds with semi-auto(like a pistol) could you pull off a head shot with one round on a elite or brute?


Again no. If you think about it you can't achieve headshots with a single pistol bullet in Halo so i doubt it will be that powerful.

  • 05.01.2004 1:07 AM PDT
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no no no how do you phase out two entire human weapons? That would be like taking all the PCs from everybody in the world and replacing them with MACs in one week. Dude it's not going to happen.

  • 05.01.2004 1:42 AM PDT