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Subject: If you claim to use the BR because it takes skill...

Hey.

Carbines are more scarce than the battle rifle. Also, the BR gives you a little margin of error because it's a 3 round burst vs. 1 shot. That way if I'm a bit sloppy, 1 or 2 bullets might still connect instead of me flat out missing.

  • 08.18.2010 4:24 AM PDT


Posted by: Mr Naughty Body
I don't use the BR because "it takes skill". I use it because it's the best gun to use in most of the situations in Halo 3. I actually do prefer the carbine, but I rarely use it because you don't spawn with it, and there are generally only a few on the map, so you have to go out of your way to get them :/


This, people complain that the BR is nerfed too much. i think they didn't go far enough, the AR should beat it at close range

  • 08.18.2010 4:52 AM PDT

While the Carbine kills faster and is harder to aim, you can get more kills with a BR in a single clip. If the Carbine had more ammo in its clip it would easily dominate the BR.

  • 08.18.2010 5:03 AM PDT

The guy with the BR in the first fight only shot 3 times so thats a fail...


and i use the BR because its good to finish off 1 shots but a noob with an AR who gets first shots on an unsuspecting BR wielder with almost always win...

having said that i always try to roll with an BR/Carbine or BR/Mauler

  • 08.18.2010 6:58 AM PDT
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I use the BR because it is versatile. I don't like the low ammo capacity on the Carbine and while its more accurate at longer ranges, the BR tends to fit well in virtually any situation while giving me the ammo capacity to team shoot and not have to pick and choose my targets.

  • 08.18.2010 7:00 AM PDT

Because I play MLG & Slayer, where the starting weapon is usually a BR.

I'll use a carbine when I find it but I'm not going out of my way to get carbine kills when I have a perfectly suitable utilitarian weapon at my disposal off spawn.

  • 08.18.2010 7:02 AM PDT


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Posted by: Ghost10006
Carbine > Needler > Battle Rifle

:)

I can't tell a joke from a real post

Fixed.

  • 08.18.2010 9:14 AM PDT


Posted by: Gho5t Mach1ne
I use the BR because if i don't, then someone who does have one will kill me almost everytime.

  • 08.18.2010 9:20 AM PDT

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Posted by: skindrin
bottom line is.. this game has been out for so long i cant believe anyone is even still having these conversations. yawn
This.

  • 08.18.2010 9:21 AM PDT

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Posted by: nam090
The Carbine sucks. It's only half-decent at close to medium range, but it absolutely fails at medium-range. Why? Because the shots don't go to the middle of the reticle. They usually end up around the center of it, which causes you to miss headshots. It's a step down from the BR, but it definitely is better than not having an entry-level mid-range weapon as your secondary.

And someone show me proof that it can kill faster than a BR. I dare you. Video evidence please, and perhaps even charts would do.
Message husky owner127 on live, he has the videos of multiple times, carbine won 5 of 7 trials. The carbine sucks because you can't aim the damn thing. I don't have the so called problem your talking about.

  • 08.18.2010 9:29 AM PDT
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Pistol takes more skill than Carbine and BR since it has a slower rof, small clip size, and no zoom.

Try simulating no auto-aim by making kills -1 and betrayals +1 point and telling everyone to be on 1 team. You'll find that without auto-aim, even the BR takes skills.

[Edited on 08.18.2010 9:45 AM PDT]

  • 08.18.2010 9:41 AM PDT

Posted by: militaryguns (Hunler116)
Shut the hell up, Halo is my world

I use both. But I start with the BR, so obviously I use it more frequently.

  • 08.18.2010 9:55 AM PDT

Go Reach.


Posted by: AvengingSoul
BRs take aiming and nothing else


Um... DUH. ALL the weapons just take aiming...

  • 08.18.2010 10:25 AM PDT

Go Reach.

I use BR because you start with it and it's great more medium and medium-close range. I like it a lot because there are many ways to quickly kill people with it (2 of which you can do with carbine as well).
1. (BR Only) 3 body shots + 1 headshot
2. (Both) Grenade + headshot
3. (Both)[close range] melee then jump back and headshot

I rarely use Carbine so I just don't really know what it can do.

  • 08.18.2010 10:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: Sliding Ghost
Pistol takes more skill than Carbine and BR since it has a slower rof, small clip size, and no zoom.

Try simulating no auto-aim by making kills -1 and betrayals +1 point and telling everyone to be on 1 team. You'll find that without auto-aim, even the BR takes skills.
Also, this is true^

  • 08.18.2010 10:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: DAS B00T x2
Posted by: nam090
The Carbine sucks. It's only half-decent at close to medium range, but it absolutely fails at medium-range. Why? Because the shots don't go to the middle of the reticle. They usually end up around the center of it, which causes you to miss headshots. It's a step down from the BR, but it definitely is better than not having an entry-level mid-range weapon as your secondary.

And someone show me proof that it can kill faster than a BR. I dare you. Video evidence please, and perhaps even charts would do.

Not the best proof, but it's proof. The carbine kills faster, if you can aim with it.

I apologize for the 10-day delay in a response, but I forgot about this thread.

Okay, first of all, the people shown in the video weren't even going for headshots. Did you not notice how the BR-user shot off a few rounds and just stood there? That was the dumbest test to have been conducted.

That's the reason why a lot of people dislike the video and why the comments and video responses are disabled.

  • 08.27.2010 10:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: FAL7ACY
Then why not use the Carbine instead? It can kill someone faster than the BR, but actually has to be aimed.

i like both the carbine and the BR. i just prefer the BR.
if i get a AR/magnum start gametype i use the magnum only until i find either a carbine or BR

  • 08.27.2010 11:14 PM PDT

From Cyro to Meta

Because the BR can be a starting weapon. The Carbine cant.

  • 08.27.2010 11:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: monkyw1thagun
Because the BR can be a starting weapon. The Carbine cant.

BR/Carbine would be the best starting weps. but that will never happen

  • 08.27.2010 11:17 PM PDT
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Chrome piece to the Dome Piece!
BLAiNiUM TO THE CRANiUM

Who says the BR is auto aiming... WTF? All weapons track idiot...

  • 08.27.2010 11:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: DAS B00T x2

Posted by: nam090
The Carbine sucks. It's only half-decent at close to medium range, but it absolutely fails at medium-range. Why? Because the shots don't go to the middle of the reticle. They usually end up around the center of it, which causes you to miss headshots. It's a step down from the BR, but it definitely is better than not having an entry-level mid-range weapon as your secondary.

And someone show me proof that it can kill faster than a BR. I dare you. Video evidence please, and perhaps even charts would do.

Not the best proof, but it's proof. The carbine kills faster, if you can aim with it.


This video is very inaccurate. The BR has a 4 shot. The carbine doesnt. Look how many shots the BR took. Way more then 4. Also look at the pause the person with the BR took between the 2nd and 3rd shot. It was unnecessary, it is like he paused on purpose to let the guy with the carbine win. Anyways the BR is a better weapon because of the 4 shot. Don't get me wrong, the carbine is a great weapon and can be very deadly. In the hands of a good player it is a powerful weapon. I find it very blinding because of the bright colors its bullets are. That makes it harder to aim at the opponent firing at you with it. The only think i do not like about the carbine is the small clip. If it had a longer clip, it would be better then the BR. But since the BR has the 4 shot and the Carbine has a small clip, the BR is the better weapon in my opinion. This is just my view on the BR/carbine.

Also just to add in the 2nd duel it took the player with the BR 6 shots before the guy with the carbine could kill him. Like I said before, it only takes 4 shots to kill someone with a BR. That was just bad aim. The BR was misrepresented in that video.

[Edited on 08.27.2010 11:33 PM PDT]

  • 08.27.2010 11:26 PM PDT

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

May i redirect you? http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=22799727

  • 08.27.2010 11:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: SC WalmsLo
May i redirect you? http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=22799727

You can be wrong, or I can be wrong. But this thread is about the carbine. That thread is for the AR and the BR only.

[Edited on 08.27.2010 11:30 PM PDT]

  • 08.27.2010 11:30 PM PDT

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Both threads are talking about BR, there should only be one BR thread http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=22799727

EDIT: Ahh, i see what you mean. My bad.

[Edited on 08.27.2010 11:34 PM PDT]

  • 08.27.2010 11:33 PM PDT

The Marty Army

Believe.

I use the carbine but it runs out of ammo so quickly there's no way to get more than a killing spree with it.

Carbine > BR all the way.

[Edited on 08.27.2010 11:34 PM PDT]

  • 08.27.2010 11:33 PM PDT

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