- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I've been playing halo and halo 2 for three years now. I love halo 2, i like it slightly better than halo one, (probably cause of the new maps) but I always used the halo 1 pistol. the arguments that vitamin is putting forward would be valid, if every halo player had perfect aim all of the time. I only had live for 4 days, and got to level 20. I dont know if this is good or bad, but my experience of halo 1 says that, yeah, its possible to kill someone in 3 seconds, if they are standing still and not shooting you. Like I said, I dont know how good I am in relation to everyone else, but i was the best at my numerous LAN parties, and I continiue to be the best of my friends, but it usually takes me 5-6 shots from a pistol for me to kill someone, if I see them first.
On another issue, if the pistol was a noob gun, then theoretically, all players should do just as well with it. At my aforementioned LAN parties, all my friends were at least reasonable at the game. In pistols only, i always, without exeption, won. The same for most other gametypes. I'm not saying im better than anyone, but skill has a large amount of bearing on who wins in a pistol duel, or a pistol vs. anything else duel. The pistol, like all other weapons, is only good if used in the correct circumstances. If I'm on hang 'em high, and someone with a shotgun charges me from the other side of the map. that person will be killed by my pistol. If i charge at someone iside a corridor when they have a shotgun, i am almost certianly going to lose.
Finally, i have heard argument that the pistol can beat most other strategies. Have you ever tried shotgun camping with a pistol? I thought so. It wouldn't work. there are lots of other strategies that work against the pistol.