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Subject: let's shine some light on the Sniper....
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Ok...the human sniper that most of us loathe and yet....love. Nothing beats kicking ass from a distance. But I'ver heard that Halo 2 will have sniper rifles that recoil when you fire them...

Is it a recoil that shakes your targeting recticle? In Halo 1, the rife bounced (recoil i guess) when you fired a shot. Is it the same this time?

I belive that the sniper was quite balanced already, with a limited amount of rounds per clip and diffrent ranges of movement in diffrent ranges of zoom. I want to feel like a supersoldier holding it than a human from the Battlefield games...

  • 08.11.2004 5:16 PM PDT
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I think it will just move around for a like 3 seconds, then go back to the original point you were aiming at.

  • 08.11.2004 5:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: SPARTAN 00029
I think it will just move around for a like 3 seconds, then go back to the original point you were aiming at.
agreed

  • 08.11.2004 5:19 PM PDT
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The gun will move, but the reticle will not. It is just to increase the amount of time between shots.

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it flys back some and you have to reaim if your target is still alive
it is like shadow ops red mercury the game

[Edited on 8/11/2004 5:25:45 PM]

  • 08.11.2004 5:25 PM PDT
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You played some world war2 game?? like MOH: aa or call of duty??? that's it... you fire and your weapon move a bit and come back

  • 08.11.2004 5:26 PM PDT
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I think that will be ok. I guess sniper battles between opponents weilding a human sniper and a covvie sniper will be interesting.

Now the next thing:

What is the speculation on the covvie sniper weapon? From what I've heard, it has infinite ammo, but overheats every shot, but the shots are instant kill. What of these are actually true, if any?

  • 08.11.2004 5:28 PM PDT
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I doubt they will still be alive because there is no health and SR shots take away all your sheild and more than 1/2 of your health. So either its body part specific like they get shot in the leg or arm ad ar paralized and lose all shield and get hit in the torso and head and die or its one shot kills.

  • 08.11.2004 5:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: SPARTAN 00029
I think it will just move around for a like 3 seconds, then go back to the original point you were aiming at.


It will.

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there will be health they just dont show the bars, your shield lasts longer but your die in 1 or 2 shots without it...when the shield replenished so does your life (from what ive heard)

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Posted by: Hedwig
The gun will move, but the reticle will not. It is just to increase the amount of time between shots.


That was in Halo 1.

  • 08.11.2004 5:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: Hedwig
The gun will move, but the reticle will not. It is just to increase the amount of time between shots.


That was in Halo 1.

Exactly. It is just a longer pause in between shots too make you have to get head shots.

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What? The Health hud isn't similar anymore? No Sheild and 7 bars of health?

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Posted by: Valgas
I think that will be ok. I guess sniper battles between opponents weilding a human sniper and a covvie sniper will be interesting.

Now the next thing:

What is the speculation on the covvie sniper weapon? From what I've heard, it has infinite ammo, but overheats every shot, but the shots are instant kill. What of these are actually true, if any?

It has clips. Each clip holds 20 rounds. Ammo is VERY limited. It is called the Covenant Carbine.

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Cept its not called the carbine

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Posted by: Valgas
What? The Health hud isn't similar anymore? No Sheild and 7 bars of health?

There is only a flat shield bar. No health indicators. When shields are depleted, you can take three or four shots depending on the weapon.

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Posted by: Hedwig
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Posted by: Hedwig
The gun will move, but the reticle will not. It is just to increase the amount of time between shots.


That was in Halo 1.

Exactly. It is just a longer pause in between shots too make you have to get head shots.


Ah, that doesn't bother me at all. At least i'll never hear someone fire off all four shots in a clip in two seconds anymore. That was really annoying in team games where there was only one sniper that spawned at your base...a guy would take it and "bangbangbangbang" and waste it.

In a sense, that way of rifle kicking makes you make a better marksman.

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Recoil is when the target reticle goes up, not side to side, at least not on a sniper rifle. look at the recoil on the SMG's, they slowly move up.

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I know that the carbine is a confirmed weapon. But there is alot of speculation on these forums for an actuall sniper, not an automatic plasna rifle with a scope.

  • 08.11.2004 5:45 PM PDT
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Just look up the Definition of carbine and you'd know that its not a SR.

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Posted by: Valgas
I think that will be ok. I guess sniper battles between opponents weilding a human sniper and a covvie sniper will be interesting.

Now the next thing:

What is the speculation on the covvie sniper weapon? From what I've heard, it has infinite ammo, but overheats every shot, but the shots are instant kill. What of these are actually true, if any?

It has clips. Each clip holds 20 rounds. Ammo is VERY limited. It is called the Covenant Carbine.
NOT IT IS NOT THE CARBINE AND SNIPER ARE DIFFERT DAMMIT -blam!- -blam!- -blam!- -blam!- -blam!- whew that felt good

  • 08.11.2004 5:48 PM PDT
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Is the trail still on the sniper rifle? i hope not, because its a very powerful weapon but it only comes with 8 shots, (a little unrealistic). in First Strike there was no sniper Trail. Its not very likely you can kill a person with every sincle one of those shots unless your patient enough. and another thing, even if theres a trail there there is already marks on the screen that show where your getting shot from, then noobs couldnt sniper even better, if they miss, their position is given away, but if they get a 1 hit kill their position will still be unknown. Sry if this was confusing but I typed it fast.

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Carbine is practically the opposite of a Sniper Rifle, all the people that think the Carbine and the Sniper Rifle are the same thing don't know a thing about guns. to put it quicklt a Carbine is a SHORT BARRELED RIFLE SO ITS LIGHTER AND MORE MOBILE.

  • 08.11.2004 5:51 PM PDT
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Yes its still there. They should trade it in though for a bright Muzzle flash.

  • 08.11.2004 5:52 PM PDT
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Most people know that the trails make it crucial to make a headshot, and keep moving like a good sniper, not a camper.

  • 08.11.2004 5:55 PM PDT

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