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Subject: What is your favorite Halo: Combat Evolved weapon?
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I'm really disappointed that they didn't finish making the Gravity Rifle... For both Xbox and PC

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  • 11.12.2010 2:25 PM PDT

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The Plasma Rifle. It was so awesome in CE.

  • 11.12.2010 2:30 PM PDT

You know, when you're having a bad day, you just gotta let yourself go!

The Assault Rifle. It just seems like a trusty weapon.

  • 11.12.2010 3:06 PM PDT

im stuck between the sniper and pistol. both were great.

  • 11.12.2010 4:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Smokin Aces1191
im stuck between the sniper and pistol. both were great.
*whispers in your ear* Choose the Sniper... It needs it more. ;)

  • 11.12.2010 5:14 PM PDT

I chose the pistol for the usual reasons

  • 11.13.2010 5:34 PM PDT

Pistol, for obvious reasons.

  • 11.13.2010 5:56 PM PDT

the plasma pistol is great. I don't use it a lot on the easier difficulty levels, but on legendary I use it for mid to long range and it can be fired pretty fast. I use it to take out elites shields and I finish them off with an assult rifle burst and then a melee afterwards. best part about it though is that most grunts and all of the jackals use it so ammo is easy and it works well against flood even though it is much more rare for them to use it, but I still prefer the shotgun to take out flood

  • 11.13.2010 6:00 PM PDT

The pistol was the best, it was a damn cannon! LOL

  • 11.13.2010 6:35 PM PDT

Halo: CE pistol is probably the best weapon ever.

  • 11.13.2010 6:36 PM PDT

I am going to have to say Assault Rifle. Got to love the huge clip of ammunition.

  • 11.14.2010 3:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: MWLB4244
I am going to have to say Assault Rifle. Got to love the huge clip of ammunition.
It seems so inefficient now though. Took forever to kill someone with that.

  • 11.14.2010 3:45 PM PDT


Posted by: Dr Syx
It seems so inefficient now though. Took forever to kill someone with that.

It seems so inefficient now though? As compared to when?

By the way, it totally doesn't take forever, at least not at reasonably close ranges or slightly longer in bursts. When you're up in another player's face, it kills really froodlenutzskying fast.

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  • 11.14.2010 4:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dr Syx
It seems so inefficient now though. Took forever to kill someone with that.

It seems so inefficient now though? As compared to when?

By the way, it totally doesn't take forever, at least not at reasonably close ranges or slightly longer in bursts. When you're up in another player's face, it kills really froodlenutzskying fast.
I'm saying compared to the newer Assault Rifles, the Halo 1 Assault Rifle doesn't seem efficient. When you're close enough for it to work as well as you're talking about, you would be better off meleeing them.

  • 11.14.2010 5:14 PM PDT


Posted by: Dr Syx
I'm saying compared to the newer Assault Rifles, the Halo 1 Assault Rifle doesn't seem efficient. When you're close enough for it to work as well as you're talking about, you would be better off meleeing them.

Erm...the Halo 3 assault rifle was only useful if you followed it up with a good whacking because its mag was so small (not to mention being just plain inferior to the SMG), and the Reach assault rifle is hilariously awful period to the point of always being less useful than every other weapon in the game in almost every situation imageanable.

The AR kills as fast as it does reasonably far beyond meleeing range, and it kills far faster than melees do (particularly once shields are out of the picture; unshielded targets die almost instantly to AR fire).


I'm not saying it's not a tad underpowered, but it's far better relatively than its successors and actually has a reason to exist in the game, something which both of its successors lack.

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  • 11.14.2010 5:19 PM PDT

Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: Tupolev

Posted by: Dr Syx
It seems so inefficient now though. Took forever to kill someone with that.

It seems so inefficient now though? As compared to when?

By the way, it totally doesn't take forever, at least not at reasonably close ranges or slightly longer in bursts. When you're up in another player's face, it kills really froodlenutzskying fast.
I'm saying compared to the newer Assault Rifles, the Halo 1 Assault Rifle doesn't seem efficient. When you're close enough for it to work as well as you're talking about, you would be better off meleeing them.


I was under the impression that we were talking about Halo: Combat Evolved weapons only. I merely though it was a cool weapon. It is not necesarily the best weapon but it might be my favorite.

  • 11.14.2010 6:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: Tupolev

Posted by: Dr Syx
It seems so inefficient now though. Took forever to kill someone with that.

It seems so inefficient now though? As compared to when?

By the way, it totally doesn't take forever, at least not at reasonably close ranges or slightly longer in bursts. When you're up in another player's face, it kills really froodlenutzskying fast.
I'm saying compared to the newer Assault Rifles, the Halo 1 Assault Rifle doesn't seem efficient. When you're close enough for it to work as well as you're talking about, you would be better off meleeing them.


I was under the impression that we were talking about Halo: Combat Evolved weapons only. I merely though it was a cool weapon. It is not necesarily the best weapon but it might be my favorite.
Yeah, I recently went back onto Halo 1 to see if it was as bad as I remember, but it actually wasn't. I also forgot that melee took 3 hits to kill someone... Meleeing was horrible on Halo 1 O_O Only time you ever could use it was when the person was weak or you were assassinating them.

  • 11.18.2010 10:20 AM PDT

Something smells fishy...

I believe that the weapons in Halo: Combat Evolved are effective in different situations. Also I find that certain weapons are more effective in the campaign than in multiplayer. For example the plasma rifle is very effective in campaign but in multiplayer it is not as effective.


I play Halo: Combat Evolved PC multiplayer a lot. My favorite weapon in Halo: Combat Evolved is the pistol. The pistol is extremely effective and powerful in close to medium range distance. So therefore the pistol is my preferred weapon while playing multiplayer.

  • 11.18.2010 11:35 AM PDT


Posted by: Dr Syx
Meleeing was horrible on Halo 1 O_O Only time you ever could use it was when the person was weak or you were assassinating them.

If anything, I'd personally argue that the overpowering of the melees in later titles forced Bungie to make a bunch of idiotic balancing decisions (such as reducing the mag size on the AR in Halo 3 and thereby FORCING you to melee-blitz with it instead of allowing it to be used as an interesting high-skill all-purpose short-to-medium-range weapon, which would have been awesome).

  • 11.18.2010 12:33 PM PDT
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I would say the assault rifle,with that you could destroy an banshee pretty easy :P

  • 11.18.2010 12:50 PM PDT

Pistol... Classic Halo CE death distributor. However I do miss the plasma "stun" effect along with the normal aiming.

  • 11.18.2010 1:52 PM PDT

Assault Rifle, it just felt right... Balanced and made a good sound, still wish it had single shot, I tried to do that, like the marines...

  • 11.18.2010 1:56 PM PDT

The Assault Rifle was (and is) my favorite weapon because it was an assault rifle, with a 60 round magazine. 'nuff said.

  • 11.18.2010 5:45 PM PDT

The best event in the Halo series was the grunt rebellion!

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Best weapon is the sniper rifle. It pwned!!!

  • 11.18.2010 6:00 PM PDT
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LAWFULGIR IS TELLING THE TRUTH THE SNIPER ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

  • 11.18.2010 7:49 PM PDT

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