- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Zombone
So you'll still get your little scope and quick headshot kills, except you'll be doing it with a rifle instead of a pistol (which really makes more sense).
I don't know if it does make more sense. I'm kind of thinking out loud so bare with me. *Quick disclaimer--I say that in reference to the old assualt machine gun, not the Halo 2 rifle.*
It's however many years in the future, so a pistol is going to be much more powerful than it is right now. (But armour will be as well, so that's kind of a moot point). But when you play without shields it works a little better. Anyway, it is much easier to get a head shot with a pistol rather than an AK-47 or any other scopeless machine gun. MC's machine gun is fully automatic and it doesn't make sense that you would get a one shot kill to the head with it. Come up behind someone at close range though, and hold down the trigger and see what happens. They die much quicker than the pistol with rapid fire body shots. It's the head shot that people use the pistol for...and you don't get long range head shots with an AK-47.
But it does make more sense with halo 2 cuz chief isn't packing a machine gun. He is packing a converted assualt rifle with long range scope thinga maggig. I don't know exactly what it is, but it makes more sense in that light.
Just a thought