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Subject: Gun in the Halo 4 teaser...

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

So I noticed everyone keeps calling it a Pistol but trust me it's not. Unless they made a new type of Pistol that is. To me it looks like some kind of small Grenade Launcher or something. You decide......

The Gun

  • 06.08.2011 1:37 PM PDT

Hate to say it but.


duh

  • 06.08.2011 1:39 PM PDT

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."


Posted by: Docterweegee
Hate to say it but.


duh
Duh what? All most everyone I've talked to thinks it's a Pistol. Plus I haven't seen anyone give a good close up of it, so I figured I would.

  • 06.08.2011 1:41 PM PDT
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op, you don't know what "pistol" means, it is a pistol, just not the m6 series pistol you are used to.


it resembles the m7 grenade launcher from ww2, except it is housed on a pistol instead of your standard m1 garand.

  • 06.08.2011 1:42 PM PDT

Every one I talked to know that it is a grenade launcher.

  • 06.08.2011 1:43 PM PDT

"The measure of a man is what he does with power"-Plato

In 'First Strike' Fred found a pistol that fired a huge slug.

The gun in the Halo 4 teaser seems very similar.

  • 06.08.2011 1:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: II Cipher
In 'First Strike' Fred found a pistol that fired a huge slug.

The gun in the Halo 4 teaser seems very similar.



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a huge slug is not a 6 inch bloody grenade, they were talking about the m6 magnum from halo 2, it shot a large slug (some sort of magnum round) instead of firing the smaller explosive pojectile from halo 1's pistol.

  • 06.08.2011 1:46 PM PDT

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."


Posted by: II Cipher
In 'First Strike' Fred found a pistol that fired a huge slug.

The gun in the Halo 4 teaser seems very similar.
Yeah I'm assuming it's something in the Lore or at least based in the Lore. It's good to notice that Chief grabs it from the area instead of already having it.

  • 06.08.2011 1:47 PM PDT

-Seriously, who uses a signature?

i thought i saw a br float past him in the room where he grabs the nade launcher.

  • 06.08.2011 2:30 PM PDT
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People who think it is a pistol must be stupid. Pistols don't shoot out grenades to blow up stuff, for Master Chief clearly blew up the door in front of him with the mini grenade launcher.

  • 06.08.2011 2:33 PM PDT

http://www.halo-forum.com

It's clearly not a pistol, but a small RPG launcher.

  • 06.08.2011 2:34 PM PDT
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SC = Supreme Commander/Supreme Canadian.

De Facto leader of the military of the APE (Allied Planets Empire).

Coup = Admiral Asskicker, ZPM hive ship

Posted by: Slamtastic50mg
i thought i saw a br float past him in the room where he grabs the nade launcher.

MLG fans are now pissed that MC didn't grab the BR instead.

  • 06.08.2011 2:49 PM PDT

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Not really. Your mom is over quite enough to make my fears mute.
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Being alone.
You're a mod, you should be used to that.


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Posted by: Slamtastic50mg
i thought i saw a br float past him in the room where he grabs the nade launcher.

MLG fans are now pissed that MC didn't grab the BR instead.
Hahahahhahhahaha, that actually made me laugh out loud, if you get his post it shows how immature the halo community is.

  • 06.08.2011 2:59 PM PDT
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I was thinking it was some kind of emergency flare gun. Large explosive to draw attention to yourself if drifting in space.

At close range it could be powerful enough to blast through a door.

  • 06.08.2011 3:21 PM PDT
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i am laughing at every idiot here who keeps saying it is not a pistol.


it is not the m6 series pistols that were used in the halo games, but it is still a pistol.
pis-tol
[pis-tl] Show IPA noun, verb, -toled, -tol ing or ( especially British ) -tolled, -tol ling.
noun
1.
a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.


it is short, it is held and fired with only one hand, it is a pistol.


the basis of the weapon looks to be taken from the m7 grenade launcher attachment from the m1 garand, but instead of being on a rifle, it is on a stand alone system, one which still fires a externally attached grenade, but not with a blank rifle round like the m7, but rather some sort of hydraulic or Pneumatic system, as the pistol still requires a "re-cocking" in addition to reloading a grenade on the end.

  • 06.08.2011 4:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: Atom Alchemist
i am laughing at every idiot here who keeps saying it is not a pistol.


it is not the m6 series pistols that were used in the halo games, but it is still a pistol.
pis-tol
[pis-tl] Show IPA noun, verb, -toled, -tol ing or ( especially British ) -tolled, -tol ling.
noun
1.
a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.


it is short, it is held and fired with only one hand, it is a pistol.


the basis of the weapon looks to be taken from the m7 grenade launcher attachment from the m1 garand, but instead of being on a rifle, it is on a stand alone system, one which still fires a externally attached grenade, but not with a blank rifle round like the m7, but rather some sort of hydraulic or Pneumatic system, as the pistol still requires a "re-cocking" in addition to reloading a grenade on the end.


I have to disagree. If you had a shotgun the size of a pistol, nobody would call it a "pistol". Pistols fire pistol rounds.

That being said, if you have seen that thread with supposed leaked information about Halo 4, the game could feature an on the fly weapon modifying system. That's what I think the grenade launching pistol is supposed to show and hint at. It may have originally been a pistol, but because of this new gameplay element, has been modified to instead fire 40mm grenades. There's a flaw in that idea, though. If the grenade launcher in the trailer is indeed an example of on-the-fly field modification of weapons, it's really weird to think that a slide-operating pistol that fires pistol-caliber ammunition can be changed to now be a breaking 40mm launcher.

  • 06.08.2011 4:34 PM PDT
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their is now such thing as a "pistol" round, look at the obrez pistol, this was a bolt action pistol that fired the 7.62x54r round, that round is bigger the the 7.62 nato round. yet still it was a pistol. pistols are defined by their handling, and size, not by what caliber round they fire.

anyways, it could be true that it is a modification on the m6 series weapons, but that really doesn't matter, as the weapon as seen, is in fact still a pistol.


also, the weapon is not a break action launcher, as you can see reloading the weapon requires two actions, first, the weapon itself must be recocked,(after firing the first grenade, MC slam down on the weapon again, this is the recocking) then after catching himself, mc pulls a grenade out of his hammer space and attaches it to a rod at the end of the weapon, therefor reloading it. these means the grenade is muzzle fired, which like i said earlier is the same design as the m7 grenade launcher on the m1 garand during ww2.

also, in terms of how one the fly modification of that is very simple, the grenade holding rod would be screwed onto the end of the barrel, and a blank cartridge would be loaded, allowing a loaded grenade to be propelled by the gasses from firing the blank.


and also, have you ever heard of the Taurus Judge or the Mil thunder 5 those shoot shotgun rounds, yet they are pistols.
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Posted by: Atom Alchemist
i am laughing at every idiot here who keeps saying it is not a pistol.


it is not the m6 series pistols that were used in the halo games, but it is still a pistol.
pis-tol
[pis-tl] Show IPA noun, verb, -toled, -tol ing or ( especially British ) -tolled, -tol ling.
noun
1.
a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.


it is short, it is held and fired with only one hand, it is a pistol.


the basis of the weapon looks to be taken from the m7 grenade launcher attachment from the m1 garand, but instead of being on a rifle, it is on a stand alone system, one which still fires a externally attached grenade, but not with a blank rifle round like the m7, but rather some sort of hydraulic or Pneumatic system, as the pistol still requires a "re-cocking" in addition to reloading a grenade on the end.


I have to disagree. If you had a shotgun the size of a pistol, nobody would call it a "pistol". Pistols fire pistol rounds.

That being said, if you have seen that thread with supposed leaked information about Halo 4, the game could feature an on the fly weapon modifying system. That's what I think the grenade launching pistol is supposed to show and hint at. It may have originally been a pistol, but because of this new gameplay element, has been modified to instead fire 40mm grenades. There's a flaw in that idea, though. If the grenade launcher in the trailer is indeed an example of on-the-fly field modification of weapons, it's really weird to think that a slide-operating pistol that fires pistol-caliber ammunition can be changed to now be a breaking 40mm launcher.


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  • 06.08.2011 4:50 PM PDT
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Looked like a small grenade launcher to me.

  • 06.08.2011 5:38 PM PDT

Maybe the only part that resembles the pistol is the frame. It looks like the top half consists of a stock and the grenade housing. What actually launches it is beyond me. Maybe pressurized or electric

  • 06.08.2011 5:53 PM PDT

I think its like a rifle grenade, just on a pistol.

  • 06.08.2011 6:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: TheIntergalactic
I think its like a rifle grenade, just on a pistol.


this, it is not the m6 series pistol from the games, but it is A muzzle grenade firing pistol none the less.

  • 06.08.2011 7:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: x Sedated x
Maybe the only part that resembles the pistol is the frame. It looks like the top half consists of a stock and the grenade housing. What actually launches it is beyond me. Maybe pressurized or electric


i already theorized on the firing mechanism in my long earlier post. the fact that MC slammed it shut when recocking may mean its a hydraulic of pneumatic mechanism.

  • 06.08.2011 7:02 PM PDT
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and the best don't mess with the rest.

I thought it was a form of flare gun. It might have blown out of an emergency locker or something.

  • 06.08.2011 7:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dustfinger
I thought it was a form of flare gun. It might have blown out of an emergency locker or something.


meh, that is one huge flare then, considering it was bigger than spartans armoured fist.

  • 06.08.2011 7:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dustfinger
I thought it was a form of flare gun. It might have blown out of an emergency locker or something.


meh, that is one huge flare then, considering it was bigger than spartans armoured fist.
Anti-Vehicle flare?

  • 06.08.2011 7:11 PM PDT

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