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Posted by: xGCx Hierarchs
i dont care, i'm just tired of these weak assault rifles that we've been forced to use that doesn't have 60 -blam!-ing bullets! unlike the original AR in halo CE.
Do you know how heavy and cumbersome that magazine would be? In this new "real life" thing, almost EVERY 5.56x45mm assault rifle in the world uses 30 round box magazines (the exception being some variants of the FAMAS and the AUG HBAR). In the U.S., a typical soldier carries 210 rounds of ammunition. Got it? The larger 7.62x51mm NATO round is used in battle rifles such as the FN FAL, M14, G3, and FN SCAR-H. They feed from 20 round box magazines. The M14's magazine is 6.25 inches tall. Triple that, and you have an 18.75 inch tall magazine.
Sorry. Inaccuracies like that almost irritate me. The MA37, as it has been said before, is the army version of the MA5-. Judging by the picture, I think that earlier in the development, bungie was going to have the MA5C, but there would be some canonical inconsistencies there. Either: use the MA5B and get complaints about how it's not like the Halo 1 AR, or use the MA5C and get complaints on how it didn't exist yet. So, they took the third option: make a new assault that cannot have any canonical inconsistencies because it had never existed yet. Basically, it's an oversight.