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Subject: Which game had your favorite assault rifle?

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MA37

  • 12.26.2011 12:54 PM PDT


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Posted by: HundredJono
Halo CE AR

You know, the AR that actually killed things.

  • 12.26.2011 1:16 PM PDT
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Well spank my balls and call me Santa, it's Easter already!

Reach's

  • 12.26.2011 2:48 PM PDT

Lets Boogie

The MA37 (Reach AR) and MA5C (halo 3 AR) are inferior to the MA5B.

The MA5B is the best, followed by the MA5C, and then the MA37.

Here is my reasoning. What i disliked about the MA5C was its small mag. If you were lucky, you could kill 2 shielded guys, with 1 mag, but that was rare. Almost every time i killed 1 man with it, i almost always had to reload. While in Halo 1, a skilled player could kill 3 fully shielded guys with 1 mag. Sure it was more accurate, and did more damage then the MA5B, but that doesn't really help a whole lot with such a shallow mag.

Besides, the MA5B was decant in accuracy, if you knew how to burst fire. Because of its 60 round mag, you were able to waste more ammo just on giving covering fire to teammates. You could lay down covering fire for your teammates, while keeping enough ammo in the mag to kill a guy. There were drawbacks of course, the MA5B is slower to reload then the other AR's, but that was fine.

The 60 round mag was also great for taking out banshees, and the flood, and the covenant. With using burst fire, i could kill several grunts with just 1 mag, which i can't with the halo 3 and reach AR. Im really glad i didn't have to use a 32 round mag to fight the flood in halo 1.

The MA37 was even downgraded more so then the MA5C. Sure the gun was a little bit more accurate then the MA5C in burst fire, but also its bullets did less damage, and the gun shot at a slower rate. This is not very effective in close quarter combat. Since it did less damage then the MA5C, you COULD NOT kill 2 shielded guys with 1 mag, know matter how slow you shot, which you could do hypothetically with the MA5C. If it would have been smart for bungie to give the MA37 more rounds then just 32, because of its disadvantages listed earlier.

It seems after each halo game, the AR just gets worst. I hope we get a better AR in Halo 4, i would even settle for the return of the MA5C, which although was not as good as the MA5B, was better then the Reach AR. It would also make sense to have that weapon, because there could be some left on the Forward Unto Dawn.

  • 12.26.2011 3:18 PM PDT

*reminisces when the Bungie/Halo community wasn't made up of CoD kids*
*sighs*
*activates time-machine and sets the clock back to Nov. 9, 2004*
glory days here I come..
*vanishes*

Reach AR. Great sound effects, nice design and balanced, unlike the Halo 3 AR.

  • 12.26.2011 3:50 PM PDT

Posted by: HundredJono
Halo CE AR

You know, the AR that actually killed things.

This.

  • 12.26.2011 4:17 PM PDT

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