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Subject: Don't get rid of dual wielding and don't bring back the pis...
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Poll: Dual Wield Should it stay or go?  [closed]
Stay! It Rulez!!:  39%
(21 Votes)
Get Rid Of It!! Ruins The Game!!:  43%
(23 Votes)
I Really Don't Care!!!:  19%
(10 Votes)
Total Votes: 54

I think dual wielding was a cool idea, it made gameplay more fun and I don't see how only noobs used it, i've used it many times and I don't consider my level 30 on snipers as me being a noob. Also the pistol was too powerful in Halo 1, bringing it back with that amount of power would be a bad idea, and i agree with the lad that said it would suck when u hear a guy with a rifle screaming to get a pistol, I mean seriously a pistol stronger than the smg? Plus all you got to do is dual wield the pistol with the plasma pistol and you got 2 shots and their dead!! Ok all u Halo 1 fans, your comments are not needed, Halo 2 was a far superior game in which they fixed many of halo 1's problems (except the assault rifle) and as far as story line I liked the fact that it ended as a cliffhanger it makes the wait for halo 3 so much more painful. Multi-player on halo 2 is brilliant aswell except from all the cheaters, but hey what can u do, theyre gonna continue to be there. MAPS
Lockout must stay, others would be zanzibar, turf, ivory tower, waterworks (please bring back to snipers), and backwash (fix the problem).
Ones i wouldn't miss would be coagulation, warlock, foundation and maybe elongation.
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Bring back the Halo 1 flags those were actually kinda cool. And lets have the fuel rod cannon, i mean we already have two sniper rifles y not two rockets. oh, oh oh, We MUST have a new spartan to meet up with...come on, make it happen, another, maybe even more than 1 new spartan. and frankie r u a tim or a billy...am a bhoy masel. and how bout sticking a Scotland flag on misterchief!!! mon mate.

  • 05.09.2006 8:40 PM PDT
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Ok, you have obviously no idea as to what makes a competetive game. The pistol was overpowered against people who couldn't strafe. Pistol is the perfect weapon, it is what MADE halo into halo. It was skillfull and balanced, however DW is not skillfull. It is just hold it in your enemy's general direction and pray. So please, stfu.

  • 05.10.2006 1:10 AM PDT

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No matter how much you post this -blam!- you will not get anywhere, it has been done a million times before, stop with these threads NOW!

  • 05.10.2006 1:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: Wakka RnC
Ok, you have obviously no idea as to what makes a competetive game. The pistol was overpowered against people who couldn't strafe. Pistol is the perfect weapon, it is what MADE halo into halo. It was skillfull and balanced, however DW is not skillfull. It is just hold it in your enemy's general direction and pray. So please, stfu.


Keep in mind that Master Chiefs shields are designed to deflect small calibur ballistics ammuntion, that is why all the Elites have one. And the fact that a pistol, the smallest ballistics weapon, could take out these shields in 2-3 shots makes no sense what so ever.

I do think a variation of the Halo: CE pistol should be brought back, it can keep the range and zoom but has got to lose it's power. Also, the pistol in Halo 2 is a "Magnum" meaning it should have more power then the original pistol, just not the range.

  • 05.10.2006 1:22 AM PDT

the Pistol was absolutely _not_ balanced! if the pistol isn't overpowered, then neither is any weapon in any other game. it's just BETTER than the other weapons. bungie did the right thing with the M6D in halo 2; a sidearm is not supposed to dominate like the M6C. and the pistol in halo 2 doesn't suck. it has a perfect role for grunts and as part of a dual combination... which is perfectly good for a pistol!

[Edited on 5/10/2006]

  • 05.10.2006 1:23 AM PDT

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Posted by: Anuthika
No matter how much you post this -blam!- you will not get anywhere, it has been done a million times before, stop with these threads NOW!


It's better to post them now, then wait till after the game ships and then have it changed agian... Sounds kinda familiar doesn't it? Didn't that happen with Halo 2? Or is that just the way I see it.

  • 05.10.2006 1:23 AM PDT

i agree that there could be a scoped pistol, as long as it's nowhere near as strong as the M6C. it would be nice, despite that i feel weird zooming in with a pistol.

  • 05.10.2006 1:25 AM PDT

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I'd agree, I wish they wouldn't have made it less powerful then it was originally at launch. Back then duel weilding H2's pistol worked perfectly.

[Edited on 5/10/2006]

  • 05.10.2006 1:26 AM PDT

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Posted by: Anuthika
No matter how much you post this -blam!- you will not get anywhere, it has been done a million times before, stop with these threads NOW!


It's better to post them now, then wait till after the game ships and then have it changed agian... Sounds kinda familiar doesn't it? Didn't that happen with Halo 2? Or is that just the way I see it.


These type of threads have been posted Since the DAY Halo 2 came out...and since Halo 3 was even first hinted at, there is far to many of them, this is enough!

  • 05.10.2006 1:28 AM PDT
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Ok all u Halo 1 fans, your comments are not needed, Halo 2 was a far superior game in which they fixed many of halo 1's problems



your joking right...?? Halo 1 was far more balanced than 2 your an idiot for that post and your poll is quite dumb also..

  • 05.10.2006 1:28 AM PDT
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the pistol mad Halo so don't ever disgrace it's honor you mad monkey but the dual weilding can stay if they fix the flaws and if I have to point them out go get a gun and blow your jewls off

  • 05.10.2006 1:32 AM PDT

bentley... what the heck are you talking about? exactly how is halo: CE _more_ balanced than halo 2, please?

  • 05.10.2006 1:32 AM PDT

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Posted by: Anuthika
No matter how much you post this -blam!- you will not get anywhere, it has been done a million times before, stop with these threads NOW!


It's better to post them now, then wait till after the game ships and then have it changed agian... Sounds kinda familiar doesn't it? Didn't that happen with Halo 2? Or is that just the way I see it.


These type of threads have been posted Since the DAY Halo 2 came out...and since Halo 3 was even first hinted at, there is far to many of them, this is enough!


If your sick of these types of treads, then why do you post and argue in them? We're trying to let them know what needs to be done to make the pistol's in the Halo series woek they way they should in comparison to the other weapons. We want to make the game as enjoyable as can be, thats why these kinds of threads are posted so many times. We don't want H3 to become another H2. That's why these threads are posted.

  • 05.10.2006 1:32 AM PDT

classic, let's see all these flaws.

  • 05.10.2006 1:33 AM PDT

and personally, i want halo 3 to do the same exact thing to the series that halo 2 did. i want another halo 2.

  • 05.10.2006 1:34 AM PDT

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Posted by: RJ91classic
the pistol mad Halo so don't ever disgrace it's honor you mad monkey but the dual weilding can stay if they fix the flaws and if I have to point them out go get a gun and blow your jewls off


I'm not even going to listen to you. You just started that Bungie.net ID, probably so you can flame peoples posts that need to heard and responded to by intelligent people. Not someone who thinks a single weapon "made" a game what it is.

  • 05.10.2006 1:35 AM PDT
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"Ok all u Halo 1 fans, your comments are not needed, Halo 2 was a far superior game in which they fixed many of halo 1's problems"



your joking right...?? Halo 1 was far more balanced than 2 your an idiot for that post and your poll is quite dumb also..

  • 05.10.2006 1:37 AM PDT
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C'mon now, dont start complainging about easily avoidable things, if you dont like dual weilding, then dont dual weild.

As for the pistol, i really dont care, i can kick ass with or without it.

And dear god please dont turn this into another Halo 1 vs Halo 2 thread, everyone get it through your heads, they are both awsome games.

[Edited on 5/10/2006]

  • 05.10.2006 1:37 AM PDT

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Posted by: Nick 29A
and personally, i want halo 3 to do the same exact thing to the series that halo 2 did. i want another halo 2.


As do I, but with Halo: CE's shotgun. The H2 shotgun was the only that really disappionted me. I was fine with everthing else, the weapons, the story, the physics, everything but the shotgun.

  • 05.10.2006 1:38 AM PDT
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I'll just keep reposting


This is the worst post ever your garbadge no real halo player like Dual Wielding

  • 05.10.2006 1:40 AM PDT
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You guys have no idea what makes a competetive game, do you? The M6C was powerful, but it took ALOT of skill. The reason Halo 1 multiplayer was far superior to Halo 2 was alot of different things. First of all the pistol, it took alot of skill to use and when mastered it was possibly the best weapon in the game, while for noobs it was crap. When you spawn with a difficult to use, but good weapon, the game is balanced. Everyone can use a BR, not everyone can use the pistol properly, actually very few can. Balanced means that the most skillfull and smart person wins, not whoever is lucky with spawning next to a powerweapon. The M6C, when hitting all 3 shots, could kill a person with a rocket launcher before that rocket reached you. This is very hard to do, but is very good for the gameplay. In h2 however, you are as good as dead in the same scenario.

And for you who comment on the fact that it is a pistol and it powerful. I don't care about the cosmetics, make it look like a damn M4 if you want to, the point is that I am looking for a weapon with the same QUALITIES, the BR tried to immitate the pistol, but it's rate of fire and ammount of skill needed just didn't make it good enough.

  • 05.10.2006 1:40 AM PDT

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Posted by: Dragon X
C'mon now, dont start complainging about easily avoidable things, if you dont like dual weilding, then dont dual weild.

As for the pistol, i really dont care, i can kick ass with or without it.

And dear god please dont turn this into another Halo 1 vs Halo 2 thread, everyone get it through your heads, they are both awsome games.


Yes, both Halo: CE and H2 are awsome games in their own right. And I don't believe we want it to be a Halo: CE vs H2 thread, I'm trying to compare and contrast between to the two. H3 should be a balance of both Halo: CE and H2, with the updated technology of course.

  • 05.10.2006 1:43 AM PDT

we have a better idea of multiplayer balancing than you do, dude. the M6C was not hard to use, and even if it were, you're not supposed to reward skilled players by making them unstoppable. the whole point of a weapon being unbalanced is that skilled players are NOT much better than unskilled players, and that wasn't the case with the M6C. i don't know if you played with your parents or people with webbed fingers or something, but the crappy people i played with were just fine with halo 1's pistol.

  • 05.10.2006 1:45 AM PDT

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Posted by: Wakka RnC
You guys have no idea what makes a competetive game, do you? The M6C was powerful, but it took ALOT of skill. The reason Halo 1 multiplayer was far superior to Halo 2 was alot of different things. First of all the pistol, it took alot of skill to use and when mastered it was possibly the best weapon in the game, while for noobs it was crap. When you spawn with a difficult to use, but good weapon, the game is balanced. Everyone can use a BR, not everyone can use the pistol properly, actually very few can. Balanced means that the most skillfull and smart person wins, not whoever is lucky with spawning next to a powerweapon. The M6C, when hitting all 3 shots, could kill a person with a rocket launcher before that rocket reached you. This is very hard to do, but is very good for the gameplay. In h2 however, you are as good as dead in the same scenario.

And for you who comment on the fact that it is a pistol and it powerful. I don't care about the cosmetics, make it look like a damn M4 if you want to, the point is that I am looking for a weapon with the same QUALITIES, the BR tried to immitate the pistol, but it's rate of fire and ammount of skill needed just didn't make it good enough.


First and foremost, it is a pistol. How could a pistol kill, let alone do much damage to, a Spartan in the latest MJOLNIR armor, equipped with an energy shield designed to stop the kind of ammunition the pistol uses. The kind of "QUALITIES" your looking for can't be done in a pistol.

  • 05.10.2006 1:52 AM PDT
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Cant we all just talk about all the awsome things we want in the game without making notes that its better than this in Halo 1 or Halo 2, cause when you start comparing, people come to flame you for doing so.

Just say i want this because such and such... but dont compare, please lets keep these forums clean.

I dont want to have to stay away from the forums because of constant ramblings.

  • 05.10.2006 1:56 AM PDT

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