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Subject: Was that an Assault Rifle?
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New weapons would be great!!! But who would have made them?If the gap between Halo 2 and 3 is small, and its looking that way, Bungie must have realised that its unlikely that the humans or covenant could design new weapons while fighting a giant 4 way war (flood, elites,brutes,humans).

  • 05.10.2006 2:45 AM PDT

Umm peabuts it was 3 weeks at all. Halo finished like a couple of months BEFORE Halo 2 even started, Halo 3 looks like its only about a week after or so, probably not even that.

Alot of frigging imbeciles on here now. I used to go on here alot last year and the amount of immature twats has SKY rocketed. Okay lets get this straight; that weapon MC is holding DOES look like an Assult Rifle but it is NOT an M5A1 Assault Rifle. It looks like either a new variant of rifle or just the Battle Rifle and Assault Rifle crossed. Bungie learnt from their mistakes when making Halo 1 and 2, stop -blam!-ing and get over it.. I swear so many of you guys sook these days. Its rediculous. Grow up -_-

  • 05.10.2006 2:46 AM PDT

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Umm peabuts it was 3 weeks at all. Halo finished like a couple of months BEFORE Halo 2 even started, Halo 3 looks like its only about a week after or so, probably not even that.

Alot of frigging imbeciles on here now. I used to go on here alot last year and the amount of immature twats has SKY rocketed. Okay lets get this straight; that weapon MC is holding DOES look like an Assult Rifle but it is NOT an M5A1 Assault Rifle. It looks like either a new variant of rifle or just the Battle Rifle and Assault Rifle crossed. Bungie learnt from their mistakes when making Halo 1 and 2, stop -blam!-ing and get over it.. I swear so many of you guys sook these days. Its rediculous. Grow up -_-


Finally, a sane person.

  • 05.10.2006 2:50 AM PDT
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i definately think that was an assault rifle. And just because it doesn't look exactly like the one from the first halo doesn't mean that it isn't the good old trust AR. first, it was originally on the xbox and this is for the 360. second, there could be a number of different versions of it, just like there are different versions real world weapons as well as in the halo: fall of reach novel.

besides, halo 3 needs something like the AR. there was nothing in halo 2 like the AR, nothing with that much ammo (which was perfect for suppressing fire), and nothing that fit as the mainstay weapon for the unsc forces (like our m-16).

  • 05.10.2006 2:56 AM PDT
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let me clear a few things up will i?

1. YES THAT WAS A HALO 1 ASSAULT RIFLE.

2. as the entire span of the 3 games is about 2 months (not sure about the space between halo 1 and 2 can someone check this up please?) and the battle rifle has just been issued, it would be safe to say that there are still quite alot of old assault rifles left. you cant reequip an entire army of several billion (this is an intergalactic war right?) overnight right?
3 so its safe to say that both the assault rifle and battle rifle will be in halo 3

not that its a bad thing mind you, sure the battle rifle is better than the AR in almost every way, apart from one, it didnt look nearly as cool.

the AR was big, bulky and sounded meaty but the biggest asset of the original AR was THE MUZZLE FLASH! OH MY GOD! THE MUZZLE FLASH WAS ONE OF THE REASONS I BOUGHT HALO (and xbox along with it) IN THE FIRST PLACE! back in 2002 when choosing my next console in the shop and coming so close to buying a ps2 because my friends had it, but then turning to see this poster of a huge, green armoured clad warrior weilding this massive gun with an insane muzzle flash blasting hundreds of bullets into some unfortunate foe sealed my decision on what game (and what console) i was going to have next.

bungie, if you put the AR back into the game because of my suggestion in my big "WHAT DO YOU WANT IN HALO 3" thread back in 2004, i thank you for that.

[Edited on 5/10/2006]

  • 05.10.2006 2:56 AM PDT

so it could be like the BR just without a scope then... hmm would that totally ruin the game? the great thing about halo 1 is you had a short range weapon (AR) midrange weapon (pistol) then long range (snipor). untill they fixed the battle riffle in halo 2 it wasnt that fun to use it in open maps like coagulation, were a midrange weapon is the most useful. so with no BR and no pistol ( ive faced the facts on that one... it was hard, but now i know the pistol is long gone) then maybe there will be a new midrange weapon for halo 3.

[Edited on 5/10/2006]

  • 05.10.2006 2:56 AM PDT

Wakka Wakka Wump!
No I freaking told you to cut the hose off, if i told to pull it off then i would have said pull it off. Now you broke the AC you dumb ass.
Me to my mother.

it may the MA2B from the ODSTs in the books,that and its in africa,whats in africa, rebels,what do rebels have, mixed matched weapons.

  • 05.10.2006 2:57 AM PDT
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Silenced Assault Rifle perhaps? That would explain the longer muzzel

I'd like it if you had a bit more of a sneeking option (but not overboard)

  • 05.10.2006 3:09 AM PDT

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Thats not a silencer. It's a standard style barrel/muzzle for rifles. If it is the AR, it could've been equipped with a BR style barrel/muzzel to improve it's accuracy, which has already been said by someone.

  • 05.10.2006 3:15 AM PDT

Yes, but no. It did look like the classic MA5b assault rifle, but it probably isnt. I think that it is an entirely new weapon: The Combat rifle (makes sense, no?). As someone previously said, there are probably a lot still lying around, but it is outdated...by three months. And, look at the difference three months can make. Say that H3 was delayed by three months, wouldn't that kill you? What about the whole 3 month uproar about there not being enough 360's? that effected the world, didn't it?

Now, it isn't a MA2b, as previously stated, because they are described as not being that...bulky. It is probably a mixed version of the AR and the BR to = the CR.

  • 05.10.2006 3:21 AM PDT

Wakka Wakka Wump!
No I freaking told you to cut the hose off, if i told to pull it off then i would have said pull it off. Now you broke the AC you dumb ass.
Me to my mother.

REBELS PEOPLE!!

  • 05.10.2006 3:22 AM PDT
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I beleive it was a form of the AR (I didn't notice a difference but I'll go with it anyway) and I'm glad coz the smg is just plain -blam!-. As for people who want to whinge, I'll say the same thing that I said to people who whinged about the pistol changing, WHY MAKE A NEW GAME IF IT'S GOING TO BE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE PREVIOUS ONE. For those of you who say, but other weapons could change, be honest, you wouldn't use them, if you did you wouldn't whinge so much.

  • 05.10.2006 3:23 AM PDT
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it had to be an AR because think about it its african. and do crazy african rebels use brand new modern wepons? nope they use cold war era AK-47's and this prolly means that chief just picked up an Ar from some african base and went on his way......maybe Zansabar

  • 05.10.2006 3:29 AM PDT

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it had to be an AR because think about it its african. and do crazy african rebels use brand new modern wepons? nope they use cold war era AK-47's and this prolly means that chief just picked up an Ar from some african base and went on his way......maybe Zansabar


Zanzibar......and no.....just no

  • 05.10.2006 3:32 AM PDT

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No I freaking told you to cut the hose off, if i told to pull it off then i would have said pull it off. Now you broke the AC you dumb ass.
Me to my mother.

wat are u saying no for?
there were rebels back then.the MC was actually designed to take them out but the war started

  • 05.10.2006 3:35 AM PDT

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He does have a point. The BR was just issued, and they couldn't issue a new weapon to an intergalactic military. And I also doubt that african rebels would have the newest weapon of the military in mass quantities.

  • 05.10.2006 3:36 AM PDT

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The Rebels he stopped where in an asteroid feild.

  • 05.10.2006 3:37 AM PDT
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Time to start saving up, I said I would buy Halo 3 if MC wasn't holding a battlerifle or an smg(or 2 shudders). Infact I even said specifically that if he's holding an AR I'd be excited about Halo 3, and well good job Bungie on that one.... But still H1>H2, but let's hope Halo 3 ends all this with H3=H1+H2, as I at least know it will be better than 2 due to MC's and Bungies choice of weapons in the trailer.

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  • 05.10.2006 3:38 AM PDT

Wakka Wakka Wump!
No I freaking told you to cut the hose off, if i told to pull it off then i would have said pull it off. Now you broke the AC you dumb ass.
Me to my mother.

and that was his first and final rebel eradication mission

  • 05.10.2006 3:39 AM PDT

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and that was his first and final rebel eradication mission

Asteroid belt, not africa? where the hell are you people getting african rebels......there where NEVER african rebels in the books or the games.

  • 05.10.2006 3:40 AM PDT
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Looks like a assault rifle to me look almost like the one in Halo: CE no way its a battle rifle its a assault rifle for sure so im happy with that !

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Look at the screen on it when he brings it down. The mini-HUD in the gun has the same ammo counter, the same star-reference (if you don't know how that works then go to the library and get the books...some books on weapons technology might help you too) and all in all, I believe it looks exactly like the MA5Bs from Halo 1, although maybe that was all the MC could get his hands on or that's all he had any ammo left for. Who knows? Maybe they just used it for the render to get us talking about this for very little reason. I agree with the person who like me boycotted the discussions for a while. You guys are all noobs.

  • 05.10.2006 3:43 AM PDT

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and that was his first and final rebel eradication mission

Asteroid belt, not africa? where the hell are you people getting african rebels......there where NEVER african rebels in the books or the games.


Doesn't mean there aren't any African Rebels either.

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Except those who know how amazing the pistol in Halo 1 was.

  • 05.10.2006 3:44 AM PDT
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I think it would be nice to have a variation of the assault rifle back... But not the pistol, for gods sake it could kill you in four shots it was incredably accurate and it had a scope. The techs in Halo had a stronger weapon then the Marines! Maybe we'll see another pistol varient like an UZI or something...

  • 05.10.2006 3:44 AM PDT