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Subject: Was that an Assault Rifle?
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pistol= overpowered

  • 05.10.2006 7:37 AM PDT
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It would be funny if it were a CR... Combat Rifle or something...(Lol, A,B,C). I just watched the trailer, and it looked exactly like the AR, except with more X360 shininess. I wouldn't be bothered if dual-weilding was removed, and the pistol added; just please, nerf it some.

I'm interested in seeing where this game goes :D

  • 05.10.2006 7:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: Anuthika
No it is not the AR, it looks more like a cross of BR and AR, the AR will not come back, it is an outdated human weapon.


Maybe the fact that this spartin is using it is proof that it is not master chief. Maybe it's one of those spartins still unacounted for, and he is still using old Halo 1 weapons and armor system. Just a thought.

  • 05.10.2006 7:53 AM PDT
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no thats a mark 6 suit
what if they upgraded the ma5b with a longer muzzle for medium range
battle rifle long range
and smgs short range

  • 05.10.2006 7:59 AM PDT
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What if the Battle Rifle stock (out-of-stock) was empty (used too much in battles) and now somehow you got a by-the-only-survivors updated Assault Rifle? (ok, scrap that by-the-only-survivors part)

Ah.. Too much to discuss about, well, probably what Bungie wants, aye? :P

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  • 05.10.2006 8:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: mvenus
pistol= overpowered


Not exactly. Since everyone starts out with the pistol, it's not exactly the "over-powered" weapon of the map, such as the sword in Halo 2.

In Halo and Halo PC, I always used the Assault Rifle. It was my baby, it was my life, it was my gun. I occasionaly used the pistol at medium-long range or as a finisher when my Assault Rifle needed to reload.

I still wouldn't want the pistol back. Never in a million years.

  • 05.10.2006 8:03 AM PDT
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I wouldn't say the sword is over-powered, as it has a shortcoming: range. The sword can only be used at close range, so why would I get so close to the enemy that i would get killed?

I didn't like the assault rifle, it was pretty useful against the flood (although the shotgun was better) but on any other level, i almost always swapped it for a plasma pistol/rifle. The pistol was overpowered in Halo:CE, i wouldn't want i back because of that. The stopping power could be increased a bit.. Try shooting headshots with a pistol in Halo 2 (full shields). It takes 13 bullets. Useless. The pistol i pretty useful when dual-wielded with a plasma pistol, though.

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  • 05.10.2006 8:39 AM PDT
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Well. After Earth being deloated, maybe all the good armorys were hit, Time to take up old arms once again. Using both H1 and H2 as well as new H3 weapons would be awesome!

  • 05.10.2006 8:40 AM PDT
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Wouldn't there be a bit too many weapons then...?

  • 05.10.2006 8:42 AM PDT
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Fludbud.... THAT IS NOT THE HALO 1 AR!!!!!..... that goes for everyone. it may be a different version of an AR or maybe they made some adjustments to it. But the H1 AR did not have a barrel like that.

  • 05.10.2006 8:47 AM PDT
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I dont know what difficulty you played Halo: CE on but the Pistol did not kill in 1 headshot on legendary.

  • 05.10.2006 8:49 AM PDT
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yea unfortunantley it was n assault rifle...how i dread it i mean cmon halos gonna be like duke nukem now with it back i liked the long range kills with the br watching your opponent dance around looking for you when you hiding somewere gunning them down you cant get that same feeling with the assault rifle...

  • 05.10.2006 8:51 AM PDT
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I think its simply an modified or different era AR.
In real life you've got M16 Vietnam version, then M16A1, then A2, etc
Youve got the L85A1 then A2.
Think about it... armies aren't ALL armed with the same things, you've got supply issues, and getting rid of the old stuff takes time, blah blah blah.
Commander Keyes ship is a fairly new one, with a full compliment of brand new gear and soldiers, and as a result are kitted out the best they can be.
And look at the armour, its Tan coloured. Unless this trailer is from slightly later on in Halo 3, it cant be MC as he hadn't had time to change... unless somehow they've incorporated multicam into the armour (j/k)

  • 05.10.2006 8:54 AM PDT
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one word.. uhm.. i do NOT suck at all.. and your gai

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  • 05.10.2006 9:08 AM PDT
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Actually, this thread was started earlier

  • 05.10.2006 9:11 AM PDT

Posted by: Johnny Orcface
I just hope the AR is more accurate in Halo 3 than it was in Halo 1.

The AR in Halo 1 was a bullet hose.


You had to manually burst fire it by feathering the trigger ... that made it deadly as h3||.

  • 05.10.2006 9:20 AM PDT
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It looked like a mix of the Assault Rifle and the Battle Rifle...it had the AR's body, but the nozel was of the BR.

  • 05.10.2006 9:28 AM PDT
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YOU know I have read a lot of the posts on this topic and i just don't get why you people cannot understand that was assualt rifle. The only difference I saw was that it had a longer muzzle which was probably meant to help the gun be more accurate as someone has stated. So why do you people argue over something that shows the MC CARRYING THE ASSUALT RIFLE?

  • 05.10.2006 9:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: A570NEJE77Y
p.s. the new tool album IS cool so you should go buy it.


Yes it is... I go to Memorial Hall tomorrow for their show in Kansas City... gonna rock the house. Ya know... Tool should participate in a game with fame this year.

Fact is the assault rife is in there for SOME reason... the question is what?

I think we'll see it in the game but I wouldn’t think it would be any kind of primary weapon.

At this point we are doing exactly what Bungie wants.... debating and debating and wondering thread after thread... what the hell was he holding that AR for???

  • 05.10.2006 9:39 AM PDT
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ok i just froze the frame at about 1:01 and i have a perfect sideshot of the gun...it is an MA5B Assault Rifle but upgrdaed..its barrel is extended about another 2 to 3 unches and its design varies from the edges to the grips and the whole gun in general..i pulled up the version of the MA5B Assualt Rifle in a google search here at : http://www.levels4you.com/cdc/halo/rifle.jpg

and as u can see from the freeze frame if u stop it at the right time and the other picture of the assualt rifle you see the differences but that is probably to the visual upgrades thanks to the XBOX 360 but all around i would have to say its the MA5B Assualt Rifle..and if u want to be very detailed maybe its the MA6B Assualt Rifle....o and by the way, only the spartans were supposed to have the Battle Rifles because they were test weapons left on Reach and they had no guns so Doctor Halsey let them go to the weapons cache to get the new test weapons...i dont c how the battle rifle was put into production on Earth yet a couple weeks later from Reach being destroyed.............the MA5B is still in production too DUH!!

  • 05.10.2006 9:46 AM PDT