- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Listen, I was one of the best people with the pistol amongst my friends in Halo CE...and I was all for mostly scrapping it for Halo 2 for balance purposes. Then I realized the ugly truth...without the pistol, the sniper and rocket absolutely DOMINATED. I mean, they were the power weapons in Halo CE, but you had to know how to use them to be REALLY good at them. Headshots were significantly harder and there was no vehicle tracking for rockets.
The pistol was somehow able to help balance out those weapons far more effectively than the current weapon setup Halo 2 uses. It is for that reason alone that I think a "old pistol-like" weapon couldn't hurt Halo 3, and certainly could really help Bungie's apparent baby, balance.