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Subject: no... please no... NOT THE OLD ASSAULT RIFLE!!!!!!!!

I can't believe these chumps, they whine about wanting the weapons to be new and then in the same damn post whine that the weapons from halo 2 aren't there.

  • 05.10.2006 4:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: D223
Shutup and go play Halo1.


Who is that actually directed to? What is wrong with the original Halo? Both Halo and Halo 2 were great games, what are you complaining about?

  • 05.10.2006 4:02 PM PDT
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yay finally the assalt riffle A.K.A. best wepon in the first halo.

  • 05.10.2006 4:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: prophate
For the sake of us all. Kill yourself.


I'm with this guy.

Personally I've been waiting for this day since Halo 2 came out also. Only I've been waiting for them to bring back the old weapons that made this series popular in the first place.

  • 05.10.2006 4:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: D223
Shutup and go play Halo1.


Good point, I have to go train with the AR.

  • 05.10.2006 4:06 PM PDT
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Sigh.
Let's point out a few things to the fourteen year olds in the crowd:

First: You know NOTHING of the dynamics of the game yet, that includes the specifications, usefulness, power, etc of ANY or ALL weapons. Period.

Second: The Assault rifle never 'went away'. Bungie chose not to include it in the last game. Think about this using common sense and logic for a 5 second period in your life; if the Assault Rife was there before it will still be there now. We're talking about a time span of less than a year. No Military, no matter how great can produce new, better, more powerful weapons to EVERY soldier that quickly. Thus, there are bound to be millions laying around in waste somewhere, along with Baffle Rifles, Sub-machine guns (which were amazing by the way), pistols, etc, etc.

Lastly: Do me, the moderators, and all forum readers a favor. Shut. up. Have a nice day :)

  • 05.10.2006 4:10 PM PDT
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call me crazy but...id really love to see the plasma pistol revert back to h1 version whewre in the right hands it could be a damage dealing machine...same with the plasma rifle ( hell in the books it was capable of burning a hole straight through a marine)

  • 05.10.2006 4:12 PM PDT
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HALO III better have the good old Battle Rifle(BR).....
It better contain the best maps ever, like Lockout,,Relic,, and Ascension, oh and Warlock too!!

  • 05.10.2006 4:18 PM PDT
Subject: no... please no... NOT THE OLD ASSAULT RIFLE!!!!!!!!
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The old AR was one of the worst weapons in the game..... multiplayer and single player wise. Its down there with the needler. If you ever actually played the game on legendary, you know the AR was close to useless against elites. In multiplayer, shotgun was better for close range combat and it just got absolutely owned by the pistol at any other range. Dont tell me that "if you have skill you can kill stuff with the AR". Almost every other weapon is more effective at any skill level. But I still prefer it over the smg though. And I dont oppose them bringing it back as i will simply not use it.

[Edited on 5/10/2006]

  • 05.10.2006 4:19 PM PDT
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Lol....only newbs hate the AR. I totally pwn with it.


But seriously....stop -blam!-ing, the goddamn game just got announced

  • 05.10.2006 4:22 PM PDT

"You have been measured, you have been weighed: And you have been found lacking."

In All honestly... the AR was without a doubt the most inacurate weapon ever created. Unless this AR is modified to switch between single shot, 3 round burst, and full auto at 80% accuracy, Then it is not worth it.

Of course you know Bungie's Motto... They make games they like to play...

  • 05.10.2006 4:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: prophate
For the sake of us all. Kill yourself.


I'm with this guy.

Personally I've been waiting for this day since Halo 2 came out also. Only I've been waiting for them to bring back the old weapons that made this series popular in the first place.


truth

  • 05.10.2006 4:23 PM PDT

ODST Romeo

Look, in the trailer it has a longer barrel than Halo:CE

  • 05.10.2006 4:28 PM PDT
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maybe the Ar is upgraded and is replacing the SMG and the BR is still active.... think about it.... thats prolly not the master chief.... it has to be another spartan.... they probably have both. in the books, the battle rifle was introduced in the last book of the trilogy.



Please learn to READ the books...all of the remaining Spartans had Battle Rifles in First Strike.


You know, it really could be another Spartan. There were (if I'm remembering correctly) three other Spartans with MC in First Strike plus Kelly, who is MIA. Besides, who says that just because battle rifles were introduced, all assult rifles were all destroyed. I'm sure humans could have just used both. I hope the other Spartans do show up... but whoever said they think MC is going to die better be wrong. If MC dies, I'm gonna have to break my xbox.

  • 05.10.2006 4:30 PM PDT
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The AR is my weapon of choice. If by some means they bridged the AR with the BR, then it'll be perfect for me. They can call it, the ABR (genius!); full auto w/ 60 rounds and semi-auto with scope? I'll take it!

  • 05.10.2006 4:31 PM PDT

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you dont even know what gun that even is yet! That could be an AR, a BR, a ARBR mix, WE dont know yet. besides, to me if you watch closely it looks like a BR with some kinda creme colored cover on it.... I noticed the scope and barrel of the gun LOL

  • 05.10.2006 4:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anonymous Dark
Chill out. That may not make it into the final game, and it may not even be the assault rifle at all, but its cousin, the MA2B.


I agree, it might be the cousin to the AR, but half these guys dont even know it exists.

  • 05.10.2006 4:35 PM PDT

Just tell your friends you couldn't contest the flag because you were stoned, they will understand. Halo- My anti-drug

Im almost sure that it isnt the AR, I dont think the AR had such a big barrel. Watch it again and look closely, it almost looks like a BR barrel on the AR

  • 05.10.2006 4:41 PM PDT

Here is what I think. In a threory posted on a different site, a Colonel Ackerson is mentioned. In that same theory, time travel is postualted. To paraphrase the theory, FTL travel alters the time continuum (spell check) and master chief could really be on earth in a different stage of the covenenant/human war. Colonel Ackerson was suspected of collecting bodies of suposed deceased spartan candidates stolen at early ages and clones. Using the tech. he stole from the spartan program he created his own spartans and was galavanting about the universe doing his own thing serving his own purpose to thehighest bidder, covenant or Human. (why I mention Ackerson I do not know except that I am dumb ass) but!!! my point is that MC could be on earth in a different time space recieving transmission through the slipspace rupture caused by the incoming covenenat fleet. Cortana could actually be with MC at this time. While there are many kinks to this theoryit bakes my noodle to think that MC could cross his own paths throughou H3. Perhaps this that we see is a vision from cortana sent to MC and cortana from the future to warn of future events unfolding from cortana and gravemind. The AR was a early weapon. It also could have been left behind by dead human troops. Or MC could have gotten it from a pawn shop in downtown moombasa. I've totally lost my train of thought, but I feel that time travl will be a big part of explaining what we saw in the freakin awsome trailer. And... I think that cortana could be a digital projection of MC's mother, that would explain why he's never hittin on her, she is soo effin hot.

  • 05.10.2006 4:55 PM PDT
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The Ar was totally pimp, i personally see bungie throwing halo 1 and 2 weapons together (translation:the smg is going no where even if the ar is coming back) but at this point it's just a guess. I'd personally like to see the Ma5b or ma2b (whichever it is) be sorta like a modern assault rifle, loud cracks with every shot, as in sounding like real gunshots going off, nice kickback with every bullet including some good rumbling. Keep it full auto but make it less accurate forcing players to take the skillfull route and use it for burst fire that way players who shoot accuratley are rewarded over those who spray and pray.

  • 05.10.2006 5:00 PM PDT
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Heres what i think. The AR kicks ass, if you think it sucks you need to take you and 3 of your freinds(if you have 3 let alone any) and jump off the nearest bridge. Anyway, i hope the AR is back for Halo 3 as a replacement for that deplorable SMG. First of all the "SMG" in Halo 2 is more of a Machine Pistol than a Sub Machine Gun. Yeah it fires fast but that dosent really make it an SMG. The AR is more suitable for the title of SMG because it certainly isn't a Assualt Rifle, just look at its horrid accuracy. Assualt rifles today are extremely accurate, your telling me that 500 years into the future the quality of our weapons are so bad that that passes for an Assualt Rifle, i really dont think so. All im saying is that we souldn't dismiss this possibility for a return of the AR, mabey other Halo 1 weapons will return, mabey...... The PISTOL.

  • 05.10.2006 5:01 PM PDT
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ok all i have to say is the AR kicks ass, i just loved letting it loose and ripping thru someone with it

  • 05.10.2006 5:06 PM PDT
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the Halo games I think is the best game series ever made. I’m sure all the guys working on Halo 3 are real busy and I know they are adding a lot to the game, but is Bungie going to make destructible environments? Since Halo 1 that is always what I have wanted out of a Halo game. This subject has been brought up before and not since we have Xbox 360 they have no excuse about polys or the system can’t run it. I’m sure this isn’t your only email about this topic but not many people have suggested this. When you’re using an assault rifle and you shoot at an enemy behind a tree and a few bullets hit the tree the tree shoots out splinters and snaps if it is a small tree. If the tree has bark the bark flakes off. When you get shot with a plasma rifel it leaves a scorched pock mark. When you get sniped in the face your visor shatters. When you shoot a rock it cracks. What if you shot the metal floor with a plasma rifle and it actually melted and then hardened. What if when that metal was in liquid state and you could actually leave a foot mark etched in the metal when it hardened. What if glass melted when shot with plasma or water cracked, steamed, and bubbled when shot with plasma? When you shoot a tree with plasma it can catch fire. See my point?



One more thing, I think if the environment were destructible this could completely change the aspect of the game which would be nice (it is the final one.) Imagine being below a bridge with two concrete supports beside you and shooting one support out slowly with a chain gun and then shooting the other support out with a rocket and watching the bridge fall and crumble. I thing this would shock and stun everyone (especially a video/trailer of it.)

  • 05.10.2006 5:07 PM PDT