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Subject: Not the Standard AR?
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According to the Weekly update, the AR seems to be different. Aynone see anything different about it? Or am I missing something?

  • 05.12.2006 5:21 PM PDT

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The barrel looks longer, Ill watch it again.

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  • 05.12.2006 5:22 PM PDT

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Yea, the barrel definately looks longer.

  • 05.12.2006 5:24 PM PDT
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Mortal Mad Matt, make the barrel in your sig lonnger

  • 05.12.2006 5:24 PM PDT
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AHAA! I knew that those weren't the same the first time i saw the video.,

  • 05.12.2006 5:26 PM PDT
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Do you guys think they might have combined(?) the BR and AR? maybe the old ammo reader can now turn into a scope as well, which would be cool, but they made it sound like there was some major physical difference though.

  • 05.12.2006 5:27 PM PDT
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Longer barrel = more accuracy. How about machine gun features of the orignal AR with the accuracy of the BR! ooooooooh!

  • 05.12.2006 5:38 PM PDT
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Hey at least the AR or a type of AR is making a return. I loved the AR and missed it in Halo 2...

  • 05.12.2006 5:39 PM PDT
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it looks a little diffrent but it is still a AR.

  • 05.12.2006 5:43 PM PDT
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The only thing that is different is the longer barrel, but that's all I see. I've really got nothin. I'll send a question to Frankie next Q&A.

  • 05.12.2006 5:43 PM PDT
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It would be really nice to find one of the guys who was invited to the "after party" where the bungie crew showed the reflection of the AR's ammo counter on the Chief's face.

Maybe one of them would have noticed what it looked like, or how much ammo the gun holds and stuff.

  • 05.12.2006 5:44 PM PDT
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Ok, i just put in Halo 1 on my 360 and i compared the AR on H1 to the AR in H3. They look exactly the same. The only difference ive noticed is that the barrel is a wee bit longer.

  • 05.12.2006 5:44 PM PDT

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Correct me if I am wrong but didn't frankie say that the bullet counter could be seen reflecting in his helm?

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flew out over the Forerunner structure, did a close-up of the Chief to show the realtime reflection of the visor (you could see the ammo counter running down in his faceplate)


I want to see that... That would explain alot of things along the lines of the AR problem...

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  • 05.12.2006 5:49 PM PDT

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Heres one picture for reference...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/Kamatzu/MA5A.jpg

Ill call it the MA5A for now lol.

The ammo counter, the best look at it we have...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/Kamatzu/ammocounter.jp g

Looks the same to me. in the 10 by 10 pixels it covers :P

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  • 05.12.2006 5:51 PM PDT

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I think it would be cool if they turned the ammo down to 30-40 bullets per magazine and they made the bullets shredder rounds like in the books. It should be more accurate and a wee bit stronger than in Halo1 but it would have a smaller clip size so I guess that balances it out.

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  • 05.12.2006 5:54 PM PDT
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It sort of look like the modern day P90, and it reminds me of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter somehow...

  • 05.12.2006 5:57 PM PDT
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It would've been cool if they at least changed the stock..........

And put a grenade launcher on it, but that is going out on a limb...................

  • 05.12.2006 5:59 PM PDT
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it seems to me that the entire gun seems a bit longer, and there is more color variation to it. flashlight is still there, barrell is definitley more protruding

  • 05.12.2006 6:01 PM PDT
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grenades would be cool... ooh good idea... plasma grenade launcher... Uber sticked!

  • 05.12.2006 6:02 PM PDT

Hey, i know a lot of people have read the books in this forum. So, whats the difference between the MA5A and the MA5B? Im not sure, because i read two of the books a while ago, so i forget.

  • 05.12.2006 6:02 PM PDT
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aint it the MA5C in the books, dont flame not too sure, very drunk could probably be MA5A anyway i assumed the MA5C/MA5A was smaller and had i higher rate of fire. but thats all down to imagination. as the books dont say specifically

  • 05.12.2006 6:11 PM PDT
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look its a full auto rifle with decent dmg...no complaints now i do remember a M3 rifle in the books..now seeing as how the earth is bascly gone and im sure they dont haev money do design a really good weapon(better then old one) maybe they had to downgrade on their weapons...

  • 05.12.2006 6:17 PM PDT
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The smaller version of the Assault Rifle is the MA2B. This weapon is different, it definetly has a longer barrel, wich means that it will be more accurate. This weapon didn't make any appearence in the books as far as I remember (unless it's a silencer)

  • 05.12.2006 6:18 PM PDT

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