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Subject: Beam Rifle vs Focus Rifle

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Semper Fi.

Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.

Why there are votes for the piss cannon is beyond me.

  • 01.09.2012 4:46 PM PDT


Posted by: Viper Skills
Why there are votes for the piss cannon is beyond me.

Umad bro?

  • 01.09.2012 4:48 PM PDT

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Beam Rifle = being able to pace your shots.

Focus Rifle = one long shot for a few seconds (yes i know you can pace it) with odd accuracy.

Oh and one more thing... Beam Rifle, Halo 2, nuff said.

  • 01.09.2012 4:49 PM PDT

Marine Corps.
Semper Fi.

Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.


Posted by: Traffic Coned

Posted by: Viper Skills
Why there are votes for the piss cannon is beyond me.

Umad bro?


Just livid. I'm actually throwing things around my house right now and I may have just elbowed my dog.

  • 01.09.2012 4:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Viper Skills
Why there are votes for the piss cannon is beyond me.


lololololol, so true buddy!

  • 01.09.2012 4:49 PM PDT
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Banned just for calling someone retarded? lolBnet mods
Duardo = retard

So you think Reach is an actual Halo game, huh? LOL
Jesus! There's a BoB in ma Falcon!


Posted by: Traffic Coned

Posted by: Viper Skills
Why there are votes for the piss cannon is beyond me.

Umad bro?
Im assuming you voted for the Assist rifle?
Ubad bro?

  • 01.09.2012 4:49 PM PDT


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Posted by: Traffic Coned

Posted by: Viper Skills
Why there are votes for the piss cannon is beyond me.

Umad bro?
Im assuming you voted for the Assist rifle?
Ubad bro?

You cant touch my "assist" rifle with your beam rifle.

  • 01.09.2012 4:53 PM PDT

Marine Corps.
Semper Fi.

Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.


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Posted by: Viper Skills
Why there are votes for the piss cannon is beyond me.


lololololol, so true buddy!


Ahh... so THIS is Lord Incognito. I'll make sure to report each and every one of your posts because of that betrayal last night.

  • 01.09.2012 4:54 PM PDT

Beam Rifle FTW.

  • 01.09.2012 5:08 PM PDT

lolnope.

I like the beam rifle however, I really like the focus rifle too. Beam is better though.

  • 01.09.2012 5:16 PM PDT
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My Level. Get on it.


Posted by: RC Clone
Nope. SouthPole isn't a person. He's the avatar of the force of tryhards everywhere. He stalks the web looking for retards to set straight. He can not be stopped by mere bans or thread locks for he shall rise anew.

Neither. Give the covenant a bolt action.

  • 01.09.2012 5:17 PM PDT

Marine Corps.
Semper Fi.

Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
My problems [with Reach] are basically just full parties, mlg, and people who go out of their way not to get killed.


Posted by: SouthPoIe
Neither. Give the covenant a bolt action.


How would plasma-based weaponry work with bolt action?

  • 01.09.2012 5:27 PM PDT

Posted by: Darkside Eric
So basically... Waypoint is pro-vanilla?

Posted by: Sentox6
Waypoint isn't pro-anything so much as they're just anti-intelligence.


Posted by: Viper Skills
How would plasma-based weaponry work with bolt action?

Concussion rifle and FRG aren't plasma-based.

  • 01.09.2012 5:34 PM PDT
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While the Beam Rifle was a more powerful weapon, it's good that the Focus Rifle took its place in the Reach sandbox to promote variety. There's no reason to have two weapons that are pretty much identical.

If only they applied that same logic to the plasma rifle and repeater...

  • 01.09.2012 5:37 PM PDT

Forget it man, and get with the countdown. Shake this square world and blast off for Kicksville.

Reach host ranking algorithm: (a*quit_percentage + b*isMexican + c*(1/KDR) + d*hasGuest) * 100
where a > b = d > c

Posted by: the pib
While the Beam Rifle was a more powerful weapon, it's good that the Focus Rifle took its place in the Reach sandbox to promote variety.

Yes, because replacing a useful weapon with one that nobody picks up is definitely promoting variety.

  • 01.09.2012 5:38 PM PDT

ITT: People who suck with the Focus Rifle.

  • 01.09.2012 5:38 PM PDT

Posted by: Darkside Eric
So basically... Waypoint is pro-vanilla?

Posted by: Sentox6
Waypoint isn't pro-anything so much as they're just anti-intelligence.


Posted by: the pib
While the Beam Rifle was a more powerful weapon, it's good that the Focus Rifle took its place in the Reach sandbox to promote variety. There's no reason to have two weapons that are pretty much identical.

A useless weapon is not an improvement over a duplicate. The beam rifle was a power weapon, whereas the focus rifle is not.

  • 01.09.2012 5:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: nicksta14

Posted by: the pib
While the Beam Rifle was a more powerful weapon, it's good that the Focus Rifle took its place in the Reach sandbox to promote variety. There's no reason to have two weapons that are pretty much identical.

A useless weapon is not an improvement over a duplicate. The beam rifle was a power weapon, whereas the focus rifle is not.

If you think the FR is useless or "not a power weapon" you're using it wrong. Don't use it like a sniper weapon, use it like a superpowered AR.

It fills a completely different role than the Beam Rifle.

[Edited on 01.09.2012 6:03 PM PST]

  • 01.09.2012 6:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: the pib

Posted by: nicksta14

Posted by: the pib
While the Beam Rifle was a more powerful weapon, it's good that the Focus Rifle took its place in the Reach sandbox to promote variety. There's no reason to have two weapons that are pretty much identical.

A useless weapon is not an improvement over a duplicate. The beam rifle was a power weapon, whereas the focus rifle is not.

If you think the FR is useless or "not a power weapon" you're using it wrong. Don't use it like a sniper rifle, use it like a superpowered AR.


This. Focus Rifle owns on Powerhouse when you use it up close.

  • 01.09.2012 6:02 PM PDT

Herp derp.

The Focus Beam is the better of the 3.

  • 01.09.2012 6:06 PM PDT

I don't mean to brag I don't mean to boast but I got hummus for these MINI TOASTS!


Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
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Beam rifle.Focus rifle takes to long to kill someone
Unless you're going all assists, then you just take down their shields, which is 10000 times easier than killing people with it.


Who would go all assists

  • 01.09.2012 6:11 PM PDT

Beam rifle doesnt take an hour to kill a guy, its sounds cool unlike that annoying focus rifle, and yeah it shoots purple

  • 01.09.2012 6:13 PM PDT
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They're not even comparable. One's essentially a sniper and can finish kills while the other is almost more effective at mid to close range and is an assist machine.

  • 01.09.2012 6:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: SirSire
They're not even comparable.


Bungie thought so cause in Invasion they're opposites

  • 01.09.2012 6:26 PM PDT

Posted by: SirSire
and is an assist machine.
Only at longer ranges.

  • 01.09.2012 6:41 PM PDT

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