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  • Poll [7 votes]: Should the Halo:CE pistol return? **Read Post First**
Subject: Why are so many people against the pistol?
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Poll: Should the Halo:CE pistol return? **Read Post First**  [closed]
Yes:  29%
(2 Votes)
No:  43%
(3 Votes)
Yes, but with a different skin:  29%
(2 Votes)
Total Votes: 7

I am a casual Halo:CE player, since I only started playing it a little before Halo 2 came out. However, one of the major things I liked about Halo:CE was the pistol. It took skill to use, because you had to aim very well to get a three-shot kill. Also, it was possible to shoot an entire clip but not get a kill if you did not have aiming skill. The pistol was not the most powerful gun in the game. It was the most powerful gun in certain situations. If someone had a shotgun, they could kill you close range. If they had a sniper, they could kill more efficently long range. Everyone claiming that all anyone ever used was the pistol, or that the pistol was overpowered has obviously not played this game other than CTF on Blood Gulch. That map made the pistol extremely powerful, but vehicles and snipers still balenced it out.

The arguement that "A pistol should not be the strongest gun in the game" is stupid. If Bungie had taken the autoaim of the pistol and strength of the pistol, and put them into Halo 2's Battle Rifle, you wouldn't argue? Fine then, I'm sure those of us who love the pistol are willing for it to have a different skin, as long as the overall design is as good as the pistol design was (Halo:CE weaponry had a sleek, futuristic look). In addition, I'm fairly sure that even if the pistol is too powerful to be realistic, then cybernetic super soldiers playing capture the flag isn't very realistic either. I'm sure this post will make people call me a "Pistol Whore", but that is true. I have the best aim of my friends, and the pistol was my go-to gun. However, I never passed up a shotgun, sniper, rocket launcher, or plasma rifle either.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post. If you can, try getting some friends together to play some Team Slayer on Derelict before you vote. That map is one of the maps that helps to prove that while the pistol was a mainstay of combat, a pistol user could easily be killed by a more skilled opponent, or by an opponent who had the right gun.

  • 05.13.2006 8:00 AM PDT

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And yeah, Opey could probably win that game without using his BR. Best SMG user in Halo.


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The pistol should return, but as a non dual-wieldable magnum [Desert Eagle size]. That way, it has an excuse to be really powerful. But Bungie should make it 4 or 5 headshots instead of three to please the whiners.

But also, they should have a regular pistol. But not something that takes 2 clips to kill somone.

[Edited on 5/13/2006]

  • 05.13.2006 8:03 AM PDT

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Please address this in the Halo 3 Weapons Ideas thread.

  • 05.13.2006 8:04 AM PDT