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Subject: The Magnum

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  • 01.14.2012 10:30 PM PDT
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"If something is easy, broken, cheap or can be abused, majority of the population will support it as a legit and or skilled concept/idea. Whatever people like and or love, they will thrive on it because no matter how broken it maybe, they do not like change."

Ability to take arrows to the knee.

Mmm, not 3 shot people in the head.

  • 01.14.2012 10:32 PM PDT

The option in custom games for not having a scope.. Living dead might actually be balanced.

  • 01.14.2012 10:32 PM PDT

To be honest, when I first saw all this in the weekly update I thought 2 things.
#1- there is an actual legendary ending but,
#2- No matter what anyone does,(kill all the bobs, hit all switches etc) that until the "time" mentioned in "There'll be another time..." is reached there won't be a legendary ending.

The weekly update by bungie has slowed my hardcore search for what unlocks the legendary ending.

Halo 2 pistol was actually pretty nice, semi automatic I think

  • 01.14.2012 10:33 PM PDT

Yay yuh!!!!!

Halo 2 pistol with a little more power. Not the 3 shot pistol.

  • 01.14.2012 11:13 PM PDT

Still better than you.

.....most of you, at least.

I dislike the magnum a lot.

That said, a Halo CE version, with a slightly smaller magazine, and less damage would be a personal preference.

  • 01.14.2012 11:15 PM PDT

In Reach it's a pretty decent gun. At medium range it's comparable to DMR/NR, at close range it's strong enough to basically make the AR a pointless weapon. I personally wish the clip could just hold one or two more rounds, as I sometimes come up just short and have to reload when I use it to fight two people at once or in a row. But I guess that would be pushing it.

Halo 2/3's magnums were a joke. If there's a gun that literally has no use in gameplay, it shouldn't be there. Although sometimes if a player in H3 was very poor at the game I found it entertaining to "out-BR" them with the pistol, just for the added embarrassment factor. It was also kind of funny to use dual magnums when idiots voted for Team Duals in Social Slayer. Having two magnums when everyone else was screwing around with spikers and plasma pistols was cool.

The Combat Evolved pistol will always be my favorite, mostly because I've played that game since its release on PC where its use is like a magical art form. A lot of people hear that it kills in 3 hits and go "omg overpowered," but the reality of CE PC is that you have to lead your shots by a rather significant amount to actually hit anything; if you just aim your reticle directly at a moving player's head (like you can do in Reach) you will miss every shot. It's extremely rare that people will just go "blam blam blam" and instakill you. I can do that, but only because my CE PC experience is rapidly approaching ten years. It's very difficult to use effectively despite its power.

  • 01.14.2012 11:45 PM PDT

Weapon of mass construction.

I actually like the Reach magnum best out of all of them. The magnum in CE was awesome for campaign but CEA has shown us that its too overpowered to be in matchmaking. The Reach Magnum has the ideal scope, power and firerate to make it an ideal secondary weapon. Halo's 2 and 3 had a pointless magnum. ODSTs magnum was great for the campaign, id be interested to see how it fares in a matchmaking scenario.

  • 01.15.2012 5:00 AM PDT

have another variant 8 shots a clip fires like a carbine

  • 01.15.2012 5:29 AM PDT

Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE

Based on campaigns.

I think the magnum in Reach is the best

In Halo 2 and 3 it is a pointless weapon and CE is OP

[Edited on 01.15.2012 5:56 AM PST]

  • 01.15.2012 5:52 AM PDT

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My favourite Magnum was the one from TU Reach before it got nerfed further. Bleedthrough made it into a 4 shot kill and pacing it properly could keep up with the DMR and NR at closer ranges.

It made AR starts fairly tolerable and was a useful weapon to have as your secondary.

  • 01.15.2012 6:14 AM PDT

ODST pistol and bring back the scoped SMG. It was actually fun to use for an automatic weapon.

  • 01.15.2012 6:15 AM PDT

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I do not mind the reach pistol. CE pistol removes the use of other weapons in reach.

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  • 01.15.2012 6:16 AM PDT

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Pistols I love (in order)

Halo CE Pistol
ODST Pistol
Halo Reach Pistol
Halo 2 Pistol
The pitiful, useless Halo 3 Pistol


I just grew up using the CE pistol so it's automatically going to be my favorite. And in Reach it finally owns all the DMR spamming whores. The God pistol brought salvation to Reach in my opinion

  • 01.15.2012 7:18 AM PDT

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Posted by: Nephilim713
I do not mind the reach pistol. CE pistol removes the use of other weapons in reach.


Whenever I did custom games for CE and online for PC I always see people use a variety of weapons, even with the God pistol present.

I think it's just that people are realizing that the Reach weapons are either over / under powered.

If they made all the weapons the same as CE in Reach I'd be fine

  • 01.15.2012 7:20 AM PDT

bungie has proven that a bunch of monkeys sitting in front of keyboards can randomly type out a masterpiece. the thing is, when you go to play the masterpiece, you cant help but notice all the monkey s**t smeared all over it.

it gets real old having to wait months for someone like mlg to clean off all the monkey poo.

im bad at halo so i want the magnum, and all headshot weapons for that matter, to be 2 clip kills, and for the bullets to only hit what you arent aiming at. even that makes them overpowered, so the ar should have a 10% chance to instakill.

  • 01.15.2012 9:06 AM PDT
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Halo 3 got it right.

  • 01.15.2012 9:13 AM PDT

Honestly, I feel like a 3sk is a little too powerful.. I think the ODST pistol that can kill in 4 shots, while a DMR has more range but can kill in 5 would be great.

  • 01.15.2012 10:41 AM PDT

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Halo 3 got it right.
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  • 01.15.2012 10:43 AM PDT
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In online multiplayer Halo CE, do you have to lead the pistol because it's not hitscan, or to compensate for lag?

  • 01.15.2012 10:43 AM PDT

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