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halo 2's magnum pre tu was the one i liked the most. halo 3's was ok, they were usually in pairs so its was ok. and reaches is nice. i guess i would want a halo 2 pre tu magnum with a scope.

[Edited on 01.15.2012 7:22 PM PST]

  • 01.15.2012 7:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: DrPepperlova07

Posted by: mrhalo007
Halo 2 pistol was actually pretty nice, semi automatic I think


I agree. Although its power was like a novelty toy. If they were to make a new magnum i would want one like in Halo 2 but with more power.


Isn't that basically the ODST magnum with damage against shields?

  • 01.15.2012 7:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: DrPepperlova07
I think its a beast gun if used right and takes a lot of skill and is a challenge to use(except in Halo CE, reach).

You obviously never played Splitscreen Halo CE. Or only played against guests who don't know the controls.

It's way harder to use there than any main mid range weapon in any of the sequels. NO aim assist. High player movement speed to allow strafing.

The only way it could be easy is if the people you play only walk in straight lines.

  • 01.15.2012 8:57 PM PDT
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Make it into a scarab gun.

  • 01.15.2012 8:58 PM PDT

lolany Magnum besides CE and Reach Magnums.

  • 01.16.2012 8:55 AM PDT

No point to it, when you think about it.

I don't know why, but I'd actually favour the ODST pistol for some reason. I just liked the feel of it, although it was majorly lacking in the fire-power department.

  • 01.16.2012 9:52 AM PDT

I would prefer having a magnum AND a pistol. I also think dual wielding would be interesting if it's all or nothing. The magnum would be a single wielded weapon, and the pistols would come as a package deal. Instead of searching around for another weapon while carrying a "half weapon," you'd just pick up dual pistols. Yes, you can beat down while holding them, but you cannot throw grenades. That would be fun.

  • 01.16.2012 10:23 AM PDT

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Posted by: PluvialisAquila
I would prefer having a magnum AND a pistol. I also think dual wielding would be interesting if it's all or nothing. The magnum would be a single wielded weapon, and the pistols would come as a package deal. Instead of searching around for another weapon while carrying a "half weapon," you'd just pick up dual pistols. Yes, you can beat down while holding them, but you cannot throw grenades. That would be fun.

I like it, and I have my own crazy idea; we can customize our armor, so why not....wait for it....weapon configuration! Every other popular shooter has it, why not Halo?

  • 01.16.2012 10:42 AM PDT

Posted by: DrPepperlova07
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It could kill on its own. You could even dual wield it.
Again it was outdone at every range, and it's because of duel wielding that the gun sucks. Bungie pretty much had to cut the power of duel wield weapons in half making them useless on their own.

On the other hand, you need to realize - and I do hate to state the obvious - it's a pistol. You really shouldn't be charging the guy going on a roid rage with a bigass machine gun or semiauto with a pistol. It's best for ambushes, or mopping up that last man standing after a firefight.It's a video game, it doesn't have to make sense. People who say the pistol shouldn't be powerful simply just because it's a pistol doesn't make sense. If I replaced the CE pistol with a rifle with the exact same stats would you still complain? After all it's a rifle it's suppose to have long range capabilities with more stopping power than a pistol. The CE pistol was simply a rifle with a pistol skin.

Although you have a point, it could use a bit of a buff, to put it on slightly more equal footing with the other guns.Agreed.

The .357 Magnum round from a revolver hits harder than the 5.56x45mm round shot from an assault rifle within the revolver's range. The 5.56x45mm round is the ammunition for the main rifle of the U.S. military. The 5.56x45mm round is criticized as being very weak, but that's because it was developed to be cheap to make, easy to shoot (small, not very powerful, easy recoil), and extremely accurate at long ranges while most handgun ammunition is designed to hit hard at short-to-mid range, put the enemy down quickly, and to be reasonably accurate within short-to-mid range. The Magnum being more powerful than, say: the DMR, within a certain distance, isn't far fetched.


So why are you talking about bullets in reality? I thought we were tralking about the magnum in Halo
I'm explaining that the Magnum's power isn't unrealistic. It seems like a lot of people think that just because it's a pistol, it's more realistic for it to be weaker than rifles and that's not true.

  • 01.16.2012 4:55 PM PDT

Posted by: PluvialisAquila
I would prefer having a magnum AND a pistol. I also think dual wielding would be interesting if it's all or nothing. The magnum would be a single wielded weapon, and the pistols would come as a package deal. Instead of searching around for another weapon while carrying a "half weapon," you'd just pick up dual pistols. Yes, you can beat down while holding them, but you cannot throw grenades. That would be fun.
Totally on board with them just throwing all the pistol/Magnum versions into the next Halo('s). Hell, I'm totally on board with them throwing all versions and all guns from previous Halo's into the next one. Would be awesome if done right.

  • 01.16.2012 5:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: Cavik Akavelle
Posted by: PluvialisAquila
I would prefer having a magnum AND a pistol. I also think dual wielding would be interesting if it's all or nothing. The magnum would be a single wielded weapon, and the pistols would come as a package deal. Instead of searching around for another weapon while carrying a "half weapon," you'd just pick up dual pistols. Yes, you can beat down while holding them, but you cannot throw grenades. That would be fun.
Totally on board with them just throwing all the pistol/Magnum versions into the next Halo('s). Hell, I'm totally on board with them throwing all versions and all guns from previous Halo's into the next one. Would be awesome if done right.

Now you're talkin'! Hell yeah!

  • 01.16.2012 6:49 PM PDT

Magnum:
-no bloom
-no spread
-no scope
-small reticle
-3 shot kill
-0.4 seconds between shots
-damage drop off past close-mid range

  • 01.16.2012 6:54 PM PDT

While it did have its uses, Halo 3's pistol was a joke compared to the rest of the sandbox. The only practical use it has is getting headshots from a distance away, when you do not have a precision weapon. CE's was a little too powerful, Reach's and ODST's was OK. Halo 2's could fire fast, but its weapon sandbox was filled with fast weapons like itself, that were more powerful. Halo 3's was just too weak.

  • 01.16.2012 7:10 PM PDT


Posted by: DrPepperlova07

Posted by: MajorGroove
Magnum:
-no bloom(OK)
-no spread(OK)
-no scope(OK)
-small reticle(OK)
-3 shot kill(NO WAY!!!!!!)
-0.4 seconds between shots(OK)
-damage drop off past close-mid range(OK)


Three shot kill is way too powerful!


The rest of the game would be sped up accordingly. You would move faster, switch weapons faster, reload faster. 3 shot kill is only too fast if you implant that idea into a game designed around a 5 shot kill weapon.

  • 01.16.2012 7:15 PM PDT
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i would just bring back the Halo 2 magnum, you're unstable when dual wielding those

  • 01.18.2012 10:01 PM PDT

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