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Subject: Fix the Pistol
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Poll: should the pistol shoot while zoomed or not shoot while zoomed?  [closed]
shoot:  70%
(7 Votes)
no shoot:  30%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 10

The pistol in halo 2 has a slower rate of fire, can no longer shoot while zoomed and takes five head shots to get a kill. All of these seems ok as improvements, except the useless zoom. It should shoot while zoomed because it's like that in Halo 1 and the novels, it will most likely come back to haunt bungie.

  • 09.18.2004 6:11 PM PDT
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the pistol was perfect to me in halo1. balanced in power to the shotgun and AR and the accuracy was a little off to balance its power. the soom made it a counter towards snipers. if anything the halo2 pistol shouldnt be as weak as it sounds

  • 09.18.2004 6:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: XxAlphaQUpxX
the pistol was perfect to me in halo1. balanced in power to the shotgun and AR and the accuracy was a little off to balance its power. the soom made it a counter towards snipers. if anything the halo2 pistol shouldnt be as weak as it sounds


Halo's pistol bytes, because its all anybody uses. i like AR wars, but NOO!!! everyone wants the pistol. thats why im happy its gunna be more balanced in H2.

  • 09.18.2004 6:16 PM PDT
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balanced my butt. h2 pistol v AR is like fighting a huge metal robot with missles with a stick

  • 09.18.2004 6:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: XxAlphaQUpxX
balanced my butt. h2 pistol v AR is like fighting a huge metal robot with missles with a stick


the AR being the stick, of coarse.

Listen, when ive got a pistol, i can take on the world. Short range, long range, medium range, its all easy with the pistol. Even sniping ppl out of vehicles is easy with the pistol.

  • 09.18.2004 6:20 PM PDT
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Try New Mombasa, and reading the rules.

  • 09.18.2004 6:21 PM PDT
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its freakin imposssible to kill someone in a vechle unless they r still or u got 50 bullets to waste or they are still

  • 09.18.2004 6:23 PM PDT
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The pistol in Halo 1 is horribly unbalanced to the rest of Halo's arsenal. I'm glad they're making it more like a sidearm in H2 and not an annihilation machine. A pistol is suppose to be a sidearm. That's it. And about it being the equivalent to the AR and shottie, you couldn't be more wrong. It's usable at long, medium, and short ranges, has a decent rate of fire, and the clip has just enough bullets to take out anyone without reloading. Also, if you find out how to compensate for the pistol's inaccuracy in battle, you can hit a person every shot. The AR, being horribly inaccurate at long range, so-so at medium and a good short range weapon doesn't even come close to the pistol's ferocity (and dont get me started on the pistol versus shottie, that's just a joke to even think about comparing them). So look back, reflect, and you'll know why most find Halo 1 to be crippled in MP because everyone always resorts back to the pistol in the end.

  • 09.18.2004 7:21 PM PDT
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Celenon speaks the tru7h.

The pistol is awful in Halo. Too powerful. On EVERY SINGLE MISSION on Halo Campaign mode where the Pistol is available, I find myself using it which is wrong. Overpowered. It is supposed to be a sidearm, a backup, not a handcannon.

  • 09.18.2004 7:24 PM PDT
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Wrong forum.

I like the pistol. Pistol -blam!-es unite!!! We got the Battle Rifle in Halo 2 so I'm not that upset about it.

[Edited on 9/18/2004 7:37:40 PM]

  • 09.18.2004 7:35 PM PDT
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this sounds like a cry for realism. check this ur playing a game with aliens a weapon that can kill evryhing talking robot compuet chicks spae ships plasma weapons and colonized planets. not to mention a guy that weights 500 pounds and can run as fast as a car.

fear the p1st0l

[Edited on 9/18/2004 8:21:15 PM]

  • 09.18.2004 8:20 PM PDT