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Subject: What would you consider the most useless and most useful weapon?
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I wish all my fingers were on my left hand, so my right hand is just a fist for punching.

Most useful: Sniper rifle. effective at all but very close range, anti vehicle capabilities.

Least useful: AR. only use is knocking sniper out of scope. Spiker has advantage over AR due to magazine capacity.

  • 02.06.2012 2:41 PM PDT
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Useful- Sniper Rifle.

Useless pile- Vast majority of Covenant weapons.

  • 02.06.2012 2:44 PM PDT
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Why would you want to use an automatic weapon on unshielded opponents?

Plasma Rifle is more useful than a Repeater because it kills shields. The Repeater is useless for that and cleaning up kills with automatics is just dumb.

Plasma Rifle > Repeater

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Worst: Sniper

Best: Plasma Repeater

Come at me bros.

  • 02.06.2012 2:52 PM PDT

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Worst: Sniper

Best: Plasma Repeater

Come at me bros.
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Posted by: EpicDuck1336
Worst: Sniper

Best: Plasma Repeater

Come at me bros.
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I lol'd

  • 02.06.2012 2:55 PM PDT

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WhackyGordon

Why would you want to use an automatic weapon on unshielded opponents?

Plasma Rifle is more useful than a Repeater because it kills shields. The Repeater is useless for that and cleaning up kills with automatics is just dumb.

Exactly this. Determining the most useless weapon means finding the weapon that is the worst at the role you would practically use it for.

Yes, the Repeater does more damage to health, but as RC Clone points out, you would never want to use the automatic weapons on an unshielded player ingame (unless ammunition constraints forced you to). Therefore, in terms of the role to which automatics are at least somewhat useful (stripping shields), the Rifle > Repeater.

Of course, there are still better options most of the time, the Repeater just comes at the bottom of the list.

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Posted by: RC Clone
WhackyGordon

Why would you want to use an automatic weapon on unshielded opponents?

Plasma Rifle is more useful than a Repeater because it kills shields. The Repeater is useless for that and cleaning up kills with automatics is just dumb.

Plasma Rifle > Repeater

I would use an automatic for clean-up if my precision weapon is out of ammo or needs a reload and I'm in the midst of combat. Sounds unlikely, but I've had the circumstance arise thanks to AR starts and crap DMR spawns (on some maps).

Magnum runs dry, one kid left, and I've gotta grab whatever's nearby to finish with or go for the melee. If I have sprint, I melee. If I don't, I use whatever I can get my hands on. The repeater outclasses the AR for this.

  • 02.06.2012 3:02 PM PDT

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bad: Plasma rifle, because it was upgraded to a Plasma Repeater.

good: plasma pistol.

  • 02.06.2012 3:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sentox6
Exactly this. Determining the most useless weapon means finding the weapon that is the worst at the role you would practically use it for.

Yes, the Repeater does more damage to health, but as RC Clone points out, you would never want to use the automatic weapons on an unshielded player ingame (unless ammunition constraints forced you to). Therefore, in terms of the role to which automatics are at least somewhat useful (stripping shields), the Rifle > Repeater.

Of course, there are still better options most of the time, the Repeater just comes at the bottom of the list.


The repeater does more DPS to an unshielded opponent than the AR does. In my books, that means it's not at the bottom. As much as it's a somewhat unnecessary role, the repeater fills that particular role (automatic for health damage) the best. On that note, I suppose the plasma rifle fills it's role (automatic for shield damage) similarly, although I'm not sure whether the spiker is better for shield DPS.
Both roles are better filled by other weapon types (plasma pistols for shields, precision weapons for health damage) but that doesn't mean the plasma rifle/repeater is the least useful gun in the game. Just redundant.

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Useful: The Swiss Army Gun - oh wait, I mean the DMR.

Useless: probably the Assault Rifle. The Plasma Repeater can actually be useful if used properly. Obviously, only a handful of people know how to use it properly.

  • 02.06.2012 3:18 PM PDT
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useless: spiker.
useful: grenade launcher.

  • 02.06.2012 3:21 PM PDT

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The Plasma Repeater can actually be useful if used properly. Obviously, only a handful of people know how to use it properly.

^ This.

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Posted by: WhackyGordon
that doesn't mean the plasma rifle/repeater is the least useful gun in the game. Just redundant.

Not sure if serious.

  • 02.06.2012 3:24 PM PDT

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I like the spiker; semi-powerful, and fast reload.

OP:

Bad: Plasma repeater

Good: Sniper Rifle

  • 02.06.2012 3:26 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sentox6
Posted by: WhackyGordon
that doesn't mean the plasma rifle/repeater is the least useful gun in the game. Just redundant.

Not sure if serious.

There are other redundant weapons that are less useful. In terms of health damage, the AR is both redundant (precision weapons are far more useful) and outclassed (the repeater does more damage).
I don't know which is worse; spiker or plasma rifle, but one of the two is. That said, the repeater will net a lot more kills in the right hands.

  • 02.06.2012 3:39 PM PDT

Walk by faith. Dude. Not by sight.

Any weapon that I am using is fairly useless, unless it is a grenade.

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