- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The reason people miss the AR so much is probably because it's awesome in the books. It is the main gun and it rules, however in the game it did kind of suck. It's ok on easy but in normal, heroic and legandary it was almost useless. In multiplayer is was basicly useless as well.
I believe that the AR in the trailer isn't the MA5B and is infact either the MA4B or the MA6B. We hear of the MA3B in the books, the Spartans used them in their training missions. After we hear of the MA3B we go straight to the MA5B and never have the MA4B. So it is that or the MA6B.
My guestamation on the new AR is that it'll have Fully Auto and Three round bursts. Also it'll be more accurate the the MA5B in CE but it won't be quite as accurate as the BR55 in 2. I also think the the reticle will change switching mode (3 to fully auto) however it will not have a scoop option accept the scope the MJOLNIR armor has. However I hope that with 3 you will be able to zoom in and see the bulets hitting, however there is no reticle, or the reticle covers as much of the area your zoomed in on so it's the same as if you weren't zoom in.
So if you zoom in instead of the reticle being 1" in diameter covering 2 meters and the screen covering 40 meters, the reticle becomes 4" in diameter covering 2 meters and the screen covering only 10 meters (if the zoom is 4x).