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Posted by: WhackyGordon
Posted by: An average gamer
Have fun with your large maps/no precision weapons outside the Sniper Rifle which is still beaten by 3shot spam across the map.
Who needs rifles when you've got a 3sk hand-cannon?
And c'mon dude - magnum beats sniper cross-map? Either your sniper's retarded or the magnum wielder is Jesus. In my experience any time I can 3sk a sniper across a map, I would have been able to 5sk him with a DMR just as easily.
Big maps are nice. The sniper rifle actually has a purpose beyond no-scoping. The headshot utility weapon actually sees ranges where it doesn't dominate. You might argue that point, but I personally think that a 1sk long range and a 3sk close/mid range is an awesome balance for most maps. Admittedly the rest of the sandbox is useless, but that's nothing new.
The magnum weilder doesn't have to be superpowered to 3sk with it. The maps which are in Team Anniversary are generally Hang 'em High, Pennance, Solitary, and Beaver Creek. The magnum has enough range on 3/4 of those maps to kill a sniper at any range on those maps (with the exception being Hang 'em High). Even on the remaining map, however, I have both been 3sk'ed from big base while at little base and I have done so.
In these types of cases, the Spartan himself doesn't even fill the damned reticle up, yet the shots still somehow hit the head.
Outside of that map, it's stupid to have a weapon that can dominate snipers (can 3sk if you ambush a sniper before he can turn and shoot once) from any distance.
I would also like to add that the size of the Magnum's reticle is the thing I hate the most about it. I understand that the gun was built for use at close range, but that doesn't stop it from being so random at range. I had the same problem with the BR in Halo 3. The enemy can be only filling a quarter of your reticle up and sometimes a shot fired will hit while the other times it will miss, even if you shoot under the same conditions despite whether you are pacing/spamming. What I would like the Magnum to have, to make it similar to other guns, is one of the small inner circles to let you know WHERE your shot will go, so it's not a crapshoot.
I hate being 3sk'ed from across Hang 'em High/other maps, I think it's cheap when I get lucky enough to land the same sort of shots, and so I think the list is much worse/more random than TU.