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It has nothing to do with individual skill or knowledge, it has to do with the reason you play.


Posted by: st3althsniper22
You mean the Sentinel Beam with a scope? So unique.

  • 06.03.2012 1:59 PM PDT

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Everyone is entitled to their own wrong opinion.


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If I had a choice I would pick up the beam rifle every time.


With that sad. Focus rifle is fun to play around with...

  • 06.03.2012 3:10 PM PDT

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Yeah. Except the focus rifle is pretty much ineffective at anything other than getting assists and annoying players.

  • 06.03.2012 3:29 PM PDT

Posted by: DeltaFiveZero
Yeah. Except the focus rifle is pretty much ineffective at anything other than getting assists and annoying players.
You're bad with the Focus Rifle if you say this.

  • 06.03.2012 3:57 PM PDT


Posted by: aBlueBookshelf

Posted by: boomdeyadah
Posted by: DeltaFiveZero
Yeah. Except the focus rifle is pretty much ineffective at anything other than getting assists and annoying players.
You're bad with the Focus Rifle if you say this.
The focus rifle is a pos.


Try aiming? Sorry its not a one shot herpaderpshelf, but everything cant be.

  • 06.03.2012 4:18 PM PDT


Posted by: Falerin
I prefer the tornado gun.

Everyone prefers the Tornado gun.

  • 06.03.2012 4:20 PM PDT

If all you get is assists with it than you are doing it wrong. That's my point.

  • 06.03.2012 4:23 PM PDT

Its basically only good for holding people back. If you charge someone with the Focus Rifle, you are doing it wrong.

[Edited on 06.03.2012 4:26 PM PDT]

  • 06.03.2012 4:24 PM PDT

Let's just agree to disagree.

  • 06.03.2012 4:25 PM PDT

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Beam rifle is unnecessary and pointless and able to be used as a sniper rifle. Focus rifle is a glorified sentential ray and cannot be used for sniping, due to the fact that as soon as you start shooting your location is known.

  • 06.03.2012 7:32 PM PDT

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Reach mentality.

  • 06.03.2012 7:43 PM PDT

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the beam rifle is better as a weapon but you are right otherwise

  • 06.03.2012 8:34 PM PDT

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Life is a journey, if you spend all of it with your nose in your map, you may miss some of the best parts.


Posted by: cameo_cream
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Reach mentality.

  • 06.03.2012 8:40 PM PDT
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I play games for gameplay, not silly gimmicks

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the beam rifle is definitely more useful imo.

I dont pick the focus rifle up much though, but thats just in my experience.

  • 06.03.2012 9:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: aBlueBookshelf
If you use it at all, you're doing it wrong.

Lol Reach sandbox.


nope kid nope nope

I use it as a close range weapon in Arena on Powerhouse, as long as you have a decent aim it's unbeatable. Kill time is faster than a DMR and it's really fkn annoying having your whole screen blinded when you're being shot in the face by it.

It's just as good as a sniper if the other team's yellow/orange-bar anyway, since they don't register that they're being shot by it until they're already dead on the host's screen. Haw haw.

  • 06.03.2012 9:28 PM PDT
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I disagree, but you know what in a different way. I actually LOVE both guns.

Focus Rifle was the best WIN in Reach. Only gun that felt new, unique, and not overpowered. I love it. Both are equally cool. I want both and need both. I can't play snowbound with a sniper. Beam Rifle's scope and double shot makes it play different. I love it.

SHUT UP OP! I LIKE BOTH. STOP MAKING ARGUMENTS WHEN THERE IS NONE!

  • 06.03.2012 10:18 PM PDT

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Reach is a terrible game and one good gun can't make up for it. I still missed the beam rifle, even though I did enjoy the focus rifle more than any other Reach gun. The sniper, beam, and focus rifles are all effective and satisfying to use.

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  • 06.03.2012 10:23 PM PDT
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Useful weapon > Useless "Unique Snowflake" weapon

  • 06.03.2012 10:49 PM PDT


Posted by: cs burchie v2
This whole argument is irrelevant. Whatever you choose wouldn't matter because I'd be too busy ripping off your face with my snipe.

  • 06.04.2012 9:32 AM PDT

One does not simply trolololol into Mordor.

I would agree with you if it were an effective weapon, but the point of a weapon is to kill people, not "give them a chance to get away"

  • 06.04.2012 6:57 PM PDT

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