- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Mainly, now that halo 2 PC is here, and watching some videos of Halo 2 on the xbox has made me realize some important differences from the pistol and the Battle Rifle, that I wanted to let everyone know about for the upcoming Halo 2 PC game.
One of the most importance differences is the 3 round burst. If used right the 3 round burst is extremely deadly, probably more deadly than any other weapon. First of all, you still have to remember that its a assult weapon. It has 12 shots of 3 round bursts which make 36 rounds.
Basicly if your skilled enough, with only 1 Battle Rifle burst you can get a kill, at mid-close range you just need to aim high and accurate you'll get the kill. Now with a pistol you need to use 3 extremely well aimed shots to kill, wasting 1 fourth of your ammo, while one 3 round burst of the BR will only waste one twelve of your ammo.
Second while zoomed, you have a total of 36 single shot rounds 3 times the amount of the pistol, they may not do the same damage, however with 36 single rounds, you and your teammates can supress the other team in multiplayer with fire lasting for a long period of time and get a nice amount of kills, while your teammate gets the flag and runs off.
Third, in singleplayer in comparsion to the pistol, a single burst of fire will kill a grunt instead of 3 rounds by the pistol, this is a major difference, 3 rounds out of 12 compared to 3 rounds out of 36. This shows that the battle rifle has a similar killing power to the pistol.
Four, when used along with frag nades, you can get quite a few kills, for example on a map, if 3 people are fairly grouped together, you can take down all their shields pretty low to nothing, making a single 3 round burst kill when you hit them in the body.With the rate of the BR you can easily score a triple kill there in just 1-2 seconds.
[Edited on 6/10/2006]