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Subject: Why haven't we seen brutes using plasma pistols?
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Brutes and elites sometimes use plasma pistols as sidearms, but we've never seen this is game. In Halo 2 you would find elites using plasma pistols.

Why do you think this is?

  • 07.13.2012 9:39 AM PDT
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An Elite will dual wield the plasma pistol at the first battle on Cairo Station on lower difficulties. He always seem to be a minor. Seems he wanted to give the humans a surprise.

As for Brutes, they prefer powerful weapons. They have hoarded human weapons like the shotgun and rocket launcher.

There should have been a Brute plasma pistol so the CE plasma pistol isn't completely gone from H2. It'd have fired at a slower rof but would do high damage. Kinda like the H3 magnum but a bit faster rof.

[Edited on 07.13.2012 9:48 AM PDT]

  • 07.13.2012 9:46 AM PDT

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Because the plasma pistol wouldn't be able to kill you in normal gameplay. Unless you're just bad.

But Halo:CE and Reach's PP owns. Had they given everyone that pistol. A simple overcharge with a group team *pew pew* could have done some serious damage.

[Edited on 07.13.2012 9:55 AM PDT]

  • 07.13.2012 9:54 AM PDT

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Because the Brutes think they're to Badass for plasma pistols.
They use Bruteshots and Fuelrods and all the other high powered weapons because they're compensating for something.

  • 07.13.2012 12:49 PM PDT


Posted by: Sigma617
It's just another example of the Jiralhinae's Tactical Ineptness.

The Plasma pistol is widely regarded as the most versatile of Covenant firearms and anyone that passes it up is a fool in my book.

I could go as far as to postulate that the Plasma Pistol's sheer weight in production is why Humans were brought to the brink of extinction.


Um no. It's called the brutes preferred the spiker as their sidearm.

Brutes just tended to use weapons of their own design more. Probably had to deal with the fact Elites never liked supplying the brutes with gear.

  • 07.13.2012 6:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sigma617
It's just another example of the Jiralhinae's Tactical Ineptness.

The Plasma pistol is widely regarded as the most versatile of Covenant firearms and anyone that passes it up is a fool in my book.

I could go as far as to postulate that the Plasma Pistol's sheer weight in production is why Humans were brought to the brink of extinction.
Was versatile.

CE: versatile stunner (getting overkill on Grunts before overheating, stunning Grunts and Jackals with overcharged shot, stunning Elites to go around them and assassinate), absolute shield killer, tracking worked from longer range, could destroy vehicles

H2: pea shooter, shield killer, best tracking in a Halo game

H3: pea shooter, absolute shield killer, vehicle stunner, pathetic tracking

Reach: stunner (inferior to CE), shield killer (except Jackal shielding), vehicle stunner, improved tracking (from H3)

Versatile in CE.

Reach only restored 10% of the PP's former capabilities. Seriously, it takes like 3 overcharged shots to kill a Grunt while it takes 7-8 to kill an Elite. The overcharge takes goddamn long for players while they take an instant for Covies. The overcharged shots are abused by Covenant in Reach. Killing Grunts with the plasma pistol's main bolts very quickly requires them to have been weakened in advance. And the Reach PP overcharge is as useless as the H3 PP when it comes to long range use.

The PP has becoming nothing but a sidearm or anti-vehicle weapon. It used to be versatile, unique, and powerful.

Anyways, I thought Grunts preferred the needler (it is a fact that the CE needler is the most versatile of them all).

[Edited on 07.13.2012 7:25 PM PDT]

  • 07.13.2012 7:20 PM PDT

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Or the fact that their hands are twice the size of the plasma pistol...

  • 07.13.2012 7:51 PM PDT

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  • 07.17.2012 1:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: ninjakenzen
Because the plasma pistol wouldn't be able to kill you in normal gameplay. Unless you're just bad.

But Halo:CE and Reach's PP owns. Had they given everyone that pistol. A simple overcharge with a group team *pew pew* could have done some serious damage.


Shipmaster: Okay everybody, due to budget cuts we can't afford to glass planets anymore, so everybody grab a Plasma Pistol and just fire towards the planet.

  • 07.17.2012 1:55 PM PDT

Posted by: ninjakenzen
Because the plasma pistol wouldn't be able to kill you in normal gameplay. Unless you're just bad.
The Skirmishers would like a word with you.

  • 07.17.2012 1:56 PM PDT


Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Posted by: ninjakenzen
Because the plasma pistol wouldn't be able to kill you in normal gameplay. Unless you're just bad.
The Skirmishers would like a word with you.
And drones...

  • 07.17.2012 2:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: crawlingshadow9
Because the Brutes think they're to Badass for plasma pistols.
They use Bruteshots and Fuelrods and all the other high powered weapons because they're compensating for something.


Strategic minds?

  • 07.17.2012 2:25 PM PDT

People... The gameplay changes to the plasma pistol aren't exactly lore.

Realistically, a single bolt would melt a Marine's face off. It IS super heated plasma.

Also, I suppose Brutes just don't like it. Why stall a Warthog when you can blow the -blam!- out of it with a Brute Shot?

[Edited on 07.17.2012 3:20 PM PDT]

  • 07.17.2012 3:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: crawlingshadow9
Because the Brutes think they're to Badass for plasma pistols.
They use Bruteshots and Fuelrods and all the other high powered weapons because they're compensating for something.


Strategic minds?


Exactly. Hence their names.

  • 07.17.2012 6:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Posted by: ninjakenzen
Because the plasma pistol wouldn't be able to kill you in normal gameplay. Unless you're just bad.
The Skirmishers would like a word with you.
And drones...

Fortunately for me I'm good so they never get a word in. :P
If anything kills me more in game, it would be grunts with fuel rod guns and grenades. Sometimes it's the smallest things that matter most.

  • 07.17.2012 7:23 PM PDT
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I tend to get killed by enemy melee the most in Reach. Seriously, the melee speeds are crazy, but I like them from a game play perspective.

As for the PP, their fingers might be too big to use it.

[Edited on 07.18.2012 1:21 AM PDT]

  • 07.17.2012 9:22 PM PDT
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The brutes probably would crush the firearm with one shot lol.

  • 07.17.2012 11:22 PM PDT

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Brutes use brute weapons, they don't use covie weapons.

  • 07.18.2012 4:32 AM PDT

I like to try re-railing derailed threads.

That can't be it. They use plasma rifles and plasma repeaters.

  • 07.18.2012 5:26 AM PDT

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Posted by: Quantam
I tend to get killed by enemy melee the most in Reach. Seriously, the melee speeds are crazy, but I like them from a game play perspective.

As for the PP, their fingers might be too big to use it.


Yeah I think that might be it.

  • 07.18.2012 5:27 AM PDT


Posted by: CrabbySpider

Posted by: crawlingshadow9
Because the Brutes think they're to Badass for plasma pistols.
They use Bruteshots and Fuelrods and all the other high powered weapons because they're compensating for something.


Strategic minds?


Higher ranking brutes can be cunning.

More like they just prefer to use their own weapons. Can't deny a spike rifle or mauler can kill just as quick.

  • 07.18.2012 10:23 AM PDT

Nothing but dust and echoes...

They generally prefer their own weapons, the bigger the better.

  • 07.18.2012 4:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: CODE OF DEAD
Or the fact that their hands are twice the size of the plasma pistol...


The first common sense thought i had.

  • 07.18.2012 4:57 PM PDT

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