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Poll: The Addition of The Gauss Rifle  [closed]
Amazing Idea:  18%
(8 Votes)
Okay Idea:  33%
(15 Votes)
Bad Idea:  22%
(10 Votes)
Should Only be a new Turret Addition:  27%
(12 Votes)
Total Votes: 45

Since Bungie has already included the Gauss Cannon
and MAC Cannon in Halo ( Both which propel caseless
rounds magnetically ) then why not a Gauss RIfle !!
Its the perfect addition to the arrsenal of Halo 3. It could
be a scaled down version of a Gauss Cannon attached
to the warthog, put into a rifle like casing.

UPDATE ** Also Gauss Rifle would NOT explode in your face, contrary
to what some people think. A Gauss gun uses magnets to propell
a slug of metal throug the air. NO EXPLOSIVES are used in the process

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IT WOULD NOT BE OVERPOWERED!!
BUNGIE COULD FINE TUNE IT SO THE
DAMAGE WOULD BE BALANCED.IT WOULD
HAVE SIMILAR DAMAGE AS A BRUTE SHOT


Here are some features it should have.

1. 10 round or 15 round clip
2. Fire only on Single shot
3. 2x zoom for medium range
4. Should do more damage to vehicles than standard rifles.
5. Should take 3 headshots, and 8 body shots to kill
6. Would be the Human Equivilant to the Brute Shot
7. should be harder to aim so that headshots are not easy to get,

Post your Ideas, and comments out the Gauss Rifle !!

[Edited on 6/21/2006]

  • 06.21.2006 1:10 PM PDT
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Take about power whoring.

Oh and the whole point of the Brute Shot is that it shoots grenades, which can deflect of things. A Gauss Rifle wouldn't do that, it would be a stronger BR.

[Edited on 6/21/2006]

  • 06.21.2006 1:12 PM PDT
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Its cool I like it...bet yea 45 bucks somebody is going to probably flame you.

  • 06.21.2006 1:13 PM PDT
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One shot and you'd do a triple backflip over the horizon.

  • 06.21.2006 1:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lt Smash
One shot and you'd do a triple backflip over the horizon.


ROFL. yeah as if it wasn't funny enough with a head shot from an SR.

  • 06.21.2006 1:17 PM PDT
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I mean the guy holdin the gun will do the triple backflip from the recoil.

  • 06.21.2006 1:20 PM PDT
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Ohh...still I'm laughing my @ss off

  • 06.21.2006 1:23 PM PDT
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itd be alright if it couldnt get a headshot and took like 3 body shots to kill someone and had a five clip reload thingo

  • 06.21.2006 1:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: hunterm90
5. Should take 3 headshots, and 8 body shots to kill

Post your Ideas, and comments out the Gauss Rifle !!


I think a Guass Rifle would kill you in one shot no matter who you are. I believe Guass weapons revolve around the idea of magnetized projectile launches. If you expect the projectile to travel fast enough, a far enough distance, and cause enough damage, it basically HAS to be strong enough to kill the person in one shot.

  • 06.21.2006 1:26 PM PDT
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yeah a guass rifle would be unfair in multiplayer. that's why you can't use the fuel rod gun there. it would just be too powerful to be fair, it would be like a rocket only moving fast that you can't doge, and that would be cheap, the game would turn into who whores the guass rifle first, because anyone who get it would be too powerful

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Posted by: Lt Smash
I mean the guy holdin the gun will do the triple backflip from the recoil.


Lt. Smash you crack me up LOL.
I thought you meant the person getting shot. : )

NO it probably would notdo that. it could have
internal recoil springs in the stock of the gun.

  • 06.21.2006 1:28 PM PDT
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then use team work an if its Free for All then still use team work.

  • 06.21.2006 1:30 PM PDT
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With an internal spring thingy the gun would compress to 1/8th it's size and then explode in the users face. The reason it's mounted on the hog is the same reson you see massive cannons fitted into tank turrets and not peoples shoulders. Although that would be cool.

  • 06.21.2006 1:37 PM PDT
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well the chief weights 66 tons and can beat the crap out of anything on its way so he could carry it, it would be a Spartan only weapon.

  • 06.21.2006 1:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: hunterm90
Would be the Human Equivilant to the Brute Shot
The Rocket Launcher is the Human equivilance to the Brute Shot. It's not exactly equal, but it's close. Two grenades from the Brute Shot kills you.

And I think the "Gauss Rifle" you're hoping for is already available, the Human Sniper.

  • 06.21.2006 1:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lt Smash
I mean the guy holdin the gun will do the triple backflip from the recoil.


There is barely any recoil from railguns/gauss rifles/whatever you want to call them!

Momentum = mass x velocity

Your shell is small and moving fast, but you weigh half a ton!

Edit: Oh yeah, and gauss rifles accelerate projectiles gradually, unlike modern guns that cause a small explosion in the chamber to fire the round, hence the recoil would be gradual too.

This is why the Gauss Cannon doesn't have a buffer, but the tank cannon does.

[Edited on 6/21/2006]

  • 06.21.2006 1:43 PM PDT
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Its a 25mm round flying at a hyper sonic speed!

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  • 06.21.2006 1:44 PM PDT
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When I say that an internal spring would be in the gun, I meant
thatit would be a dampener for the recoil, of the gun. How would
this cause the gun to explode??!! There are working on dampeners
for real guns, and that would be more dangerouus becuase
REAL GUNS USE EXPLOSIVES, GUASS WEAPONS USE MAGNETS
TO PROPEL WHICH IS WHY IT WOULDN"T EXPLODE, WHAT
WOULD THE MAGNETS EXPLODE. PROBABLY NOT.


Also the only difference between a tank shell and standard bullets
is the size, and also because tank shells have explossives in
it because the shell is big enough to fit it.


Posted by: Lt Smash
With an internal spring thingy the gun would compress to 1/8th it's size and then explode in the users face. The reason it's mounted on the hog is the same reson you see massive cannons fitted into tank turrets and not peoples shoulders. Although that would be cool.

  • 06.21.2006 1:44 PM PDT
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Your firing a 25mm round at hyper sonic speeds. Do your math and you can work out the recoil force

  • 06.21.2006 1:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lt Smash
Your firing a 25mm round at hyper sonic speeds. Do your math and you can work out the recoil force


Like I said, momentum = mass x velocity, and forward momentum = backward momentum, hence your recoil.

But, the recoil would be spread out over how long the gun took to accelerate the shell, unlike modern guns that just cause explosions in the chamber.

  • 06.21.2006 1:50 PM PDT
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Sounds like the Damn Halo 1 pistol... 3 head shots?



Also another name for this is the rail-gun.

I made a gauss rifle for a science fair last year. all you need are magnets, a ruler, and marbles. It turned out to be pretty cool and it worked nicely :)

[Edited on 6/21/2006]

  • 06.21.2006 1:50 PM PDT
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Lt Smash *****

PLEASE READ *****


The forward velocity of a shell being fired
would equal the same as the recoil ( fact ). If there was recoil
to begin with than the gauss cannon wouldn't exist beacase
the recoil would rip the gun off its turret in HALO 2, because
gauss rifle accelerate particles, TENS or even HUNDREDS
of times faster than standard guns.

So if it even had recoil to begin with, then
it wouldn't even be possible to have the guass hog , the gun would
rip itself off the turret at supersonic speeds and flip the hog. see.

[Edited on 6/21/2006]

  • 06.21.2006 1:53 PM PDT
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Are you sayin that the gun will take longer than .5 of a second to fire its bullet? From what I remember of the Gauss gun it just goes BANG! Instant acceleration which is the same as an explosion, instand acceleration of your corpse through the air.

  • 06.21.2006 1:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: Redoubt

But, the recoil would be spread out over how long the gun took to accelerate the shell, unlike modern guns that just cause explosions in the chamber.


Guass rifles accelerate the projectile at amazing speeds. Almost instantaneously.

  • 06.21.2006 1:54 PM PDT

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