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Subject: Sniper Rifle question!
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If you find AA to be as fast paced as HPC you're playing either one or both wrongly.

However, just a point: The marines often fire multiple shots with the Sniper Rifle on target, better than the Chief. There goes the "accuracy for the marines" idea :P

  • 07.31.2006 2:29 PM PDT
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If you find AA to be as fast paced as HPC you're playing either one or both wrongly.

However, just a point: The marines often fire multiple shots with the Sniper Rifle on target, better than the Chief. There goes the "accuracy for the marines" idea :P

  • 07.31.2006 3:55 PM PDT
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on real sniper rifles well most of them if they have a bipod they can fold up i know this because my dad is a sniper on the SWAT team.

  • 07.31.2006 6:49 PM PDT
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The sniper rifle's bipod is always folded up in Halo, because it's rarely been seen used in the Halo series.

  • 07.31.2006 6:59 PM PDT

Posted by: Ryukage
What? Play a game? FOR FUN???
This concept of fun confuses and infuriates me!

I don't think i've ever seen it used in H1. If you have, show me the screeny, and i'll look for it later.

  • 07.31.2006 7:23 PM PDT
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I use it all the time.

  • 07.31.2006 7:28 PM PDT
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just to look cool

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I use it all the time.
No, you think you use it after you've eaten about several of your "home-made brownies". You also think that you've seen golden banshees and warthogs.

  • 08.01.2006 4:06 AM PDT
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I was on subject, it's called...an analogy (*ooooh ahhhhh*).

And isn't this called Halo: Combat Evolved? Not, Halo: Stealth Evolved? Anyways crouching is slow enough, being prone will make you slower. With Halo 1's fast paced games it will be useless to use the bipod (as what a lot of people in this thread said).

Realism my ass. Halo PC is old, look at the other fps games out there like F.E.A.R. (oh my gosh the realism is crazy in that game), Quake 4, and CSS. 'Bout time Halo 2 PC game out, eh Bungie?

  • 08.01.2006 6:15 AM PDT
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Actually, crouching ISN'T slow enough. You can still be seen on the motion sensor going at full-speed-crouch. It's a -blam!- to move and not pop up as a red blob.

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  • 08.01.2006 3:09 PM PDT
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Quoting without adding anything doesn't particularly add much to the conversation. It's akin to spam. CYRSE THINE TROLL INSTYNCTS!

  • 08.01.2006 3:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: ImSpartacus
since the sniper is standard issue (though i doubt even a futristic military would issue a .50 cal anit-material rifle for its standard long range 'sniper' rifle), it isnt hard to understand why a bipod is featured on the it, but it is hard to understand why u r unable to use it. masterchief may not need it, but that doesnt mean he cant use it.

Here is the simple answer: You, as the Master Chief, finds the bipod unnessecary, because you are a geneticly, mentally, and physically altered, and have perfect aim, all of the time, with or without a bipod. No more scope drift for you, a la CoD, AA, or Real Life.

Also, the UNSC S2 AM doesn't fire fiddy cal. rounds, they are slightly larger. The rounds measure in at 14.5mm x 114mm, which is .5708661455 cal., or approx. .57 cal.
In even simpler terms, the rounds are Frikin' Huge.
Posted by: Master Kim
And I also remember reading somewhere that the bipod does more harm than good, as the ammo case touches the ground while in prone position, damaging it and causing significant wear and tear to it. That's why the UNSC usually don't use it.

Where did you read that? It sounds like an interesting theory, and I've never heard it before.

I can see how using the bipod in it's folded state, as shown here, would be quite damaging to the ammunition clip. But, if the bipod was folded down, so it was perpendicular to the barrel, I can't see how this would damage the magazine at all.
Posted by: Reaver225
However, just a point: The marines often fire multiple shots with the Sniper Rifle on target, better than the Chief. There goes the "accuracy for the marines" idea :P

The reason the Marines have perfect accuracy with the S2 AM is because that's the way the game is made. In the AotCR, if you have SGT Johnson (with the S2) on one of the track pods of your Scorpion, you can see that he fires the rifle with perfect accuracy and reloads quickly, all while holding the rilfe with one hand and holding onto a grab rung with his other hand.

It's a game mechanic, and the same sort of thing pops up in H2. If a Marine has a BR55 or a M7 Caseless SMG, his accuracy is horrible. But, give the same Marine a SPNKr or a SR, and he has perfect accuracy. It's the way the game is made, and it's not canon.

  • 08.02.2006 2:24 PM PDT
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Halo is only a fast pace game if you play it really fast. Ive found MANY times where ive had time to crouch down and snipe out covenant. On Halo 1 and 2. It may seem fast if you go in Rambo Style with your Assault rifel or dual SMG's and whipe out everything. The games pace changes with every weapon.

I think proneing would be cool in Halo.

  • 08.02.2006 2:39 PM PDT
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The fact of the matter is this, Halo is a ficticious game, comparing it to AA in regards of realism intended is like comparing Ridge racer to Forza, that is to say one is pretty unrealistic while the other is hard-core realism. Halo was not ment to be a realistic game, it was ment to be a fast paced run and gun game were you could charge into a room full of baddies and let your shields protect you, not to mention a game were a shot to the chest with an assault rifle will not kill you; were as in AA on the other hand, you sneak your way to victory and can be killed by being shot once or twice in the foot with a pistol.

Now onto the issue of prone. While a prone position might be okish in single player, playing Halo2 and Halo PC for years has taught me that in all likely hood such a position would leave you horridly exposed. You might present a somewhat smaller target but with players who can pop heads unscoped from across a map that would be off little matter. You would be a sitting duck as you would not be able to move fast enough nor fire while moving if fired apon and, you'd be total nade fodder as by the time you got to your feet the nade would go off, sending you to an even earlier grave than normal.

Now for stealth. Stealth is important in Halo. I play halo PC mostly these days and spend most of my time either flag running or sniping to keep the other team at bay. Were stealth comes into the picture both in regards of getting to the flag undetected or getting into an advantagious position with my rifle. Both of these involve taking outa the way paths and LOTS of crouch walking. These sorts of things are what stealth in Halo is about.

Bipod damaging rifle........I have no clue. XD

I hope this will have been helpful and will be listened to as it should cover in harsh honesty the matters at hand. Lates all!

PS.I confess, I do want a health moniter back (for Halo 3)so I know just how many hits I'm gonna be able to take once my shield has gone down....

  • 08.02.2006 3:08 PM PDT
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I don't blame if you want a health bar for Halo 3, that's up to Bungie to decide. But hoping for a health-heal system in H2 Vista is what I think is ridiculous and impractical for gameplay.

  • 08.02.2006 3:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
I don't blame if you want a health bar for Halo 3, that's up to Bungie to decide. But hoping for a health-heal system in H2 Vista is what I think is ridiculous and impractical for gameplay.

Wait a sec! Health heal was in H2 X-Box, right? Why would Bungie take out a feature in H2 Vista?

  • 08.02.2006 3:15 PM PDT
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No, when I say "health-heal" I mean putting in a health bar in Halo 2 and using health packs in order to heal yourself.

  • 08.02.2006 3:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: Master Kim
No, when I say "health-heal" I mean putting in a health bar in Halo 2 and using health packs in order to heal yourself.

Oh. XP Whoops! I thought you meant an auto-health heal system, like the one currently in H2.

Thanks for clearing that up!

  • 08.02.2006 3:21 PM PDT

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