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Posted by: MasterChief291
Yea the new pistol is sorta like a real pistol, best close up.
Yeah, the new setup is much mroe realistic. In Halo the rifle was a bullet hose, and very inaccurate. The pistol was a sniping weapon. Which was way wrong. It doesn't matter if you like it, the idea of a pistol being more accurate than a battlerifle is just wrong. So they turned the AR into the battle rifle, and split the pistol into a magnum and an SMG.
Actually, I tend to think of the battle rifle as the new Halo pistol, the SMG as the new AR, and the magnum as a new gun, a real pistol.
Think about it. Imagine how you'd use the Halo pistol in Halo 2, and realize that the battle rifle has all the same powers. Zoomed in it's semi-sutomatic sniping, and the BR's fast rate of fire should compensate if it takes more than 3 shots to kill. Zoomed out it is...I don't know what to call it, but it's about the same style. The Halo pistol didn't have dual wielding either, so thats no loss. And what would dual wielding have done? Upped the rate of fire; and as we saw in the demo, the BR fires much faster than the Halo pistol. Or it would have allowed you to soom in with another one-handed gun, but those don't seem to work well at range, so they wouldn't have gained much from it anyway. Oh, and the BR is good against vehicles, it can shoot pieces off them and everything.
The SMG is clearly the next generation AR, compressed to a one hand version for dual wielding. They both fire large numbers of bullets in a short period of time, not particularly concerned with accuracy. A bullet-hose.
And the magnum is just a new gun. It looks like the Halo pistol, but it isn't really derived from it. It is more like a real pistol. It is much the anti-thesis of the Halo pistol. The Halo pistol was making each shot count (because one miss throws off the 3-hit-kill,) weak bullets, up to long range. The magnum is strong bullets, short range, and it doesn't need each shot to count because there is another right behind it and it doesn't have a 3-shot-kill.
You pistol-lovers shouldn't be griping about the magnum, you should be celebrating the BR, because it has all the same qualities, in spades.
[Edited on 10/28/2004 11:12:27 AM]