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The Assault Rifle in Halo 1 was okay. It was kinda weak, but it sure was a helovalotta fun to mow down Grunts with this thing, with no worry for ammo (10 mags enough for yeh?). Then Halo 2 came, and replaced it with my favourite gun, the SMG.Many people will say, "buyt teh br waz miore of a reppiulacemeint 4 teh ar!!1!!1!! lololoollolololollololololool." But, did the AR have burst fire? No, it had auto. Did it have a scope? No, it didn't. Did it make muffins? No, but neither does the SMG, or any other thing in Halo, except for the Grunts maybe. They look like little chefs don't you think? Ahem.
Back to the AR. So they are going to bring it back, except more
Battle Rifle-ish. I reckon it's gonna be cool, but I liked the 60-Shot Mag. It was a nice, round number, instead of 32. Maybe it was just too powerful for 60 rounds... Oh well. Bungie knows best. Oh, wait one thing Bungie...
For Halo 3 make the SMG more powerful and give it a couple more mags to make it 300 max ammo instead of 180. 180 was too small, but 600 in Halo 1 for the AR was too big! Have it in the middle! I'm nearly finished now, just one more thing. As soon as any thirteen-thirty-sevens read this, they will stare in horror, then laugh, at my love for SMGs. I say to them, I say, "The SMG is fun! The Battle Rifle is boring!" OK, finished now.

  • 01.26.2007 1:15 AM PDT
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The Assault Rifle in Halo 1 was okay. It was kinda weak, but it sure was a helovalotta fun to mow down Grunts with this thing, with no worry for ammo (10 mags enough for yeh?). Then Halo 2 came, and replaced it with my favourite gun, the SMG.Many people will say, "buyt teh br waz miore of a reppiulacemeint 4 teh ar!!1!!1!! lololoollolololollololololool." But, did the AR have burst fire? No, it had auto. Did it have a scope? No, it didn't. Did it make muffins? No, but neither does the SMG, or any other thing in Halo, except for the Grunts maybe. They look like little chefs don't you think? Ahem.
Back to the AR. So they are going to bring it back, except more
Battle Rifle-ish. I reckon it's gonna be cool, but I liked the 60-Shot Mag. It was a nice, round number, instead of 32. Maybe it was just too powerful for 60 rounds... Oh well. Bungie knows best. Oh, wait one thing Bungie...
For Halo 3 make the SMG more powerful and give it a couple more mags to make it 300 max ammo instead of 180. 180 was too small, but 600 in Halo 1 for the AR was too big! Have it in the middle! I'm nearly finished now, just one more thing. As soon as any thirteen-thirty-sevens read this, they will stare in horror, then laugh, at my love for SMGs. I say to them, I say, "The SMG is fun! The Battle Rifle is boring!" OK, finished now.
Posted by: KPaul
Another delve into the world of Halo 3 vehicles and weapons - this time Robt. McLees assists us in a tour of what's soon to be everyone's favorite spawning weapon - the MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System, otherwise known as the Assault Rifle.

  • 01.26.2007 1:16 AM PDT
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The Assault Rifle in Halo 1 was okay. It was kinda weak, but it sure was a helovalotta fun to mow down Grunts with this thing, with no worry for ammo (10 mags enough for yeh?). Then Halo 2 came, and replaced it with my favourite gun, the SMG.Many people will say, "buyt teh br waz miore of a reppiulacemeint 4 teh ar!!1!!1!! lololoollolololollololololool." But, did the AR have burst fire? No, it had auto. Did it have a scope? No, it didn't. Did it make muffins? No, but neither does the SMG, or any other thing in Halo, except for the Grunts maybe. They look like little chefs don't you think? Ahem.
Back to the AR. So they are going to bring it back, except more
Battle Rifle-ish. I reckon it's gonna be cool, but I liked the 60-Shot Mag. It was a nice, round number, instead of 32. Maybe it was just too powerful for 60 rounds... Oh well. Bungie knows best. Oh, wait one thing Bungie...
For Halo 3 make the SMG more powerful and give it a couple more mags to make it 300 max ammo instead of 180. 180 was too small, but 600 in Halo 1 for the AR was too big! Have it in the middle! I'm nearly finished now, just one more thing. As soon as any thirteen-thirty-sevens read this, they will stare in horror, then laugh, at my love for SMGs. I say to them, I say, "The SMG is fun! The Battle Rifle is boring!" OK, finished now.

  • 01.26.2007 1:17 AM PDT
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Oops... Sorry... I clicked too many times.

  • 01.26.2007 1:17 AM PDT

If there's one thing I have learned in working with you, it's that there is always margin for error.
- RvB, Simmons to Griff.

dude, in multiplayer even people who dual-wielded the smg were owned by the battle riffle. It is an ok gun as a secondary or a last resort, but I would take the BR any day, except when the AR is available. woot! I can't wait for halo 3

  • 01.26.2007 8:00 AM PDT
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yes!!! i can't wait for haLO 3

  • 01.26.2007 11:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: mddwebboy
YES! Actual info on Halo 3 !(even if it contains no spoilers)! The new assault rifle sounds killer, but I have a concern...

By the sound of things, Bungie is doing what they did in halo 2: Add new weapons, change old ones slightly, and basically double the number of guns you can use. While this may sound awesome, it means that there are many guns that do almost the same purpose (ie. SMG - assault rifle, Covie sniper - sniper rifle). Unfortunately this makes it harder to find ammo, adds to the learning curve (slightly), and makes gameplay less smooth (I found).

Also, did anyone notice that there have been no shots including the AR's display ? Most likely the art for it is virtually done (they showed it at the E3), which would mean that the display might have some greater purpose... or just be a fancy surprise.


Agreed; I don't see why they couldn't have just made the MA5C's improvements to the SMG and save adding a redundant weapon to the game. Given Bungie's past performance in designing automatic lead-based weapons, I have a hard time believing the MA5C will be anymore than a depth-less bullet hose with sub-par accuracy. This is a lot of fanfare over what basically amounts to making H3's machinegun not as sucky as that of H1 and 2.

Posted by: milla da killa
Shown improvenments:
-fewer rounds in magazine

How is that an improvement?

[Edited on 1/28/2007]

  • 01.28.2007 4:26 PM PDT
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There was way to many big words in there anyways, stop critisizing a weapon that you havent even used, what are you? covenant, we will all find out if the upgrades did any good or if it will just be a replay of what happened to the shotty, but i am a little dissapionted with the 32 rounds, and also 10 clips is too much but 4 isnt enough bungie needs to find a moderate amount like 6 or 7 or even 5 but with the high rate of fire these guns we need more than 4 clips, i often found myself running out of ammo while providing coverfire in BTB before my team could do their job, we need more clips but not too many is that too much to ask for?

  • 01.31.2007 11:13 PM PDT
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[Awesome] Update.

  • 02.02.2007 5:59 PM PDT
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It's like voltron, the more you hook up the better it gets

I can't wait to have the assault rifle back, it was the greatest weapon in halo 1 and was a key missing section of Halo 2. They should add it in as a weapon with the new maps.

  • 02.03.2007 9:25 AM PDT
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MA5C AR FTW!

  • 02.12.2007 12:10 PM PDT
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32 round clip? Seems kinda smal mabye more like 40?

  • 02.19.2007 6:26 PM PDT

"The point of war is not to die for your country but to make the other son of a -blam!- die for his." George S. Patton

Posted by: Achronos
Every post whining about the weekly update delays it by 5 minutes.

Posted by: Sgt Raz1r
Wow am I pissed.

I wanted to see the design from the front of the Ghosts Of Onyx.

Something new, y'know?


well actually if u look at it its just a BR without scope

  • 02.20.2007 10:49 AM PDT

"The point of war is not to die for your country but to make the other son of a -blam!- die for his." George S. Patton

Posted by: Achronos
Every post whining about the weekly update delays it by 5 minutes.

maybe the improved accuracey will make up for its magazine size

  • 02.20.2007 11:10 AM PDT
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i cant wait to kill tons of brutes with it sorry the ''new'' brutes

  • 02.20.2007 5:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: King Leopold789
Posted by: Sgt Raz1r
Wow am I pissed.

I wanted to see the design from the front of the Ghosts Of Onyx.

Something new, y'know?


well actually if u look at it its just a BR without scope

^^^^^^^
The design on the front of the ghosts of onyx is not a BR w/o a scope, its the MA5K it is a variant of the MA5B Assault Rifle Get you facts right.

  • 03.03.2007 11:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: DangerDoom
Posted by: King Leopold789
Posted by: Sgt Raz1r
Wow am I pissed.

I wanted to see the design from the front of the Ghosts Of Onyx.

Something new, y'know?


well actually if u look at it its just a BR without scope

^^^^^^^
The design on the front of the ghosts of onyx is not a BR w/o a scope, its the MA5K it is a variant of the MA5B Assault Rifle Get you facts right.


Yea. OMG ur such a N00B (jk) Calm down Danger, he's just commenting on the appearence of it...

  • 03.04.2007 1:25 PM PDT
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ya dude ghosts of onyx waz an asome book and yes PANDA OF PWNAGE is correct it is a shorter version of the AR , i wish that the would put in the SPI armor that would help out with the marines u know? and also if its on onyx then there should be so many fuking spartons its not funny! And yes to all you ppl who dont read the books MC spartan 117's name is indeed John.

  • 03.04.2007 2:17 PM PDT
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SWEET
finally a fully fledged assualt rifle instead of a weak smg

  • 03.04.2007 7:30 PM PDT
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i just hope the pistol will make a comeback...that was my favorite weapon

  • 03.04.2007 7:32 PM PDT

If they cut the ammo, noobs cant just "pray and spray" anymore. They actualy have to 'gasp' AIM!

  • 03.15.2007 6:18 PM PDT
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lol

  • 03.15.2007 6:22 PM PDT
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No but if they did that they would probably have to up the power becuz half the ammos gone... I mean u would reload like 3 times be4 he dies. Ok lets be honest. If u had great aim u coueld kill them but were only human. we miss.

  • 03.15.2007 6:25 PM PDT

There's That awful word again.
"Aim!"
Im feeling faint...

noobs.

  • 03.15.2007 6:27 PM PDT