One of gifts I received for Christmas (yes, my family opens gifts on Christmas Eve) was the “Art of Halo” Collector’s Edition book. Yeah, I’m a nerd. Deal with it.
Anyway in it is the concept sketches for [the] redesigned SMG, akin to the one from Halo 2 & 3.
Needless to say, that actually kinda ruined my night. Knowing that the “tool’s tool” was considered a revival for Halo 4 but never actually made it into the final game.
Anyone know the lame excuse as to why it isn’t in Halo 4?
umm the SAW.
The AR, SAW and Suppressor render it redundant.
Only way they could have implemented it off the top of my head is to introduce it as a dual wielded loadout weapon, so you cannot throw grenades or melee while they are equipped. That way, you could give them a better range than the Suppressor, a worse range than the AR, and a faster kill time than both.
Never know, could be in one of the sequels.
They should have just taken the saw properties and used a dual SMG skin but take away the ability to grenade and made duals the only way to use it. when using any other weapon just press Y and out pops 2 SMGS, Y again brings it back to your other weapon.
As for the reason…
Cuz AR, Storm, suppressor, and SAW were already redundant. Why bring back a weapon that was on the cover of a 2 Halo games when you can just add 3 more new clone weapons on top of the H2/3 smg, ar, pr, red PR, human/covi turret, and spiker!
Yay Halo now has 10 bullet spray weapons! sure glad we added those 3 instead of an ODST SMG or default dual SMGs!
What if they made it a secondary weapon?
Then we could have the magnum, which is good for medium to short distances, plasma pistol, which is good against shields and vehicles, and the SMG would be for short distance only, but be able to take down shields and kill at a reasonable time?
I miss the smg. I dont care that we have a bunch of fully automatic guns in halo 4. The smg was such a cool gun! . The smg would be the equivalent to the surpressor, only I think the smg shoots faster. We’ll get it back one day im sure.
And I have every halo book and every game including the halo 2 limited edition, h2 map pack disk. So don’t feel so nerdy. I also have an Master Chief poster next to my bed… Lol
They tried to implement duel wielding into Halo 4, but they couldn’t find a way to balance it out. So they scraped the idea along with the SMG since it became redundant.
I hope they have a selection of automatic secondaries in Halo 5, Not only for variety but also to bring back some old friends (Plasma Rifle and SMG.)
> What if they made it a secondary weapon?
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> Then we could have the magnum, which is good for medium to short distances, plasma pistol, which is good against shields and vehicles, and the SMG would be for short distance only, but be able to take down shields and kill at a reasonable time?
Thats actually a really good idea in my opinion. Make it weaker than the main loadout assault rifles and we have a deal!
> > What if they made it a secondary weapon?
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> > Then we could have the magnum, which is good for medium to short distances, plasma pistol, which is good against shields and vehicles, and the SMG would be for short distance only, but be able to take down shields and kill at a reasonable time?
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> Thats actually a really good idea in my opinion. Make it weaker than the main loadout assault rifles and we have a deal!
Great idea maybe they can implement it in.