A proposal for a Halo 4 Forerunner weapon in Halo 4.

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Essentially, the weapon I want to propose is a halfway point between the BR/DMR and Sniper Rifle. This weapon has a 6-8 round clip that zooms in to magnify 5x-6x. It takes two shots to pop your enemies’ shields if you shoot them anywhere other than the chest. If you hit them in the head, their shield pops in one shot. After shields pop, 2 shots anywhere kills, one to the head does the same. It’s ROF would be close to the Shotgun in Reach, except a bit quicker. The rifle would be either lever action or bolt action to make sense of the ROF.

There are many potentially satisfying reasons to add this sort of weapon. For starters, it is a nice counter to sniper rifles on BTB maps. Secondly, it can make the BR/DMR look silly if it’s in the right hands, making the weapon a valuable asset in Slayer BR/DMR. Besides, I’ve always wanted a longer distance combat rifle (the sniper rifle is a sniper rifle, not a combat rifle).

Thoughts? Suggestions? Comments?

Thanks for reading.

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I think that would be way to op for multiplayer but for campaign it might work.

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> I think that would be way to op for multiplayer but for campaign it might work.

All these factors can be changed though. I’ve always wanted a high power rifle that isn’t a one hit kill. The ROF could be changed to the speed of maybe the Rocket Launcher?

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I think we need something that looks like this. I feel it would really balance out the power weapon situation.

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Not a bad suggestion.

Give me a BR and an SMG as default starting weapon, for a close-mid/mid range weapon that can pop Snipers out of scope at long range if aimed correctly and an SMG that absolutely tears up with a Beatdown at point blank, and I’ll be happy running around without a power weapon, like H3, while feeling I can actually do something, which I don’t in Reach.

Put your weapon in, say, up to four places on a map and make sure that it CAN’T beat the BR at mid range but can at mid-long range onwards (when the BR’s bullets start to lose accuracy and shots go from being 4 to 5 or 6 or so) and I’ll have a reason to pick it up.

Put the AR on the maps all over the show and make sure it works just like it does with the SMG in H3: more range, more power, slower fire rate. That means that I’ll happily take it do avoid beating people down, and because overall it is the superior, more versatile weapon. Hell, make the beatdown do less damage when holding the AR to further emphasise the difference between the two.

Make sure that the Snipe can be popped out of scope by your Forerunner Rifle but not killed if going to very close cover (such as backing off behind a rock right next to you). I would suggest four shot kill, three shots to deshield, with great accuracy and slow fire rate. It would then rip people up if they didn’t fire back to pop you out of scope or duck to cover, but throws neither the BR nor Snipe (or obviously at that point, the SMG and AR) out of place. Perhaps limit the number to two on a map now that I think about it.

This Rifle sounds like something I’d take, because the BR takes forever to drop someone at extreme range in H3, and I believe there IS a big enough gap between the BR and Snipe for another weapon to fit there. It could be bolt-action or lever-action, but probably better it just has a slow fire rate, because it IS advanced tech, supposedly : ) That’s a design feature and of little importance, however, provided that the ROF IS capped to keep it in its niche.

Good idea I definitely strongly support, because I’d be fine with the BR AND DMR in H4, and this is even better. I hope you don’t feel I intruded with my suggestions though : )