The game is still in Beta, Merry Christmas!
This is because a Beta Tester used to be a paid position. And now your game is being built based on the feedback of the dumb masses and their purchasing habits.
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Sounds like you keep losing fights against the ar
How about we ask why it shouldn’t be able to headshot?
Why?
but why shouldn’t it headshot? ahahahaha makes no sense man.
Balance reasons of course.
Automatic weapons have spread and out of maybe 10 shots fired in a second, maybe one hits the head maybe none hits the head.
In either case, translating this randomness to video games is hard. But giving the AR, a weapon with impressive fire rate and impressive range in the current iteration the ability to headshot is problematic because it drastically cheapens the skill level of the game. Why use anything else when you can spray?
If you are gonna bring up realism, remember first this is a game before it is real life. Video game balance is very important to game health much more than realism ever will be. And besides if we wanna talk about realism, realistically NONE of these weapons will pierce a Spartan’s armor. Only weapons with high enough velocity and impact will have hope to hurt a Spartan and the AR and Sidekick are definitely NOT those.
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Having a friend who actually didn’t know about the Assault Rifle having headshot capabilities (he hadn’t played Halo 5), he was quite blistering about it before, saying it was just a peashooter and that he was just using the Sidekick because how worthless it was at killing enemies.
Once I informed him about it he changed his tune and said it was fine now 
And remove the skill gap? AR headshots are one of the best things to come to Infinite from H5.
How is AR headshotting a skill.
All you are doing is bringing the RNG spread, putting it on their head, and praying they die before you do because they are doing the same to you.
And H5 meta just use the pistol all the time anyway. If anything H5 pistol has more skill in it than spraying with the AR.
Either way, AR TTK needs to be brought up.
- It shreds shields too fast for a kinetic weapon.
- It has extremely good effective range.
- It can headshot for a spraying weapon.
One of these points need to be addressed. Just one is enough to balance the weapon.
Either make it take more shots to break shields, increase its spread at longer ranges, or remove headshot.
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Don’t waste your breath bruh. Most these noobs don’t even understand halo and want the AR to be strong cuz they didn’t know how to use it in H3.
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Fond memories I had in the Halo 4 days was when everyone was using Battle Rifles and DMRs that once I loaded up with the AR and threw on the Dexterity perk with the Jetpack equipment, they had absolutely no idea what to do against me Prowling around in those middle, closed-in spaces like in Exile, Wreckage, and Vortex, I could clean house.
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Yeah the AR is a destroyer at most ranges.
I lost a fight against a pistol yesterday and I had a BR, really embarrassing. It was a ranged fight as well.
The people complaining about the AR just aren’t that good. It’s in a fine place. It’s a weapon you can use without feeling like you’re worthless, but still worse than almost every other weapon. Shotgun, Mangler, Comando, BR and so on are all better than it. A BR will beat it in every range if the BR person hits most of their shots.
I’m sorry, but if an AR beats you in mid range fights every time you have a BR. It’s not the AR that’s the issue. It’s you.
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You only have this sentiment because you got used to the AR being absolute trash in previous games. In 4 and 5 it was just barely okay. Infinite finally made the AR usable and the BR not OP like it has been since H2.
The AR has far more weapons to compete with in its effective range so if you nerf it it will immediately become useless again. 343 please don’t listen to people who complain about a gun finally being usable just because they are use to it being trash and only spamming the BR or DMR and not having to worry about using any other weapon.
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the other weapons are more accurate and stronger…that is why.
Nothing you stated is a logical reason why a weapon should just never be able to achieve a headshot
doesn’t matter what you say or how much you type. It is logical. You guys are crying
This has been an obvious balance-problem since the first bot flight in my opinion.
One of the major reasons I barely play this MP.
Halo has never before been a spraying game, has always primarily need about precision over automatic weapons. Only way to get that experience that I’m after while playing Halo is by playing ranked, and I’m not a competitive person, and I miss the radar.
So the fun I’m getting out of this is limited.
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This is flat not true. It can barely hang with the BR at mid range for once but is entirely less effective than the sidekick. But the BR will always offer more consistently at mid range than the AR does. If you want to beat an AR up close, or dominate in mid range swap to your Sidekick and start practicing. It slays hard and consistently in skilled hands, far harder than the AR does. Most gunfights will still happen, or at least begin at ranges the BR has an upper hand unless you play too aggressively or position yourself poorly, so the BR is still the best overall weapon, but everyone should be in the habit of swapping to a Sidekick for mid-close range engagements instead of leaning on the BR for everything like they used to.
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Hardly anybody would use the assault rifle if they had better options to pick up. Buff the pickup weapons. Why dont we ask for an expanded sandbox too? I want my SMG and railguns.
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and it still is not a spraying game. The elitism of the fans of this franchise is disgusting. This is why Halo failed for so long.
Shooting games are about more than just burst precision weapons.
Angles, covering your team etc.
for a game with a fan base so concerned with precision weapons how do you guys go along with the constant frag fest and how does that not destroy the entire concept of everything being precision?
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Negative Ghost rider.
i actually think for weapons like the assault rifle and plasma pistol if it doesn’t have a scope you cant ads with it
i was thinking of a buff for the bull dog would be replace its ads with a double shell reload so when you LB you can put 2 extra round in ready to go it would be way faster then full reload and also make it more consistent the closer you are to a target so 5 meters is a 2 shot 3 meters is a one shot with headshot damage or you can body shot melee
and if they added the SMG later that would also be hip fire and dual wieldable with an ODST version that has a dot sight so you can ads with it
finding new things for the LB to do is interesting for the assault rifle its really hard to think cus what can you do maybe a flash light idk
also cooking grenades might be neat