The battle rifle is way OP. In the hands of a good player it can out shoot the assault rifle or SMG at short range (with a headshot) and out snipe a sniper at long range (with a little straffing/jumping/thrusting). It truly is the “jack of all trades” weapon, which is lame. It should dominate at medium range, but not short or long. No one weapon should dominate at every range.
It ruins warzone because everyone stands on one of the capture points and just tries to “battle rifle snipe” across the map. The game mode would be a LOT more fun if the battle rifle didn’t exist or took longer to get (REQ 3 is way too quick).
Of all the complaints I have with this game, weapon balance isn’t one of them. The guns are perfect, last time all the guns were useful was in Reach and before that CE. I like how the carbine and LR are treated as power weapons, carbine is best in short range as a precision weapon and LR melts at mid to long, it just works.
I adore Halo 2 and 3 and the sandbox worked competitively but way too many guns were absolutely useless, AR paled to BR and just sounded like a popcorn gun, totally unsatisfying to use, SMG sucked in Halo 2, magnums were atrocious in both games, spiker sucked etc. I NEED BR starts on Halo 2 just to enjoy it, Halo 5’s weapons are fine don’t mess with it ffs just fix these damn deadzones and give us some more competitive symmetrical maps with unique art style in future DLC, not this UNSC industrial aesthetic and then we’re all good.
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> It is harder to aim up close with it. In past Halos it’s been way more OP. Have you played Halo 2, or 3 before?
Not if you don’t aim down the sights.
I played both Halo 2 & 3. I didn’t like either of them because the BR/DMR were dominant, maybe even worse then they are now (BR). The problem is every weapon has an “effective” range except the BR, it’s good at every range. It’s good at short, medium and long range, no other weapon is good at every range, most are good at 1 range, maybe 2, but the BR is good at all and deadly accurate at all ranges.
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> Pistol is OP
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> Assult Rifle is OP
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> Battle Rifle is OP
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> so…
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> its balanced right?
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> (the capture point camping bugs me too) they need to add 2 more points to each map to give more objectives and get people out of the center.
Not everyone runs around with the pistol or assault rifle. Play warzone. As soon as they hit REQ 3 EVERYONE has switched out the pistol or AR for the BR. 90% of people playing are running with the BR. Very few people are using the the other weapons. Play warzone, it’s a BR-fest.
Personally, I think all the weapons feel pretty balanced outside of the BR.
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> > 2732317809657592;3:
> > Pistol is OP
> > Assult Rifle is OP
> > Battle Rifle is OP
> > so…
> > its balanced right?
> > (the capture point camping bugs me too) they need to add 2 more points to each map to give more objectives and get people out of the center.
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> Not everyone runs around with the pistol or assault rifle. Play warzone. As soon as they hit REQ 3 EVERYONE has switched out the pistol or AR for the BR. 90% of people playing are running with the BR. Very few people are using the the other weapons. Play warzone, it’s a BR-fest.
> Personally, I think all the weapons feel pretty balanced outside of the BR.
It’s a “BR-fest” because the BR is good for the ranges that typical Warzone encounters happen in, and the base version only requires REQ level 3. That, and the DMR is both a rare REQ card, and requires REQ level 5 just to use the base version…
The only problem I have with all the weapons, is that the aim assist is crazy. Watch as the gun has the bullets chase the target for you… I would love for there to be little to no aim assist at all, especially for Arena.
Lol the BR is no where close to OP. Long range really? Unless you have the Longshot version the BR is quite terrible long range for actual killing. Sure you can get a few hits but if the enemy is smart enough to actually move to cover and not stand still then trying to get a kill is generally a waste of ammo
The BR is actually a amazingly powerful weapon for all ranges considering it can kill a sniper at gteat distances. This weapon needs to be nerf due to the fact that shooting a three round burst in real life isn’t dead on everytime thus every shot being a head shot is unrealistic in nature. It is a over powered gun. Thus why everyone uses it because it’s got a low req requirement. Ideas of potential nerfing.
A: a card u collect from the packs(Not a great choice but still a option)
B: reduce accuracy or harder to hit targets if being shot at.
C: increase the REQ requirement to acquire. (like swapping SMG for the BR or something like that)
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> Pistol is OP
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> Assult Rifle is OP
>
> Battle Rifle is OP
>
> so…
>
> its balanced right?
>
> (the capture point camping bugs me too) they need to add 2 more points to each map to give more objectives and get people out of the center.
hahaha this is how I feel, people get schooled 3 times in a row by someone wielding certain weapons and REFUSE to believe that they got outplayed. Nope, the weapon must be OP.
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> The BR is actually a amazingly powerful weapon for all ranges considering it can kill a sniper at gteat distances. This weapon needs to be nerf due to the fact that shooting a three round burst in real life isn’t dead on everytime thus every shot being a head shot is unrealistic in nature. It is a over powered gun. Thus why everyone uses it because it’s got a low req requirement. Ideas of potential nerfing.
> A: a card u collect from the packs(Not a great choice but still a option)
> B: reduce accuracy or harder to hit targets if being shot at.
> C: increase the REQ requirement to acquire. (like swapping SMG for the BR or something like that)
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> Let me know what u guys think?
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> The battle rifle is way OP. In the hands of a good player it can out shoot the assault rifle or SMG at short range (with a headshot) and out snipe a sniper at long range (with a little straffing/jumping/thrusting). It truly is the “jack of all trades” weapon, which is lame. It should dominate at medium range, but not short or long. No one weapon should dominate at every range.
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> It ruins warzone because everyone stands on one of the capture points and just tries to “battle rifle snipe” across the map. The game mode would be a LOT more fun if the battle rifle didn’t exist or took longer to get (REQ 3 is way too quick).
This probably a factor in determining why I rarely encounter DMRs in Warzone matches. I think the DMR is OP as well. Just be glad it’s a slower single shot rate of fire, or we’d all have something else to gripe about.