Seriously! Whoever thought making a sniper rifle excel at no-scoping was a good idea clearly should not be in a position of making important decisions.
It’s hard to effectively describe how OP it is. It’s like a shotgun, that can easily kill people with 1 shot fifteen meters away without much fail. I’d say it can effectively no-scope up to 25 meters away.
And once you get farther out all you have to do is scope in and vuala! It can still kill people farther out.
I’d say it’s one of the single most powerful weapons in the game outside of rockets.
People do not seem to understand the obvious: why go for the head when you can get an easy kill with two shots to to the body? That is a problem, but it is ordnance only so, i guess it is not too bad.
I think it’s fine. You make it sound like it takes no skill at all to use. Yeah, it’s easier to use than the human sniper, but my girlfriend definitely wouldn’t be able to no scope with the beam rifle.
this game is sooo easy to noscope with in general. Even with the unsc sniper I will always hit the person if I dont get a headshot. The Beam is easier though. I miss when no scoping had zero aim assist and bullet magnetism making it just like trying to shooting a teammate.
> The human snipe is easy to no scope with as well. Your point?
Beam rifle is FAR easier to no scope with. It has a huge amount of aim assist. The human sniper (as far as I can tell) has zero aim assist unscoped. I can no scope with beam rifle perhaps 80-90% of the time, whereas I really struggle to get any no-scopes with human sniper.
I love the beam rifle in this game. It’s really fun to use. I personally never considered it overpowered, it feels relatively similar to its previous iterations. Its also a sniper so it should be strong.
It is nearly as easy to no-scope with as a DMR and 10 shots is too many. Considering weapons such as the sticky detonator only have 4 shots, it is unfair. There should be an option in custom games to spawn it with 60% charge.
> Nothing wrong with it. Only people who can aim can actually get the head.
You don’t even need to aim to get headshots with the beam rifle…
Look in my file share for a clip titled ‘10 shots’ or something. I get a random weapon drop ), get a beam rifle and 10 shots later, I get 10 no scope headshots with very little aiming or skill requirement on my part.
No scoping with the UNSC Sniper or the Beam rifle is an absolute joke in this game. No previous Halo game had anywhere near as much aim assist as Halo4. Hell, none of them bar Reach actually had any aim assist at all outside of scope.
It’s a power weapon - POWER WEAPON. It is supposed to be powerful. It is no more powerful than the Rockets, Incineration Cannon, or Binary Rifle. It is just different. It has less ammo than the human sniper, too. There is nothing wrong with it.
Only truly overpowered weapon in the game is the Boltshot.
Ok come on now… If people are going to have a vendetta against the DMR for its ease of use at least be consistent…
The Beam rifle is way to easy to use and with Halo 4s emphasis on throwing a metric ton of power weapons on the map at the same time I dont even know how anyone can use the “well its a power weapon” excuse. Power Weapon doesnt mean what it used to given that all you have to do is have thumbs in order to get them.