Bolt Shot Counter Manuel

I found quite a few ways to counter the bolt shot and i will also give you the percentage of how often they work.

  1. Flush them out- just throw your grenades, or fire an AOE weapon at them this will either kill them, drop their shields or send them running. (80%)

  2. Thrust- if they are about to shoot you thruster pack away to give you some room.(varies of how quick you react)

3.Double team- if there are 2 of yall and 1 him, he can only kill one of you (unless if you suck)(85%)

  1. Hardlight shield- block the shot with the shield them pummel him with some luck you may even deflect the shot at him (60%)

5.Sneak- slowly walk over to his hiding place without showing up and the radar and beat him down (70%)

6.Hologram- send a hologram at him and when he shoots the hologram light him up. (50%)

  1. Fire vs Fire- match his bolt shot with another CQC weapon like the shotgun.(55%)

8.Common Sense- Dont rush him without a CQC weapon, dont chase him and dont get yourself in a sticky situation.(95%)

*Remember These will not work a 100% but i tried my best to get you the right stats. Please excuse grammer.

So we basically have to slow game play down even more then it is now to counter one weapon? Because you don’t know who has it since you can spawn with it. So you have to act like everyone has it. Make sense(just in case you couldn’t tell that was sarcasm)

> *Remember These will not work a 100% but i tried my best to get you the right stats. Please excuse grammer.

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You also forgot to mention “Please excuse sexism”
Everything you just said was assuming everyone is a “he”. What about “she”? sexist much? after all women do happen to play video games including Halo.

Oh and lets not forget… *grammAr

There’s been enough “for or against” boltshot threads now. It’s like armor lock all over again where these threads are pointless. 343 has enough info now to make the choice themselves. Adding more threads are just gonna lead to flaming, stalemates, and a lot of buried threads

Also, just because the OP used “he” instead of “players” doesn’t make the OP sexist. Assuming that the OP is now sexist is taking the OP’s words out of context. Yes, it’s ignorant on the OP’s part, but to declare sexism is harsh. Also, you never know, the OP could end up being a girl.

> > *Remember These will not work a 100% but i tried my best to get you the right stats. Please excuse grammer.

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You’re a freaking moron. Just because OP didn’t account for every women doesn’t mean he disregarded them. Over sensitive people like you just like to cry about everything they possibly can.

I play in teams, we are fairly skilled individuals and we are teamed up against equally skilled players, and no one camps with it, with how large the radar is, you can whip it out, time your charge and kill them offensively.

> > > *Remember These will not work a 100% but i tried my best to get you the right stats. Please excuse grammer.

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actually, i aint over sensitive in the slightest… its called im pedantic. therefore -Yoink-

Poor Manuel.

Always getting killed by the bolt shot.

Little did he know that it was designed specifically to counter him.

Well now, I seem to have brought humor to an argument about poor pronoun variety.

And did you just call yourself pedantic? I don’t recall that ever being an adjective one would use in their online dating profile, what with it’s negative connotations and all.

It may be OP but hard to tell… b/c if they miss with that first shot they are pretty much dead

> > *Remember These will not work a 100% but i tried my best to get you the right stats. Please excuse grammer.

Probably didn’t want to draw out the thread by saying he/she all the time. Assuming prejudice gets us nowhere.

> So we basically have to slow game play down even more then it is now to counter one weapon? Because you don’t know who has it since you can spawn with it. So you have to act like everyone has it. Make sense(just in case you couldn’t tell that was sarcasm)

I think we should get rid of the sniper rifle. It promotes camping, and slows down gameplay.

> > *Remember These will not work a 100% but i tried my best to get you the right stats. Please excuse grammer.

I don’t see that many female Spartans, maybe 1 every other match or so. I remember seeing more in Reach. But it’s obvious that they weren’t trying to ‘offend’ anyone, so why are you trolling them?

> > So we basically have to slow game play down even more then it is now to counter one weapon? Because you don’t know who has it since you can spawn with it. So you have to act like everyone has it. Make sense(just in case you couldn’t tell that was sarcasm)
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> I think we should get rid of the sniper rifle. It promotes camping, and slows down gameplay.

Get rid of a Halo staple? lol, no.

> So we basically have to slow game play down even more then it is now to counter one weapon? Because you don’t know who has it since you can spawn with it. So you have to act like everyone has it. Make sense(just in case you couldn’t tell that was sarcasm)

True, you do not know who has one, but if you get killed by it in a battle you know that, that player is using it. So its up to you to counter that player and get your revenge kill. Fool me once, same on you, fool me twice, same on me!!!

> > > So we basically have to slow game play down even more then it is now to counter one weapon? Because you don’t know who has it since you can spawn with it. So you have to act like everyone has it. Make sense(just in case you couldn’t tell that was sarcasm)
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> > I think we should get rid of the sniper rifle. It promotes camping, and slows down gameplay.
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> Get rid of a Halo staple? lol, no.

It promotes camping in corners of the map. It slows down gameplay

> > > > So we basically have to slow game play down even more then it is now to counter one weapon? Because you don’t know who has it since you can spawn with it. So you have to act like everyone has it. Make sense(just in case you couldn’t tell that was sarcasm)
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> > > I think we should get rid of the sniper rifle. It promotes camping, and slows down gameplay.
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> > Get rid of a Halo staple? lol, no.
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> It promotes camping in corners of the map. It slows down gameplay

The Sniper Rifle has always done these two things. Any other reason(s)?

> > > > > So we basically have to slow game play down even more then it is now to counter one weapon? Because you don’t know who has it since you can spawn with it. So you have to act like everyone has it. Make sense(just in case you couldn’t tell that was sarcasm)
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> > > > I think we should get rid of the sniper rifle. It promotes camping, and slows down gameplay.
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> > > Get rid of a Halo staple? lol, no.
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> > It promotes camping in corners of the map. It slows down gameplay
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> The Sniper Rifle has always done these two things. Any other reason(s)?

One shot kill. OVERPOWERED!!!

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Too strong against vehicles. NERF IT!!

> > > > So we basically have to slow game play down even more then it is now to counter one weapon? Because you don’t know who has it since you can spawn with it. So you have to act like everyone has it. Make sense(just in case you couldn’t tell that was sarcasm)
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> > > I think we should get rid of the sniper rifle. It promotes camping, and slows down gameplay.
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> > Get rid of a Halo staple? lol, no.
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> It promotes camping in corners of the map. It slows down gameplay

However, the Sniper Rifle has extremely limited availability, which acts as a counter balance. The Bolt Shot has no such limitation, which is one of the largest reasons it is such a problem in the Halo 4 sandbox.

Also, I would just like to state for the record: I do NOT get constantly killed with the Bolt Shot. I am the one who constantly does the killing. I am able to dominate entire games with it, yet I still believe it is overpowered and needs tweaking or removal.

> > > > > So we basically have to slow game play down even more then it is now to counter one weapon? Because you don’t know who has it since you can spawn with it. So you have to act like everyone has it. Make sense(just in case you couldn’t tell that was sarcasm)
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> > > > I think we should get rid of the sniper rifle. It promotes camping, and slows down gameplay.
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> > > Get rid of a Halo staple? lol, no.
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> > It promotes camping in corners of the map. It slows down gameplay
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> However, the Sniper Rifle has extremely limited availability, which acts as a counter balance. The Bolt Shot has no such limitation, which is one of the largest reasons it is such a problem in the Halo 4 sandbox.

Sniper rifle is great up close, has the farthest range, AND is amazing against vehicles.