How do you know? We haven’t even had them outside of ranked or swat.
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I feel like they balanced it really well for the start of Halo 5 but towards the end, things changed to a point where the magnum seems like the only viable weapon to use.
I believe they can make Halo Infinite balanced with BR starts.
The reception of Behemoth between Ranked and Social players seems like a pretty good argument for keeping the casual side AR starts. (behemoth probably should be removed from ranked btw)
It’s too open and the sightlines are too long for everyone to start with a long range weapon. It’s everything people have been saying in this thread taken to its extreme.
That said, they should just do what MCC does and make a precision starts playlist anyway. Clearly enough people like that playstyle and they should be catered to.
Heck, just port over the match composer wholesale and work from there.
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I really appreciate your replies. Maybe you can just “ignore” users who are “breaking the rules” like I did. I believe most of us just want to make the game better and are discussing nicely so I just use the “ignore” option on users who aren’t.
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I found the Disruptor useful against vehicles. Have you tried that?
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I can’t really comment on Halo 5 cause over 700 of my played Matches were Warzone while only 200 were Arena before I never touched it again for years so I don’t think I can give a balanced view of the weapons, especially since I stopped before those balancing “fixes” rolled out 
My arguments are not so much the balancing issues on the Battle Rifle but more like the playstyles that can be encouraged by having BR Starts that’ll get people to do the more campy-style play I’m used to, at least in BTB as I should emphasize from now on that when it comes to this particular issue I’m mostly viewing it with a BTB Lens and not so much an Arena Lens where I’ve been getting turned around that the balancing of the weapons in the smaller maps does make a good chunk of my issues with BR Starts starting to not be as bad as they were in previous games. Although, again, the vast majority of my time in Halo throughout its lifespan has been BTB with a small percentage being Arena.
But on BTB…as I have pointed out previously as an example that is the best I can currently get out of matchmaking, playing Behemoth with BR Starts is an awful experience to me than playing with AR Starts but that could just be an awful map design all around. Still, I felt a bunch of my old fears of having BR Starts in BTB get stoked a little whenever I would end up playing CTF on that map with BRs and Ranked and then ARs in Quick Match which was a much better experience at least for me. The only way I can get a solid opinion about it, of course, is if I am able to play BTB Matches with BR Starts so right now the only thing I can say for sure is that I’m really happy with my AR Starts.
And to your other post, yes I use the Disruptor on vehicles but its very much just a last resort weapon for me when you have literally no other weapon out of the plethora of other options (Hydra, Shock Rifle, Dynamo Grenades, Hammer, Skewer, Rocket Launcher, Cindershot, etc) that you can use instead over the Disruptor 
Honestly the only threat I ever felt from the Disruptor is when they’re being carried by gangs of Grunts and Jackals that keep EMPing my Razorbacks and Wasps in the campaign.
No thanks.
I dont want to be shot across the map in BTB every game, the whole appeal of BTB to me is that the enemy in the distance CANT shoot me and I can make a plan to engage them, If BR starts are introduced nobody will pick up any weapons as there would be no point and all fights will be reduced to long - mid range cover fighting which is not fun…
Well…is ranked and swat as mobile as quick match?
Kind of sick of these responses lol.
No logic.
You have played this game man.
Lol stop
150 hours, I know how the game works and I think the BR is an absolute crap tier weapon in terms of fun, spawning everybody with it will be a mistake and its the #1 reason why I dont play ranked.
Whats the point in ranked if you dont even get to play halo on vanilla settings? Its not halo its just boring.
Easily made by just adding the gamemodes with a BR version out of ranked. And one the same with AR. So everybody can choose the prefered weapon/Gamemode
Why does every thread you are actively involved in devolve into a juvenile -Yoink!- match?
Dude grow up, this started as a good discussion.
Furthermore there is no harm in adding a BR starts playlist outside of ranked. If there proves to be a noticeable drop in player count then at that point the number of playlists should be capped and variations should rotate in and out.
We shouldn’t have JUST ONE ranked playlist because that’s nonsense. Halo 3 had Team Slayer and Lone Wolves ranked, both better than Infinite currently because you had BR and AR starts. I miss the 1-50 ranking system a lot. Maybe bring it back as 1-100.
We need Ranked playlists with BR and AR/Sidekick secondaries. Sidekick for ranked Tactical. Squad Slayer, Team Snipers, Objective and Team Slayer all need ranked variants. Heck why not ranked BTB once it’s fixed?
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I agree that precision outside of BTB should stay in ranked, BTB needs BR starts no way around it. The solution is add more ranked playlists.
I’m with you. I don’t play Infinite because I didn’t find the current AR/Sidekick starts fun in any way. I just play MCC and I follow Infinite news waiting for them to eventually add a new playlist for BR starts. I don’t know why anyone would argue against them adding this extra playlist as it’s been in other games and it doesn’t have to affect the gamemodes they play now. I just don’t get it lol.
It wouldn’t be as big a deal if there were more BRs on the map for pickup, but currently as it stands, I’m just gonna wait.
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I don’t know if any weapon works as an actual secondary in this game honestly. Every gun can either stand on its own or has a niche use that makes it a poor spawn secondary.
Making the game BR/AR or BR/Sidekick starts would be weird I think, because on some maps the secondary would be used more than the BR, etc.
I like the way ranked does it, with the BR as the only spawn weapon and you get to select whatever you find as your second weapon. It encourages more variety, and more critical thinking. Do you pick up the Mangler or the Bulldog? Do you pick up this plasma pistol or the Pulse Carbine on the wall over there? That sort of thing.
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Oh I ended up ignoring him. Has he posted on this discussion again? I dunno.
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