The Designated Marksman Rifle’s 3x zoom and more damage per round would make for a better mid to long range kinetic weapon than the Battle Rifle or Commando. The BR tends to miss or waste part of its burst at longer ranges, while the Commando’s mostly useless full-auto fire becomes completely useless against distant targets. The Sniper Rifle has more power and accuracy than the DMR at long ranges, but its small ammo supply and slow rate of fire make it a poor utility weapon. The DMR hits the right balance in being a weapon that effective at a distance without needing to ration bullets.
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Naa DMR is obsolete… it was replaced by the BR in universe also that’s another thing that made me leave halo4 especailly when they made the DMR have longer range than the BR… Better to fix the commando
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No thanks. The DMR was really amazing to begin with and it would be even less so now with how the BR is in Infinite.
Yeah i feel it’d do what happened in halo4 when the BR which is suppose to be a replacment for the DMR in lore was actually made worse than the DMR…
And the carbine. And the smg
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Commando was meant to be the hybrid baby between the DMR and the Carbine, long ranged marksman weapon that could be spam fired for great DPS in exchange for high recoil and bloom…
BUT THEY NERFED IT :DDDDDD
Commando needs to be buffed, but back into one of two directions :
- reduce bloom and kick significantly and be the successor to the Covenant Carbine
- increase per shot damage and reduce fire rate significantly and be the successor to the DMR
Right now it’s just the worst of both worlds.
Hate to say it but the DMR more than likely won’t be back. The Commando replaced it and also with the BR there’s not really a need, even though I really liked the DMR.
If anything they need to bring back the carbine.
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I would prefer the DMR over the VK47 Commando if they don’t try to fix it.
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But the stalker rifle already fills that niche
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You could always reel in the full auto and make it controllable by tap firing.
Kinda like how you shouldn’t spam the DMR.
It’s almost like the Commando is Infinite’s DMR…
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Halo: Reach’s DMR is my personal favorite weapon in Halo’s sandbox, ever. Just so satisfying to use and really felt a conduit of death through lethal precision. Truly, an awesome and incredibly fun gun.
But, there are two human marksman rifles in this game already. The BR feels as good and tight as it ever has in this game, and while I think some minor tweaking for the Commando would benefit it tremendously in both PvP ane PvE utility, it has a fun and unique feel of its own.
I’m never going to not miss my Reach DMR (H4-5 versions came close at times but didn’t quite match the satisfying feeling of Reach’s IMO), but there’s no hurry in getting it into this game. It’s my opinion that 343i should pace themselves very conservatively in adding new things to this sandbox- especially elements that overlap with established niches.
The DMR may have subjective advantages over both the BR and Commando, but there’s no denying it fits into the same gameplay wheelhouse, and frankly there’s just zero need for it right now.
I think the better opportunity at this point would be for 343i to consider bringing some other things back for niches that aren’t really filled out as well in this game yet. Seeing slightly reimagined returns of the Plasma Rifle, Spiker, Brute Shot, Grenade Launcher, Railgun, SMG- even the Carbine, would all be more interesting and add more unique flavor to this sandbox than getting the DMR.
I’m certainly not against it returning eventually, but it absolutely shouldn’t be a priority. I do miss the DMR, but it doesn’t feel conspicuously absent when there are two Human marksman rifles which feel decent (Commando) and awesome (BR75) readily available.
I sort of agree.
Right now the BR is actually weaker than the Stalker Rifle because the bursts can miss.
The Commando seems to be almost as powerful as the AR, but it can’t do much damage to enemies slightly farther than mid-range because of the recoil.
So my thoughts:
Remove the Commando, increase the BR’s power per bullet in a burst (three headshots to kill), lower the BR’s range to mid-range and add the DMR.
those two would be fine ,but not the DMR…
If the Commando isn’t meant to be fired full auto, then it shouldn’t have a full auto setting. Stick with semi-auto so an oversensitive mouse doesn’t fire off two rounds at once. And if it’s meant to be single shot, it should have the damage and zoom to make that shot count. And maybe we could give it a visual update and a new name to reflect its role. Something like “Designated Marksman Rifle”. I’d be fine with that.
The Commando is obviously meant to replace the DMR, but it is a poor replacement. The AR is better at short range, the BR is better at mid range, the Sniper Rifle is better for high value targets. The DMR’s role of long range utility kinetic weapon remains unfilled.
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The DMR isn’t meant to be fired as fast as you can pull the trigger, yet it allows you to do so at the dramatic expense of accuracy.
You’re limiting yourself, you’re not forced to fire full auto.
I don’t fire the Commando full auto, and I can’t think of any situation where firing the Commando full auto is better than melee or swapping to a different weapon. My point is that the Commando is strictly inferior to the DMR except for a slightly larger magazine, which is nice, and a full auto mode which is effectively useless for a precision weapon. The Commando doesn’t fill the DMR’s old role, so I’d much prefer to have the DMR itself back.
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Agreed. DMR is one of my most missed weapons.
The Commando should have been the Needle Rifle. I feel like the Stalker Rifle only exists (instead of the DMR) because they wanted to give Jackal snipers a plasma weapon.
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I hope they bring the DMR back too. Halo Infinite deserves to be the definitive Halo experience, so eventually it should have every weapon of past Halo’s, along with the new stuff.
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No please, 343 don’t bring back the dmr, it was an awful weapon, so unfun to use