The hybrid design of Halo Infinite probably isn’t going to affect the weapon sandbox too much, but I’m curious to see how the storm rifle is handled. In my opinion, it sports a weaker design than the plasma rifle because its profile is too similar to the carbine (when I first played Halo 4 I’d mistake them for one another a lot). Since Infinite’s art direction isn’t a total revert, I got the idea of merging some of the features of each weapon. This is what I’ve come up with so far.
The overall profile goes back to that of the plasma rifle, but the armor plating on the top/bottom of the weapon has the curvature and smoother surface of the storm rifle. In turn, the heat exhaust lid flips upward as it does on the storm rather than popping out to the side. I also removed the bottom fins on the plasma rifle since the storm rifle seems to have its own extension. Not sure how the firing mechanic would work yet, but I was gonna try to come up with a way to fit the storm rifle’s spinning coil thing into it.
So would you guys rather have the plasma rifle or the storm rifle? I know some people like the storm better but I’ve never been able to fully adjust to the change.
That’s a pretty sweet model 
I was under the impression the Storm Rifle was made in Halo 4 as a replacement to the Plasma Rifle. Its design was supposed to make it more indentifiable to newcomers as a rifle. I don’t know if it would be better to bring back the Plasma Rifle and get rid of the Storm Rifle or keep things as they are right now with both having a somewhat similar but still distinct role.
This is an interesting idea. Personally, I like the Storm Rifle better. Since it has a higher rate of fire, better damage, and faster projectiles, it always felt like a proper weapon to me. On the other hand, the Plasma Rifle felt kind of like a novelty weapon to me. Dual-wielding them was fun, but not entirely viable. And since we don’t have that anymore, the Plasma Rifle feels like it’s good for taking out shields, but that’s it.
Interesting design, but I can’t say I care much about how it looks like as long as it functions like a CE Plasma Rifle broadly speaking. Low spread(preferably no spread), headshot multiplier, plasma stun and extra shield damage. Every plasma/storm/rifle/repeater since then has been little more than a blue(occasionally red) SMG.
Also I’m on board with the idea of combining their design aesthetics provided there is only one of them. The sandbox shouldn’t be tripping over itself multiple variants.
Would love to get both. I would especially love to get the CE plasma pistol since that teared shields apart and looked like an alien raygun. + All the new brute plasmarifles we got in halo 5.
I would like to see the Brute, & regular plasma rifle. I would like to see the brute plasma rifle fill the same nitch that it did in H5 and see the regular plasma rifle revert back to what it was in CE: sort of longish medium range automatic weapon. I would also like to see dual wielding return as well.
I think dual wielding plasma rifles in H2 & H3 acts extremely similar to a storm rifle. So if dual wielding is a feature I do not think a storm rifle is needed. If not I think the storm rifle is needed.
As far as your design I think it is not usable if the storm rifle and plasma co exist I would confuse the two while playing the game like you were confusing the carbine an storm rifle. Something like your design would be fine if there is no plasma rifle.
I think the Plasma Repeater from Halo reach mixed with a storm rifle for aesthetic would be pretty good if both co-exist. Perhaps a new color like white and gold would be dope & help differentiate weapons.