That’s the whole point though. The AR is easier to use, but doesn’t offer as much reward for skill and practice due to its RNG heavy nature. The other is stronger and offers a direct skill based advantage of mastered.
I find the sidekick slaps people pretty hard, but that’s because I can consistently kill in 8-9 shots with it which almost guarantees I’ll beat AR users in a straight up fight.
Nerf the range, remove the headshot multiplier and add vertical recoil. Maybe slow the shots down a bit too.
As a starting weapon It needs massively nerfed but if it’s not a starting weapon and a map pick up then make it a beast.
People have been saying this since the second flight. The AR is too good. It needs its headshot modifier removed and a range nerf. Radar needs to be back to AT LEAST 25m, if not more. Infinites sandbox has much higher ranges than basically every other Halo game. It feels like I’m getting challenged by basically every weapon at basically any range. As long as someone sees me, they’re doing meaningful damage, and that feels bad.
The weapon is fine.
The weapon should headshot.
The weapon should shoot quickly
stop demanding this gun be purposely broken so you can sleep ok in your nostalgia of it being a trash weapon for so long.
as it should be on most maps except may behemoth.
We dont need weapons that just magically become ineffective just because. That is silly.
what would be the purpose of the weapon then? Might as well just take it out.
This is lancer in gears all over again.
People want nothing to challenge the gnahser shotgun so the lancer had to be trash.
Now, nothing can touch the precious BR so nerf the AR to the ground because…nostalgia.
Gun is fine. Gameplay is generally fine.
thank you for translating that.
Absolutely. I’m not saying every weapon needs to be viable in Onyx and Diamond, but they should all be somewhat viable until high Platinum in objective gametypes. However, I just can’t ever see anyone using the Ravager,the Pulse Carbine, or the Plasma Pistol over the UNSC hitscan weapons.
Not to derail, but if they buff radar range then it needs to only show sprinting and shooting. I really get tired of radar campers ruining the fun.
Not really, it’s been like this in every game besides 5. And it’s not like we currently have a shotgun which allows that sort of camping. And the range doesn’t stop camping since you tend to be 2ft from the chokepoint anyway.
AR is fine. The mag is small enough that if your movement is on point, they will run out of ammo long before killing you. Pistol usually beats ar too.
Maybe the bigger problem is the connection issues the game has and not the ar/br match up. I know there’s been plenty of matches where guys take a whole br mag before the shields even break yet other times it’s 4 burst dead.
The Meta in GOW doesn’t nearly have as big of a sandbox as halo. You can’t compare the two.
The problem is that the AR stakes very little skill and shreds with easy headshots. It doesn’t feel like classic halo. That would be like them making the AR in gears so good that using the shotgun would be pointless. It’s not the same in comparison to halo but you can see how much that would change the game.
The BR doesn’t need touched be a it first it’s role perfectly, it could make use a very slight range nerf in the slightest change.
The AR isn’t meant to be a main weapon and right now it’s just simply to good. It’s makes so many other weapons useless and takes a fraction of skill to use.
What’s classic Halo to you?
Anytime someone says “Classic Halo” I think of Smash Bros Melee puritanism. This series has drastically changed in some capacity with every new entry.
Like it or not, the AR is meant to be the main weapon in Halo Infinite. Why people take an issue with this when the Sidekick is straight up a better gun is beyond me.
Also, the AR isn’t better than any weapon that is actually good. You always swap it out for the BR, Shock Rifle, Stalker Rifle, Needler or Bulldog. On the other hand, it’s kept over bad weapons like the Plasma Carbine and Disruptor which are fodder only ever in your hands during a game of Fiesta. You keep the Sidekick when finding a new gun because of its rapid swap and solid damage.
I always thought it was weird when people say AR takes no skill because tracking is a skill, but OP opened my eyes with “holding down fire with aim assist doing all the work.”
I guess it really does take less skill with aim assist helping you out.
I don’t even mean this in a condescending way, I just didn’t understand that perspective.
actually yes you can lol. it is irrelevant how big halo’s sandbox is. Logic is logic.
literally the same argument that gear heads made about the lancer vs hammerburst starts.
Literally same argument. and literally same failure and ego that refuses to allow you to see that that isn’t the argument for the AR/Lancer starts VS THE BR/Hammerburst starts.
personal desire is blocking the mind from logic.
literally same oldschool stubborn gears of war player response…
The Lancer/AR of Gears was improved and the game is still a shotgun fest. ahahaha this is you being so emotional about what you want that you can’t see reality.
This isn’t a debate.
The AR being a good weapon for once does not ruin the game or make the other weapons pointless. You are simply incorrect.
again, same ignorance from gears players…the lancer wasn’t supposed to be the main gun blah blah blah
would you like reality?
The game gears of war literally starts you with the Lancer in your hands at the beginning of every game and every life…by logical definition…that makes it the MAIN WEAPON.
This game Halo Infinite places the ASSAULT RIFLE IN YOUR HANDS AT THE BEGINNING OF EVERY GAME AND EVERY LIFE…BY LOGICAL DEFINITION…THAT MAKES IT THE MAIN WEAPON.
you guys are too emotional to see past your own wants and desires.
welcome to reality.
AR starts equal more movement and faster paced games.
BR starts equal less movement and more zone/region/locked down style games.
and here it is…the thing you “oldschool/classic” fans just refuse to accept due to NOSTALGIA and wanting the same game you grew up with.
THE. GAME. IS. CALLED. HALO. COMBAT. EVOLVED.
COMBAT EVOLVED.
COMBAT EVOLVED.
COMBAT EVOLVED.
I’m not responding to all that lmao. you have way to much time on your hands and if you have no idea what i’m saying when i mention “classic halo” then that’s the problem. lol
ahahaha meaning you got intellectually dominated with something you can’t logically respond to man.
ahahahahahahahahahahaha
again, gotta learn to separate your feel feels from reality man.
Absolutely every word I stated was pure fact.
Whether YOU PERSONALLY desire the game to play that way or this way is irrelevant to what is real and happening…and what I typed is the absolute reality of the situation.
And
You have zero response to it.
AGAIN, like whatever you like…that is an opinion…that isn’t what is being discussed in my post. Reality was.
good day
best way to say you can’t handle logic, without saying you can’t respond because the logic means your argument was wrong.
Grow man
You clearly have no idea what your taking about. If you’ve been around for years you understand the whole reason why ppl want the AR changed. The fact you dont get it means your probably not very good or you enjoy spray and pray.
Why waste your time trying to tell me what im saying isnt fact when it is fact. I said the AR isnt like classic halo and that its to strong. What about that is wrong.
You start point to other games that have no relevance to halo and say “thats what they say” in GOW. Who cares dude. Nothing you said was fact about halo. Pure opinions and your telling me what i said was wrong. Get a grip man. There’s a world outside the internet.
Oh and it has nothing to do with “nostalgia” lmao it has all to do with how the gameplay is supposed to be. How each weapon fits a role. When you mess with that to much it changes the gameplay drastically. Just like your precious AR in GOW that nobody in halo cares about.
again typical nonsense response with zero logic ahahahahahaa you simply can not defend your position so…typical I must not have played or must not be good etc…
because
YOU CAN NOT AT ALL LOGICALLY DEFEND YOUR POSITION.
AGAIN,
THE GAME IS CALLED HALO COMBAT EVOLVED
For the AR i feel they just need to increase the speed at which the bullet spray takes effect so you have to learn to burst fire it properly. I think if they did that one thing it would balance it out a bit better without having to change ither things to compensate, i had a lot of fun learning to use the ar in 4 and 5 properly. Infinite, just way easier. The point at which i feel i need to “controlled burst” is a bit to far, needs to be a tad closer.
As for radar, yeah i feel it needs to be a bit farther as well.