I am aware many of you would like to see the 3 shot Pistol from Halo 1 return in Halo 4. Obviously, in the days of Halo 1, this 3 shot weapon was extremely overpowered. I suggest that the Halo 1 Magnum return in Halo 4 but this time classed as a power weapon. Meaning, you would have to fight over it similar to the Rocket Launcher or the Shotgun.
Discuss.
But then what would replace it as a standard secondary?
LoL no… its a pistol The supposed role for a pistol is a sidearm… nothing more. Let the CE nostalgic die. Its annoying. Every new Halo game, wha wha i want the CE pistol back…
I think something that performs like it could work as a power weapon, but someone running around with the god-pistol, while others use rifles that kill slower than it, would seem stupid. So, a rifle like power weapon that functions like CE’s pistol? I’d be all for it.
Inb4itwasneveroverpowered
It should be re skinned. Call it something like ‘The Mega Rifle’.
To those not in the know, they’d see a measly pistol on the ground and think “Why would I need another pistol…I already got one!”
wow…stupid idea!
i do not need to discuss more
> It should be re skinned. Call it something like ‘The Mega Rifle’.
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> To those not in the know, they’d see a measly pistol on the ground and think “Why would I need another pistol…I already got one!”
Exactly what I was thinking
The Halo CE pistol was a utility weapon not a power weapon. The CE pistol will never make a return and even if it did 343 would probably screw it up somehow.
> I think something that performs like it could work as a power weapon, but someone running around with the god-pistol, while others use rifles that kill slower than it, would seem stupid. So, a rifle like power weapon that functions like CE’s pistol? I’d be all for it.
It’s a video game it doesn’t matter if the weapon is a rifle or not.
> Inb4itwasneveroverpowered
It wasn’t compared to the rest of the sandbox in CE.
Pistol wasn’t overpowered, there was no rifle in that game other than the inaccurate assault rifle. If it was skinned as rifle it wouldn’t have been considered OP.
Sadly enough most people don’t realize that 3/4’s of the people wouldn’t even be able to use it to it’s fullest kill time, in fact most people who use the pistol average a kill time similar to the ZB DMR.
To correct you, everything in Halo after CE was under powered in contrast to the rifles, which even then were too slow to kill.
It wouldn’t work as a power weapon because it doesn’t really fill a niche. Worked better as a starting utility weapon to keep power weapons in check.
I think it would be funny if it were actually called HaloCE Magnum or CE Magnum and it had the original HaloCE’s textures and mirror like shine.
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> It wasn’t compared to the rest of the sandbox in CE.
It ended up being the only weapon I used, aside from the rockets. If you practiced enough, it beat every other weapon by a mile.
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> It ended up being the only weapon I used, aside from the rockets. If you practiced enough, it beat every other weapon by a mile.
That’s why it’s the utility weapon, if you’re good enough you’ll beat weapons in there own niche. The difference however was it was more difficult to do so in CE in comparison to the sequels where niche weapons have a very limited effective range.
Let the Halo 1 pistol stay in Halo 1.
I wonder when Halo can finally move away the 3SK pistol? I mean i loved it as well but i am ready for a new relationship.
It would be cool if they made the DMR fire like the M6D. Very low aim assist so it takes skill to aim, leading shots so its harder to hit at long range. Good rate of fire, and a hard to achieve 3 shot minimum kill. That’s why everyone keeps talking about bringing back the M6D, it has a high skill curve and high reward.
> LoL no… its a pistol The supposed role for a pistol is a sidearm… nothing more. Let the CE nostalgic die. Its annoying. Every new Halo game, wha wha i want the CE pistol back…
You know, there’s this thing called the ODST pistol. Lower it’s zoom level and range, reduce it’s accuracy over range, and it could make a fine balanced pistol.
(Speaking of balance, why is the Needle Rifle allowed to exist? Big clip size, Bloom isn’t that big, 3 shards in flesh for a supercombine. Because it’s individual shots don’t do that much damage right? So why can’t the ODST pistol, which was underpowered against shields, return in the form described above? The only argument I can think of is that the pistol is hitscan)
Btw, I replied to your post.
I’m not a CE mp person (though I have used it in Halo PC on Blood Gulch and in Xbox ‘custom games’ matches, giving quite a shock to some players). I don’t say CE pistol master race (at least not over it’s power).
I’m a CE campaign person. Where I come from, the pistol had more meaning than ‘it’s just an op monster’.
As I’ve pointed out in the above link/reply, the pistol, while extremely satisfying to use (sound and effects can contribute to the feel, not just the damage), can be tedious.
The AR was much more fun to use since it was underpowered. Most of the time, when facing Flood, I only took the pistol out when I was dealing with rocket launcher Flood or to give a quick melee (which was actually possible back then, even in H2) to an approaching combat form, temporarily stopping their charge giving me time to backpedal or load rounds into it.