Seriously, BR and DMR in one game, beam rifle is the best gun ever, binary rifle is just plain ridiculous, boltshot is so cool and overpowered for a loadout weapon, incinerator cannon is a beast, all the UNSC weapons have returned, sticky detonator and SAW are both awesome additions too. And they all sound amazing to boot!
I may have some balancing complaints but overall am really impressed
While it may have the best arsenal(aside from the OP DMR) it has the worst gameplay. I’ll take Halo 3’s arsenal and gameplay over Halo 4 any day.
I don’t think it’s so much the gameplay as just having to much going on all the time. Ordinances, instant respawn, and default sprint speed the game up significantly.
> I don’t think it’s so much the gameplay as just having to much going on all the time. Ordinances, instant respawn, and default sprint speed the game up significantly.
Speed up the game improperly.
It also removes the challenge factor. Just look at Spartan Ops.
How many players were enthusiastic about Episode 6 Chapter 1 featuring their Spartan in cinematic AND being given a forced loadout? I recall overall enthusiasm.
“BEST” Arsenal is deemed inappropriate in my eyes since anyone who can even get enough assists can earn them in ordnance.
Each weapon has it’s moment of glory/use, but their availability to EVERYONE in almost every match leaves a scratch in the gameplay that can’t be repaired.
Personally I find the Rail Gun entertaining.
I want the Halo Reach Grenade launcher! Best. Weapon. Ever.
> Personally I find the Rail Gun entertaining.
AAAAWWWWW yeah. I love the rail gun.
My favorite personal video is of getting a first strike by shooting the driver of warthog that was on it’s way to get my flag. Haha, “No flag for you sir…”
Seriously? You’re -Yoinking!- with us right? No brute weapons except the Grav Hammer. No dual wielding. OP DMR and boltshot. Sure, we get both the DMR and BR but with horrid balancing issue that still aren’t worked out. Fix these things and then maybe but until then I think the arsenal in H4 is a joke.
Many of the guns are fun, and the fact majority of the previous guns are in this game is all me gusta.
Excluding Forerunner power weapons, if there was one new power weapon that 343i added into Halo, and only that one could be brought back, I’d pick the Rail Gun. That thing is too satisfying to use.
SAW is something Halo’s been missing forever: A LMG.
Sticky Det… I like it, it’s fun to use, and great for setting up traps and blowing up loads of people in close quarters. But I’d rather have the Grenade Launcher.
Storm Rifle is the balanced Brute Plasma Rifle basically, and I love it.
Forerunner weapons, except for the useless Suppressor and the Boltshot, I love them all. And watching enemies disintegrate is just too cool.
Binary Rifle. A 1sk sniper rifle is awesome to use.
The Incineration Cannon. Wow, this thing is just too freaking awesome and satisfying to use.
Scattershot. As soon as I learned how to use it very well, this interesting shotgun is awesome.
LightRifle. My baby. My favorite weapon. Skillful, satisfying, and useful.
The weapons in Halo 4 (except for the Boltshot; I’m not saying DMR because I’m assuming it’ll get nerfed), I ain’t got no complaints about. 343i did a great job with the weapons in Halo 4. They’re all great. The new weapons are all awesome and fun to use. And the weapons brought back are also all awesome too and fun to use (FRG, Beam Rifle, AR being useful, to name a few).
Wow, a wild intelligent Halo fan appeared^^
Go! Appreciation for meaningful and technically correct post!
Halo has always been a fast paced game, but when every game has power weapons and scopes, that just makes me want to be lighter on my toes and faster! I think for the most part 343i did a fantastic job.
Except for the DMR of course but that is fixable. If DMR is fixed so it doesn’t overpower everything else then I believe the game will improve tremendously.
Boltshot is annoying as all get out, not sure what they were thinking when they designed that thing, but it is also fixable. I think if they change its charge to work like a spartan laser or railgun then I will hate it less.
Everything else I love. For some reason suppressor doesn’t work right but oh well
M739 Light Machine Gun is my favorite weapon.
I remember watching some walkthroughs before the game was released. Fell in love with it immediately.
Yeah, I have to disagree almost entirely with this premise. We have FOUR precision rifles (BR, DMR, Carbine & Lightrifle) that have slight differences but do pretty much the same thing. Ditto the three main automatic weapons (AR, Storm Rifle & Suppressor) as well as the three rocket launchers (Rocks, Fuel Rod & I-Cannon).
Meanwhile, unique and highly interesting weapons like the grenade launcher and plasma launcher are nowhere to be found. Seriously? Did we really sacrifice one of those weapons so that we could have a FOURTH precision rifle? I certainly hope not…