This has been bugging me in Spartan Ops and Campaign for a while now. Has anyone noticed that it takes 2 shots to kill even an Elite Minor with a Sniper Rifle, even if you score a headshot? That’s right; the first bullet just bounces off their shield, unless it’s been weakened first.
And this is on Normal difficulty, but I’m willing to bet it’s the same on Easy. WTF is up with this? In Halo:Reach, you could take down an Elite Officer (the red ones) with a headshot on Normal. But now this doesn’t even work on Minors? It makes the Sniper Rifle feel like a waste of time in Campaign and Spartan, especially considering it carries less spare ammo than previous games.
Yeah 
Used to be the first headshot would break their necks. Now it’s just “boing”, right off their shields.
Ha! Wait till you get to legendary. Picking up the Sniper Rifle, Beam Rifle, or Binary Rifle just seems pointless.
I never understood that OP, I really never did.
> Ha! Wait till you get to legendary. Picking up the Sniper Rifle, Beam Rifle, or Binary Rifle just seems pointless.
Binary Rifle feels terrible in general vs prometheans (which is the majority of times you can get one).
Even on normal the binary rifle seems to take 2 shots to the head to kill a normal promethean. Whats the point in picking it up?
LR kills just as fast and is easier to aim and get ammo for.
Honestly most of campaign feels like you should just carry a Precision Weapon and an Automatic one.
> > Ha! Wait till you get to legendary. Picking up the Sniper Rifle, Beam Rifle, or Binary Rifle just seems pointless.
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> Binary Rifle feels terrible in general vs prometheans (which is the majority of times you can get one).
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> Even on normal the binary rifle seems to take 2 shots to the head to kill a normal promethean. Whats the point in picking it up?
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> LR kills just as fast and is easier to aim and get ammo for.
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> Honestly most of campaign feels like you should just carry a Precision Weapon and an Automatic one.
I found myself with the LR and SAW a lot towards the end.
> Ha! Wait till you get to legendary. Picking up the Sniper Rifle, Beam Rifle, or Binary Rifle just seems pointless.
I’ve already beaten Campaign and all of Spartan Ops, Season 1 on Legendary. Trust me; I know. I didn’t even bother picking up any sniper weapons on Legendary. Just went through most of the Campaign with a precision rifle and a Plasma Pistol.
I simply hate the amount of recoil the human sniper has. The BiRi’s more fun to use, but it’s mostly against Promethean enemies. Only good for killing Watchers in most encounters.
Well, if you’re designing a personal energy shield, why would you make the weakest point around the head?
> Well, if you’re designing a personal energy shield, why would you make the weakest point around the head?
Well if youre a splinter group of religious radicals using stolen technology from the Covenant, why would armor shielding work differently than how it has worked for the past 5 + years? Change for the sake of change?
> This has been bugging me in Spartan Ops and Campaign for a while now. Has anyone noticed that it takes 2 shots to kill even an Elite Minor with a Sniper Rifle, even if you score a headshot? That’s right; the first bullet just bounces off their shield, unless it’s been weakened first.
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> And this is on Normal difficulty, but I’m willing to bet it’s the same on Easy. WTF is up with this? In Halo:Reach, you could take down an Elite Officer (the red ones) with a headshot on Normal. But now this doesn’t even work on Minors? It makes the Sniper Rifle feel like a waste of time in Campaign and Spartan, especially considering it carries less spare ammo than previous games.
It was like this in ALL the previous titles, it’s obvious they nerfed the snipe in campaign (and SpOps). Just another ding in the fender i guess.
I agree the sniper is definitely underpowered in the Campaign and SOPS on normal or harder.
If you are going to use it, you need 2-3 shots with the DMR to the head then 1 shot with the sniper, that usually kills most enemies.