I’ve wondered this since last year, and while we still don’t quite know, the trailer yesterday showed it to be pretty strong against shields, and the fact that 343 hasn’t said anything about the plasma rifle or carbine has me worried. Halo hasn’t launched with a plasma rifle since reach (5’s was added in post-launch, of course), and I thought it would be a perfect time to introduce it again, with the whole “spiritual reboot” thing. They haven’t confirmed anything, but the fact that there has been nothing said about the two weapons (plasma rifle and carbine) is troubling in and of itself.
Definitely seems possible. I haven’t seen the Plasma or Storm Rifle yet. I guess we’ll have to wait for flighting to start before we can be certain.
Yeah its most likely gone. Part of me misses it, 343 seems to really dislike the Plasma Rifle lol. The other part of me thinks that a burst fire close-range weapon with no precision multiplayer is interesting enough
If it’s missing now, it’ll likely be added in the future. I don’t mind it not being available on release, but if it was I’d be very happy.
What if the pulse carbine is just the covenant Br variant.
Carbine is the DMR variant
(PR or storm rifle?? the AR variant)
That’s what I want to happen but one can dream lol
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> What if the pulse carbine is just the covenant Br variant.
> Carbine is the DMR variant
> (PR or storm rifle?? the AR variant)
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> That’s what I want to happen but one can dream lol
I would have done something similar. Interestingly enough, the jackal sniper was confirmed to be in the game from I think a toy, beam rifle and all. So apparently 343 only cares about sandbox redundancy in certain scenarios…for some reason.
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> Yeah its most likely gone. Part of me misses it, 343 seems to really dislike the Plasma Rifle lol. The other part of me thinks that a burst fire close-range weapon with no precision multiplayer is interesting enough
I like the pulse carbine too, I don’t think it should’ve replaced a long established weapon though, reach only got away with it because it was a prequel. I watched the 8 minute demo, and the e3 trailer back, and apparently, the covenant has no full auto weapon in game (besides the needler) , which is weird to say the least (so maybe the plasma rifle is not out of the picture just yet) . Even weirder, is the fact that brutes can apparently use the bulldog. (You can see it in the 8 minute demo)
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> If it’s missing now, it’ll likely be added in the future. I don’t mind it not being available on release, but if it was I’d be very happy.
I wonder what 343 has in place of the plasma rifle or storm rifle? I can’t imagine the covenant without any kind of fully automatic small arms. I can see the pulse carbine releasing the classic carbine though.
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> > If it’s missing now, it’ll likely be added in the future. I don’t mind it not being available on release, but if it was I’d be very happy.
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> I wonder what 343 has in place of the plasma rifle or storm rifle? I can’t imagine the covenant without any kind of fully automatic small arms. I can see the pulse carbine releasing the classic carbine though.
I remember seeing the Plasma Repeater included with one of the megablox sets, maybe it’ll be the new mainline plasma weapon for the Banished?