List of Halo Weapons and Vehicles not in Halo 5

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Here’s a list of all weapons and vehicles in past Halo games that did not have an appearance in Halo 5. It would be cool to get some of these in updates.
Starred items are weapons that don’t have any similarly functioning replacements.

Halo: Combat Evolved - Flamethrower*, Plasma Rifle

Halo 2 - Brute Plasma Rifle, Brute Shot*, Sentinel Beam*, Sentinel Beam Major*, Non-detachable Machine Gun Turret*, Spectre*

Halo 3 - Heavy Flamethrower*, Missile Pod**, Brute Spiker, Brute Mauler, Gravity Hammer*, Spike Grenade, Brute Firebomb*, Hornet, Transport Hornet*, Elephant*, Anti-Air Wraith*, Brute Chopper*, Brute Prowler*

Halo Reach - Grenade Launcher*, Plasma Launcher*, Plasma Repeater, Needle Rifle, Focus Rifle*, Concussion Rifle*, Falcon*, Revenant*

Halo 4 - Sticky Detonator*, Pulse Grenade

**- Rocket Pod is very similar and mostly replaces this, but only the Warzone-exclusive ONI variant can lock on to Ground Vehicles.

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All that brute arsenal. What happened to the brutes after halo 3?

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Wait, the concussion rifle was in Reach? Man, I must have really hated that game lol.

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One could argue that the Plasma Launcher and the UNSC Hydra are cut from similar cloth, as well as the Plasma Caster being something of a fusion of the Concussion Rifle/Brute Shot’s functionality with a single-shot aspect of the Plasma Launcher.

Granted, of course, that the round physics of a Plasma Caster seem far less… predictable than the Concussion Rifle or Brute Shot. Also, these three weapons certainly have very different functionality even if they share some core traits.

On the other side of that argument, I’d say that the Plasma Repeater is unique enough in functionality that it doesn’t really have a parallel. Yes, it’s an automatic plasma weapon, but its manual venting system (rather than simply waiting for it to cool), lack of an actual overheat-overload cycle and drastic change in fire rate as its heats up make it very different from its kin.

I’m 110% all for anything from other Halo games coming back, though. Whatever we can get is good. I’m just unsure as to why they made a Needle Carbine rather than just bringing back the Needle Rifle as a separate weapon, though. Maybe something to do with ease of integration. shrug

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Oh man, I wish the Hornet and Flamethrower made a return in Halo 5.

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I think they didn’t bring back the regular Needle Rifle is that the needle mechanics work different in Reach than other Halos, where needles wouldn’t detonate unless the shield was down. It wouldn’t be too hard for them to come up with a Needle Rifle skin though, as they brought the BR55 and SPNKr skins into the game.

Anyways though I REALLY want the Halo CE Flamethrower. That was my favorite weapon of all time in Halo.

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Well correct me if I am wrong but the Brutes were pretty much defeated and killed off and what few were left on their home world were also involved in civil war or just fighting each other so unfortunately none of the Brute stuff would be around.

Would love to see the hornet (H2A version was awesome), needle rifle was cool( I really don’t like this idea of a “needle carbine”), would love to see the flame thrower return as well.

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> Well correct me if I am wrong but the Brutes were pretty much defeated and killed off and what few were left on their home world were also involved in civil war or just fighting each other so unfortunately none of the Brute stuff would be around.
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> Would love to see the hornet (H2A version was awesome), needle rifle was cool( I really don’t like this idea of a “needle carbine”), would love to see the flame thrower return as well.

They still had the Gravity Hammer in Halo 4 despite the absence of Brutes, and while they wouldn’t be in campaign, it’d be cool to have their weapons in War Games.

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> > Well correct me if I am wrong but the Brutes were pretty much defeated and killed off and what few were left on their home world were also involved in civil war or just fighting each other so unfortunately none of the Brute stuff would be around.
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> They still had the Gravity Hammer in Halo 4 despite the absence of Brutes, and while they wouldn’t be in campaign, it’d be cool to have their weapons in War Games.

That was there for the fun of custom games. Realistically yes there would be no more brute weapons as they are near extinction and far from being in space but some things like the gravity hammer are to well liked for 343 to just throw out.

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> That was there for the fun of custom games. Realistically yes there would be no more brute weapons as they are near extinction and far from being in space but some things like the gravity hammer are to well liked for 343 to just throw out.

I dunno, they did a good job of making me not want to use it in 4 with how badly they nerfed the range of it’s gravity burst, and how weak they made it feel.

I’d like to see the Falcon return honestly and have it more in line with how it was in Reach campaign.
machine gun and grenade variants with a total crew of 6, pilot+2 gunners+3 passengers.

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The Falcon and Flamethrower are the things I want to see absolutely the most.

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> All that brute arsenal. What happened to the brutes after halo 3?

Without the technology of the Prophets, the Brutes became much more powerless as their weaponry is about on the same level of ‘high-tech’ as Humanity’s in the 2500s. However, in the novel Halo: Last Light (set after Halo 3) there is a covenant splinter faction (not related to the one in Halo 4/5) that is lead by brutes.So it wouldn’t seem odd canonically if Brute weaponry, or even the Brutes themselves were to return

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Gravity Hammer is coming back. Confirmed.

The Hydra could be seen as a UNSC variant of the Plasma Launcher.

The Plasma Caster is a weird hybrid of the Sticky Detonator/Concussion Rifle/Grenade Launcher/Brute Shot.

Really wish the Blood Of Saron was actually a Needle Rifle, but whatever. Still sweet either way.

They could totally redo a Projection Bayonet SMG and make it a Spiker.

I would love a Brute Storm Rifle, and is what I definitely expecting when they add in the Storm Rifle variants, and if it’s not there I will be disappointed I’ll admit.

Anti-Air Wraith (heavily balanced) would be pretty freaking sweet to see.

I would absolutely love the Falcon. But a friend of mine suggested they could redo the Phaeton and give us the Hawk from Halo Wars, which would be pretty freaking sweet if you ask me.

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> Well correct me if I am wrong but the Brutes were pretty much defeated and killed off and what few were left on their home world were also involved in civil war or just fighting each other so unfortunately none of the Brute stuff would be around.
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> Would love to see the hornet (H2A version was awesome), needle rifle was cool( I really don’t like this idea of a “needle carbine”), would love to see the flame thrower return as well.

Yay finally aomeone knows the story about thw brutes lol if you follow the stories the books and if you read all thw info about the brutes in reality it sums down to what u said I take halo to far i own every halo thing you can imagine

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I would love it the brute chopper, revenant, and the needle rifle returned in the next halo 5 updates and halo 6.

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> I would love it the brute chopper, revenant, and the needle rifle returned in the next halo 5 updates and halo 6.

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