Please Please hear me out before I get hate messages. I love the pistol since back in Halo Combat Evolved up till now. I have nothing against the pistol at all. My one problem is that whenever Team Arena is played, there is nothing but people using the pistol, and more often than not the pistol is the most balanced weapon to take on close, mid and I’m some cases long range. I know people love the pistol but it shouldn’t be the only thing used in Team arena what’s the point of having such a wide aresenal if no one uses any of it. Just like BTB the only thing people use are battle rifles.
I’ve been observing this a lot as well. So much that I end up using the magnum a lot more myself. Until I can get my hands on a BR or a similar weapon at least.
Well people have been asking for the magnum to be as close as possible to the one in CE so in Halo 5 they got it. I guess that’s why a lot are using it for prolonged periods.
Nobody can do anything about it though. To each his/her own.
You do realize it’s a starting weapon? Of course it is going to be used a lot.
It’s a good weapon at that also. It’s easy to use and has a 5 shot kill rate.
Same with the BR in regards to your BTB statement.
Come on, just think.
That is the point of starting weapons.
I see a lot of different weapons used in arena. Now actually every weapon is good enough to pick up.
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> You do realize it’s a starting weapon? Of course it is going to be used a lot.
> It’s a good weapon at that also. It’s easy to use and has 5 shot kill rate.
> Come on, just think.
This.
Ok all, we can’t use starting weapons apparently.
No AR and no magnum.
K?
Seems cool?
As far as I care they could and should just remove the other rifles from the game entirely.
My only concern is how it stacks up against power weapons and non-precision weapons.
I think that its fine. The weapons are all balanced very well IMO, and I’m happy that we have 2 capable starting weapons, and aren’t running around near defenseless like we were in previous Halo games. I use my pistol up until I find a BR or DMR, and then I prefer to have one of those Rifles over my pistol any day.
quite often Mag beats DMR at long range
Mag losses against Battle rifle at long range
mag beats Battle rifles at close range
DMR is useless against Mag in long range due to the zoom on the drm throwing out to match compared to the mag
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> Please Please hear me out before I get hate messages. I love the pistol since back in Halo Combat Evolved up till now. I have nothing against the pistol at all. My one problem is that whenever Team Arena is played, there is nothing but people using the pistol, and more often than not the pistol is the most balanced weapon to take on close, mid and I’m some cases long range. I know people love the pistol but it shouldn’t be the only thing used in Team arena what’s the point of having such a wide aresenal if no one uses any of it. Just like BTB the only thing people use are battle rifles.
Really you just realized that? I’ve been saying that the Magnum is hand canon a mini DMR since the very beginning of the game. On FFA that’s the main weapon of choice for diamonds and above it has an insane amount of range and bullet magnetism.
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> As far as I care they could and should just remove the other rifles from the game entirely.
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> My only concern is how it stacks up against power weapons and non-precision weapons.
We get it you love your pistol, if it was up to you the pistol would be able to match up against a sniper.
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> quite often Mag beats DMR at long range
> Mag losses against Battle rifle at long range
> mag beats Battle rifles at close range
> DMR is useless against Mag in long range due to the zoom on the drm throwing out to match compared to the mag
I beg to differ. Never been beat by a pistol vs my DMR at long range. Medium maybe. Close, possibly. Never long. Although DMR is one of my better weapons so…
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> > As far as I care they could and should just remove the other rifles from the game entirely.
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> We get it you love your pistol, if it was up to you the pistol would be able to match up against a sniper.
Nothing wrong with the Pistol being able to match a Sniper in Halo Ce, or the BR being able to match one in Halo 2. That’s the entire point of having a utility weapon.
Nerfing the utility gun and splitting it into a ton of situational rifles or just straight upgrades to the spawn weapon is just asinine and unnecessary.
> uite often Mag beats DMR at long range
The DMR is literally just the Magnum with more ammo and increased range.
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> > quite often Mag beats DMR at long range
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> I beg to differ. Never been beat by a pistol vs my DMR at long range. Medium maybe. Close, possibly. Never long. Although DMR is one of my better weapons so…
once a mag hits u over long range while zoomed in it messes with ya mag beat dmr
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The pistol of Halo CE was an overpower flaw. Having a pistol be effective in all ranges and overpowering most rifles would not only make any sense but it will defeat the purpose off picking anything else. The DMR is a magnum with more ammo and increased range and thats the problem.
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> > > > As far as I care they could and should just remove the other rifles from the game entirely.
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> The pistol of Halo CE was an overpower flaw. Having a pistol be effective in all ranges and overpowering most rifles would not only make any sense but it will defeat the purpose off picking anything else. The DMR is a magnum with more ammo and increased range and thats the problem.
It’s also one of the reasons people loved CE. Mistake or not, it defined the game.
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> You do realize it’s a starting weapon? Of course it is going to be used a lot.
> It’s a good weapon at that also. It’s easy to use and has a 5 shot kill rate.
> Same with the BR in regards to your BTB statement.
> Come on, just think.
its extremely versatile (what a starting weapon should be).
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> > > > > As far as I care they could and should just remove the other rifles from the game entirely.
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> > > Nothing wrong with the Pistol being able to match a Sniper in Halo Ce, or the BR being able to match one in Halo 2. That’s the entire point of having a utility weapon.
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> > The pistol of Halo CE was an overpower flaw. Having a pistol be effective in all ranges and overpowering most rifles would not only make any sense but it will defeat the purpose off picking anything else. The DMR is a magnum with more ammo and increased range and thats the problem.
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What define Halo CE was that it made you feel like a bad -Yoink- super Space Marine kicking Aliens -Yoink- in route to saving the world. The multi player was fun because it was the best next thing comparable to Goldeneye 64 on steroids.
Again having having an OP pistol defeats the purpose of picking up others weapons. In other words what’s the point on having other weapons on the game when the pistol is more effective.
It’s the precision starting utility weapon of course it’s going to be used a lot
the pro AR crowd cried and cried to get rid of BR starts
…and this is the result magnum/AR starts
the alternative is to bring back BR starts, which I for one am all for
While this game has a ton of flaws and things that make me wonder what they were thinking/smoking while developing, the Magnum as a starting weapon is not one of them. Usually I’m just not good enough with it, but fair play to those who know how to use it.