Before i go into anything, I do not hate the magnum, I do use it, i don’t care if others use it, I don’t mind its power, its over use, or its sound, only issue i have with the magnum is its range. It shouldn’t have the range of a BR, it really shouldn’t have the range of an AR. There is no short barrel pistol that has the at range accuracy of a long barrel rifle of nearly any variety.
I prefer weapons that we can actually get kills easily with like the Magnum not to be starters personally
Switch the magnum to a gun with the equivalent TTK as a plasma pistol without charges
That’s why I’ve always prefered AR starts in Halo 2-4 with magnums that weren’t so fast in TTK
I don’t like the magnum, but its a fine weapon.
It doesn’t give me any visceral feels the way other weapons did. The CE magnum or the Reach DMR… those elicited responses from me from their look and sound. Not so much anything in Halo 5.
Oh god…more of these
I don’t get what you mean by “overuse”, if anything, the BR is the most overused gun in H5.
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There is so many of these that it shouldn’t be ignored
If this many people complain then its probably an issue
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> I don’t get what you mean by “overuse”, if anything, the BR is the most overused gun in H5.
in warzone i agree, but in other game modes excluding btb the br isn’t so easily available so everyone goes to the pistol
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^^ the magnum doesn’t actually have the range of a BR. If you play Escape from A.R.C. Try to kill people with the magnum when capturing one of the armories at the beginning. Trust me, it’s not easy getting 5+ shots when they’re running into the garage. With the BR, I would be able to actually take their shields down.
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No, it’s a bunch of trolls who latch onto an idea and propagate it. Just like the whole sprint debacle (there are people who don’t like it but like half of them were just trolls inciting a flame war), this is an overblown thing to make them feel important and cause upsets in the Waypoint forums.
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> No, it’s a bunch of trolls who latch onto an idea and propagate it. Just like the whole sprint debacle (there are people who don’t like it but like half of them were just trolls inciting a flame war), this is an overblown thing to make them feel important and cause upsets in the Waypoint forums.
not my intentions whatso ever, and the fact that i only stated a minor issue with the gun, i am responding, and weighing in should show im not trolling
Personally, I liked the Halo 4/Reach incarnation of the magnum best. High rate of fire + bloom meant it killed faster than any other precision rifle, but only at close range. It could still be used effectively at longer ranges, but only if you paced your shots. This makes the most sense to me.
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If they reskinned the magnum to look like a carbine, it wouldn’t be an issue. If we had to spend the first thirty seconds of every spawn trying desperately to find something to replace our useless magnums with then we have another sidearm to litter the map with (H2 & H3). Littering is bad.
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> Personally, I liked the Halo 4/Reach incarnation of the magnum best. High rate of fire + bloom meant it killed faster than any other precision rifle, but only at close range. It could still be used effectively at longer ranges, but only if you paced your shots. This makes the most sense to me.
Those were pretty good. I still play Reach and Halo 4 on occasion and enjoy using the magnums in both. I’d settle if they wanted to nerf it that strength, but I still like the Halo 5 magnum.
It’s a video game- realism & normal weapon conventions don’t matter, weapon balance matters…Its not easy to hit targets with the magnum at long range so if you can actually hit targets at that range then you should be rewarded for it.
The gun has perfect accuracy so it’s effective range is purely based on how good the user’s ability to aim. Nothing wrong with that.
The pistol doesn’t have the range of the BR.
secondly, it sounds like your issue is with the weapons model, not with how it functions in the sandbox. If the pistol had a long barrel would you be ok with it?
it has more range than the AR, because it makes the game balanced around skill, not because it’s realistic.
Thats because it is the games utility weapon, and since everyone starts with it equipped I don’t see what the big deal is. When everyone starts with the same gun thats when the skilled players start to stick out because they will still dominate other players who are using the same weapon.
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LOL yeah.
I like it takes me back to CE
I don’t get it. You just named the reason why I love it
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> I don’t get it. You just named the reason why I love it
because a pistol isnt a range weapon in any way