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It’s the promethean sidearm. It was shown in a video before.
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There was also the ‘Suppresor’, which I believe is the Promethean AR.
> It’s the promethean sidearm. It was shown in a video before.
Oh… I wonder if it’s the one from Bravo’s video that he didn’t know the name of it…
> Oh cool. Didn’t know that, thanks for telling me. I hope its similar to the spiker.
Doubt it.
In the UNSC weapons overview you can see a brief clip of a weapon firing that looks a bit like a flamethrower.
That’s supposedly the Boltshot.
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i believe its the promethean fire arm although it reminds me of the mauler from halo 3 for some reason.
The Promethian Pistol was shooting fire. Boltshot doesn’t sound like a name for it.
I don’t know why people keep saying it shoots fire. Just because it looks like fire doesn’t mean it is. And the name leads me to believe that that effect is just from its explosive power alone, not any fire effect.
That being said, all other promethean weapons use hard-light ammunition. It wouldn’t make much sense for all of these weapons to use hard-light, and the pistol use fire. This is most likely just the firing effect present on the gun, nothing more.
but yes this is the promethen pistol. I was one of the first ones to call its being into the game, and I even had a thread on what effects it might have(this was month ago, before most of the gameplay we have now was shown). Most people seemed to agree that they wanted a revolver-type pistol, howver it doesn’t see like we are going to get one. I just hope its unique, and not a re-skin of the magnum( I don’t want it to be precision, or at least not in the way the magnum is. I want it to be completely unique)
It looks like it could have a secondary fire feature, similar to the Plasma Pistol.
Covie weapons are often reverse engineered from Forerunner tech, so what if the Boltshot is what the PP was made after?
It has a normal firing mode like the PP, smaller, fast shots. This is hardlight.
But there is a secondary fire. Charging it up and firing releases are large blast of [fire] or [disintegrating technology] (A different form of hardlight?) that is used primarily for close quarters. This blast does a lot of damage up close. During the Forerunner Flood War, it was used as a last resort if your position was overwhelmed. It easily decimated anything in its path, disintegrating anything hit with it.
Just a theory.