Total says it all. Wondering if the personal ordance drops from slayer are completely random, or are there variables that can change the chances of what shows up.
I’m only wondering this, because now that I’m SR-130, I’ve actually almost finished my scattershot commendations, on the last commendation for the incineration cannon, but I’m really lacking on the binary rifle.
Just wondering if theres anything I can do to up the chances of getting said 3 weapons out of my ordance drops
It’s my understanding that the Binary Rifle’s chance of appearing in your ordinance drop on large maps is only about 5.5%. All you can really do is play with Requisition in your tactical slot to let you re-roll to increase your chances. Ammo in your support slot can help too, of course, for when you get it.
It’s not totally random, different weapons have different chances of coming up, one second while I find the %ages.
Person above is correct, it’s about 5.5% on large maps for the Binary rifle.
http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headlines/post/2012/11/14/The-Halo-Bulletin-111412-.aspx
> It’s not totally random, different weapons have different chances of coming up, one second while I find the %ages.
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> Person above is correct, it’s about 5.5% on large maps for the Binary rifle.
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> http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headlines/post/2012/11/14/The-Halo-Bulletin-111412-.aspx
Good post. Good information. Thanks =D
I recommend playing a lot of Dominion on Meltdown. From my personal experiences, the number of Binary Rifle drops seem higher on that said map.
Yes they are but they also have different weightings attached to them.
If you open up custom game options, you’ll find you can assign a number to them 1-10. 1 making the drop rare and 10 is guaranteed to be a choice no matter what.
How 343 sets it up is that the drops are neither 1 or 10 with different possibilities (in customs, these are number possibility 1, 2, 3 etc).
Which creates the randomness you see in the voting choices when you can call in a POD. You can however, make PODs not random by only having one choice per direction on D pad with no other possibilities and setting the weighting to 10. This way, you will always have the three same choices, eliminating the randomness from the equation.
So they can work but PODS as they are now, are very random. I would have expected 343 to balance them out to where if you die, the meter resets to zero or the gauge is reduced as to create a reward-punish system to encourage players to do better for the cool toys and slap them on the wrists for dying. If you are going to copy elements from COD, why don’t you use this to make PODS better?
Placing Overshields, Damage Boosts, Rockets (FRG, Rocks, Lava Cannon), Snipers (Binary, Human, Beam Rifle) in set locations to encourage map movement (though they cannot all be drops in the same map nor can they be random) and shouldn’t be choices in drops IMO.