I noticed the Plasma Caster design looks inspired by the Concussion Rifle, and also fires explosive plasma projectiles (Although with two modes of fire). Will we see the Concussion Rifle alongside the Plasma Caster, or will it be replaced with the latter?
Personally, I hope it does. The Concussion Rifle is terrible in PvP in my opinion. I’m sure others feel different, but I hate how it works. With the plasma, at least you can stick enemies and hopefully it has an AOE.
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> Personally, I hope it does. The Concussion Rifle is terrible in PvP in my opinion. I’m sure others feel different, but I hate how it works. With the plasma, at least you can stick enemies and hopefully it has an AOE.
CR is great for team shot, very effective. It’s just not very effective for 1v1 fights. I’m not sure if CR is in h5. Anyone seen it?
I like weapons diversity, but I prefer the plasma caster over the CR
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> > Personally, I hope it does. The Concussion Rifle is terrible in PvP in my opinion. I’m sure others feel different, but I hate how it works. With the plasma, at least you can stick enemies and hopefully it has an AOE.
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> CR is great for teams hot, very effective. It’s just not very effective for 1v1 fights. I’m not sure if CR is in h5. Anyone seen it?
I don’t believe we have seen the concussion rifle in halo 5 yet. It may not even be in the game because like op suggested it has been replaced.
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> Personally, I hope it does. The Concussion Rifle is terrible in PvP in my opinion. I’m sure others feel different, but I hate how it works. With the plasma, at least you can stick enemies and hopefully it has an AOE.
It’s not to good in PvE either. I’ve never felt that it was a good weapon. The only time I find myself using it is for trick jumps and stuff.
But I think the Plasma Caster would be a worthy successor to the Concussion rifle, although we don’t know if the CR has been removed yet.
From what we’ve seen of it, it seems better as it fires both like a concussion rifle in its standard mode, and like a “plasma crossbow” type weapon when you hold down the trigger. I think having the concussion rifle in the game with the addition of this would be redundant.
Now if only we could get the M319 Grenade Launcher back from Reach, we would have two great and unique GL type weapons in the game.
Halo 4 was a disaster when it came to weapon diversity. We had multiple weapons – like the AR, suppressor and storm rifle – that all did essentially the same thing, while unique weapons like Reach’s grenade launcher and plasma launcher were completely abandoned. I happen to have liked the concussion rifle – basically, a replacement for the brute shot, since Reach took place before the Brute uprising – but I suppose the plasma caster is a worthy successor to either of them.
Now that you mention it, it does seem to be a replacement… Hopefully the brute shot will come back though.
Blueberry gun FTW
It looked to me to be like the H2 brute shot it one mode and almost like the sticky launcher from reach in its alt mode. Good.
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> It looked to me to be like the H2 brute shot it one mode and almost like the sticky launcher from reach in its alt mode. Good.
Hopefully more AOE than H2 brute shot lol. Did you mean grenade launcher from Reach?
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No. Small AOE means you have to actually land the shots. It only took 2. I loved that gun and was very dissapointed with what it became in 3. Tho I certainly loved Reach’s GL. Far superior to that hunk of crap sticky detonator.
Looks cool…but too generic, needs some yellow like the old plasma rifle and plasma pistol.
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> Personally, I hope it does. The Concussion Rifle is terrible in PvP in my opinion. I’m sure others feel different, but I hate how it works. With the plasma, at least you can stick enemies and hopefully it has an AOE.
If it gets into the hands of someone who can use it, its really effective. Mainly Haven, since its ordnance rate makes it easy for the person using it to continually replenish their ammo
id like it to/ welcome the change.
To God I hope it’s been replaced by the Caster, OP. The Concussion Rifle–or, as I have long called it, the Anti-Happiness Cannon–was too powerful and even if it was tweaked I just don’t see it having a legitimate place in Halo’s combat. There are many weapons in Halo, with moderate power to significant power, with both simple and more unique functions in the gameplay recipe. But even when getting one-shotted by a Splaser, blown to heaven with a Rocket Launcher, shredded by a Needler, or popped by a plasma pistol, it never feels inappropriate, jarring, or off. It has its place. The kill is deserved. I don’t feel like that with the AHC (CR). It seems intrusive. It’s just a fast-firing all-out KABLAM!!!-producer with a large blast radius, massive knockback, and an unbalanced damage output. It just ruins people’s day. You can’t respond, can’t react, you are just thrown around in a chaotic boomfest when facing an AHC-wielding player. It’s like a hand-held version of the even more intrusive and annoyance Revenant blast, if that actually did serious damage. Even if toned down, none of its attributes contribute a positive purpose towards gameplay or are conducive to Halo’s strategy aspect, in my humble opinion.
To be honest, the only thing the concussion rifle was used for was for speed running in campaign.
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> To be honest, the only thing the concussion rifle was used for was for speed running in campaign.
I never knew it was used for that lol
Yeah, no loss.
It was just annoying in the MP, being pushed around like crazy.
It didn’t feel very unique either, the caster seems like some kind of mix with Sticky Launcher and the Concussion Rifle.