Why is the Plasma Pistol so weak? I know it has been weak in ALL of the other Halo games, but why is so weak for a weapon with a “Get X kills with this weapon” commendation section?
How weak is it? 8 shots to the head of an enemy who has no shields or 12 to kill someone from full shields. Why does it take twice the shots to deal the lethal damage over the shots to drop shields?
In case people were wondering Magnum can 6 shot someone, and you can one-shot with the bolt shot charge up.
Quicky shots to kill:
Combat Evloved- 15 shots(8 with no shields(WNS))
Halo 2- 26 shots(19 WNS)
Halo 3- 26 shots(19 WNS)
Reach- 10 shots (7 WNS)
Anniversary CE- no Multiplayer assumed Reach Values
Halo 4- 12 shots (8 WNS)
just overcharge it, shoot someone with it and then switch weapons for the kill. it also disables vehicles when overcharged, I wouldn’t call it weak. You just need to know what to use it for.
While it probably will be rough getting that commendation, the Plasma Pistol isn’t weak. It’s situational. It isn’t a brutal killing machine on it’s own. It’s the anti-vehicle. I never go into Big Team Battle or Dominion without a Plasma Pistol on my hip. It peels away shields like nobody’s business. You can follow it up with a headshot weapon, a melee attack, or you can have a teammate nearby to cleanup.
I almost never use it against players, saving it exclusively for vehicles and I still find it worth having around in a number of situations.
The issue is that it takes 8 uncharged or 4 charged shots to kill a spartan after dropping their shields. So the act of killing someone with is weapon is more a game of luck on how poor of a shot the other person is, or if you can shoot them 8 times in the skull without getting double melee’d.
Right back to trying to get this commendation, got a 0.1 k/d ratio and 131 kills into it. Like I was attempting to say, The plasma pistol is weak, at killing players. I never said it wasn’t good in situations where you nuke someone’s shields and head shot them with your other gun or disable a vehicle to hijack/destroy it. I only wanted to ask why it is such garbage at killing players.
Weak?
That made me choke on my coffee alright…
The plasma pistol is such a pain in the rumpus that I’ve wished they would take the yoinking thing out of the game ever since I saw it in the first Halo.
Over 10 years now I been grinding my teeth everytime I see that thing because I know they’ve suoped it up a little more with each generation when its already one of the most overpowered weapons on the field.
You claim its weak then you show me another single hand weapon that can put you down with 3 to 4 shots.
And I think the over charge is still homing.
Overcharge>ZAP>Shields Gone>Bang>Bang>Bang>Your dead
> One Plasma Pistol allowed me to take down 2 mechs, 1 ghost, and 1 banshee in under 2 minutes.
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> The Plasma Pistol isn’t the Flash KO Right Cross or Left Hook… it’s the Jab that opens up a world of possibilities.
Once again, I am not saying that the Plasma pistol is not good against vehicles, I am saying that if attempted to use on a player mean getting your -Yoink- kicked 95% of the time, and the other 5% is when you stub a toe afterwards and fall over dead.
I am not asking for the plasma pistol to snipe people with a single charge blast for a 1-hit kill, I would like to not get 4 shot by an -Yoink- who’s shields dropped before they even attempted to hit me, while my pistol overheats trying to hit the EIGHT times to kill them.
I would also like to know why unlike other weapons it takes longer for the plasma pistol to finish a kill over breaking someones shields, hell it takes like 4 charged up shots to end an un-shielded spartans life, I can test that number again.
> Weak?
> You claim its weak then you show me another single hand weapon that can put you down with 3 to 4 shots.
> And I think the over charge is still homing.
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> Overcharge>ZAP>Shields Gone>Bang>Bang>Bang>Your dead
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> Yeah really weak…
The Plasma Pistol by itself can’t drop anyone in 3-4 shots, sure if you use it to nuke someones shields and swap weapons it can be decent. I am saying it takes way to many shots to finish a kill with just the pistol.
What other gun takes more than 2 bullets/rounds to kill someone who doesn’t have shields? how many of those guns need you to basicly put a full clip into someone who’s shields are down just to kill them?
I swear this thing has like a +16x multiplier on shields because the rest of its damage is garbage.
It’s a HANDGUN.
Bolt pistol, Magnum, Plasma pistol…
The three handguns of the game.
None of them can rip a shield off someone faster than a plasma pistol can and still have plenty of ammo to spare.
The plasma pisol was the reason I stopped playing MM games on Halo because it made having a shield redundant.
Those weapons your talking about that back take out someone in one or two shots with their shields missing I bet if you look at your spartan holding them you’ll notice that he’s using two hands… that means its not a handgun, its a rifle.
Magnum can drop a freshly spawned spartan in 6 shots to the head, first five kill the shields, and its projectiles are faster/easier to use. Bolt shot charge is a pocket shotgun that can kill with only using 5 rounds(the cost of one charge shot)
So the plasma pistol takes twice the headshots to down someone as the magnum and 3-4 times the charge blasts to kill someone as the Bolt shot. It is only useful for disabling vehicles or setting up a quick head shot for your primary weapon.
I only have an issue with using it because I need to get the kill shot on like 800 spartans with this weapon, almost all of those are going to be kill steals, due to its low damage on players.
We are all (I would hope) completely aware of it. The point here is, that there are commendations for weapons for getting a certain amount of KILLS with it. Once you complete them all, you get armor.
Killing 1000+ people with a Plasma Pistol is going to be a nightmare. Buff it imo.
was somewhere near 20/100 plasma pistol kills 7 hours ago… think I have it up to 63/100… I basicly need to fight people who are legally blind or kill steal.
Looking at some of my scores with the plasma pistol makes me feel like I am boosting the kills of those in these games. going 4 and 12 or so on a regular basis due to its inability to down spartans.