Just got done playing some team slayer and was using the plasma pistol just cause and I don’t like the state it’s in currently. I would really like to see some blast AOE put back on it + stronger tracking that’s it.
It needs it’s EMP back.
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Eh idk it would kinda make the SR and disruptor irrelevant
The shock rifle is the beam rifle to the sniper. The disruptor really should’ve been made to be something else as the plasma pistol already filled the EMP role.
Bring Back EMP
It has Niche uses, best one being to knock out an over charged spartans shields instantly. But it’s probably the worst of the pistol weapons…
How good is it’s tap fire when it comes to knocking out shields?
Considering that the Pulse Carbine seems to have replaced the Plasma Pistol in terms of speedily weakening/taking out shields while the Disruptor had stolen its EMP effect, the Plasma Pistol has really gone down to the bottom of the barrel in my opinion.
First, they need to fix the Melee. This is because for it to have multiple uses, you must be able to use it as a Melee weapon like it always was used as. It should at least get a trade vs a Sword-wielder.
Then, yes it does need better tracking. Maybe not Halo 2 tracking but maybe a slight update. It seems worse than Halo 3’s tracking which in that game the tracking was lacking and it was not commonly used unless you were good at predicting where enemies were moving (most weren’t and ignored the weapon).
Lastly, I don’t even think it should get the EMP back (was never a fan of that feature), but it could get something better, like drops passengers’ shields when the Vehicle is hit or some effect to the Vehicle, like controls get reversed for passengers’
Right now, it seems like for the Plasma Pistol to be effective, you need to use it like a Pistol. I don’t think it’s been like that since HCE (not sure if it was like that in H5 or not). - You can actually kill someone with it straight up.
i’d say that dont bring its vehicle emp back. Many weapons have this. In stead m ake it a complete copy of the halo 1 plasma pistol. would be much better
This right here. It’s mostly worthless if you can’t at least stun vehicles like you always used to be able to. It’s a fairly uncommon weapon on the battlefield to find anyway, so it’s not likely to mess with balancing too much.
What the Plasma Pistol needs more than anything is the ability to do respectable damage with its standard fire mode.
The Plasma Rifle doesn’t exist in this game. There’s no reason it’s single fire, which was purposely weak because otherwise it would just be a better Plasma Rifle in every way, should remain weaker than it was in Halo Reach and 4.
In both games it fully drained shields in 3 shots, and finished players off in an additional 7. Now it takes like 5 to drain shields and an additional 7 to kill… In a game with wildly faster killtimes than those.