The Plasma-Pistol is underpowered and should be able to stun the vehicles again . Like at all other Halo Games. This is one of the most unique Halo features.
Plasma pistol needs it’s vehicle stun, and ability to pop overshields if it’s ever going to be used for anything other than troll kills.
Amen to the vehicle stun.
I don’t think it needs the EMP back. With the new shock damage type we’ve got 3 weapons that already do it. What it really needs is a buff to its standard fire mode. It was much stronger in Reach and Halo 4, gets it’s gotten weaker in a game where everything else kills blazing fast. And since this game doesn’t have a Plasma Rifle or Storm Rifle in it, there’s no reason the PP can’t be buffed to fill the hole they left behind as a close-ranged plasma weapon. The only reason it’s been so weak in games past was so the corresponding rifle wouldn’t be redundant after all.
Also Plasma in general should do more vehicle damage than the other damage types. Which would allow the overcharge to have some anti-vehicle properties back, as it would be able to deal a significant chunk of damage to one. Either that, or make it so that overcharging a vehicle instantly drains the shield of everyone on-board. Softening the whole thing up for your team in one blow.
Like 3 other weapons have that role now. If they added that back in no one would touch vehicles. The shock rifle is basically a focus rifle but can actually kill things and is an EMP.
The plasma pistol just needs the ability to do literally anything. At the moment it has no use in the sandbox other than wasting your weapon spawns. Noob combo? Tracking sucks and blast is slow. EMP? Can’t do that anymore. Damage output? Pathetic. It’s basically a water gun. It wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t waste an entire weapon spawn for your team. An extremely weak gun can have fun uses in custom games but with it’s implementation into team weapon spawns it’s a completey annoyance.
Literally everyone agrees that the plasma pistol should be able to stun vehicles. Crazy
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> Literally everyone agrees that the plasma pistol should be able to stun vehicles. Crazy
Not necessarily. Stunning Vehicles can be very annoying if it happens a high percentage of the time you are in the Vehicle. Just thinking outside the box but what if it dropped the shields of everyone in the Vehicle instead. I have mixed feelings about either solution cause I don’t know how common anti-Vehicle weapons are on the maps and how much Vehicles will be introduced and a large part of maps.
It didn’t EMP vehicles in CE.
I’m sort of fine with it either way, but with a weapon type now sort of using it as its special, I can see why they changed it. Still, if they are removing its anti-vehicle traits, it needs to useful in another way.
Honestly its kind of weird they kept it at all if this is how they planned to handle it. They replaced a number of other weapons to fit their new sandbox…why is the plasma pistol till the way it is?