Honestly, I am liking the recoil and sounds of the halo 4 assault rifle, but wow the looks are a complete step backwards. The assault rifle for Reach looked really cool and beefy, but for halo 4 it simply looks like a copy/pasted version of the old halo 3 assault rifle.
So 343, while you seem to have plenty of requests/complaints to redesign the sniper rifle’s appearance (scope inparticularly), I really hope you change the front appearance of the assault rifle as well. I think it should look way more badass than the Reach assault rifle did. This new one just reminds me way too much of halo 3. Just redesign the front top half of the gun, and you will have a beast starting weapon that we will really want to hang on to. It’s just too plain-jane and simple as it is right now…
I can tell you straight up they won’t change the AR in halo 4, now they may change it in halo 5 or 6 but for 4 its pretty much gonna look like the way it is now.
I honestly don’t understand why people obsess over such details so much, I mean don’t you think the way the gun feels is more important than anything else? even if it didn’t look or feel good then the time 343 would have to spend changing the look of the thing is by far not worth it.
We all realise Halo Reach had the best looking assault rifle but 343i won’t change it at this stage and plus, Halo 4 takes place right after Halo 3 therefore, they have to look similar.
I kind of agree. Halo 3’s AR was a useless piece of crap that sounded like a peashooter and was about as effective. Reach’s was almost as good as the DMR in some cases.
It seems to perform alright in H4, but whenever I see it, I’ll still be reminded of the useless version in H3. I wish they’d kept Reach’s more interesting design, but I can deal with it