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Covenant Carbine. The base variant is no more powerful than the Battle Rifle.
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Storm Rifle. In Arena, it’s a beast… but in Warzone, automatic weapons have limited use compared to precision weapons.
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Suppressor. Same issue as with the Storm Rifle, really.
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Boltshot. Again, no more powerful than other loadout weapons.
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Halo: Combat Evolved Pistol. It’s a pistol that’s REQ Level 6, and it can’t compete with the likes of The Answer, Whiplash, and other true power weapons.
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Whispered Truth. Same deal as with the Halo: CE Pistol. There are better options than a machine pistol by the time you hit REQ Level 5.
You know, I’ve never been killed by Whispered Truth or the Halo 1 Pistol in Warzone? I’ve been sniped plenty of times, cut down by Energy Swords, I’ve been blown to smithereens by rockets, blasted out of my boots by shotguns, disintegrated by Scattershots, and melted under a hail of bullets from The Answer. Those are power weapons. People tell me that Whispered Truth and the Halo 1 Pistol can be deadly in skilled hands, but there’s no denying the fact that by the time these weapons become available, you already have a dozen better options to choose from. Common power weapons like the base variants of the shotgun and SAW are better than these glorified sidearms.
Hell, the Rare version of the Carbine- Blood of Suban- is more powerful than the Halo 1 Pistol! It’s only REQ Level 4, and though it takes more shots to kill, it has longer range and more ammo, making it better suited to the large open environments of Warzone. Not to mention Rare weapons drop more frequently than Mythic weapons when buying REQ packs.
Loadout weapons are exlusively UNSC. Spartans have access to spartan weapons. The storm rifle is OP and should never be a loadout option lol. The reason you haven’t been killed by the CE Pistol or Whispered Truth is because both are super rare in WZ. I’ve used whispered truth once and i was killing people quite easily with it. My 2 cents anyway.
Whispered Truth; no, it’s a two shot kill, it would be way too powerful as a loadout weapon, regardless of what req level it is.
Halo CE Magnum; this wouldn’t work all that well as a loadout weapon either due to the 3 shot kill, it might work as a lvl 8 loadout req but it would still be iffy.
As for the others I wouldn’t really mind any of them I could see them working ok, but the clutter would be a little annoying.
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> Loadout weapons are exlusively UNSC. Spartans have access to spartan weapons. The storm rifle is OP and should never be a loadout option lol. The reason you haven’t been killed by the CE Pistol or Whispered Truth is because both are super rare in WZ. I’ve used whispered truth once and i was killing people quite easily with it. My 2 cents anyway.
Well said, although I think that the Storm Rifle isn’t OP but rather a valuable Power Weapon, a straight upgrade from the Assault Rifle and suitable as a level 1 REQ.
Whispered Truth and the Halo CE pistol are also much rarer than many of the REQ’s that you mentioned, so it’s far less likely that you would run into them in general compared to the other weapons.
If anything, the SMG should be a power weapon.
Carbine, Storm Rifle, Suppressor, and Boltshot I can all agree with. and entire enemy team running Whispered truth or CE magnum would be overpowered. You compare them to the two best reqs instead of comparing them to other loadout weapons. The CE magnum would utterly destoy any other loadout weapon. It’s a 3 shot kill where the DMR is 4 or 5 shot.
You are a damn fool if you think spawning with a permanent Halo CE pistol is a good idea.
People who only look at shots-to-kill don’t really get weapon balance.
At the same time I can’t speak for how easy the Ce Magnum is to actually use for I haven’t played with it. I’m assuming it’s significantly easier than it’s actual Ce counterpart, which would make it unsuitable as a spawn weapon.
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> People who only look at shots-to-kill don’t really get weapon balance.
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> At the same time I can’t speak for how easy the Ce Magnum is to actually use for I haven’t played with it. I’m assuming it’s significantly easier than it’s actual Ce counterpart, which would make it unsuitable as a spawn weapon.
It is much easier to use, its also only requires one trigger pull for the entire clip making its TTK much less then its other pistol counter parts. It can best many other power weapons and load out weapon variants therefore should stay considered a power weapon.
Oh it also has a ridiculous range so take that for what its worth.
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> 1. Covenant Carbine. The base variant is no more powerful than the Battle Rifle.
> 2. Storm Rifle. In Arena, it’s a beast… but in Warzone, automatic weapons have limited use compared to precision weapons.
> 3. Suppressor. Same issue as with the Storm Rifle, really.
> 4. Boltshot. Again, no more powerful than other loadout weapons.
> 5. Halo: Combat Evolved Pistol. It’s a pistol that’s REQ Level 6, and it can’t compete with the likes of The Answer, Whiplash, and other true power weapons.
> 6. Whispered Truth. Same deal as with the Halo: CE Pistol. There are better options than a machine pistol by the time you hit REQ Level 5.
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> You know, I’ve never been killed by Whispered Truth or the Halo 1 Pistol in Warzone? I’ve been sniped plenty of times, cut down by Energy Swords, I’ve been blown to smithereens by rockets, blasted out of my boots by shotguns, disintegrated by Scattershots, and melted under a hail of bullets from The Answer. Those are power weapons. People tell me that Whispered Truth and the Halo 1 Pistol can be deadly in skilled hands, but there’s no denying the fact that by the time these weapons become available, you already have a dozen better options to choose from. Common power weapons like the base variants of the shotgun and SAW are better than these glorified sidearms.
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> Hell, the Rare version of the Carbine- Blood of Suban- is more powerful than the Halo 1 Pistol! It’s only REQ Level 4, and though it takes more shots to kill, it has longer range and more ammo, making it better suited to the large open environments of Warzone. Not to mention Rare weapons drop more frequently than Mythic weapons when buying REQ packs.
Okay let me say some things as to why these shouldn’t be loadout weapons.
- Not UNSC
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- Not UNSC
- Compare to H5 magnum. Has a 3 shot kill with more ammo capacity and faster firing rate
- This is actually a pretty powerful gun. I’ve used it and managed to get quite a few kills with it before being ran over by a vehicle and someone else picking it up to use against us.
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> > People who only look at shots-to-kill don’t really get weapon balance.
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> > At the same time I can’t speak for how easy the Ce Magnum is to actually use for I haven’t played with it. I’m assuming it’s significantly easier than it’s actual Ce counterpart, which would make it unsuitable as a spawn weapon.
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> It is much easier to use, its also only requires one trigger pull for the entire clip making its TTK much less then its other pistol counter parts. It can best many other power weapons and load out weapon variants therefore should stay considered a power weapon.
> Oh it also has a ridiculous range so take that for what its worth.
It has spread though when fired auto. Unfortionately, 343 decided to make it stupidly easier to use compared to the original.
Got to agree with you on these Aryck…Id add the Lightrifle too.
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> People who only look at shots-to-kill don’t really get weapon balance.
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> At the same time I can’t speak for how easy the Ce Magnum is to actually use for I haven’t played with it. I’m assuming it’s significantly easier than it’s actual Ce counterpart, which would make it unsuitable as a spawn weapon.
BR wins after one miss. At range, at least. It really blooms if you spam.
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> > People who only look at shots-to-kill don’t really get weapon balance.
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> > At the same time I can’t speak for how easy the Ce Magnum is to actually use for I haven’t played with it. I’m assuming it’s significantly easier than it’s actual Ce counterpart, which would make it unsuitable as a spawn weapon.
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> BR wins after one miss. At range, at least. It really blooms if you spam.
This. The speed boost doesn’t make much of a difference, either.
I mean, the CE Magnum has always had automatic fire, and that automatic fire has always had terrible spread.
You could tap fire it just as fast as you could auto fire it in the original though. Again no idea how it is in Halo 5.