While I know this is extremely unlikely to be put in the next game, I think that there are easy ways to fix plasma grenade, plasma pistol, and boltshot cheapness without moving them from their intended role of loadout weapons.
Boltshot: Instead of having the charged shot be a completley different kind of round that kills instantly, just have it shoot 5 regular shots in quick succesion, just like the rocket launcher on the mantis. It would take down sheilds just like the plasma pistol, making them equals. You could still get a one hit kill like with the plasma pistol by just meleeing your enemy as soon as you take down their sheilds.
Plasma Grenade: Instead of letting users kamikaze stick people at extremely close ranges, have the plasma grenade travel a certain distance before “igniting” and gaining the ability to stick people and explode, like how a fuel rod round will travel a certain distance before being able to explode. This wouldn’t change much because plasma grenades already have to stop moving and rest on the ground to explode, and the time it would take to ignite could be around the same time.
Plasma Pistol: Instead of having the charged shot be the only useful thing for killing players, have the primary shots travel faster and have the ability to kill players easier and have the charged shot travel much slower and don’t allow players to throw grenades during the cooldown. This, combined with the plasma grenade nerf would force players to more skillfully take down vehicles while allowing the plasma pistol to get actual kills.
> The only problem I see with removing them from loadouts is that they aren’t really powerful enough to be ordanance imo.
Exactly so the obvious solution is remove ordinance and put weapons back on the map where they belong, people don’t need to be babied, even Reach had a better population this soon after release.
> > The only problem I see with removing them from loadouts is that they aren’t really powerful enough to be ordanance imo.
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> Exactly so the obvious solution is remove ordinance and put weapons back on the map where they belong, people don’t need to be babied, even Reach had a better population this soon after release.
While I, too, would prefer this alternative, it appears unlikely that 343 would do away with the Ordanace system, especially in Halo 4. Weapon tuning, however, is something that 343 is willing to do, so we kind of have to work with what we have.
I don’t get you people. Whats the point of making the boltshot like the PP. There would be no point. how about they replace the BS with the Bishop beam. (that prototype beam weapon.)
> I don’t get you people. Whats the point of making the boltshot like the PP. There would be no point. how about they replace the BS with the Bishop beam. (that prototype beam weapon.)
The point of making it more like the plasma pistol is so that it can’t kill in one hit… that would be the only thing making it like the plasma pistol and the main complaint about the boltshot.