for one am happy about this, I would love to be able to have a DMR/BR/Carbine for long range and the AR/Storm rifle for the close in, if they’re actually usable.
I hope every weapon is usable this time.
Where is it shown?
It sure looks like its useful. I saw someone at RTX destroying with the AR. Personally, I will use the AR but I will mainly be using a BR/DMR combo.
I’ve learned from gears of war 3 that making every weapon balanced doesn’t necessarily make the game any more fun, I hope they make it so the rifle are more effective at mid to long range whereas the AR and SR are better at close range.
> I’ve learned from gears of war 3 that making every weapon balanced doesn’t necessarily make the game any more fun, I hope they make it so the rifle are more effective at mid to long range whereas the AR and SR are better at close range.
No, everything in Gears 3 was not balanced, it was over powered. And yes, having everything too weak or powerful makes the game not fun. If it was balanced, the rifles wouldn’t have stopping power and the gnasher would have less range…
> > I’ve learned from gears of war 3 that making every weapon balanced doesn’t necessarily make the game any more fun, I hope they make it so the rifle are more effective at mid to long range whereas the AR and SR are better at close range.
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> No, everything in Gears 3 was not balanced, it was over powered. And yes, having everything too weak or powerful makes the game not fun. If it was balanced, the rifles wouldn’t have stopping power and the gnasher would have less range…
The only issue will the Gears 3 balance for primary’s was the Sawed off.
> > > I’ve learned from gears of war 3 that making every weapon balanced doesn’t necessarily make the game any more fun, I hope they make it so the rifle are more effective at mid to long range whereas the AR and SR are better at close range.
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> > No, everything in Gears 3 was not balanced, it was over powered. And yes, having everything too weak or powerful makes the game not fun. If it was balanced, the rifles wouldn’t have stopping power and the gnasher would have less range…
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> The only issue will the Gears 3 balance for primary’s was the Sawed off.
the sawed-off has been proven time and time again to be less effective than the gnasher, people complained about it because it took no skill (which is the point of the gun to begin with) not because it was OP.
as for the retro lancer I honestly couldn’t tell because of how powerful the other rifles were, the retro combo was one seriously obnoxious thing though.
even though gears might have been a gnasher fest, at least it was fun whereas gears of war 3 was not. to say that making the SR and AR as powerful as the DMR/BR/carbine will make the game better isn’t true and gears of war 3 is a testiment as to why.
> It sure looks like its useful. I saw someone at RTX destroying with the AR. Personally, I will use the AR but I will mainly be using a BR/DMR combo.
Yeah it’s looking good, I’ll using it a lot more myself…
I reckon the Assault Rifle will be, as always, my favourite weapon in the game. The only version I’ve disliked so far was the Halo 3 version, since it sounded like somebody treading on bubble wrap (the sound effects were improved for ODST though). But in every other game the Battle Rifle or the DMR have been the most useful, all round weapons, so I’ll probably reserve the AR to a support role in competetive play. I’ll get my money’s worth out of it in Spartan Ops and Campaign though.
Thx for the link. Liking the look of longbow. You don’t get to see an Assault rifle kill however until 41mins in. Kill times and range look possibly about perfect from what I can tell but I have yet to see anyone burst fire with it yet (I do hope BF is actually useful in H4).
It’s great news for us AR lovers!
Good to hear. I only used the Reach AR from long range on Grunts. Also, Reach AR is good at Elite shielding but poor at Elite health.
I hope H4 AR is good at against both shielding and health.
I couldn’t see anyone use it properly to get a sense of how much damage the weapon actually has. Everyone was spraying it cross map.
Sorry but I have to say this:
Dat sound
I’ve always found the AR usefull. Now I’m fearful that it might be a niche weapon for closerange.
> I’ve always found the AR usefull. Now I’m fearful that it might be a niche weapon for closerange.
You mean like every other Halo game ever?
AR is useful, I’ve been waiting for this day to come.
I mainly used the storm rifle when I played but I also picked up an AR. They are pretty good weapons. Way more powerful than the automatics in 3 and Reach
Spray all you want, at range and probably in CQC situations you’re going to get wasted by my superior hand eye coordination and finesse.
Have some self respect and use the BR!