There’s the BR, DMR, Carbine, and Light Rifle, so…
BR - Close to mid range, 5 shot kill, no bloom. DMR - Mid to long range, 5 shot kill, bloom. Carbine - I’m guessing similar to DMR, except it’s weaker (possibly 7 shot?), but shoots faster and has no bloom? Light Rifle - a DMR/BR hybrid? It’s non scope shot is a 3-round burst, but the scope shot is an individual bullet. I don’t think there’s bloom either.
So is all this information correct, or am I off somewhere? Anyone have anything to add?
EDIT - I meant precision rifles, sorry for the confusion. Also, everyone that’s saying the light rifle is single shot only, 4:40
This is actually one thing I’m quite perturbed about. One of the best parts about Halo historically is that each weapon has its own unique role and usually might only have one Covenant mirror of it that functions marginally differently.
But I feel like they are diluting this weapon class with 4 weapons (5 if you really want to count the pistol) that essentially all fill the same position. 343 can try to explain this all they want but this is just damn redundant.
> Don’t forget the still announced but unseen “Assult Carbine”.
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> 5 Rifles, not including sniper weapons. I can only hope the new automatic weapons will somehow compensate for these additions.
Pretty sure the Assault Carbine is the Storm Rifle
> This is actually one thing I’m quite perturbed about. One of the best parts about Halo historically is that each weapon has its own unique role and usually might only have one Covenant mirror of it that functions marginally differently.
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> But I feel like they are diluting this weapon class with 4 weapons (5 if you really want to count the pistol) that essentially all fill the same position. 343 can try to explain this all they want but this is just damn redundant.
Well considering we really haven’t seen much game play besides a few moment of footage and even that was really unclear seeing as how it was mid match…I wouldn’t jump to conclusions.
Also, just because they are rifles don’t mean the will all act the same exact way. Take the beam rifle and the sniper. Are they both snipers? Yes. Do they behave in similar ways? Yes. Does that make them the exact same weapon? God no. I remember if you were good enough with the beam rifle you could take people out alot more efficiently than with a regular sniper.
In essence it’s like saying that saying the sword and shotgun fill the same roles as well.
Hopefully they’ll all differentiate enough between each other, which they seem to be doing so far even if they’re not huge differences. It does however seem the DMR might be at a disadvantage to other weapons, because it’s the only rifle to my knowledge that has bloom. Especially if the Carbine fits the same role as the DMR.
The Light rifle seems like it’s going to be a very interesting weapon. Perhaps it will be 6 shot instead of 5 shot, since it can fit the roles of both the BR and DMR.
> > I have a feeling that the Light Rifle will not be in MM. We should just have the Br, dmr and Carbine.
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> No! The only reason I can tolerate loadouts is having the ability to use the light rifle! I want to disintegrate enemies with a precision weapon!
> > I have a feeling that the Light Rifle will not be in MM. We should just have the Br, dmr and Carbine.
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> No! The only reason I can tolerate loadouts is having the ability to use the light rifle! I want to disintegrate enemies with a precision weapon!
Lol that’s what you have the Scattershot for, though it isn’t precision.
> There’s the BR, DMR, Carbine, and Light Rifle, so…
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> BR - Close to mid range, 5 shot kill, no bloom.
> DMR - Mid to long range, 5 shot kill, bloom.
> Carbine - Is more than likely the BR’s counter part, Not the DMR’s, it fires weaker amunition with 2x zoom.
> Light Rifle - Is the DMR counter part, it has 3x zoom and fires single shots with a 15 round magazine.
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> So is all this information correct, or am I off somewhere? Anyone have anything to add?
Fixed^^
now all we need is the NR and a close to mid Forerunner rifle and we have a complete set of both UNSC, Covie, and Forerunner rifles.
> I can only hope the new automatic weapons will somehow compensate for these additions.
From what I have seen, the Storm Rifle is deadly close range. 343i is definitely taking the direction of ‘every weapon has it’s strengths’ . And I mean at very close range, the Storm Rifle will beat a BR, DMR considering both players are equal skill and health.
> > I have a feeling that the Light Rifle will not be in MM. We should just have the Br, dmr and Carbine.
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> No! The only reason I can tolerate loadouts is having the ability to use the light rifle! I want to disintegrate enemies with a precision weapon!
It will probably be dropped in as a power weapon. Look how much more effective it was against the Knight than the BR was.
> > There’s the BR, DMR, Carbine, and Light Rifle, so…
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> > BR - Close to mid range, 5 shot kill, no bloom.
> > DMR - Mid to long range, 5 shot kill, bloom.
> > Carbine - Is more than likely the BR’s counter part, Not the DMR’s, it fires weaker amunition with 2x zoom.
> > <strong>Light Rifle - Is the DMR counter part, it has 3x zoom and fires single shots with a 15 round magazine.</strong>
> > <strong><strong>So is all this information correct, or am I off somewhere? Anyone have anything to add?
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Fixed^^</strong></strong>
> > <strong><strong>now all we need is the NR and a close to mid Forerunner rifle and we have a complete set of both UNSC, Covie, and Forerunner rifles.
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Okay on the Carbine, wasn’t sure about that. However I’m pretty sure I seen a video where a 343 employee said that the light rifle was 3 round burst, but when zoomed was single shot. I’ll see if I can find the video, to be sure I heard him correctly.</strong></strong>