One of my personal all time favorite weapons, not just in Halo but any shooter. Such a diverse weapon and so much fun!
Could be played in ranked matches and BTB, wonderfully brilliant weapon.
I’d like to play BTB with Spartan Lasers again with Banshees and Tanks! All the other fun vehicles too.
If you are a big a fan as I am of this sweet UNSC tech, let ‘em know! Let’s bring it back 343!
Thanks :]
I would love to see the Spartan Laser make a return! Such a fun weapon. Do you think it got replaced by the Skewer?
I do believe the Skewer was meant to fill the roll of the Spartan Laser.
The Skewer does, just not as well as the Laser did… in my opinion.
There was something so amazing about perfecting the timing on the laser and getting double kills with the Laser too.
Yeah the devs said the Skewer was meant to replace it. Only problem is the Skewer is too easy to use. The Spartan Laser required timing and it gave your positioning away so the vehicles could either try to take cover or kill you before it went off.
To make the Skewer more skilled they should slow down the projectile big time and then add way more drop to it. Every time i use it i feel like it should have always been that way as its just a hand held balista not an actual firearm.
That was kind of the point, at least in speculation.
The problem with the Splazer is that it did it’s job a little too well, making short work of vehicles.
The Skewer needs a physics impulse buff to be effective against vehicles as intended, whereas if the Splazer is added it needs to be impactful on critical hit areas, and maybe take a 50% hit on its magazine capacity.
I really hope not. The Spartan laser was the worst weapon for vehicles. It ruined vehicle combat and was to easy to use. If they gave it less shots and it was harder to use then sure but it was frustrating to get destroyed constantly by an OP weapon that made vehicles pointless
I think they can stand side by side… with a dew tweaks made.
I’m not a huge fan of the Skewer. I find it much harder to use with less of a reward for a successful shot. However, it’s fine where it is if the Laser were to come back.
As for the Laser, I’ve consider many possible tweaks to make it more “fair”, and the one I think I like the most is this:
Treat it like Reach’s Target Locator. You get 1 shot. Whatever you hit gets deleted like Doisac on a galactic starmap. But you get ONE. SHOT. 100% → 0% instantly. Then put it in the middle of the map and let teams fight over it.
The problem with the laser, was that it was cool and fun (if you had it), but Bungie never really tried to earnestly balance it and 343 made it worse with their rando ordinance drops in H4 and REQ packs in H5. The laser’s issue is that one player has the power to eliminate an entire teams worth of vehicles in under a minute. That’s not ok.
What I want is for the Skewer to be the primary anti-vehicle gun, while the Laser is treated more like an on-map event that players are constantly fighting for. Kinda like the guasshog.
I think the Volatile Skewer does that (def has the heavy drop, not sure about the slow projectile).