I must say, the Spartan laser is absolute trash. Unless you are absolutely spot on, it doesn’t work. I used to rock the laser in older halos, it was my sprint to weapon and devastating. Now, it is garbage, almost unusable against Spartans not in vehicles.
Some people will say that you have to be accurate, which i get, but it has certainly been changed for the worse.
I haven’t had any issues with it personally, though I haven’t used it too much. After all, it is designed to specifically take out vehicles.
Are you really complaining about an anti vehicle gun not working against Spartans. Key word vehicle.
Don’t forget in older halos there was not as much mobility so it was easier to use it against people
I am terrible with that thing. Don’t think i have actually killed anyone with one, the one or 2 times I killed someone and picked one up, lol. I have never been good with it though, so it isn’t really a surprise. I never even liked it when it was first introduced in whichever campaign it was, lol.
Do u use laser against spartan and Br against Scorpion ???
MR SLAMM I agree with you completely. The splazer used to be great at infantry kills along with vehicles. it was also my sprint to weapon on last resort, high ground, and of course vahalla. so versatile. the splazer was the one of the best power weapons in past halos, and now it no doubt is just for vehicles cus its just trash against Spartans. sad as I loved the splazer in past halos. MR SLAMM gets it, where were the rest of u during the now infamous halo 3 days? u know, when halo worked and worked right. I miss those days.
It is kind of disappointing that its not as good against enemy Spartans anymore but it does create a better balance now.
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> I must say, the Spartan laser is absolute trash. Unless you are absolutely spot on, it doesn’t work. I used to rock the laser in older halos, it was my sprint to weapon and devastating. Now, it is garbage, almost unusable against Spartans not in vehicles.
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> Some people will say that you have to be accurate, which i get, but it has certainly been changed for the worse.
id say that they need to up it to five shots again after it was nerved in previous games, but yeh unless you get centre mass hit on a vehicle it doesn’t do much, I’ve hit ghosts with it and a wing blows off leaving the ghost fine to drive away, and even hitting tanks on the gun doesn’t seem to do enough damage. I haven’t tried all the variants but maybe an arc light equivalent where you can hold it down would be good, or a variant with a more discreet beam.
OP is right. The Spartan Laser has been weakened in Halo 5.
All you smarty pants bashing him because he wants to use it against spartans, either have never played another Halo game than 5 or just try to act super cool without thinking for 1 second.
The Spartan Laser is supposed to kill vehicles, yes everyone gets it! But by FACT in Halo 3, Halo Reach and Halo 4 it was a viable weapon against infantry as well. I really loved using it in Halo 3 on “High Ground”; was very good and you could counter the enemy sniper spawning at the beach.
I feel like in previous Halos the Spartan Laser just had to hit someone slightly and he was gone. IMO that was cool, because its just a powerful weapon. In Halo 5 you really have to hit an enemy with its full beam. The thing is, spartan laser is still awesome against slow moving targets like tanks or phaetons. But against ghosts and mongeese its seems too weak IMO. Sometimes I hit a ghost that is speed boosting and he does survive the hit. To me this seems wrong, as i am used to a Spartan Laser that destroys everything it touches.
IMO the Spartan Laser should be buffed to its previous form, but that is up for discussion!
BUT stop b1tching OP because he wants to use it against Spartans. Every previous Halo taught him to do so!
loved in it h3, aint touching it in h5.
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> Are you really complaining about an anti vehicle gun not working against Spartans. Key word vehicle.
I’m guessing you haven’t played halo 3. The laser used to be excellent at Spartan and vehicle kills.
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> Don’t forget in older halos there was not as much mobility so it was easier to use it against people
Hadn’t thought about that, very good point.
I’m not a fan of it in H5.
This is a different Halo. You’re wasting the weapon trying to get kills on single Spartans with it.
It’s pretty much unusable on anything which doesn’t have a more or less predictable movement for a good 3-4 straight seconds. Ghosts and players strafe too quickly for me to hit a damn thing. But then again, I’m terrible at video games.
Its terrible in H5. No point in even picking it up…ever. Why cant they just replace it with the incinerator, which we RARELY see in arena.
I don’t really buy the “anti-vehicle” argument, because that would also dictate that Rocket Launchers, Gauss Cannons, Incineration Canons, and Fuel Rods would have a hard time against infantry too…but they work just fine in that capacity.
Spartan Laser was never meant to be used against Spartans. It was meant to be used against vehicles… Especially Wraiths and Scorpian tanks. The End Game is good against spartans because of low charge up time.
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> MR SLAMM I agree with you completely. The splazer used to be great at infantry kills along with vehicles. it was also my sprint to weapon on last resort, high ground, and of course vahalla. so versatile. the splazer was the one of the best power weapons in past halos, and now it no doubt is just for vehicles cus its just trash against Spartans. sad as I loved the splazer in past halos. MR SLAMM gets it, where were the rest of u during the now infamous halo 3 days? u know, when halo worked and worked right. I miss those days.
Exactly! The hit detection with the splaser is totally messed up. You can’t sweep with it, and i often slightly damage people with it but don’t kill them. I hope it’s tweaked a bit in a future update.