The Answer My Love/Hate Relationship

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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There’s no doubt that The Answer is one of the best guns in the game. I personally LOVE The Answer. Exploding bullets, come on that’s awesome.

Here’s where I have my problem with The Answer.

-Super Fiesta: I love the idea of spawning random weapons in this game type. It’s my favorite arena game type out of all of them, partially because when ever I play BTB, it’s always Assault, CTF, or Strongholds and there hasn’t been any Slayer. Anyway, The Answer has to be the most over powered gun in the game type. (Though Tartarus’s Hammer can also be said that it’s overpowered.) Whoever has it can rack up points with no problem. While I do love The Answer, I do believe that it should be limited or banned from the game type this way it’s a bit fair.

-Warzone: Warzone I have a love/hate relationship with. Love because I love the idea and the variety of weapons to spawn. Hate because of some of the maps, being put on a bad team, the amount of points for bosses, and the REQ system in terms of how slow it takes to reboot a hexagon or octagon. Anyway, the reason why I bring up The Answer is because of my previous games with it, and this is just me, I don’t know if anyone else feels the same way.

Now in my previous games, I spawn The Answer to defeat the Mythic Boss, especially when my team is in the lead. I deal so much damage to 'em that they’re close to death. However, either there are a few to no allies around to help me get the boss, but there are plenty of team members on the enemy team to finish the job. When I was on Apex, I used The Answer to lower the health of the Mythic Grunt Jockey. By the time I have to change mags, the health is so low, I switch to a slightly less powerful weapon to get the kill and avoid the long reload. This is my error for not having the Armor mod of speed boost. By the time I switch, the enemies take out the Mythic Boss and I have little to no help. And in the game I just had, I fought Warden Eternal at Darkstar. Health was so low, I could have gotten the kill. Problem was that Warden moved so I had to get out of my hiding spot. That’s when I got swarmed by the enemy team and died. There were no allies around or they were all dead and the enemy team got 200 points, putting them way in the lead, by 100 to 150 points.

I feel like using The Answer around the Mythic Boss has become an omen for bad luck.

I know there has to be a lot of people that feel this way–about using a powerful weapon and dealing the most damage to bosses, only to have the enemy team take it.

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> There’s no doubt that The Answer is one of the best guns in the game. I personally LOVE The Answer. Exploding bullets, come on that’s awesome.
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> Here’s where I have my problem with The Answer.
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> -Super Fiesta: I love the idea of spawning random weapons in this game type. It’s my favorite arena game type out of all of them, partially because when ever I play BTB, it’s always Assault, CTF, or Strongholds and there hasn’t been any Slayer. Anyway, The Answer has to be the most over powered gun in the game type. (Though Tartarus’s Hammer can also be said that it’s overpowered.) Whoever has it can rack up points with no problem. While I do love The Answer, I do believe that it should be limited or banned from the game type this way it’s a bit fair.
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> -Warzone: Warzone I have a love/hate relationship with. Love because I love the idea and the variety of weapons to spawn. Hate because of some of the maps, being put on a bad team, the amount of points for bosses, and the REQ system in terms of how slow it takes to reboot a hexagon or octagon. Anyway, the reason why I bring up The Answer is because of my previous games with it, and this is just me, I don’t know if anyone else feels the same way.
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> Now in my previous games, I spawn The Answer to defeat the Mythic Boss, especially when my team is in the lead. I deal so much damage to 'em that they’re close to death. However, either there are a few to no allies around to help me get the boss, but there are plenty of team members on the enemy team to finish the job. When I was on Apex, I used The Answer to lower the health of the Mythic Grunt Jockey. By the time I have to change mags, the health is so low, I switch to a slightly less powerful weapon to get the kill and avoid the long reload. This is my error for not having the Armor mod of speed boost. By the time I switch, the enemies take out the Mythic Boss and I have little to no help. And in the game I just had, I fought Warden Eternal at Darkstar. Health was so low, I could have gotten the kill. Problem was that Warden moved so I had to get out of my hiding spot. That’s when I got swarmed by the enemy team and died. There were no allies around or they were all dead and the enemy team got 200 points, putting them way in the lead, by 100 to 150 points.
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> I feel like using The Answer around the Mythic Boss has become an omen for bad luck.
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> I know there has to be a lot of people that feel this way–about using a powerful weapon and dealing the most damage to bosses, only to have the enemy team take it.

The second point I can only chalk up to simple apophenia. I’d say it highlights more the big issue of kill-stealing rather than a pattern of bad luck that exists with The Answer.

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i love it, i have over 200… i don’t pull them too often because most wz games for me last like 7 minutes

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Only time I ever really hate this gun is when it falls into enemy hands on super fiesta. The gun is literally a game changer unlike any other weapon in a skilled players hands. Even the noobiest of noobs can rack up the kills.

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It’s a bit of a waste to use The Answer on a WZ boss, simply because of their huge health pool. It’s outclassed by vehicles that have unlimited ammo and relatively short reload times between hits. My suggestion is to mainly use it for those PvP situations in WZ. You rack up the kills and contribute to the win still.

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> The Answer is insane on any level that isn’t Sniper-range, so having it on BTB gives a team a colossal advantage. Not to mention the sheer amount of ammo that thing has. I think it would be nice if a Whiplash replaced it on BTB. OP, valuable, but with limited ammo.

The Answer isn’t in BTB. Both that and the Whiplash would be too OP for that playlist.

For the thread starter, I’ll mention what I said in another thread. While The Answer can be really good in Fiesta, you also have a bunch of other weapons that are OP as well and can take out an Answer user in one hit. The Answer is dominate when the other team has mediocre weapons or can’t properly use the OP ones for whatever reason.

With Warzone, it sounds like you need to change your strategy with killing bosses. The boss stealing has always been a thing in Warzone and hopefully it gets changed in H6.

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The answer is perfect for super fiesta and warzone playlist only. Yeah it’s OP, it’s supposed to be, it’s the highest req saw. Every high level req is OP. However if they would put the answer (or any other high level req) in a playlist like BTB the only way i see it working is if they give them very little ammo.

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I don’t think the answer is op in fiesta at all. You’ll usually get sniped quickly

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I think the answer should be a legendary req at minimum. This weapon is a game changer in any more with it high damage rounds. So much damage it does not belong in the rare category. I would argue it is the most powerful weapon in the game.

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> I don’t think the answer is op in fiesta at all. You’ll usually get sniped quickly

I pretty much feel the same. Sure the answer is OP… But when it comes to fiesta there is usually plenty of rockets, fuel rods, and other OP weapons as well.

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> > 2533274944752684;2:
> > The Answer is insane on any level that isn’t Sniper-range, so having it on BTB gives a team a colossal advantage. Not to mention the sheer amount of ammo that thing has. I think it would be nice if a Whiplash replaced it on BTB. OP, valuable, but with limited ammo.
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> The Answer isn’t in BTB. Both that and the Whiplash would be too OP for that playlist.
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> For the thread starter, I’ll mention what I said in another thread. While The Answer can be really good in Fiesta, you also have a bunch of other weapons that are OP as well and can take out an Answer user in one hit. The Answer is dominate when the other team has mediocre weapons or can’t properly use the OP ones for whatever reason.
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> With Warzone, it sounds like you need to change your strategy with killing bosses. The boss stealing has always been a thing in Warzone and hopefully it gets changed in H6.

OH! I misread the OP’s post…

Haven’t played much BTB and only got CTF and Slayer, so I thought OP was saying something about it popping up on other BTB modes.