The increased damage and range is fine but not when the gun has levels of aim assist and bullet magnetism to this extent. There is next to zero outplay potential with the AR after you kill one player because their teammate just has to aim in your general direction to finish you. It’s insane to me that people complain about the sidekick when the AR is completely auto-pilot in the aiming department.
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probably because the sidekick kills in 1.1 seconds, making it the most lethal secondary since halo CE’s magnum.
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The AR is busted, but you will have the hold down RT crowd getting upset because it’s the only way they can get kills.
They are so adamant against a singular BR slayer playlist, or having BTB BR… because they know nobody wants to play that AR bs.
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You actually have to aim the sidekick though. And an opponent strafing actually impacts the aiming with the sidekick. And it has zero aim assist once you get to mid range. Meanwhile the AR is just point and spray up to medium range. The Sidekick should always kill faster than the AR because it has a higher skill gap. What I’m advocating for is for the AR itself to actually have some aiming requirement because currently AR fights between good players come down to first shot.
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AR has been made this way to make the game more approachable for most skill levels.
Good players usually shouldn’t even be having AR battles, most of them are in ranked anyway.
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the console experience must be way different then because its incredibly easy to laser someone down with the sidekick on PC but tracking with the AR is substantially more difficult.
if having aim assist levels vary between weapons is how they balance on controller then crossplay needs to be disabled.
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Crossplay was never going to be balanced in Halo without alienating the lower skilled controller players. These are the same players that don’t realize that they’re getting destoryed by other controller players when they complain about MnK being OP. Most players don’t have any perspective when it comes to MnK vs Controller halo.
But yes the aim assist levels absolutely vary by weapon on controller. The AR is incredibly hard to miss with on controller. Source: I’ve been playing Halo exclusively on controller since 04.
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That’s why we don’t engage out in the open without a teammate nearby.
And even then, that’s a really bad idea because in this game, your life could end in the blink of an eye
‘Did you know’ or ‘apparently’ …. I’m one of them.
But I see it as… there’s a lot of bad controller players and a lot of bad MnK players!
This has absolutely no bearing on the issue with the AR lol. Giving the AR an actual skill gap doesn’t deemphasize teamwork.
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The AR wasn’t meant to have much of a skill gap.
It’s an assault rifle. There’s plenty of weapons with various skill requirements. Not everything has to be difficult to use.
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Don’t forget the Sidekick has stupid bloom when firing the weapon at a rate capable of competing with the AR.
I only play ranked because of how bad social is with AR/SK starts.
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So why is the AR so powerful then, if it’s entire purpose is to be easy to use then shouldn’t it be weaker?
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It’s fully automatic… Of course it’s easier to use. It’s even decent on console where there’s no aim assist, because you’re not punished as hard for your shots missing.
Exactly this. We don’t need every bloody little aspect of this game to be unnecessarily over complicated. This is what Halo 5 GREATLY suffered from. It’s not like it’s always beating out pick up weapons, they’re typically better actually. The AR is prefect as is.
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You mean braindead easy and capable of killing with zero braincells in use? zero setup required just run in a straight line and hold RT right?
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If you just hold down the trigger, you’re using it wrong.
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Nah. It’s a laserbeam. I’ve killed so many people with this thing at range fully auto it’s ridiculous. Getting killed by it, just tees me off. I go look at halo tracker, or their stat page… every other halo game they play… they have been garbage. Give the noobs the AR in this game… it’s just dumb…
It has a high rof, low bloom, high damage, headshot multiplier, lots of rounds, high magnetism, high aim assist. There is 0 drawbacks, and 0 skill.
I can’t force myself to use it after using it a few times, It insults me. It insults the entire Precision weapon fanbase. It insults skill. If these people want straight braindead gameplay, go to CoD.
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looks at everyone in social
Yet it’s able to kill regardless of burst or automatic so your point means nothing. No reason to burst fire if it’s fully capable of killing at medium range on automatic.
It’s powerful because it’s taking the role of the magnum.
Essentially, the AR and the pistol have swapped roles.
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