The Binary Rifle...is it OPed?

Games Other Halo
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First off, I’d like to announce I have not played Halo 4.

Now that we’re here, I’d like to talk about a certain forerunner weapon that has somehow weaved its way into being part of our new game Halo 4: the Binary Rifle.

THE BINARY RIFLE is the new sniper rifle that is coming into Halo 4. It is a sniper-weapon that has the capability to instantly kill anyone at any range no matter where it its - be it hands, feet, or head. With all the information about the binary rifle as we could access right now, there is one reason why the binary rifle will probably be the most overpowered weapon in the game…because of its ability to one-shot anyone from anywhere.

Think of it as the AWP from Counter-Strike. No one ever wants to deal with that thing because it could one shot many people.

Just like the AWP, the binary rifle will probably be the new noob weapon judging by all the info we received about it at this point in time.

1. "The Binary Rifle only has two shots in a clip, six shots total."

True, the binary rifle is very weak in the magazine department. However, it’s a guaranteed six easy kills for any twerp that gets their dirty hands on that weapon so long as their aim is semi-decent. Not to mention, in the right hands, it will be a game-breaking gun, outperforming the Sniper Rifle and Beam Rifle.

2. "The Rocket Launcher is better than that piece of -Yoink-. At least the rocket launcher has splash."

Let us not forget that the rocket launcher isn’t exactly the most accurate thing in the planet…and by accurate, I mean compare it to the fully precise binary rifle. Also, the rockets travel like a -Yoink-, while the binary rifle has hitscan (or something very close to it).

3. "The Binary Rifle only has a 3x zoom. That’s the same damn thing as the DMR!"

Believe it or not, you can span at least half of Hemorrhage with a 3x scope. It’s enough to scan the battlefield and snag six people down from far away. Besides…more zoom isn’t always better because you lose out on awareness, and if you must move around, your aiming becomes utter -Yoink-.

4. "The Binary Rifle emits a laser when scoped. No noob is ever going to fall for that."

It does NOT emit a laser when UNSCOPED. Conceivably, you can scan the battlefield unscoped. You may have to look into the screen closely, but once you got eyes on your target, just zoom in and seize the day!

5. "3x zoom? The Sniper Rifle gets a 5x/10x zoom and the Beam Rifle gets 4.5x/9x."

A good marksman doesn’t need the big zoom. I’ve watch pros play using the sniper rifle and beam rifle, and let me tell you - they don’t often zoom in. If they do, they only use the 5x/4.5x zoom function on the respective sniper so that they can get a closer look on the target, but still keep aiming and awareness.

6. "It has a horrible spread when hipfire!"

Well since in H4 where you don’t unzoom when taking damage, you could possibly go quickscoping. It’s not recommended because there are probably going to be some repercussions, but if you must, you can easily obliterate two people off the map, and start sprinting away.

Besides, the binary rifle isn’t mean to be used up close. It’s a sniper. If you think for one second that it’s a good idea to pull that thing out close-quarters, you’re doing it wrong.

TL;DR

While the binary rifle has a few weaknesses, it has one factor - power. Just power alone along with bullet travel and the precision of a Sniper/Beam Rifle could bring the binary rifle into the gamebreaking status.

Will my view of this gun stay the same after initial release? Probably not, but seeing all the information gathered about this gun right now, I can easily say that this gun will be ab absolute -Yoink- to fight against for its sole ability to obliterate anyone’s face off the planet no matter where that thing hits. Guaranteed.

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It’s definitely going to be cheap, I just hope it’s a rarity online.

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Its not op and if some one tries to use it at close range if their desperate for a kill u can kill that person easy, to me using the binary rifle it would feel like im using a bolt action sniper thats a 1sk

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> Its not op and if some one tries to use it at close range if their desperate for a kill u can kill that person easy, to me using the binary rifle it would feel like im using a bolt action sniper thats a 1sk

I already explained the close range thing already, I said that “If you think for one second it’s a good idea to use that thing close quarters, you’re doing it wrong.”

Besides, do you actually thing the Sniper Rifle or Beam Rifle will be even remotely good close quarters?

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No and heres why: So many believe the Binary Rifle to be a one shot kill weapon, now that maybe true but not to the extent everyone thinks, the binary rifle has 2 fire modes like the light rifle, the first mode when shot from the hip will be a one hit kill but it has a really big reticle and has the same spreed as a shotgun. The second mode when scoped acts just like the normal sniper because its 2 shots to the body ,1 shot to the head for a kill. So no I do not believe the binary rifle to be op.

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Well if some one hardscopes and just drag it like the sniper rifle maybe but only a fool would try that

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> No and heres why: So many believe the Binary Rifle to be a one shot kill weapon, now that maybe true but not to the extent everyone thinks, the binary rifle has 2 fire modes like the light rifle, the first mode when shot from the hip will be a one hit kill but it has a really big reticle and has the same spreed as a shotgun. The second mode when scoped acts just like the normal sniper because its 2 shots to the body ,1 shot to the head for a kill. So no I do not believe the binary rifle to be op.

Why would anyone think it’s even a good idea to use a binary rifle up close? It should be treated like a sniper weapon regardless. Speaking of which, the reason why it’s op is that it can one-shot anyone from far away with full-precision and hitscan (or something close to hitscan). That’s why it’s overpowered.

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I probably won’t use it.

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> > No and heres why: So many believe the Binary Rifle to be a one shot kill weapon, now that maybe true but not to the extent everyone thinks, the binary rifle has 2 fire modes like the light rifle, the first mode when shot from the hip will be a one hit kill but it has a really big reticle and has the same spreed as a shotgun. The second mode when scoped acts just like the normal sniper because its 2 shots to the body ,1 shot to the head for a kill. So no I do not believe the binary rifle to be op.
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> Why would anyone think it’s even a good idea to use a binary rifle up close? It should be treated like a sniper weapon regardless. Speaking of which, the reason why it’s op is that it can one-shot anyone from far away with full-precision and hitscan (or something close to hitscan). That’s why it’s overpowered.

No it cant, to be truely precise it would have to fire while scope and as I stated it act just like the human sniper when scoped. Also unless you have extreme amounts of luck you will have to be close to kill someone when firing from the hip, because doing it from long range won’t be fiesable unless you are really lucky.

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> > No and heres why: So many believe the Binary Rifle to be a one shot kill weapon, now that maybe true but not to the extent everyone thinks, the binary rifle has 2 fire modes like the light rifle, the first mode when shot from the hip will be a one hit kill but it has a really big reticle and has the same spreed as a shotgun. The second mode when scoped acts just like the normal sniper because its 2 shots to the body ,1 shot to the head for a kill. So no I do not believe the binary rifle to be op.
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> Why would anyone think it’s even a good idea to use a binary rifle up close? It should be treated like a sniper weapon regardless. Speaking of which, the reason why it’s op is that it can one-shot anyone from far away with full-precision and hitscan (or something close to hitscan). That’s why it’s overpowered.

Also did you even read my post.

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> No and heres why: So many believe the Binary Rifle to be a one shot kill weapon, now that maybe true but not to the extent everyone thinks, the binary rifle has 2 fire modes like the light rifle, the first mode when shot from the hip will be a one hit kill but it has a really big reticle and has the same spreed as a shotgun. The second mode when scoped acts just like the normal sniper because its 2 shots to the body ,1 shot to the head for a kill. So no I do not believe the binary rifle to be op.

Not true its 1sk scoped and unscoped watch the weapons trailer and you’d see that.

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> > > No and heres why: So many believe the Binary Rifle to be a one shot kill weapon, now that maybe true but not to the extent everyone thinks, the binary rifle has 2 fire modes like the light rifle, the first mode when shot from the hip will be a one hit kill but it has a really big reticle and has the same spreed as a shotgun. The second mode when scoped acts just like the normal sniper because its 2 shots to the body ,1 shot to the head for a kill. So no I do not believe the binary rifle to be op.
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> > Why would anyone think it’s even a good idea to use a binary rifle up close? It should be treated like a sniper weapon regardless. Speaking of which, the reason why it’s op is that it can one-shot anyone from far away with full-precision and hitscan (or something close to hitscan). That’s why it’s overpowered.
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> No it cant, to be truely precise it would have to fire while scope and as I stated it act just like the human sniper when scoped. Also unless you have extreme amounts of luck you will have to be close to kill someone when firing from the hip, because doing it from long range won’t be fiesable unless you are really lucky.

I meant while scope, I for got to put that there, lol.

But again, I’ll ask you, why use the binary rifle up close when it has far more potential at range?

It’s just like using the Sniper Rifle or Beam Rifle up close - it doesn’t make sense.

(By the way, it’s a 1-shot kill. Watch the trailer again.)

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I disagree, highly. Look at the Fuel Rod Cannon.

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> I disagree, highly. Look at the Fuel Rod Cannon.

FRG has a -Yoink- travel time, nearly has fast as a Rocket Launcher, which as a much bigger splash, but the rockets are nowhere near as fast as the binary rifle.

Also, you can’t even justify your argument by comparing the binary rifle to the FRG; they’re in completely differently leagues. The FRG is meant to be used as anti-armor while the Binary Rifle is meant as a precision weapon.

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I think it would make Team Snipers interesting. Everyone could spawn with either UNSC sniper or beam rifle, but have the Binary Rifle laying around the map.

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> > I disagree, highly. Look at the Fuel Rod Cannon.
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> FRG has a Yoink! travel time, nearly has fast as a Rocket Launcher, which as a much bigger splash, but the rockets are nowhere near as fast as the binary rifle.
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> Also, you can’t even justify your argument by comparing the binary rifle to the FRG; they’re in completely differently leagues. The FRG is meant to be used as anti-armor while the Binary Rifle is meant as a precision weapon.

Your arguments are that the Binary Rifle can easily get 6 or 8 kills per use if it has full ammo, and it sucks when it’s not scoped in.

The Fuel Rod Gun can get 5 kills in a single mag and take down heavy armor like tanks, and is useful because it can easily be hip fired.

So it’s your choice, hitscan, or anti-everything with a delay.
I’d go with the Fuel Rod everytime.

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Fuel rod is one of my favs too lol

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> > > > No and heres why: So many believe the Binary Rifle to be a one shot kill weapon, now that maybe true but not to the extent everyone thinks, the binary rifle has 2 fire modes like the light rifle, the first mode when shot from the hip will be a one hit kill but it has a really big reticle and has the same spreed as a shotgun. The second mode when scoped acts just like the normal sniper because its 2 shots to the body ,1 shot to the head for a kill. So no I do not believe the binary rifle to be op.
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> > > Why would anyone think it’s even a good idea to use a binary rifle up close? It should be treated like a sniper weapon regardless. Speaking of which, the reason why it’s op is that it can one-shot anyone from far away with full-precision and hitscan (or something close to hitscan). That’s why it’s overpowered.
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> > No it cant, to be truely precise it would have to fire while scope and as I stated it act just like the human sniper when scoped. Also unless you have extreme amounts of luck you will have to be close to kill someone when firing from the hip, because doing it from long range won’t be fiesable unless you are really lucky.
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> I meant while scope, I for got to put that there, lol.
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> But again, I’ll ask you, why use the binary rifle up close when it has far more potential at range?
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> It’s just like using the Sniper Rifle or Beam Rifle up close - it doesn’t make sense.
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> (By the way, it’s a 1-shot kill. Watch the trailer again.)

Which trailer because I urge you to rewatch the return of the forerunners trailer which showed a elite get sniped by the binary rifle (while scoped)in the body and survived with a grenade finishing him off.
Edit: go to about 8:27 and you will see it.

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Considering its only an OD I dont see a problem. From what I have read its a rare OD to boot.

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> > > > > No and heres why: So many believe the Binary Rifle to be a one shot kill weapon, now that maybe true but not to the extent everyone thinks, the binary rifle has 2 fire modes like the light rifle, the first mode when shot from the hip will be a one hit kill but it has a really big reticle and has the same spreed as a shotgun. The second mode when scoped acts just like the normal sniper because its 2 shots to the body ,1 shot to the head for a kill. So no I do not believe the binary rifle to be op.
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> > > > Why would anyone think it’s even a good idea to use a binary rifle up close? It should be treated like a sniper weapon regardless. Speaking of which, the reason why it’s op is that it can one-shot anyone from far away with full-precision and hitscan (or something close to hitscan). That’s why it’s overpowered.
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> > > No it cant, to be truely precise it would have to fire while scope and as I stated it act just like the human sniper when scoped. Also unless you have extreme amounts of luck you will have to be close to kill someone when firing from the hip, because doing it from long range won’t be fiesable unless you are really lucky.
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> > I meant while scope, I for got to put that there, lol.
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> > But again, I’ll ask you, why use the binary rifle up close when it has far more potential at range?
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> > It’s just like using the Sniper Rifle or Beam Rifle up close - it doesn’t make sense.
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> > (By the way, it’s a 1-shot kill. Watch the trailer again.)
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> Which trailer because I urge you to rewatch the return of the forerunners trailer which showed a elite get sniped by the binary rifle (while scoped)in the body and survived with a grenade finishing him off.
> Edit: go to about 8:27 and you will see it.

I was talking about the promethean weapons trailer. My entire topic was about the PvP scenario. Fighting elietes has nothing to do with matchmaking.