You can enjoy the weapon all you want. I enjoy it myself but I will not deny that the BR is easier to use. After playing with the sidekick for a bit. The sidekick takes far more skill.
The Halo 5 pistol needs to come back. A single shot weapon takes skill and it’s pace of shots were perfect.
Now anyone can catch anyone rounding a corner even if most of their shots missing just because there is 3 shots per burst. where as a shot per trigger pull was harder to land.
Yes it was the classic halos weapon of choice but just because it was doesn’t mean it can’t change.
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I don’t care if all gamemodes have BR starts or Halo 5 Magnum starts. I slightly prefer the Halo 5 Magnum I think.
It is just that the Sidekick is too unbalanced. M&K can fire it full auto by adding “fire” to the scroll wheel. The only way for controller users to make the gun fire full auto is to buy a Cronus Zen/Max or a modded controller. And that is considered cheating. 
Now full-auto or not makes no difference for most guns. It is just that the Sidekick has such an insane high spammy firerate (365 RPM) that people who can fire this gun in full auto mode have a major advantage over people who have to spam the trigger like crazy.
I prefer equal starts for everybody. So either full-auto Sidekick for everybody, or BR or H5 Magnum starts in all gamemodes.
I agree. The sidekick is too spammy. I do think it’s better and more fun than the BR as a weapon to fight with skill. I sucks that Mnk players have that option. This is why the Halo 5 pistol was perfect. The pace of the shots made all the difference.
Ideally as it stands currently I want the BR and sidekick as the starting weapons or just the sidekick. Yes the BR. “works” by itself but I think it’s far better as a pickup weapon
The problem with BR and H5 magnum starts is there’s no point picking up any other weapon on the map besides say sword, sniper and rockets, and the H5 magnum was a worse offender than the BR in this case.
That’s a myth. Halo 5 forge proved that if you place the weapons in the right spot that problem no longer exsists. Plenty of great forge maps have been made where there are a variety of weapons to use that were useful. The dev map weapon layouts sucked except for a few. Plaza was fine. Colli was fine.
Now anyone can catch anyone rounding a corner even if most of their shots missing just because there is 3 shots per burst. where as a shot per trigger pull was harder to land.
This has nothing to do with a BR. The game is just broken and has serious desync issues.
Been playing since CE, it ain’t a myth. Would you trade an AR for a BR? Probably yes. Would you do the reverse? Probably no.
MAYBE I’m getting desync issues. It plays pretty smooth for me. However the concept is there.
3 bullets 1 burst 1 trigger pull
1 bullet 1 trigger pull
1 bullet from the BR can kill an absolute player.
If you do the math. By the numbers you have a greater chance of killing with the BR than you do the pistol.
In Halo 5 the DMR, BR, Carbine and Light Rifle were all better than the Halo 5 Magnum. So I would always pick one up if I could and use it over the Magnum.
What was great about the Halo 5 magnum was that it COULD compete with all the above named weapons.
In Halo Infinite I have the feeling that if you spawn in with your Sidekick and AR and you face someone with a BR, you’re pretty much done. Which results in people just waiting in line at the BR spawn point. Ugh.
Now if they ever bring back something like the Halo 5 Magnum as a starting weapon, or tune the Sidekick in such a way that it feels more similar to the Halo 5 Magnum (bigger mag, lower rate of fire), I do not mind for it to get a 10% range nerf or something along those lines.
It is just that the rate of fire of the H5 Magnum was good for everybody to handle. Where in Halo Infinite an M&K user can fire the Sidekick full auto by adding “fire” to the scroll wheel and Controller users have to spam their brains out. That is just not equal starts.
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Actually in this game. The AR is goat. So yes in halo infinite I will drop a BR for an AR. I’m not playing btb so I don’t NEED the range. I can use the AR the whole time if I wanted to.
Personally I can take on either the AR/BR with either guns as well. I think they’re balanced them out fantastically in this game, but I’d still rather use the BR as it’s a quicker TTK and more accurate.
The AR is a horrible range weapon. Yes, in the short to maybe mid range AR is king over BR. But beyond that BR kills the AR.
Ofcourse but if I’m not playing btb Ive found ways to only play the AR. But in another light I also don’t like the BR because of the range either. It’s range is too big for arena sized maps. The pistol feels nice as a start because you can’t really cross map with it