Hey chaps…
I was looking at the new DMR M395. It’s an absolute beauty of a design but I noticed something strange.
Is it just me or is the iron sight obscuring the view of the scope? Does anyone have any possible explanation for such a feature or is just a design mistake?
It’s part of the Scope? Idk, good job for asking.
You could just flip it down from the looks of it. The one in Halo Reach had it too.
Edit: Actually after looking at the Reach one again, it’s a lot lower than the scope.
No it’s not. It makes a " U " shape so you can see through the middle.
No I don’t thik so. It’s probably the angle you’re viewing it from.
I’m going to go with what KRILLIN said
> No it’s not. It makes a " U " shape so you can see through the middle.
Oh yes I see what you mean. Is that quite common to combine a scope with a iron sight? I always thought that iron sights were for weapons that had no scopes.
> > No it’s not. It makes a " U " shape so you can see through the middle.
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> Oh yes I see what you mean. Is that quite common to combine a scope with a iron sight? I always thought that iron sights were for weapons that had no scopes.
Maybe UNSC personell can detach the scope? But that would mean you can’t in Halo 4. Much like how the DMR had an automatic mode in Reach but you couldn’t use it.
It’s probably just a design feature. Make it look cool or something…
I hope they change the canon on which round it uses.
How can this gun get a 4sk when it uses the same round as an assault rifle? no makey sense
Actually, I think it’s close enough to the scope, that when you look through the scope, you look right past it, the front sight post on my Air soft rifle sits right in front of my scope, but when I look through my scope, I can’t see it through the scope.
> > No it’s not. It makes a " U " shape so you can see through the middle.
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> Oh yes I see what you mean. Is that quite common to combine a scope with a iron sight? I always thought that iron sights were for weapons that had no scopes.
Not necessarily. My hunting rifle’s scope is lined up with the iron sight on the end of the barrel!
> > > No it’s not. It makes a " U " shape so you can see through the middle.
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> > Oh yes I see what you mean. Is that quite common to combine a scope with a iron sight? I always thought that iron sights were for weapons that had no scopes.
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> Not necessarily. My hunting rifle’s scope is lined up with the iron sight on the end of the barrel!
You have a hunting rifle? o_0
Please don’t shoot me!
> I hope they change the canon on which round it uses.
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> How can this gun get a 4sk when it uses the same round as an assault rifle? no makey sense
The size of the round isn’t always as important as the length of the barrel. Shorter barrels are easier to handle but lack range and punch of longer barreled weapons.
Then when you consider the MA5’s have a dampening system that reduces recoil for handling of 7.62mm NATO round, (while taking into account a shorter barrel) and also consider that the AR and DMR can both use different powered charges for bullets designed for different ranged and fire-setting variables, it’s not so inconceivable that the DMR and AR have different damaging values.
The headshot thing, that’s all gameplay.
> > I hope they change the canon on which round it uses.
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> > How can this gun get a 4sk when it uses the same round as an assault rifle? no makey sense
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> The size of the round isn’t always as important as the length of the barrel. Shorter barrels are easier to handle but lack range and punch of longer barreled weapons.
> Then when you consider the MA5’s have a dampening system that reduces recoil for handling of 7.62mm NATO round, (while taking into account a shorter barrel) and also consider that the AR and DMR can both use different powered charges for bullets designed for different ranged and fire-setting variables, it’s not so inconceivable that the DMR and AR have different damaging values.
> The headshot thing, that’s all gameplay.
hmm. not inconceivable, but both are bullpups using the same round. I don’t know that the barrel is long enough on the dmr to justify this.
none of this is important, it just bugs me, and NATO 7.62 that say a m14 uses is pretty beast anyway. More than the 7.62x45 the AK47 uses. Its got more grains behind it. But I’m sure I read that they (dmr,ar)both used NATO rounds, and the barrels are not THAT different.
idk I guess I’d prefer it to use a different round like the br does. make up a fictional one if need be.
for whatever reason this kinda stuff justifies these weapons to me, makes the game cooler somehow. Like a pump action shotty in the future? that’s just stupid. OH wait its an 8 GAUGE?!! holy -Yoink-! I guess I COULD see that canon not needing full auto like an AA12.
I remember hearing that when a Spartan looks through a scope, a screen pops up in the visor. That might explain it.
It doesn’t look like it obstructs it. In fact it looks like it can be used to land shots with the scope.
> > > I hope they change the canon on which round it uses.
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> > > How can this gun get a 4sk when it uses the same round as an assault rifle? no makey sense
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> > The size of the round isn’t always as important as the length of the barrel. Shorter barrels are easier to handle but lack range and punch of longer barreled weapons.
> > Then when you consider the MA5’s have a dampening system that reduces recoil for handling of 7.62mm NATO round, (while taking into account a shorter barrel) a<mark>nd also consider that the AR and DMR can both use different powered charges for bullets designed for different ranged and fire-setting variables</mark>, it’s not so inconceivable that the DMR and AR have different damaging values.
> > The headshot thing, that’s all gameplay.
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> hmm. not inconceivable, but both are bullpups using the same round. I don’t know that the barrel is long enough on the dmr to justify this.
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> none of this is important, it just bugs me, and NATO 7.62 that say a m14 uses is pretty beast anyway. More than the 7.62x45 the AK47 uses. <mark>Its got more grains behind it.</mark> But I’m sure I read that they (dmr,ar)both used NATO rounds, and the barrels are not THAT different.
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> idk I guess I’d prefer it to use a different round like the br does. make up a fictional one if need be.
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> for whatever reason this kinda stuff justifies these weapons to me, makes the game cooler somehow. Like a pump action shotty in the future? that’s just stupid. OH wait its an 8 GAUGE?!! holy Yoink!! I guess I COULD see that canon not needing full auto like an AA12.
A reminder, many weapons that work against us now and even into the future don’t do jack against shielded and armoured Covenant in most cases. (An SMG is really a PDR that fires caseless rifled 5.55mm rounds 
It is the powerful and durable weapons that have lasted the war because they’re the ones that have proven themselves.
You have to ask yourself, would you want to lay your ALL your opponents down in 1 shot a piece, or do you want to use a few rounds and precious milliseconds to add in the fullauto abilit with features that reduce FA-recoil?
Now I agree, Spartans should have fullauto shotguns built into their arms, so why not give them FA’s too? Mostly because we haven’t had a Spartan only mission thing where there would be an excuse to have it.
And I agree the Mauler’s low RoF doesn’t make it the FA-shotty that Spartans should have… Imagine with slugs?.. I want an 8 gauge slug-gun!!! (or FEAR’s nailgun
> You could just flip it down from the looks of it. The one in Halo Reach had it too.
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> Edit: Actually after looking at the Reach one again, it’s a lot lower than the scope.
^This. The one in H4 seems slightly too high, as it doesn’t line up with the center of the scope, and the Reach one seems slightly low.
Just design. It doesn’t affect gameplay.
The scope on a weapon is hardlinked directly to a Spartan’s HUD. This produces a very accurate reticle. When scoped, the HUD imitates the scope, zooming in and giving other data.
It’s most likely there to differentiate the DMR’s silhouette from the BR’s.
