I thought it was a power weapon. Oh well… I’ll still use it as if it was.
What difference does it make wether it’s called a “power weapon” or not? ( Honest question)
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I know a lot of folks sleep on the weapon, because it’s a precision weapon. I play like the Shock Rifle is a power weapon. As I stated before with aimbot cheaters, if you don’t control the shock rifle, you JUST gave the cheater ATLEAST 12 free kills.
Shockrifle is stupid good. It’s the only one shot kill weapon that wall spawns.
I’m just a stickler for accuracy. It also still ticks me off that they say “bottomless clip” instead of “bottomless mag” because almost no weapons in halo history have used a clip.
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I made this real quick to show that its really not that hard to do.
If a total derpenstein like me can get clips like this anyone should be able to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yq969JUsGQ
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The Shock Rifle is a burst weapon that HAS to be fully connected to the head for a perfect. Otherwise you’re wasting ammo, or shooting a vehicle.
It isn’t a power weapon, but it is a Tier 2 weapon.
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Yeah, sorry
https://halotracker.com/halo-infinite/profile/xbl/M1STA%20WU1FY/overview?experience=ranked&playlist=edfef3ac-9cbe-4fa2-b949-8f29deafd483
You aren’t exactly a bad player, lol
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thanks for the vote of confidence ha
But I’m not even in the top 10,000 players, there are a lot of people I wouldn’t even be able to kill once in a 1v1
"I’m not even in the top 10k players
Out of the millions of people who play this game, that isn’t really saying much.
You could be in the top 100k players and I would think you’re a good player.
Yeah I agree, it’s pretty OP. The cindershot, not so much.
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Shockrifle is one of my favorite weapons, but yeah. It basically is an underscoped sniper rifle (which I don’t mind because the zoom is perfect for me. Snipers either get too close or too far). Meanwhile the stalker rifle is an underpowered carbine/beam rifle mix. I feel like the stalker rifle fits more as a covenant precision weapon than the shock rifle.
As for the mangler, it has a similar ttk as the side kick and takes skill to use at range. It is perfect as it is. If people can’t handle a gun with blades actually do increased melee damage, I’m sorry but that’s your own fault for getting in close.
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I’ll make a montage of Cindershot kills next then
I think it is in a perfect spot right now with the controlled respawn. In high level play it is treated like a power weapon where teams fight for control.
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Just watched the clip, you are an animal with that thing.
I will say that btb maps need to have even weapon spawns, maybe that was fixed Thursday?
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Nope, it depends on gametype, but one side will get some stuff and the other side other stuff. The stalker rifle is not a good swap for the shock rifle, not even close. It’s not even that it’s a bad weapon it just isn’t fair to one side. Same with BR’s and Commandos, they’re weapons with similar roles but that function so differently they aren’t and even exchange.
I’d prefer BR starts but if they just fix this issue first it will be a great step in the right direction
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Thought the same hahaah
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Unless you do shot + melee combo which is almost instakill. You can’t do it with the sidekick.
Sidekick is easier to use at range, being pretty much a precision weapon with its small reticle and small bloom. But because of combo with melee mangler has faster TTK, it is just a weapon optimal for shorter range.
Quoting myself because I answered your reply before you made it. At least for me, melee always normally break shields and that’s not ideal, so I tend to keep away from melee range when possible anyway. A melee and a sidekick headshot is just as fast. Headshots take more skill, but right now with collision being so jank you need just as much skill to even get a body shot.
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To be fair, the sidekick also has good close range potential, because you can spam 4 shots as fast as possible and melee for a kill that is faster than the majority of weapons without a one shot + melee. It’s obviously not as fast as the mangler but it’s just another way The sidekick can be used. It can beat an AR Or BR in a melee fight for instance
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Actually the more I play the more I use the Sidekick. In the beginning, I would switch it as soon as I found any other weapon. Now I’m more likely to trade AR for another weapon than the Sidekick because of its versatility.
Going back to the topic - shock rifle I have still to learn - for me it’s a higher skill weapon because it requiring a full burst to connect to get the headshot kill. I guess you need to lead your shots much more (especially on m&k). With a sniper rifle, you just need to hit with just one almost instant bullet.
Still, on maps with vehicles like BTB shock rifle is a weapon I often pick up just to be able to EMP vehicles and either take out the driver or hijack the vehicle.
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