Everyone starts with the pistol, the br and dmr are much more useful at mid to long ranges, assault rifles and smgs are much better at very close ranges. The pistol is completely balanced and gives you a chance in any type of battle. Just because the ar should win at close ranges and the br should win at long ranges still boils down to landing shots and the overall skill of the player. This game is nothing like any other fps in terms of kill times and skill and if you expect spraying autos at mid range to get kills against a decent player with the pistol you are not going to enjoy this game. There are more factors than having a better weapon to get kills, there is positioning, strafing, team shooting, that factor in your deaths. The pistol is perfect. Just thought it should get some love with all the hate it’s been getting from people who have no concept of Halo.
One other thing, with the radar being so short and the sightlines being so small, sneaking up on players is so much easier than ever before.
No arguments from anyone. 343 you did a great job on weapon balancing in this game.
Wait for it, OP, you’ll get someone eventually that’ll be complaining about the Magnum.
And I agree with you about the pistol. It requires skill, learning to score headshots, strafing, etc. To me, the pistol is a miniature short-mid ranged DMR - both kill in 5 shots and have near-enough the same fire rate.
Weapon balance is seriously perfect, perhaps the AR could be ever so slightly nerfed, but its nothing to cry home about.
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> Weapon balance is seriously perfect, perhaps the AR could be ever so slightly nerfed, but its nothing to cry home about.
Honestly I can’t get kills easily with the AR especially 1v1, I get pistol kills like crazy. With the AR I just feel like it takes most of the clip to kill an enemy it just seems to take forever. It’s useful for finishing off players that my teammates have already damaged or players who aren’t paying attention IMO.
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> Honestly I can’t get kills easily with the AR especially 1v1, I get pistol kills like crazy. With the AR I just feel like it takes most of the clip to kill an enemy it just seems to take forever. It’s useful for finishing off players that my teammates have already damaged or players who aren’t paying attention IMO.
With the wonky aiming my AR reticule is all over the place lol but yeah maybe you’re right I definitely don’t think it’s a major issue or anything the guns are very well tweaked and have distinctive feels and roles.
I’m still not a fan. The game is still basically a one gun game over half the time, and if I wanted that I would go to CE.
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> I’m still not a fan. The game is still basically a one gun game over half the time, and if I wanted that I would go to CE.
I see your point, the argument I will make is that I have already used more weapons in this game for many different purposes than I did in Halo 4 or really any of the other previous Halos. Other than power weapons, the only guns that were useful in past halos were the br or pistol. Lastly, having a lot of different guns that do the exact same thing isn’t really having more guns, it’s having more skins. Halo 5 has a lot of different guns that have a lot of purposes, for instance the boltshots and suppressor are good because they follow their targets but the rate of fire is so slow that if someone has the pistol vs the boltshots, the pistol only wins if they land all four shots at close range. While the boltshot shoots slower it doesn’t miss from close distance unless the player thrusts at the right time.
Magnum complainers should just be ignored.
There is no point in even letting those threads reach multiple pages.
There was a poll recently about the pistol and the amount of people who actually voted for it to be nerfed was tiny… Like less than 5%.
Apparently a vocal minority is against a balanced sandbox for some reason. Just ignore them.
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> Wait for it, OP, you’ll get someone eventually that’ll be complaining about the Magnum.
I hate the magnum because it never causes my enemies to burst into clouds of confetti when I shoot them with it.
There, I said it.
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> I hate the magnum because it never causes my enemies to burst into clouds of confetti when I shoot them with it.
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gg. Confetti is the missing buff that the Magnum needs.
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> Honestly I can’t get kills easily with the AR especially 1v1, I get pistol kills like crazy. With the AR I just feel like it takes most of the clip to kill an enemy it just seems to take forever. It’s useful for finishing off players that my teammates have already damaged or players who aren’t paying attention IMO.
Agreed
I used to think the pistol was over powered but now I understand how to use it properly and I wouldn’t change a thing. I have never been a halo multiplayer junkie but it didn’t take me long to realise it is a perfect weapon and the balance in this game is superb.
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Haha
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> gg. Confetti is the missing buff that the Magnum needs.
i wish they would bring back the way you could choose what explodes out of your head like in reach that would make my day!
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> I used to think the pistol was over powered but now I understand how to use it properly and I wouldn’t change a thing. I have never been a halo multiplayer junkie but it didn’t take me long to realise it is a perfect weapon and the balance in this game is superb.
One of the things 343 did extremely well in Halo 5 was the weapon balancing.
I agree OP. The pistol is the new BR in regards to competitive gameplay. The BR is the new DMR (better long range) and the DMR is pretty much another sniper rifle.
One of the things I can say about 343 is that they nailed it in every single aspect regarding weapon balance. Every single weapon is spot on!
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> I agree OP. The pistol is the new BR in regards to competitive gameplay. The BR is the new DMR (better long range) and the DMR is pretty much another sniper rifle.
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> One of the things I can say about 343 is that they nailed it in every single aspect regarding weapon balance. Every single weapon is spot on!
I agree.