Halo has always had mechanics where plasma weapons take down your shields faster and bullets take down your health faster.
A new category could be Brute weapons. These could be inaccurate, like the Spiker, but have strong melee damage due to the blade attached to the underside of the weapon. The Brute class of weapons should be the only weapons that have bleed though melee and can Sword Block.
Bleed through melee makes sense for Brute weapons because they are strong creatures who would just as likely use their gun as a club than a projectile launcher.
Sword Block makes sense for Brute weapons because of the blade on the gun. The Brutes have also had practice fighting the Elites so the weapons have been refined to block Swords well.
Thoughts?
That’s assuming the Covenant, doesn’t exist anymore by the way, or the Brutes appear in Halo 4.
> That’s assuming the Covenant, doesn’t exist anymore by the way, or the Brutes appear in Halo 4.
That could be a possibility but for the sake of discussion let’s assume the Covenant and Brutes still exist.
> > That’s assuming the Covenant, doesn’t exist anymore by the way, or the Brutes appear in Halo 4.
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> That could be a possibility but for the sake of discussion let’s assume the Covenant and Brutes still exist.
And also we have a BR, there we go 
> That’s assuming the Covenant, doesn’t exist anymore by the way, or the Brutes appear in Halo 4.
Actualy from the concept art videos on Halo Waypoint, it looks like the shield world from Halo Wars. So can you say covie, brute , and flood remnents. Also I read an article a while back that said that the planet had ONI forces on it researching and that there might be human factions that are fighting !
Im 99% sure Covies wont return, that story arc has ended i read somewhere.
> > That’s assuming the Covenant, doesn’t exist anymore by the way, or the Brutes appear in Halo 4.
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> Actualy from the concept art videos on Halo Waypoint, it looks like the shield world from Halo Wars. So can you say covie, brute , and flood remnents. Also I read an article a while back that said that the planet had ONI forces on it researching and that there might be human factions that are fighting !
No, I can’t say that because the Halo Wars SW blew up because it’s artificial sun went supernova. And that article was deemed fake by Frankie.
Besides, I’m sure the Forerunners have weapons that act like the Covenant versions. After all, the Covies just ripped off Forerunner stuff.
Do you guys realize that if I wanted to discuss the fiction of the Halo universe I would have posted this in the Fiction section of the forum?
I am more trying to differentiate a class of weapons from the two standard classes of alien or human.
By giving different weapons different features you allow the player to make decisions. (Does the enemy have a Sword? Grab a Brute weapon so you have the ability to Sword block.)
By giving the Brute weapons a bleed through melee I have created a new class of weapons. AR users, with no bleed through melee and bloom, will want to burst fire and keep out of melee distance until the enemy’s shields pop. A Brute weapon user, with bleed through melee and no bloom, will want to continuously fire and close the gap between him and his enemy for the eventual melee that will bleed through shields for the kill.
there is nothing wrong with the basic weapon set halo has be using for ten years. don’t try to fix what isn’t broken.
Brute weapons always had stronger melee.
How about all weapons have melee bleedthrough because it is better for MM. Balance > canon.
> there is nothing wrong with the basic weapon set halo has be using for ten years. don’t try to fix what isn’t broken.
Is this the standard response to everything now? Brute weapons having stronger melee attacks has been a part of Halo for as long as Brute weapons have been a part of Halo. Now that you have made yourself look sufficiently silly would you like to actually comment on the idea rather than attempting to snark?